I've been trying to find some new horror authors as I feel like I have read EVERYONE there is. The more I look, the less I find. So, I was hoping you guys knew some good books for me to download. Right now I am reading The Five by Robert McCammon and I can't figure out if I like it or not. I'm just not sure where the story is going.
I just finished reading The Infected by Craig DeLouie though and that book was sooooooooo very good.
I just recently finished Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles which my Grandma sent to me (She pretty much always sends me a book and maybe some cash for Birthdays and such, usually they're really good. She is a writer ) It was okay, the first half was extremely slow and boring but the second half was good. Pretty short though...
Before that IĀ read The Hunger Games series which was also good. It seems like every time I re-read a large series I do it faster than the last time...
I've read American Gods, as well as most of Gaiman's works, and though his best work is surely on Comics, particularly Sandman, The Books of Magic and Black Orchid, this novel is a superb incursion in mythology field, full of refined irony and dark humor. If you like it, you will also like Anansi Boys that, though it's not a sequel to American Gods, takes place in the same universe where the myths interact with common people and has the same dark sense of humor, though not in the same epic scale.
I'm dedicated only to Science Fiction lately. On the last week I've read the 2 first books of Frederick Pohl's Heeche series, and I'm by halfway on the third one. When I finish this serie I have the intention to read at least the first book of the Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I have the 7 books on my Kindle, and if I get to like the first one I'll definitlely go on for the complete series. I read fast and I read a lot - like 4 to 6 books on a month - and any good fantasy or sci-fi I get is quicly devoured by my hunger of adventure.
I never read the Hunger Games, Julian. I don't know, they just don't seem to appeal to me at all. I may read them sometime, I'm not sure. Everyone I know that is literary and not just literate goes "Eh" about them so I am on the fence.
Your Grandma is a writer? That's awesome. What does she write?
RIcardo, I haven't read much fantasy. Of course Tolkien and Burroughs, and I absolutely love Ray Bradbury but I really want to read some good horror if I can find some. I just finished all 11 of the Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and though I loved them, I am sort of burned out on sci-fi right now.
I read an enormous amount so I devour books. I need a good 3000 pager or something. :P Stephen King needs to write something like Under the Dome again. That book was sweeeeeet!
I've read it either and though it's a minor unpretentious work - it was originally conceived as a TV series that I've never watched - I kind of liked it more than the other two novels because it's closer in style and atmosphere to his work in comic books. And I loved Door - that girl is a standout!
I've read most of O.S. Card work, including the original Ender series and the Ender Shadow's series (that is not as good as the first one, but has its moments). Heinlein is my favorite writer and I've read Moon is a Harsh Mistress a zillion of times. That book does not get old.
Mike is the more complex and simpathethic non human character in all sci-fi. Maybe the only one who gets closer is Hal (not from Clarke's short story but from the Kubrick's movie 2001 - a space odissey). I see we have similar tastes in literature. I have collected a great number (I mean really great) of ebooks in various formats in sci-fi and fantasy. If you want something specific to read, just let me know. Maybe I have it and I certainly can lend to you.
I've never read Heinlein yet, so I'll give it a try when I am ready to do some sci-fi-ing. :P I'm sorta burned out for now. I want some fresh, different horror. I used to like Edward Lee but now he just plays gross out and doesn't flesh out his characters at all anymore. His last novel was bad. I also love Joe R. Lansdale but I've read all he has written more than once. As well as Jack Ketchum, Bentley Little, Ramsey Campbell...
I NEED some new horror!