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Here's part of my recent bookshelf additions. ;-)
1) "The Fury" by John Farris. Something about evil twins, I'm gathering from the supremely freaky cover illustration. Said illustration is the entire reason I picked the book up, since the back cover wasn't too descriptive. But Peter Benchley and Brian Garfield and Peter Straub recommended the guy, so worth a shot. As were two others of his--
2) "Shatter" by John Farris. "A novel that joins two generations in fear. The story of a murderer's son who returns to the scene of his fathe's crime only to fall in love with the daughter of his father's victim. An epic of love and terror that combines the darkest passions of all." Me-- "Okay, weirdness has got to abound here. And it's $1.50. Into the cart it goes."
3) "Son of the Endless Night" by John Farris. "In a peaceful Vermont courtroom humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable-- armed with sensuality, delusion, and horrible death-- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance. Against it stand only imperfect human beings, caught in a world-spanning struggle in which they have everything to lose-- for all of us-- and only human strength to help them."
Yes, this is what I read for fun. ;-)
4) "The Killing Zone" by Frederick Downs. About Platoon Delta One-Six in Vietnam.
5) "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. "The snow that began falling on Thanksgiving Eve added an extra magic to the spectacular new sixty-six story high rise known as the Glass House. It dominated the city skyline: the latest triumph of modern architecture and engineering. But unnoticed, deep within it, a tiny spark grew until it became an inferno that changed the lives of the hundreds who worked or lived in the building-- as well as the architect who designed it, the contractors who built it, the newsman who first warned of its dangers, and the firemen compelled to risk their lives because of another man's greed and misjudgment."
6) "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. Yes, I've gone since my high-school reading of it without owning this book. Yes, shame on me.
7) "The Definitive Edition-- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".
8) "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle. "The amazing novel of a prisoner of war who performed and almost impossible feat of military genius for the Japanese Army he hated."
And I got a holiday cookbook. All in all, happy day.
1) "The Fury" by John Farris. Something about evil twins, I'm gathering from the supremely freaky cover illustration. Said illustration is the entire reason I picked the book up, since the back cover wasn't too descriptive. But Peter Benchley and Brian Garfield and Peter Straub recommended the guy, so worth a shot. As were two others of his--
2) "Shatter" by John Farris. "A novel that joins two generations in fear. The story of a murderer's son who returns to the scene of his fathe's crime only to fall in love with the daughter of his father's victim. An epic of love and terror that combines the darkest passions of all." Me-- "Okay, weirdness has got to abound here. And it's $1.50. Into the cart it goes."
3) "Son of the Endless Night" by John Farris. "In a peaceful Vermont courtroom humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable-- armed with sensuality, delusion, and horrible death-- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance. Against it stand only imperfect human beings, caught in a world-spanning struggle in which they have everything to lose-- for all of us-- and only human strength to help them."
Yes, this is what I read for fun. ;-)
4) "The Killing Zone" by Frederick Downs. About Platoon Delta One-Six in Vietnam.
5) "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. "The snow that began falling on Thanksgiving Eve added an extra magic to the spectacular new sixty-six story high rise known as the Glass House. It dominated the city skyline: the latest triumph of modern architecture and engineering. But unnoticed, deep within it, a tiny spark grew until it became an inferno that changed the lives of the hundreds who worked or lived in the building-- as well as the architect who designed it, the contractors who built it, the newsman who first warned of its dangers, and the firemen compelled to risk their lives because of another man's greed and misjudgment."
6) "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. Yes, I've gone since my high-school reading of it without owning this book. Yes, shame on me.
7) "The Definitive Edition-- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".
8) "The Bridge Over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle. "The amazing novel of a prisoner of war who performed and almost impossible feat of military genius for the Japanese Army he hated."
And I got a holiday cookbook. All in all, happy day.
