What are you reading now?

[Lady for Now]

This might have been asked a thousand times but what is everyone reading now? I'm read Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon. Its a true story about a guy who drives around the world on his motorcycle. It started out a bit slow but I'm really enjoying the bit where he is in Africa. Anyone else?

[Ray Mangum]

Aside from essays by Lester Bangs and H.L. Mencken, I'm into a bunch of comics: a history of Students for a Democratic Society in comic-book form written by Harvey Pekar with some former SDSers, and anthologies of Doctor Strange and a D.C. golden age superhero called the Spectre (both are pretty cheesy, but the former has some good artwork by Steve Ditko).

[Ray Mangum]

Andy Seven said:

I'm re-reading "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett, and I'm liking it more now than before.

I haven't read Red Harvest, but The Maltese Falcon is one of favorite books, and movies too for that matter. If anyone is interested, my friend Michael is writing a hard-boiled detective novel called Behind the Green Curtain and publishing chapter by chapter on his blog.

[Ray Mangum]

Pigmeat said:

I'm working my way thru a stack of Russian classics that I picked up at a charity shop for 10 pence each... So far Goncharovs "Oblomov" and Lermontovs "Hero of Our Time" come out on top... Thats discounting Dostoevsky who was by far the best russian writer... Tolstoy sucks ass...
Although I might quit the russians for awhile and pick up Celines "Jouney to the End of the Night" again...

Well, they say you're either a Dostoevsky fan or a Tolstoy fan, never both. I'm with you. I also love "Journey", but I haven't read any other Celine.

[IDON MINE]

GILBERT HERNANDEZ - Speak of the Devil!

[IDON MINE]

Guy Davis - THE MARQUIS

Don't worry it ain't french erotica from the 1800's written by a englishman. It's one of the few Horror Comics that read different and actually hilarious, eventhough to their gruesome sights! Chilly!

[IDON MINE]

I need to add:
It's a totally stone cold heart craqcking Thriller ride. When I was done, I didn't know what hit me. Suspense, a dose of Trash that Gilbert weaves in with alot of verve, terrible killings that ain't cool to watch and don't make you giggle. It's hardcore down to the bone of every victim dead.
The classic 50's style (Archie Comics...) way of drawing is just adding up to the uncomfortable feeling of it all. If you dig all that, there is swell hardcover out from DARK HORSE, but I also dearly recommend the single copies because the paper is good old news printy!


IDON MINE said:

GILBERT HERNANDEZ - Speak of the Devil!

[Johnny Singles]

The first volume of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster omnibus.
Whilst sipping my tea and feeling thoroughly, thoroughly bloody English. What-ho...

(Also have to agree with Idon Mine up there, Speak of The Devil is well worth a look...)

[Sam]

Wow, I posted in this thread like 9 months ago... Since then, I went on a total Thomas Liogtti kick - weird tales in a very dark and bleak mode. Pretty amazing.

I am also super excited about Night Shade Books' Clark Ashton Smith series - 5 well-made hardback books reproducing all of Mr. Smith's fiction. the first 4 volumes are out, and I am most of the way through volume 1. CAS is a favorite author, and this definitive edition of stuff is fantastic. Strange fantasy and early sci-fi, like a more Romantic version of H.P. Lovecraft crosesd with some hallucinogenic substances. So, so good.

[Pigmeat]

A bit like the Elvis/Beatles thing huh? I've read a few more celines 'death on credit' , 'Castle to castle' and one more I can't remember off the top of my head... i dug them all but Journey is the best...
I've been reading doctor strange lately too Strangely enough... Along with early fantastic four, frank millers daredevil stuff and a whole buncha helblazers... I started off reading Gorkys The Artomov Affair but got hooked onto reading DCs 'The Stranger' omnibus instead...

Ray Mangum said:

Pigmeat said:

I'm working my way thru a stack of Russian classics that I picked up at a charity shop for 10 pence each... So far Goncharovs "Oblomov" and Lermontovs "Hero of Our Time" come out on top... Thats discounting Dostoevsky who was by far the best russian writer... Tolstoy sucks ass...
Although I might quit the russians for awhile and pick up Celines "Jouney to the End of the Night" again...

Well, they say you're either a Dostoevsky fan or a Tolstoy fan, never both. I'm with you. I also love "Journey", but I haven't read any other Celine.

[Wayward Walker]

Reading 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano right now. Anybody reading/read this? I guess it's about the apocalypse but I haven't got to that part yet...

[Jannell]

American Hardcore by Steven Blush

[Andy O.B.O.]

Right now I'm reading The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren and before that it was his Chicago: City on the Make. Also, I picked up a copy of I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, which was probably my first favorite book of all time, but being for preschoolers I don't think it really counts.