What are you reading?

[Cody Layne]

Jurassic World: The Ultimate Visual History. I'd read the first book, about the first three Jurassic Park movies, a few years ago, and had long intended to get and read this one. I finally got around to it recently and it was just as great a read as the first book. Whatever you may think of the Jurassic World movies (like with the original Jurassic Park trilogy, I enjoy the first one but have mixed feelings about the two sequels), this is still fascinating and enjoyable to read, telling you everything you'd want to know about the making of them.

[Adeptus]

"Córka Łupieżcy" by Jacek Dukaj. Polish sci-fi, I think it was not translataed into English.

[Ian Jane]

Working my way through Derk Backderf's Trashed. Pretty interesting look at the life of garbageman and the history of garbage disposal.

[Derrick King]

Finished The Big Gold Dream and took a break to read some of the Blu-ray booklets I've let pile up (the one in Radiance's Underworld Beauty was so bad that I'm now going to give essays two paragraphs to hook me, if they don't they are going back into their cases unfinished, life is too short to waste on bad essays) Now I'm moving on to the next Himes book, All Shot Up

[Derrick King]

I've been doing a Jim Thompson read through, I'm 10 books into the 25 I have, last one I finished was Savage Night, which was great, and a read through of Chester Himes' Coffin Ed and Grave Digger books, I just started the 4th book, The Big Gold Dream. I actually started both of those projects last year and hope I can finished both projects this year, but I've been mixing them with other things (Valancourt's Paperbacks from Hell reprints, my massive stack of unread Hard Case Crime books, various other things that catch my fancy) to keep from becoming bored with either project, so it probably isn't going to happen. Though, I should be able to finish the Coffin and Grave Digger books this year.

The Ring by Koji Suzuki was the last book I finished, and I liked it enough to pick up the other two book in the trilogy and the follow up short story collection.

[Cody Layne]

Voices from Krypton: I've been reading this massive book (just a little over 700 pages) about the history of Superman for what feels like a month or so. I've read some of this author, Edward Gross', other books, like Nobody Does It Better: The Unofficial, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond and Secrets of the Force: The Unofficial, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars, so I knew I was going to get something in depth and well researched, and he didn't disappoint. This has to be the definitive book about the history of the Superman character, covering absolutely everything, from the original comics and Jerry Siegel and Joel Shuster's legal battles with DC, to the radio show, Fleischer cartoons, the George Reeves TV show, the movies with Christopher Reeve, shows like Superboy, Lois & Clark, Smallville, and so many others. It may have taken a while, but I really enjoyed this read, and not being a comic person, I actually learned some things.

[Alison Jane]

I'm not a reader at all. But I recently bought Animal Farm and 1984 because I always hear they're good. We'll see if I actually read either.

[Gary Banks]

It's about a 90 minute read! Mostly just a blow by blow adaptation of the screenplay with a few original chapters that contain some early backstory. Also, in the final chapter when the cops show up, it says something along the lines of nobody knows why they did, when it's blindingly obvious from the film that Caroline Munro's character sent them there after the attack in the graveyard. Odd.

I may pass on it then.

[agent999]

Now I'm eyeing the MANIAC novel based on the 1980's flick.

It's about a 90 minute read! Mostly just a blow by blow adaptation of the screenplay with a few original chapters that contain some early backstory. Also, in the final chapter when the cops show up, it says something along the lines of nobody knows why they did, when it's blindingly obvious from the film that Caroline Munro's character sent them there after the attack in the graveyard. Odd.

[Gary Banks]

VIRUS: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD was much better than I expected. While there are some scenes from the movie in it, most of it is a new and different take. There are a lot of scenes set in America and also a supernatural/religious angle thrown in as well. The mercs are not nearly as off putting or stupid as they are in the film. YMMV but I had a good time with it and the kindle wasn't expensive.

Now I'm eyeing the MANIAC novel based on the 1980's flick.

[agent999]

Picked up a few movie tie-in editions, starting on Joel Delaney as interested in seeing how close the film is to the original novel:

The Possession of Joel Delaney
House of Dark Shadows
The Seven-Ups

[agent999]

I just found kindle editions of BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE and VIRUS HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD. Couldn't pass them up.

Ah good, someone taking one for the team on that Virus book!

[Gary Banks]

I just found kindle editions of BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE and VIRUS HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD. Couldn't pass them up.

[Gary Banks]

I found the first 38 Executioner (Mack Bolan) books by Don Pendleton last week in one of our boxes. I've read about half of them since then and it was a very well written series compared to others of its time.

[Dom D]

The Executioners: I wasn't far into this when I realised I was reading Cape Fear. I've been reading a heap of Lansdale recently and I realised reading this how much he's influenced by this one. Stories like Cold In July taking a different approach to solve the same dilemma. But this is good, tough sorry telling and manages to pack a lot of character and subtext into not many words.