Read this for some extra details from the man himself.  I think Capote's book gives a greater understanding of the mind of your basic murderer than any university psychiatric studies could ever do.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

The I-5 Killer by Anne Rule.

I've only read about 20 pages so far and this dude is sick, sick, sick.  I want to hunt him down now.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

QUOTE:

How is it?

I've only read The Third Policeman of O'Brien's books, but I enjoyed it. It's not as revolutionary an idea as is maybe made out, but I like some of the imagery in it.

The Third Policeman - If I was filthy rich I'd buy the film rights and hire Tim Burton.

Currently speeding through Your Screenplay Sucks by one William Akers.

Goddamn but the Safari support is  VERY LIMITED.

 The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

Just whipped through Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Veld (god her name drives me nuts).

Am fixing to start on The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, a book I haven't read since I was in high school. Used to be an old fave of mine.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Vampyrric by Simon Clark was really spooky

An anthology of short stories had a really great one by Tanith Lee, who I adore, and I picked up White as Snow again and devoured that. (Savoring Red as Blood right now.)

I love Datlow/Windling's dark fairy tales series.

White as Snow is great; part based on early versions of Snow White blended with the myth of Persephone. Here, the Queen is a war trophy who was raped by a conquering King as a girl. This leaves her insane, and she talks to herself through her mirror. She falls in love with a local pagan, a hunter, and aborts his baby. A combination of him leaving her over the abortion, and seeing her daughter as a mock sacrifice in a pagan ritual makes her even more nutty. She more or less becomes a transient selling rotten candied fruit in the village, disfigured from frostbite.

Snow White is abducted by a traveling troupe of dwarves who perform an act of 7 deadly sins when they aren't mining. She falls in love with Anger and they live underground in the mines, which are ruled by her half-brother, Hades, who ends up raping her a bunch of times when she slips into a trance (these run in the family.)

Good stuff.

I'm nearly finished reading "Let The Right One In" by John Ajvide Linqvist.

One of the darkest yet most beautiful books i've ever read. The movie was amazing aswell, although it's being remade at the moment by the dude who directed Cloverfield and is out next year. Normally i really hate re-makes but he has said that he related to the book and it really touched him, and he plans to make the film closer to the book than the Swedish original was; thus surely making it alot darker. In fact, if he keeps some of the sub-plots in, i can't see it getting anything less than an 18 rating over here.

Currently reading At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor (no, not that Elizabeth Taylor).  A very underrated author and one of my faves.

Also reading The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl.  I'm probably alone when I say that I prefer it when Belle is not talking about sex.  I picked it up cheap in a Help the Aged.  Just the idea of that still makes me giggle.

Have just got Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane from the library.  Looking forward to starting it.

~ 'I will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower' ~

The Last Days of John Lennon - Frederic Seaman

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

"Lost on the freeway again, lookin' for means to an end."

The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran.

Words fail me in trying to convey how amazingly well this guy put his thoughts and ideas across. "The Prophet" is one of the best things i have ever read.

I think that At Swim Two Birds was better than The Third Policeman.  It's also way harder to get through because it starts and ends in more or less a dissolving narrative that fuses Irish literary tradition, an ugly sense of humor, and a distinct play with the meaning of words that is occassionally frustrating.

Right now I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Garcia Marquez.  This time, I'm actually reading it, though it's the third time I started.

-cg

WHAT?!?!  A remake of a film that just came out!  OHMYGAWD the dearth of new ideas.

Anyway, I'm reading for the second time but the first time as an adult "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on a free download on my Kindle.  What a treat!

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

I rented Dune from my school library. Hope it helps to read it before watching the adaptation.

Just finished reading Winterkill by Craig Lesley, which is the prequel to River Song which I read last summer. I love Lesley's writing style, especially the way he incorporates flashbacks into his stories without them feeling like flashbacks.

Also just finished reading Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas and Death Pans Out by Ashna Graves. Both fantastic reads. Oh, and finished I'm Down by Mishna Wolff, which had me laughing more often than I was really prepared to. Awesome.

Right now I'm eyeballing my copy of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger...I've read it before, and I was thinking of reading it again before seeing the film just so I can have a fresh comparison at hand. It's been a few years since I read it. My mind is already clouded over.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Just finished reading Wicked a week or so ago. Great book! Started reading What the Dickens by Maguire but haven't been able to get into it. This usually happens to me if I read 2 books by the same author back to back. So, I dug out The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. I really enjoyed this book. I think her Witches Chronicles are much better than her vampire ones. Once I get home I will probably bust out A Wrinkle in Time or Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM or Dragonsong just cuz I am in the mood for some stuff I haven't read in probably 20 years...

So, here's a question for everyone, when you can't get into a book or are too busy to sit down and read, does it make you upset and frustrated? I know that if I don't get to read every day that I get really irritable. Its kinda like sitting down and reading helps keep my even. Anyone else get the same kind of feeling?