What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[Batman]

@El Kabong gotta be honest I'm pretty disappointed by my reading list, I've churned out enough books but I have struggled this year, I enjoy reading the classics and I feel like I've neglected them, I've found myself going for easy reads rather than the more challenging ones.

It isn't necessarily a bad thing because I'm a full on freak when it comes to horror whether it be film or book, I think I annoy people because if they ask me about a film I've recently seen I can't just say "its good" I go into the cinematography, the soundtrack, the tropes, I go full on Kermode, they have told me I should start a YouTube channel just reviewing shit about horror, I have to explain to them that in order to gather a following you would need a certain amount of charisma, that is something I severely lack, I don't like people at the best of times so the thought of talking to a camera to a load of faceless viewers makes me shudder.

but I digress.

I've just finished a book about Anneliese Michell, its a true account of the exorcism that eventually killed her (the film Exorcism of Emily Rose is based on it) and whilst it was an interesting read towards the final 1/2 of the book it got overwhelmingly biased and basically forced the opinion that she was actually possessed upon you, I would have preferred it if it kept a neutral point of view and allowed the reader to make their own minds up based on the facts that were available, I also know that it skirted over some issues that support the mental illness perspective in order to bolster its own agenda, all in all a good read and even though I already knew a lot about the case I've learned a lot more.

I'm currently reading Rage by Stephen King, the book has been out of print for the last 20 years or so, there are about 6 school shootings that have been linked back to that book so King himself asked them to let it run out of print, on Amazon the cheapest I've seen it is £400, anyways I found a dodgy kindle version of it for £3.80 so I was on it like a tramp on chips, the formatting goes a wee bit wrong every now and again but it is nothing noticeable at all, the book itself is a strange read, whilst Charlie Decker (off the top of my head I think that is his name, I've had a few Stellas so I could be wrong) comes across as a bit of an antihero but the other characters are just extremely blase, I think I'm about 20% through at the moment so I don't know how it will pan out but it certainly hasn't made me want to go and shoot up my workplace just yet.

[Batman]

also @El Kabong one of the books I read this year was based around the "Satanic Panic"

Say You Love Satan - David St. Clair

I've read a few books by the Author and I quite like what he does, he takes historical cases (usually about demonic possession) and writes it almost as if it is a story, whilst this one was an interesting case the execution was extremely poor, I was looking forward to the court/trial aspect of the book but it was extremely repetitive and all in all just a bit boring, the main thing that dragged the book down though was the dialogue, it was so fucking cringe inducing it was unreal

[El Kabong]

also @El Kabong one of the books I read this year was based around the "Satanic Panic"

Say You Love Satan - David St. Clair

I've read a few books by the Author and I quite like what he does, he takes historical cases (usually about demonic possession) and writes it almost as if it is a story, whilst this one was an interesting case the execution was extremely poor, I was looking forward to the court/trial aspect of the book but it was extremely repetitive and all in all just a bit boring, the main thing that dragged the book down though was the dialogue, it was so fucking cringe inducing it was unreal

Well I looked up the book and yeah it had potential to be very intriguing. The book I'm on (The Franklin Scandal) has all of the trial aspects you'd ever want and there's another book by the same author Nick Bryant called 'Confessions of a DC Madam' which is supposed to uncover more about this child trafficking scandal that touched the Reagan White House by way of Craig J. Spence.


Anyway this topic seems to always tantalize, you get bits and pieces of what you WANT to know about, the truth is very obscure, and what do you have to base your judgement on drug addicts? The seemingly mentally ill broken people who may or may not have had very horrible things happen to them.


You tell me about the child trafficking, about the sale or murder of children and big time celebrities, big time politicians, big time money involved and there's mysterious deaths like that of Gary Caradori and his son, the CIA is involved, police harassment, etc.....yeah that all piques the interest but you never ever pull the 1 thread that gets to the end of it all where one can say OH that's what was happening.

[El Kabong]

@Batman, really gotten in deep on the trial of Alisha Owen and at least as author Nick Bryant has relayed it was a complete and utter sham of a trial a legal disgrace and it was appalling how the prosecution and judge conducted themselves.


Alisha Owen's previous attorney was having an extramarital affair with an FBI Agent on the Owen case and Owen's new attorney bringing up that FACT drew 'objections' (naturally) but also the ire of the JUDGE which is mind boggling! Also added to that insult was the injury that Owen's prior attorney basically set her up for the FBI to either nail to the wall or intimidate her into silence. really nasty stuff.

[El Kabong]

Reading the classic Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' at present....part of me wished to read his autobiography, but that is a full fucking forest of paper. I could sink a battleship with volume one of that book!


I am also intrigued by J.D. Salinger's posthumous releases....ever read any Salinger @Batman? I watched a documentary on the guy, crazy brilliant fellow and deeply involved in the OSS. He took part of 'Catcher in the Rye' with him when he landed on D-Day.

[Master]

Read House and Power of X comics which are about 12 issues interlinked and sets a whole new era of X-Men. Essentially Professor X has been shown that whatever he tries mutant-kind will always lose to mankind.

So Professor X starts a different and (to some people) extreme strategy to ensure mutant survival. He has developed flowers designed for various purposes such as extending the human lifespan, curing cancer and to live healthy lives. He offers these flowers to the world in exchange for recognition of a new sovereign nation of Mutants called Krakoa where "Man is not welcome."

He keeps other flowers that provides other powers such as providing a gate way to anywhere in the universe. He also is able to restore mutants who have died on missions he has sent them on.

The mutants have their own language, culture and socio/economic/political system and the artist has gone into great lengths to illustrate it.

[Batman]

Reading the classic Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' at present....part of me wished to read his autobiography, but that is a full fucking forest of paper. I could sink a battleship with volume one of that book!


I am also intrigued by J.D. Salinger's posthumous releases....ever read any Salinger @Batman? I watched a documentary on the guy, crazy brilliant fellow and deeply involved in the OSS. He took part of 'Catcher in the Rye' with him when he landed on D-Day.

I've only read Catcher in the Rye, I thought that was the only book he released.

I didn't overly enjoy it to be honest, I think I was in my early 20s when I read it so I probably got there a little too late, I can certainly see why people in their mid teens would enjoy it, I've always meant to go back and re-read it but there is always something else I want to read just that little bit more.

Holden just came across as a whinging little twat, walking around calling everyone a phony, he was basically emo before it was known as emo.

Again though its been about 15 years since I've read it so I may look on it overly negatively.

[El Kabong]

Reading the classic Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' at present....part of me wished to read his autobiography, but that is a full fucking forest of paper. I could sink a battleship with volume one of that book!


I am also intrigued by J.D. Salinger's posthumous releases....ever read any Salinger @Batman? I watched a documentary on the guy, crazy brilliant fellow and deeply involved in the OSS. He took part of 'Catcher in the Rye' with him when he landed on D-Day.

I've only read Catcher in the Rye, I thought that was the only book he released.

I didn't overly enjoy it to be honest, I think I was in my early 20s when I read it so I probably got there a little too late, I can certainly see why people in their mid teens would enjoy it, I've always meant to go back and re-read it but there is always something else I want to read just that little bit more.

Holden just came across as a whinging little twat, walking around calling everyone a phony, he was basically emo before it was known as emo.

Again though its been about 15 years since I've read it so I may look on it overly negatively.

Oh no Salinger has had other books, but 'Catcher in The Rye' is in/famous on account of being the "answer" as to why Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon, why John Hinkley Jr. shot Ronald Reagan, the book many a person were carrying (purposely or by chance) when they murdered another individual....now that doesn't mean it's any great shakes as a book on it's own, but apparently the premise of the book, the themes of it, speak quite clearly to certain people.

Books by Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Nine Stories (1953)
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (194
"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (194
"Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (194
"The Laughing Man" (1949)
"Down at the Dinghy" (1949)
"For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" (1950)
"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" (1951)
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" (1952)
"Teddy" (1953)
Franny and Zooey (1961)
"Franny" (1955)
"Zooey" (1957)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
"Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters" (1955)
"Seymour: An Introduction" (1959)
Three Early Stories (2014)
"The Young Folks" (1940)
"Go See Eddie" (1940)
"Once a Week Won't Kill You" (1944)

I've not read any Salinger but the documentary about the man was quite impressive and apparently he fell in love with some Nazi spy whilst he was working for the OSS.

I'm enjoying The Adventures of Tom Sawyer quite a bit. Twain is quite good about putting the reader in the mindset of a child.

[Fatboxingfan]

"Fumes the Memorious"

by Jorge Luis Borges

Funes, not Fumes

[El Kabong]

Fumes is what Spicoli does