What are you currently reading?

[RonClinton]

Just listened to an episode of the podcast COLORS OF THE DARK that had Daniel Kraus as a guest. He talked a bit about this book, his work with Del Toro, along with some interesting insight into how he took over finishing THE LIVING DEAD after Romero passed away. Curious if the premise of WHALEFALL can sustain a whole book. I'd be interested in your thoughts once you finish it.

Will do...I have the same skepticism, so we'll see -- but I'm optimistic, given the popularity it's garnered.

I have the SST signed/#d edition of THE LIVING DEAD, but haven't read it yet...maybe if I love WHALEFALL as much as other seem to, it'll inspire me to finally crack it open.

[Sock Monkey]

Starting WHALEFALL by Daniel Kraus...been intrigued by it since its publications a few months ago, and want to see what the acclaim is all about.

Just listened to an episode of the podcast COLORS OF THE DARK that had Daniel Kraus as a guest. He talked a bit about this book, his work with Del Toro, along with some interesting insight into how he took over finishing THE LIVING DEAD after Romero passed away. Curious if the premise of WHALEFALL can sustain a whole book. I'd be interested in your thoughts once you finish it.

[RonClinton]

Starting WHALEFALL by Daniel Kraus...been intrigued by it since its publications a few months ago, and want to see what the acclaim is all about.

[Sock Monkey]

Just finished reading Christopher Golden's "All Hallows". I'm a big Golden fan, but this book missed the mark for me. It wasn't a bad read per se; however, it took way too long to get to the actual horror portion of the book. By the time that it finally did, I was pretty much over the story. That being said, there were some cool ideas and some characters that I really liked and was sad to see killed-off. I also thought that the scenes dealing with marital infidelity rang quite true and were perhaps the scariest part of the book. Overall, I would give this a C- grade. While I am glad to have read this, I doubt I will revisit it in the future and will most likely trade it in at the local bookstore.

Am now reading Kristopher Triana's "Along the River of Flesh". Only a few pages in and already amazing! That opening line is a doozy!!!

I've always found Golden to be very hit-or-miss for me. I've never read anything particularly bad but neither has anything ever really resonated with me.

I've got like three Triana books in my TBR (Gone to See the River Man, The Thirteenth Koyote, and A Cold Place for Dying). Your praise keeps bumping these up in the pile. Maybe I'll make one of the my next read after I finish Fracassi's Gothic.

[sholloman81]

Just finished reading Christopher Golden's "All Hallows". I'm a big Golden fan, but this book missed the mark for me. It wasn't a bad read per se; however, it took way too long to get to the actual horror portion of the book. By the time that it finally did, I was pretty much over the story. That being said, there were some cool ideas and some characters that I really liked and was sad to see killed-off. I also thought that the scenes dealing with marital infidelity rang quite true and were perhaps the scariest part of the book. Overall, I would give this a C- grade. While I am glad to have read this, I doubt I will revisit it in the future and will most likely trade it in at the local bookstore.

Am now reading Kristopher Triana's "Along the River of Flesh". Only a few pages in and already amazing! That opening line is a doozy!!!