What Are You Currently Reading?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I'm at the half way point of Christopher Golden's The House of Last Resort.

Tommy and Kate, a young American couple move to Sicily where the mans family reside after buying a property in a mayoral scheme to boost the area for one Euro. The only proviso being they spend at least 50,000 Euros on renovating the property.

The first eighty pages are really scene building and what an idyllic scene of rural Italy Golden visualizes. Families and friends all eating out together in the evenings on delicious local seafood and pasta, wine drunk by the gallon and the joy of bringing new life to an old house.

Except that house has a history. A history the Vatican would prefer to keep hidden. The next eighty or so pages delve deeper into the house Tommy and Kate have bought and it all begins to get beautifully creepy especially since the house seems to have a link to nearby catacombs and the reason the locals call the house the house la casa del ultima resorsa.

Hugely enjoyable so far, with it's nice balance between character and plot, i've just finished book one titled September in two evening sessions and begin book two - October - tomorrow night.

Then you're having a very different reading experience to me my good man. I'm finding it a real slog. Characters I'm not interested in, slow pacing and most frustrating an absolutely absurd plot point early on that is simply ignored. I'll chug away but so far it isn't working for me at all. How you've managed half the book in a day or two I don't know Dem. It's only my ocd with books that means I haven't given up and dropped this into the charity shop over the way already.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Then you're having a very different reading experience to me my good man. I'm finding it a real slog. Characters I'm not interested in, slow pacing and most frustrating an absolutely absurd plot point early on that is simply ignored. I'll chug away but so far it isn't working for me at all. How you've managed half the book in a day or two I don't know Dem. It's only my ocd with books that means I haven't given up and dropped this into the charity shop over the way already.

It's just a very easy read and i'm enjoying it following the total flashback nonsense of the last two books i read in John Connolly's Bad Men and Richard Laymon's Blood Games.

I don't really recall any absurd plot points that have been ignored so perhaps they haven't been ignored by the half way stage.

It's possible that we don't enjoy the same books unfortunately. For example i thought The Shining was superb but you said

Originally Posted by J Harker

It's certainly one of the better King novels I've read but it still has a long arse patch of about a hundred pages of long winded exposition just when it's really starting to hit full speed.

So there are clearly differences in our tastes.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's just a very easy read and i'm enjoying it following the total flashback nonsense of the last two books i read in John Connolly's Bad Men and Richard Laymon's Blood Games.



I don't really recall any absurd plot points that have been ignored so perhaps they haven't been ignored by the half way stage.



It's possible that we don't enjoy the same books unfortunately. For example i thought The Shining was superb but you said







So there are clearly differences in our tastes.

Quite possibly. Horses for courses as they say.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I'm at the half way point of Christopher Golden's The House of Last Resort.

Tommy and Kate, a young American couple move to Sicily where the mans family reside after buying a property in a mayoral scheme to boost the area for one Euro. The only proviso being they spend at least 50,000 Euros on renovating the property.

The first eighty pages are really scene building and what an idyllic scene of rural Italy Golden visualizes. Families and friends all eating out together in the evenings on delicious local seafood and pasta, wine drunk by the gallon and the joy of bringing new life to an old house.

Except that house has a history. A history the Vatican would prefer to keep hidden. The next eighty or so pages delve deeper into the house Tommy and Kate have bought and it all begins to get beautifully creepy especially since the house seems to have a link to nearby catacombs and the reason the locals call the house the house la casa del ultima resorsa.

Hugely enjoyable so far, with it's nice balance between character and plot, i've just finished book one titled September in two evening sessions and begin book two - October - tomorrow night.

Finished this tonight. Read it in four sittings.

The last hundred pages are where the horror comes truly alive and i was continuously thinking i was reading some sort of Claudio Fragasso movie in prose. At least that was how i was imagining it all thanks to some brilliant descriptive passages which one time actually made all the hair on my head tingle or should i say crawl.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I'm currently 160 pages into Cell by Stephen King.

Unusually for King the reader is dropped straight into the story which in this case is about a regular guy called Clay, a struggling comic book artist walking down the Boston streets when something turns those around him into raving, vicious animals. A dark and gritty read as King paints a picture of a world gone mad via a signal through mobile phones. It's very anti-tech so far with King seemingly disliking the way people are glued to their phones as much as i do. The three main protagonists characters are gradually unfolding as their plight and journey out of the city takes pace.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I'm currently 160 pages into Cell by Stephen King.



Unusually for King the reader is dropped straight into the story which in this case is about a regular guy called Clay, a struggling comic book artist walking down the Boston streets when something turns those around him into raving, vicious animals. A dark and gritty read as King paints a picture of a world gone mad via a signal through mobile phones. It's very anti-tech so far with King seemingly disliking the way people are glued to their phones as much as i do. The three main protagonists characters are gradually unfolding as their plight and journey out of the city takes pace.

I wish I could read as quick as you Dem.
I get the impression you've not seen the film adaptation of Cell? It starts brilliantly I thought, much like the book by the sounds of it. John Cusacks character just flung into the chaos.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I wish I could read as quick as you Dem.
I get the impression you've not seen the film adaptation of Cell? It starts brilliantly I thought, much like the book by the sounds of it. John Cusacks character just flung into the chaos.

No, not seen the film. I'll probably have a look out for a cheap dvd copy when i've finished the book.

As for quick reading. I don't really think so, it's more that i set out time to make a cuppa, grab a biscuit, get comfy and read my book. Usually sometime between 8-10.30pm.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

No, not seen the film. I'll probably have a look out for a cheap dvd copy when i've finished the book.



As for quick reading. I don't really think so, it's more that i set out time to make a cuppa, grab a biscuit, get comfy and read my book. Usually sometime between 8-10.30pm.

I'm still on that Christopher Golden book and I started it before you.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I'm still on that Christopher Golden book and I started it before you.

Do you like it any better?

[Justin101]

I finished the latest King, You Like It Darker. It definitely had its low points but some of the stories were really good! Two Talented Bastids, Danny Coughlins Bad Dream, The Turbulence Expert and Rattlesnakes were all highlights for me.