Gothic.net News Horror Gothic Lifestyle Fiction Movies Books and Literature Dark TV VIP Horror Professionals Professional Writing Tips Links Gothic Forum




Go Back   Gothic.net Community > Boards > Literature

Literature Please come visit. People get upset, write poetry about it, and post it here. Sometimes we also talk about books.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 08-12-2013, 05:23 AM   #3151
Acharis
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
^I was going to read 'Guns Germs and Steel'... might have to do that when I find it in a library.

I have no idea how 'Sabriel' and the others haven't gathered more attention... some might find it too "young" for them but it's still quite a kick ass mature story and severely underrated. First read it when I was about 10 (advanced reader) and am hoping Nix writes more about the Old Kingdom/Ancelstierre.

...Actually. You might enjoy 'Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories'. There's a short story where Nicholas Sayre tries to cross the Wall again. 'Hope Chest' is also pretty epic.
Acharis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-14-2013, 04:02 AM   #3152
Thanatosofos
 
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Posts: 6
Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse, picked it up in Dublin last week and got started on it yesterday.
Thanatosofos is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-14-2013, 06:56 PM   #3153
sinatra
 
sinatra's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 3
Mick Mercers-music to die for.
Mostly discographies in that book but very interesting.
I love Micks gotiska rock books
sinatra is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-16-2013, 02:05 PM   #3154
BourbonBoy
 
BourbonBoy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
"The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker. It's the novella the first "Hellraiser" film was based on.
BourbonBoy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-16-2013, 08:20 PM   #3155
Saya
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
How is it? I keep seeing it in an anthology and wanting to pick it up, but I've never read a Clive Barker book before.
Saya is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 08-16-2013, 08:55 PM   #3156
BourbonBoy
 
BourbonBoy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
It's an excellent story, even though I have problems reading Barker's style sometimes. I tried reading "Abarat" years ago but couldn't get into it. In a lot of ways he's like Stephen King, hit or miss but from what I've read he's more hit than miss.
BourbonBoy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-25-2013, 08:49 PM   #3157
Tam Li Hua
 
Tam Li Hua's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
Blog Entries: 25
Currently reading "The Right Hand of Evil" by John Saul.

It's alright. Not very far in yet.
__________________
"Follow your bliss..."
Tam Li Hua is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-04-2013, 02:21 PM   #3158
satanicangel66689
 
satanicangel66689's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Asgard!!
Posts: 62
The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother. Just got this book today. Saw something about this on the show Deadly Women.
satanicangel66689 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-25-2013, 10:27 AM   #3159
Defeatist
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: error
Posts: 3
Bradbury's 'Something wicked this way comes'
Feynman's 'What do you care what other people think?'
'A passion for science'-obscure book I found in the library,but good
'The little black book of computer viruses'
'The Unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath'
Dawkin's 'The God delusion'
Nietzsche's 'The Antichrist
the last two I will probably never finish
Defeatist is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-25-2013, 10:39 AM   #3160
Defeatist
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: error
Posts: 3
I enjoyed the Millenium trirology tremendously
Defeatist is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-03-2013, 12:19 AM   #3161
tetsuo
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Germany
Posts: 14
"Tysteren", in german it's "Der stumme Besucher" (the silent visitor) by Jan-Erik Fjell. Usually I don't like the way crime novels / thriller are written in Scandinavia but this one turns out quite well. Until now, will see if it stays this way.
tetsuo is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-16-2013, 10:13 AM   #3162
dylanmad
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15
Past two books have been "PostApoc" by Liz Worth, an experimental druggie apocalypse novel, and then "How To Kill A Vampire" by Liisa Ladouceur. Looking for the next book.
dylanmad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-18-2013, 02:07 PM   #3163
BloodFlow
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 9
Just finished MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood. Now I'm splitting my time between The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson and a cunnilingus guide
BloodFlow is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-18-2013, 07:47 PM   #3164
Gr3enBl4ck
 
Gr3enBl4ck's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Posts: 8
Skin Game by Jim Butcher... just kidding, I wish! I just finished Cheshire Red book 2 Hellbent by Cherie Priest and just picked up a book I have been procrastinating getting to: Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris. Next up I'll start a new series, but haven't found the right one yet. Any thoughts on a good paranormal detective series I could get in to? Not too big on the /romance ones - I gave up Anita Blake after Narcissus.
Gr3enBl4ck is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-24-2013, 03:38 PM   #3165
TheLonelyGhost
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 77
At the moment I'm wearing the Teen series: The Maze Runner. I was debating on wanting to read this, but it sounds very interesting to me and decided to give it a read. If the first book is any good, I continue on reading the whole series.
TheLonelyGhost is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-28-2013, 01:41 PM   #3166
Cothurnatus
 
Cothurnatus's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Posts: 25
I'm reading "You Are What You Eat" by Dr.Gillian McKeith. )))
Cothurnatus is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-01-2014, 09:09 PM   #3167
Saya
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
Reading Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein right now. I'm debating on recommending it from now on as a good starting place for people who want to learn about trans* and gender issues. Fundamentally, at least so far, its pretty damn good and accessible, but it also came out in the early nineties and a lot has happened in gender studies since then. Also the use of words that are more accepted to be slurs now (does that make sense? Like she uses the word "hermaphrodite when I think she means intersex) that would make me a bit nervous lending the book to someone who might take it as a pass to use slurs.
Saya is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-01-2014, 10:11 PM   #3168
dylanmad
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15
Finished reading "Haunted Ontario" by Terry Boyle. A neat series of anecdotes and tales, easy reading.
dylanmad is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2014, 07:57 PM   #3169
HumanePain
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
Blog Entries: 4
Living History - Hillary Rodham-Clinton

I have had a thing for biographies and autobiographies lately.
__________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKm_wA-WdI4
Charlie Chaplin The Greatest Speech in History


HumanePain is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-12-2014, 10:38 PM   #3170
Frozen_Stars
 
Frozen_Stars's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Scandinavian living in the Orient
Posts: 35
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

After that I will read Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Got both books for christmas.
Frozen_Stars is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-16-2014, 10:53 PM   #3171
deathsdj
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 80
The Deed Of Paksenarion by Elizabeth Moon. Not goth by any means but I dig fantasy a lot. I read this when I was like 13 so I'm revisiting it to see how it holds up.
deathsdj is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-17-2014, 07:10 PM   #3172
The Librarian
 
The Librarian's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Wales
Posts: 1
Possession, by A.S.Byatt.

It's a little slow so far, but the premise is good and I'm hoping it will pick up. The writing style is pretty, anyway.

M
The Librarian is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-08-2014, 03:12 PM   #3173
Antonio Blackheart
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 8
The Turbulent Universe by Paul Kurtz.
Antonio Blackheart is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-13-2014, 12:19 PM   #3174
TheLonelyGhost
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 77
I decided to start reading a few of my classic novels that's in my closet that I haven't yet read, right now I decided to read Watership Down by Richard Adams.
TheLonelyGhost is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 03-13-2014, 01:31 PM   #3175
BourbonBoy
 
BourbonBoy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
My Soloman Kane anthology by Robert E. Howard.
BourbonBoy is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
After reading the tattoos and piercings thread..... Apathy's_Child Literature 0 07-07-2010 12:07 PM
Susy; Don't bother reading, unless insanely bored. Susyq4u Introductions 21 12-09-2009 06:42 PM
haha I was reading my intro Wormboy Whining 11 10-26-2007 06:47 PM
If your reading this, you must be bored. Sanctus Dei Introductions 28 07-21-2007 06:36 PM
We know what you're reading, but what do you want to read? JulesJBJuliet Literature 26 06-01-2006 05:23 AM


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 03:14 PM.