The Currently Reading Thread v. A Clash of Kings

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

I TOLD YOU

it was really brutal. the basement part especially. what's the next cormac i should read?

[hefdaddy42]

it was really brutal. the basement part especially. what's the next cormac i should read?

What have you already read besides this and Blood Meridian?

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

What have you already read besides this and Blood Meridian?

Those are the only two

[hefdaddy42]

IMO, the best of his remaining books is All The Pretty Horses.  So that would be my recommendation.

Of course, it's the first book of the Border Trilogy, so from there, read The Crossing, and then Cities of the Plain.

[hefdaddy42]

Six From Sirius by Doug Moench & Paul Gulacy

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

IMO, the best of his remaining books is All The Pretty Horses.  So that would be my recommendation.

Of course, it's the first book of the Border Trilogy, so from there, read The Crossing, and then Cities of the Plain.

Will do, thanks

[hefdaddy42]

Will do, thanks

[hefdaddy42]

She-Hulk: Jen Again by Rainbow Rowell, Roge Antonio, Luca Maresca, and Rico Renzi

[hefdaddy42]

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

[Kwyjibo]

Missing. New York by Don Winslow

[chknptpie]

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

I gave his The Will of the Many 5/5. I really need to check out his other works.

Here are my 2024 books so far:
The Measure by Nikki Erlick - 4.0
The Poppy War #1 by R.F. Kuang - 3.75
Upgrade by Blake Crouch - 3.5
Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler - 3.0
Long Chills and Case Dough by Brandon Sanderson - 4.25
Iron Flame - The Empyrean #2 by Rebecca Yarros - 4.0
A Conjuring of Light - Shades of Magic #3 by V.E. Schwab - 3.25
The Gathering Storm - The Wheel of Time #12 by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan - 3.75
The Will of the Many - Hierarchy #1 by James Islington - 5.0
Six of Crows #1 by Leigh Bardugo - 4.0
Towers of Midnight - Wheel of Time #13 by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan - 4.0
Shadow and Bone #1 by Leigh Bardugo - 4.5
The Witch of Duva - Grishaverse #0.5 by Leigh Bardugo - 4.0
Howling Dark - Sun Eater #2 by Christopher Ruocchio - 1.5
A Memory of Light - The Wheel of Time #14 by Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan - 4.25

March additions:
Abaddon's Gate - The Expanse #3 by James S.A. Corey – 3.75
So many people died in this book… but highly recommend this series.

Stephen Leeds Death and Faxes by Brandon Sanderson, Michael Harkins, Max Epstein, David Pace – 3.75
Silly and fun, like all the other Leeds books.

Children of Blood and Bone – Legacy of Orisha #1 by Tomi Adeyemi – 3.75
Interesting world and magic. Looking forward to more of this series.

Cytonic – Skyward #3 by Brandon Sanderson – 4.0
Silly, ridiculous, charming, and fun. Would be great for young readers to learn about emotions.

The Churn – The Expanse #3.5 by James S.A. Corey – 3.75
Always interesting to learn a character’s origin story.

House of Flame and Shadow – Crescent City #3 by Sarah J. Maas – 3.25
Either my tastes are changing or SJM is getting worse. This book feels like she’s run out of ideas. The dialog was pretty awful, the plot holes abundant, my eye rolls constant.

Currently reading:
New Spring – Wheel of Time #0 by Robert Jordan
The Fragile Threads of Power #1 by V.E. Schwab

[hefdaddy42]

I gave his The Will of the Many 5/5.

Good to hear!  I am VERY early in this book (the first of a trilogy), but so far, so good.

[Evermind]

I gave his The Will of the Many 5/5.

I just received a hardcover edition which took four months to ship (it's complicated to get books here). Looking forward to start this one next week!

[WDADU]

William Peter Blatty on The Exorcist: From Novel to Screen, by William Peter Blatty.

[ozzy554]

The Crow: Skinning the Wolves by James O'Barr - The Crow brings back the spirit of a man to go all John Wick on Nazis at a concentration camp. Simple story with almost non stop action. Wouldn't mind seeing this one become a movie instead of the Eric Draven story again.

Freddy Krueger's A Nightmare on Elm Street (issues 1+2) by Steve Gerber - A short lived comic series from Marvel that was discontinued after 2 issues after fear of upsetting parents despite the series being explicitly marked for adults only. A shame because it was pretty decent and now ends on a cliffhanger. Only major complaint that even by Freddy standards his one liners could be painfully unfunny.

The Crow: Curare by James O'Barr - After his obsession with a brutal unsolved murder of a child ruins his marriage and career a cop is visited by the Spirit of the victim to help him solve her murder. A very different kind of Crow story where the returning spirit doesn't avenge their death themselves but assists someone else to do so. The hardest to read of The Crow series I've read so far. Now I'm not usually one for trigger warnings but yeah big TW for child abuse and SA here for this one. Not ashamed to admit it made me tear up more than once.

Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee - Next up a dose of Splatterpunk with a short story collection by the author of the Header series. Your typical overly violent and disgusting dark humor you'd expect from this sort of thing. I will say though that 2 stories in particular made me gag a bit. not an easy feat.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday by Andy Mangels - A comic book adaptation of my least favorite entry in the franchise. Despite it being a very direct translation from screen to page I liked this more. This book cuts out the fat and keeps all the action without losing any of the silly plot. Works so much more as a comic book than it does a movie.......still really dumb

Mother's Day (Friday the 13th, Camp Crystal Lake, #1) by Eric Morse - I got curious about those YA books of horror franchises that came out in the 90s so I decided to track this one down. What I did not expect is for it to be a follow up to Jason Goes to Hell and for it to be more unhinged than some of the actual movies. Fast read with some surprises that I would have never predicted.

[hefdaddy42]

Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

[hefdaddy42]

Lost Myrtle Beach by Becky Billingsley

[Kwyjibo]

Time for german fantasy, Schattenelfen - Die Blutkönigin by Bernhard Hennen, which roughly translates to Shadowelves - The Queen Of Blood.

[hefdaddy42]

Batman: The Killing Joke: The Deluxe Edition by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland

[SchecterShredder]

HP7 by Rowling.

Couldn't help myself.  Thought I'd flip back to an english  pull (likely a re-read of Persuader so I'm ready for Reacher season 3), but the wizarding world's call was too strong.

[Podaar]

The Book That Broke the World (Book 2 of The Library Trilogy) - Mark Lawrence

[hefdaddy42]

A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan/The Longest December by Richard Chizmar (double/flip book)

[hefdaddy42]

Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership by Steven Levingston