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M3GA MAN
Title: The Big A
Joined: Jun 19 2008
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PostPosted: Dec 19 2008 11:28 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I've been looking for a good book for a while, and I've come to the mighty Sydlexian's to recommended me a good book.
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Probable Muppet
Joined: Aug 05 2008
Location: CA
PostPosted: Dec 19 2008 11:41 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I just read The Keep again by F. Paul Wilson.

Plot synopsis:

"Something is murdering my men." Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. And when an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the men find a something that's both powerful and terrifying. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims. Panicked, the Nazis bring in a local expert on folklore--who just happens to be Jewish--to shed some light on the mysterious happenings. And unbeknownst to anyone, there is another visitor on his way--a man who awoke from a nightmare and immediately set out to meet his destiny.

The battle has begun: On one side, the ultimate evil created by man, and on the other...the unthinkable, unstoppable, unknowing terror that man has inevitably awakened.

Edit: Looks some of it's available to read on-line at google books. http://books.google.com/books?id=mKXl8j_oZeMC
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MOGHARR
Title: The Original CandyWafer
Joined: Apr 05 2007
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PostPosted: Dec 19 2008 11:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The Keep is great. Read it.
I'm reading The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker now. It's the book the first Hellraiser movie was based on and it's pretty good. Quick and easy. I'd also recommend Darkly Dreaming Dexter, and that's all I can think of right now.


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Probable Muppet
Joined: Aug 05 2008
Location: CA
PostPosted: Dec 19 2008 11:51 pm Reply with quote Back to top

MOGHARR wrote:
The Keep is great. Read it.
I'm reading The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker now. It's the book the first Hellraiser movie was based on and it's pretty good. Quick and easy. I'd also recommend Darkly Dreaming Dexter, and that's all I can think of right now.


Yeah I can't wait for The Scarlet Gospels to come out, apparently it might be years before it comes out. Sad
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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PostPosted: Dec 19 2008 11:53 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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M3GA MAN
Title: The Big A
Joined: Jun 19 2008
Location: Nowhere.
PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 12:20 am Reply with quote Back to top

This book entitled "The Keep" interests me, I'll check to see if its there when I go to the library tomorrow. Any more books guys?
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Joined: Aug 05 2008
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PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 12:45 am Reply with quote Back to top

H.P Lovecraft collected stories especially At the Mountains of Madness:

Basically the only fiction I read is mostly horror besides select authors I like.

Plot Synopsis:
The story is written in first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor from Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, a party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Dyer, discovered fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains taller than the Himalaya.

The group that discovered and crossed the mountains found the remains of fourteen ancient life forms, completely unknown to science and unidentifiable as either plants or animals, after discovering an underground cave while boring for ice cores. Six of the specimens seem to be badly damaged, the others uncannily pristine. Their highly-evolved features are problematic: their stratum location puts them at a point on the geologic time scale much too early for such features to have naturally evolved yet. Because of their resemblance to creatures of myth mentioned in the Necronomicon, they are dubbed the "Elder Things"

Lots of his stuff is free on-line including At the Mountains of Madness. There are tons of great HP Lovecraft stories, but this is one of his best.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 02:18 am Reply with quote Back to top

Breakfast of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut
Plot synopsis:
Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane.

As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.


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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 01:54 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Great books that I've read in the last year:
Brave New World
1984
American Psycho
The Road
A Scanner Darkly
The Giver and/or Messenger if you're willing to deal with a simpler book to read
The Rules of Attraction

Books that I've heard are good and are up next on my reading list:
Imagining the Tenth Dimension (a video posted to the General Disc. forum got me turned on to this)
Blink
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Day of the Triffids


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descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us.
 
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ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 02:10 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 04:56 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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Ok in all seriousness M3GA you have got to read the Godhead trilogy by James Morrow, start with the first one Towing Jehovah it's fucking brilliant!. Nod



 
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Andrew Man
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Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
PostPosted: Dec 20 2008 05:50 pm Reply with quote Back to top

American Psycho is way too gory as a book.


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