Currently reading Christopher Moore's Island of the Sequined Love Nun If you like satire I strongly recommend Christopher Moore.
On my to read pile:
Stephen King Lisey's Story
Michael Gruber Valley of Bonesand Tropic of Night
Kim Harrison Every Which Way but Dead
Carol O'Connell The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
The last 4 were recent finds at one of those discount booksellers. The Kim Harrison looks like it may be about book 4 in an Anita Blake Vampire Hunter sort of clone series. Carol O'Connell I have read before and enjoyed. Their scifi selection sucked, so I wound up mostly with thrillers this time *shrug*. Discount booksellers it's always a gamble what you will find, but it's a good way to try different authors, given that most paperbacks are about $6.50-$7.00 anymore here in the US. And I live about a 5 mile walk from my closest library. Now that it's warming up, won't be so bad, but...
That Kim Harrison series is quite fun. It's a slightly more scientific approach than the Anita Blake one (In this case, the supernaturals are very public and have whole neighbourhoods and police forces of their own) and works a little better, at least for me.
Been reading a lot of graphic novels recently, if nothing else because I've borrowed a lot from a friend of mine:)
-The Alan Moore run on
Captain Britain is both interesting and arguably the weakest thing Moore has ever written. There's a lot to enjoy in it (And some early indications of his fascination with Miracleman) but the end of the story honestly feels like an issue is missing. However, the alternate Captain Britains are great fun, especially Kapitan Englander and Captain Airstrip One ('It'sdoubleplussgoodtomeetyou!')
-The Jame Delano run on
Captain Britain. Going very slowly with this one. It's good but it's dated horribly and the central concept is a bit too cosmic, a bit too weird after getting nothing but cosmic and weird in the Moore run. Having said that, it's nice to see an early appearance by Dai Thomas, who would go on to become the lead character in the superb, and criminally under-rated
Knights of Pendragon.
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Hellblazer-Setting SunThe second collection of Warren Ellis' truncated run on the title and effectively a short story anthology. Some of Ellis' best work is in here, especially 'One Last Love Song', one of Ellis' best riffs on the idea of Constantine being haunted by London.
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Hellblazer-Rare Cuts A collection of some of the most unusual and least well known stories in the title's history and one with some real gems in it. The two part Grant Morrison story in here, which takes in secret weaponry, pagan festivals and the US Listening Post at Menwith Hill somehow got reprinted in a newstand comic over here in the early '90s. Scared the bejeesus out of me then and now:)
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Storming Heavin-The Frazer Irving Collection-A splendid collection of the work Irving has done for 2000AD. The artist on
Necronauts(He's Charles Fort! He's Harry Houdini! They fight Cthulu!), Irving's work is staggeringly impressive and he's teamed with some great writers on this. The stand out is 'Storming Heaven', a '70s hippie superhero story that, oddly, could stand a sequel.
Meanwhile, over on the prose file we have:
- Eyes of Amber by Joan Vinge
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
The Forever Omnibus by Joe Haldem
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