Sunday, January 24, 2010

either/or

Option time again. This year's Super Bowl will be between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. Once again, the winner decides which book I'll be reading next. Here's the books: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and Night of the Living Rat by Doyle and Macdonald. I've never read Vernor Vinge before and the Saints have never won a Super Bowl. If they do, I'll read Rainbows End. Indy won a Super Bowl a few years ago and if they win this one it will be Manning's 2nd title and I'll read the second book in Daniel Pinkwater's Melvinge of the Megaverse series.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

my 1st Palahniuk

Last year I did this options thing with the Super Bowl, letting the winner decide the next book I would read. I'll be doing that again this year. Haunted is the book represented by last year's NFC champion Cardinals, who lost this weekend.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Neat Stuff

I first got into Peter Bagge in high school, when I was hanging out with a friend who had a copy of Neat Stuff in his car. It was all about Buddy Bradley. I read the whole thing and was quickly hooked, went out and bought all the Neat Stuff comix I could find, and later, HATE.

Friday, January 1, 2010

annual faves

I love the annual list. I just enjoy looking back and thinking of all the stuff I read this year and last, and the ones before that. A new thing I'm going to do here, starting now, is select a favorite read and a runner up. This is going to be retro-active, meaning I'll pick the previous years' faves as well. Here we go:
Favorite:
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Runner up:
Vurt
by Jeff Noon
Favorite:
MASH
by Richard Hooker
Runner up:
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Favorite:
The Hollow Earth
by Rudy Rucker
Runner up:
Immortality Inc.
by Robert Sheckley
Favorite:
Master of Space and Time
by Rudy Rucker
Runner up:
Swords of Lankhmar
by Fritz Leiber
Favorite:
Fuzzy Dice
by Paul DiFilippo
Runner up:
The Hacker and the Ants
by Rudy Rucker

big comic book of horror

Light reading returns with this collection of horror comics by DC.