Topic: Other Stories

Madison Rye

Date: 2009-09-14 19:51 EST
I'm a self confessed book junkie. I've always got my head in something. I'm here to share.

If you recommend any novels please post in this thread too, always eager to try something new!


I bought a book last night I saw a couple weeks ago and was intrigued by. 'The Ice Age' by Kirsten Reed. I can't put it down! It's a road trip story, essentially, and well written. And I so relate with the narrator in some ways. It revolves around a young girl, older guy, on the road through America, it's a study in people, the geography of a relationship, the nature of loneliness, of travel. Cool stuff. And Gunther. Oh Gunther. He is written so well. Pick it up, it's only a small book. Nice humour and a frankness that is refreshing.

Next up I really want to read 'Water Ghosts' and the next book in the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. Cormac is elegiac and poignant without the purple prose. He's a gritty poet in his own right, and I recommend his books. They read just like a good Western feels.

Madison Rye

Date: 2009-09-15 19:50 EST
I finished The Ice Age last night. I think the ending was a little bit disappointing. I don't care about that silly narrator, pain in the bum, but I hope Gunther is okay, and men like him in this world. We have all known one. Little drifter. Man. This book got to me.

Reading some Ray Bradbury, a book of short stories called Driving Blind to while away my train rides to and from work. He's so cool.

I'm due to start 'The Crossing' in the Border Trilogy, but am tempted to started Needful Things by Stephen King. I need a horror shot.

If any of these are good, I'll be posting about it here.

Artsblood

Date: 2009-11-17 23:03 EST
I hesitate to recommend books, because it's kind of like eating potato chips or telling lies; it's hard to stop once you've started. Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth, however, is just too damned good to keep quiet about. An epic free-verse literary novel about werewolves in L.A.? Damn right. Everyone who loves horror and mythology and language ought to give it a try!

Artsblood

Date: 2010-03-14 21:40 EST
As far as I know only available in hardcover (give thanks for your local library), this fantastic story of a 12-year-old prodigy mapmaker has any number of ideas to offer about the possibilities of family and the price of fame. More than that, though, Larsen's prose is full of the kind of lines that make you want to call a friend in the middle of the night just to have somebody to read a sampling aloud to.

Humbling stuff, and a feast for the reader.

Madison Rye

Date: 2010-03-19 23:00 EST
Looks awesome, Artsie! I've come upon it now and again. You were spot on about Sharp Teeth, which I am still madly in love with, so I trust this too.