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Steering away from fantasy again...here's what I'm reading now. Gritty, dark stuff that's like a shotgun blast to the face. It's practically white trash Appalachian meth cooker poetry. :Smokedev: ...or as a friend of mine described it: "This makes Winter's Bone [the movie] look like Mr...

Actually, the poorer decision for Iron Maiden was the double whammy of letting Adrian Smith go his own way and do the forgettable A.S.a.P. and Psycho Motel experiments while trying to replace him with Janick Gers. :loco: (But yeah, Blaze was a bad decision, too)

Paul of Dune is the only Dune sequel I've read, and I was pleasantly surprised with it. It's worth finishing, imho. By the way, Kevin Anderson is signing his new book Hellhole (written with Herbert) at Eagle Eye Books in Decatur this evening if you're interested in getting that copy of Paul of...

Just finished the latest from Lindqvist...much better than the last one Handling the Undead. Then again, maybe I was suffering zombie burnout. Harbour has a nice Lovecraftian feel to it - creeping dread and elemental forces rising from the sea! (Sorry about the huge image...couldn't get it to...

I'm finally getting to play some catch-up with Erikson, too. I started Toll the Hounds last Christmas and got distracted with work-related reading...This year I vow to finish it! Before that, read The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler...very good Steig Larsson-like Swedish thriller. It will be...

One year ago this weekend, my wife made her way down the aisle to Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "The Wisdom of Snow"...which has a nice little piece of Savatage's "Back to a Reason" embedded in it. :grin:

See...metalheads actually read: MUSTAINE will be #15 on the New York Times Best Sellers list next week (9/5/10). :p

Oranges all the way...they go better with vodka.

It's funny how it's easier to remember your loudest concert than your quietest one. In that respect, for me, WWIII was easily the loudest ('90 or '91). I saw them in a little club in San Antonio and Tracy G's guitar tones felt like icepicks in my ears. Granted, there might have only been...

If your stereo receiver has an ethernet port on it, you could use this to network it in to your system from any other room in the house: http://www.slingbox.com/go/slt It basically uses your house's wiring as part of your network, and it's how I listen to music stored on my computer on my main...

The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology - Christopher Golden (ed.) I just got my copy of this and have only read a few stories, but so far the story "What Maisie Knew" by David Liss has been hands-down the coolest. Seriously, that is one fucked up story - slavery, necrophilia, zombie strippers, and...

Ain't that the truth?! This makes me sad...I loved the stuff he did with Warrior Soul and always hoped there'd be one more in the vein of the first two albums some day. Now I see that it's just not possible - his voice is shot! :erk:

Pariah - Bob Fingerman Ok, I usually don't like to post about books that won't be out for a long time, but I had to say something about this one... Pariah is one of the best zombie novels I've read! I read and really liked World War Z and thought it was a high water mark for the genre, but...

I guess I'm one of the few who both read the book AND liked the show. I think the show is an interesting take on what happened with the 6 billion "other" people in the world that the book didn't focus on. At the same time, it keeps the basic concepts and themes of the book. Hopefully, more of...

When the video came on with a Stargate/Egyptian theme, I thought that Anubis Gate would be a lock for next year...I guess not... *sigh* maybe some day :erk:

Wow...1000 posts! :rock: Who says no one reads anymore? I Am Not a Serial Killer - Dan Wells Again, not coming out until next year, but this was a lot of fun. Think of it as "Dexter as a teenager running into a problem only Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden could solve." ...or something like...

The Dragon Factory - Jonathan Maberry I just finished the manuscript for this follow-up to Patient Zero (out now). Both books are in the "kick ass and take names" action technothriller vein with recurring character Joe Ledger (kind of a Jason Bourne of weird situations). Patient Zero had Joe...

City of Thieves - David Benioff Excellent tale! Highly recommended whether you enjoy WWII novels or not, and the absurdity of the situations the characters find themselves in hammer the realities of war home all the more. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Author and screenwriter...

Yikes...no wonder Tor passed on this series.:Puke:

Cool! Glad you liked it...I did, too...now spread the word some more! :goggly: I thought it was very well done for a first novel (especially one with two writers).