Member: neko

I really liked The Last Time They Met too, and I just this morning finished reading The Weight of Water, which I think is a prequel to that book. Have you read it? It is also about Thomas, which I was surprised to find out when I started reading it. As for Gone, Baby, Gone, I really liked it too, although I'm probably more inclined to like it because it takes place in Boston. I've been wanting to see the movie.

posted by luabelle624 at 11:19 am (EST) on Nov 24, 2007

Great to meet you! Thanks for accepting my friendship. I'm looking forward to checking out your library and I hope you enjoy mine.

posted by lisaunger at 10:19 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2007

Thanks for your friendship! I look forward to checking out your books and hope you enjoy mine.

posted by lisaunger at 10:19 am (EST) on Nov 20, 2007

Just started using LibraryThing and yours was one of the first libraries with overlaps to mine. (Not very many so far, but I haven't really begun entering my SF/Fantasy/Horror.) What did you think of The Historian? I was disappointed, though it was overhyped. And what about In Cold Blood? That really blew me away. I've never been to Kansas or even very near. Wonder how the book seemed to someone living a lot closer to the scene of the action.

posted by robkill at 12:33 am (EST) on Aug 4, 2007

Yay for your library and for being in Arkansas! Whereabouts do you live? I bounce around the Conway/Little Rock/Cabot area...

posted by angrystarlyt at 12:12 am (EST) on May 9, 2007

Well, thanks for the info, I'm always looking for something new to give me nightmares. Oh, and if your into that whole j-horror thing the movie The Eye 2 was excellent.

posted by israfel13 at 8:24 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2006

Are the ring books worth reading?

posted by israfel13 at 6:07 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2006

I honestly haven't read too much Campbell myself, just a few short stories and one novel. I have more and will be getting around to it soon enough. I've been wanting to read one called "The Overnight," which is about a bookstore that is connected to some sort of freaky inter-dimensional portal. Or something. I do believe he was mentioned in "Danse Macabre," but it's been so long since I've read that I don't know in what context. "Of Human Bondage" is one I have added to my "too read" stacks many times but have never gotten around to reading. "House of Leaves" is the same way. Oh well. I'm reading as fast as I can, so I'll get to them soon enough. "Devil" was a remainder bin purchase, so even if it isn't any good, I didn't pay too much for it.

Glad you like the site. Look forward to anything you have to recommend.

posted by coffeezombie at 11:39 pm (EST) on Jul 21, 2006

Hmm, recommendations...

Okay, here we go:

1. Donald Barthelme (start with "60 Stories" and work from there)
2. Kobo Abe ("Woman in the Dunes" is one of my favorite novels)
3. David Foster Wallace (start with one of the essay collections if you've never read him before. "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" is one of the funniest books of the last decade)
4. I noticed you like Stephen King, so you might like Ramsey Campbell, a British horror author. He's written a lot, so you can basically start anywhere.
5. If you like Hunter S. Thompson try Richard Meltzer, who basically did for music writting what Thompson did for journalism. He can be a little hard to read some times (his writing often approaches Dadaesque) but if you want a cranky, lunatic perspective on rock music between the late sixties and the mid eighties, you can't go wrong with him. Start with "A Whore Just Like the Rest," which is his big music writing collection.

Hope those work out for you. Send me any recommendations you might have, I'd be happy to get some new ideas.

posted by coffeezombie at 11:11 am (EST) on Jul 21, 2006

I noticed we're fans of a few of the same authors (Vonnegut, Barth, Pratchett) as well as some other selections. I'd like to hear what you thought of "The Master and Margarita" or "The Sot-Weed Factor," two of my favorites that I saw in your catalog. Had fun looking through your collection. Happy cataloging.

posted by coffeezombie at 11:17 am (EST) on Jul 19, 2006

oh look, now we share 14 books. honestly that seems a little high to me. :)

posted by jessicarabid at 11:39 am (EST) on May 28, 2006

Well, you know I read a lot of crap that you would never read and vice versa. But I only have like 5 pages of books saved so far. You're going to need to build a house for your books to live in soon.

posted by jessicarabid at 1:59 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2006