but these look quite neat.

The Video Game Bundle 2.0

Does anyone know a book out of these? 

Andy Weir - The Martian

Very nice book this. Basically "Gravity, on Mars, written by a droll blogger" - easy to read, witty in places, and grounded with lots of logic and scientific procedure - probably enough to satisfy even the most boring pedant who prefers nit-picking the science rather than enjoying the fiction. Well recommended.

Other than that I have been reading a lot of Robert Charles Wilson recently, Blind Lake and The Harvest being highlights, almost as good as Darwinia and The Chronoliths. 

Welp I just bought The Martian for reading-on-train purposes. Looks like a good fit for that!

I finished _The City and The City_ by China Mieville a couple of days ago. Very satisfying. It's a completely odd premise but the prose and the plot built on it are grounded... not what I expected from Mieville, but it works for what is essentially a noir police procedural. It's made me interested in picking up some more recent Mieville stuff. 

Brilliant book, was my favourite book of whichever year it came out. I should get it digitally, it's one I'd just like to have in my collection.

I then read his Kraken after it which was relatively bollox. 

Have you read Embassytown or Railsea? I'm eyeing both of those. 

Quite Young Adult but more entertaining than Kraken. Didn't try Embassytown. 

Ursula K. Le Guin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk 

Joe Hill - NOS4A2

Quick-paced epic about a woman's life-long conflict with a soul-destroying child kidnapper. Grotesque imagery abound, chilling villains, and even if it does somewhat run out of steam at the end, the journey itself is more than worth it.

Patrick Rothfuss - The Slow Regard of Silent Things

As much as I appreciate the author's attempt to do something that defies conventional description...man was this a fucking slog to get through. It has the strange effect of making my eyelids unbearably heavy each time I opened the book. Get back to 'The Doors of Stone', please. 

Horns - didn't inspire me to read much more of his stuff. 

Southern Reach trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer, you should all go read it before Hollywood makes a shitty movie adaptation!
It's got some nice weird Lovecraft-ish stuff even, kind of. 

Give the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson a try. The second book of the Kingkiller series was such rubbish I gave up on it. :( 

I cannot get enough of, though to be fair, I thought Horns was the least of his works. If you have the chance to check out 'Heart-Shaped Box', give it a try. One of my favorite ghost stories ever written.

Lovecraft stuff! I'm sold

I am searching for new reading material right now (once I finish Stephen King's 'Revival'), so maybe the Stormlight Archive is for me.

I love 'The Wise Man's Fear' with an unhealthy intensity. I appreciate it's meandering sections, as it delves into the tedium and non-glorious parts that lie between the reality of legend. I was having this exact debate with someone on facebook just yesterday. Not to mention one of the 'villains' introduced in the latter part of the books is one of the coolest ideas for an antagonist I've seen.

It even inspired me to try to write my own version of Book Three. Only got 30k words into it before stopping, though...maybe I'll pick it up again someday. 

Just finished Stephen King's 'Revival'. Never has King's admiration for Lovecraft been on more obvious display; it almost feels like a love letter to H.P. Not that this is a negative; rather, it works wonderfully, a slow-burn that builds up to one the more chilling and unnerving climaxes in his bibliography.

Not to mention quotes of pure gold such as this one:
"There's no proof of these after-life destinations; no backbone of science; there is only the bald assurance, coupled with out powerful need to believe that it all makes sense. But as I stood in the back room of Peabody's and looked down at the mangled remains of my boy, who wanted to go to Disneyland much more than he wanted to go to heaven, I had a revelation. Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid so - pardon the pun - so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist." 

...as any other King novel I've had the misfortune to dip in briefly before realising that he is a terrible writer. 

and Pet Cemetery 

I have a soft spot for King's good stuff, which is indeed good.

his book on writing - 'on writing' -is fucking awesome. 

Very good book. 

https://www.scribd.com/doc/233219778/Marijuana-Simpson 

Reading N0S4R2 on your reccommendation, am "partway" through (spoiler: CM has now got W at B's place), and I am quite enjoying it. It's still slightly annoyingly americanish and modern-fairy-tale-ish in places, but the pace is good and some of it is pretty creepy, plus the underlying theme is intruiging. Keeps me reading for sure. 

So many great setpieces in the book. If memory serves correct, you're almost at one of my favorite ones, which takes place at a gas station. 

Should a book like the Necronomicon be considered on its own or as part of a larger conversation with the people it kills or drives insane?

http://www.somethingawful.com/news/necronomicon-reading-guide/ 

https://maggiemcneill.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/the-complete-works-of-h-p-lovecraft.pdf 

 

maybe if this thread was more active, OTP wouldnt be behind on his book reading.

get to it guys!