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by **king_ghidorah** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:51 pm

The Ultimates Vol 1. by Mark Millar

by **kent** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:43 am

by **Destroysall** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:41 am

I finally took the opportunity when I found it to read it, The Call of Cthulu from H.P. Lovecraft, it is truly amazing! I also read more of Lovecraft's stories, and he is much better than Stephen King in my opinion!

by **Tiny Gigan** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:19 am

Lovecraft is awesome! I've read essentially everything that he ever wrote. If you're a completist I recommend picking up the Del Ray collections of his stuff, since they're pretty thorough and don't have any overlap. As for Lovecraft vs. King, if you read some of King's early short stories you'll see a really heavy Lovecraftian influence - for example the short story Jerusalem's Lot is clearly inspired by Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls.* The only problem with Lovecraft is that a lot of his stories seem to end really abruptly, but I have the same complaint about King and Dean Koontz, so maybe its just me.

As far as sci-fi/horror short fiction goes, my brother recently turned me on to a guy named Richard Matheson. Turns out that he wrote like 80% of the memorable episodes of The Twilight Zone ...

*I had read King long before I started reading Lovecraft and briefly felt a twinge of annoyance while reading Rats in the Walls before realizing to my utter embarrassment that it had been written 55 years before Jerusalem's Lot. Honestly a lot of Lovecraft is kind of predictable to King fans precisely because King draws so heavily on Lovecraft's style and plot devices.

by **Destroysall** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:50 am

by **kidnicky** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:49 am

by **king_ghidorah** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:01 am

by **king_ghidorah** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:19 am

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox

and

The Art of Ray Harryhausen by Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton

by **Kaiju Nexus** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:26 am

G-Fan 88

by **king_ghidorah** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:50 pm

My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

by **king_ghidorah** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:30 pm

Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King

by **The Gene Lantern** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:16 pm

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:21 am

by **Reaper G** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:31 am

I Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges

by **king_ghidorah** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:11 pm

Up Till Now by William Shatner

by **Tiny Gigan** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:47 pm

Currently reading Selling Satan by Mike Hertenstein and Jon Trott. It's interesting, but after the first 90 pages or so of showing that Mike Warnke was a fraud (which is the point of the book), it seems to have dove off into a tedious discussion about "truth as a person" and other smeg that makes sense in the context of the authors' religious convictions but brings little to the book. Frankly I think the authors were conflicted about outing one of their coreligionists as a huckster and felt the need to justify themselves in every other chapter, which gets old pretty quick.

I have a shiny new copy of How Jesus Became Christian by Barrie Wilson that's beckoning me even now to switch over and start reading it instead.

by **Shonokin** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:37 pm

Reading Justice Inc. the 1st book of the pulp series The Avenger. Also reading The Saint Meets The Tiger.

For Lovecraft, personally I would get the Penguin Classics editions since they not only have the corrected texts but are also annotated by eminent Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi. The annotations are worth it.

by **lhb412** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:36 pm

by **The Dark Uniter** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:15 pm

Recently I've been reading Dragonball Vol 1, Dragonball Z Vol 1, Black Cat Vol 1 and Naruto Vol 1. Dragonball is so funny, I never laugh this much while reading a book. Dragonball Z is alcourse great, Black Cat is great, and Naruto is also a good read.

by **The Dark Uniter** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:59 pm

by **Tiny Gigan** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:06 pm

Recently finished The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking. Gonna go ahead and say that sometimes trying to simplify super-complicated stuff actually makes it more confusing... :shock:

by **king_ghidorah** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:23 pm

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

by **planetxleader** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:27 am

Been thinking about reading "Farewell to Arms" lately, so I took it off my shelf and brought it with me to work today. We'll see how that goes; I'm at that tired state where you can feel your brain sizzling like bacon, so I don't know if I'll be in a reading mood. Either way, this is one of the few "required reading" books from college that I enjoyed so much that I kept it (the other being "Winesburg, Ohio."

by **Reaper G** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:11 pm

"The Lays of Beleriand" by J.R.R. Tolkien

by **Tiny Gigan** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:50 pm

How Jesus Became Christian by Barrie Wilson. The book is an interesting discussion of how Jesus' message has been shifted away from its original tone of Jewish apocalypticism into its present state and the pivotal role Paul played in setting the direction of proto-orthodox Christianity but Wilson uses off-putting, loaded language like "cover-up" and "conspiracy' way too much. I'm only a few chapters in, but he seems to be attributing too much intention to the shift from Jesus' ministry/James' continuation to Pauline Christianity. There's absolutely no doubt that there were attempts by the proto-orthodox to silence their rivals, but ordinary social construction also played a role. As it stands now it seems as if Wilson thinks it was all an intentional conspiracy to downplay the Jewish nature of Jesus' ministry born out of actual anti-Semitism rather than the simple mass appeal of Paul's ecumenical interpretation of Jesus' life and death.

Again, I'm not yet halfway through so maybe Wilson will moderate his position and swerve me. It's been a neat book so far, but I can't help but think that some of his more bombastic language might be off-putting to otherwise curious readers.

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