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A shade early but I'll start. I just read The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. It's Pinhead vs Harry D'Amour (Scott Bakula's character from Lord of Illusions. It's awful. It starts off quite well, with Pinhead killing a last group of Magicians ànd stealing their powers to control Hell, and D'Anour drunk in New Orleans, hard boiled detective style. But it rapidly becomes a poor read, like someone assembled linear cut-scenes from a computer game. The writing is really quite terrible in places. The attempts at humour fail horribly, the characters have no chemistry with each other. No one is scared of Pinhead. There are some nice descriptions of parts if Hell, and there's a creepy magician turned monster who is quickly dispensed in an off hand way. D'Amour follows Pinhead to Hell to rescue a kidnapped friend. That's it. Pinhead fights Lucifer in what makes you feel like you're watching somebody else play a really tiresome computer game. The story is so linear, the character interaction and humour so poor, and the writing frequently dipping into 'was the editor asleep?' Territory that I'm not even giving it away. I'm binning it. It's my last Barker. Previously I read one about a demon in Hell that was so bad I stopped after 20 pages. It was wretched. Mr Bad Bone or some such. I forget. This wasn't as bad but certainly felt like it was going there a few times.
Next up: Roadside Picnic
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This Gun For Hire - Graham Greene - Haven't read anything for a bit so glad to get back to it with what looks like a slim read and I liked he Greene's I read about 12 years ago.
I'm also browsing Cosa Nostra: An Illustrated History of the Mafia - which has excellent photos and is nicely written as an overview of the bad lads.
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"Prejudices in Disguise" (1974) by Robert Craft. I've been reading a truckload of books on the subject of classical music and these are probably the best-written essays I've come across. I've been re-reading each entry, not just for the insights Craft has into composers such as Mahler, Wert, and, of course, Stravinsky, but also for the sheer pleasure of reading his stylish prose.
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I just started this book. So far the book is giving background on Wonder Woman's creator and describing some of the events of the time that shaped him, including the woman's suffrage and feminism movements, and the creator's work on the lie detector test. Interesting read.
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AMERICAN HEIRESS - The Kidnapping Of Patty hearst
Jeffrey Toobin
little known fact: SLA members hid out at Riotengine's house for awhile
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Re: Hook book. Let us (or me) know any interesting Joy Division-New Order revelations you come across.
I have reached 1990 in the book now. All I can say is, you should really read it.
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The Lost City of Z by David Grann
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LISTENING TO THE DOORS - Greil marcus
Thor would love this book.
LOL!
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