My name is Miguel Gomez and I am a Book-a-holic. I've been one since I was 8 or so.

I just finished LAMB by Christopher Moore. Bananacologne recommended it to me and I thank him. I loved it!!! It's about the lost years of Jesus Christ as told by his best friend Biff.

So I was without a book for about 1 week and just couldn't stand it any longer. I picked up SEX, DRUGS AND COCOA PUFFS by CHUCK KLOSTERMAN and THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by MARK HADDON.

They're short books so I hope my next unemployment check comes in time.

I'm only sayin'.....


M

i always need to have a book or two going, as well. i have reserve books for when i can't find anything to be excited about. it's just good to know that in any situation, if it gets too boring i can always whip out something to read.

Anx said:

The two latest books I bought I believe were recommended by orgers. Have you read any of the one's listed?

I'm trying to find an author that can really make me laugh. There used to be a lady that wrote for GQ many many moons ago that I used to like. I forgot her name. She would make me laugh out loud.

M

I am actually reading Anne Rice right now.. I am in the 3rd of the vampire series. Great but a bit dark!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

The first 3 is all you need. I LOVED THEM. I actually liked ARMAND as well. You should read Anne Rice's erotica. They're either under Ann Rampling or Anne Rocqlear(spell?). One of them is called EXIT TO EDEN, which was somehow made into a comedy with Rosie O'Donnel. Then there are the BEAUTY BOOKS. There are 3. They changed my life, in a perverted S&M kinda way.


M

I'm reading....

Sweeny79 said:

OH MY GOD!!! I read both books recently. I LOVED LOVED LOVED them. The other one is DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER.

And everyone knows how I absolutely loved the SHOW. I raved and raved about it.

m

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I've read the other one already.

I Dexter.

Im reading...

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I did the whole witches series... loved those... Queen of the damned is good... did you not like the tale of the body thief then?

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Yep. Loved the witches and I did like Tale of the Body Thief. After that it all seemed very similar.

M

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

i forget which was the last anne rice vampire book i read...maybe the body thief one? were there more after that? i remember i liked queen of the damned, then they started getting silly to me.

Anx said:

To me Queen of the Damned had too many characters. That really annoyed me about that book. But that's just me.

INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT
THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF
MEMNOCH THE DEVIL
THE VAMPIRE ARMAND
MERRICK
BLOOD AND GOLD
BLACKWOOD FARM


Then there are the new tales of the vampires.

PANDORA
VITTORIO THE VAMPIRE


m

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

i think i read up to the armand one. i don't remember memnoch at all. i don't even know what the new tales of the vampires is.

Anx said:

You really should just come out of the hetero closet



Memnoch the devil marked a strange turnaround for Ann Rice. This is the one in which She not only presents a personification of the devil, she also presents you with God--the Jewish/Christian God. In the past there was always a sense that there was no Christian God in her books and that everything evolved around some kind of very ancient pagan type of spirituality.

It's my least favorite of the original 4 vampire books, and a lackluster way of ended the Lestat portion of the Vampire Chronicles. It's not that there isn't any action in the book--it's just that it's so over-the-top when there is action, and equally over-the-top when she blasphemes. I mean, drinking a Nun's monthly discharge? Drinking Christ's blood? It just screamed "Look at me--I'm being controversial!" sooooo Rainbow Children

Imago said:

all i know is, i had to quit reading her books because her husband's poetry was making my eyes bleed.

Anx said:

I just skipped all of them after I read the first poem when I read the books. I don't even know how they went

My habit is to ignore things that don't really matter to me at all.

Anx said:

I just got tired of all those powerful vampires crying like pussies. Plus, why the fuck does she always have to harp on how beautiful and rich those folks are? It read like Harlequin Romance Novels!


Not that I'd know.

Imago said:

Actually as i am in the vampire cronicles, she presents the situation as not relating to the christian god at all.... as the characters themselves are undcertain as to weather God and satan exist at all ( Decidely they have no evidence of his existance or can be certain that he isnt there)... and in other instances in said cronicles she relates those with a soul as having eternal life through the christian God where as vamps have eternal life through vampireism... although it is implied that it is not so eternal due to few survivng into old ageism.....

That said, the common thread through out her books is a deep question of God. To which end she has decided is a christian God after all in her latest book...

I have enjoyed being able to read her progressive thoughts on the matter...

Protege said:

I do too! Either I skip them and or I glance over them.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I think I read the titles.

Did they have titles? I have to pull one of them out again so I can tell.

Protege said:

No not titles but opening line is what you must have read..

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Probably.

Funny, how this suddenly turned into an Anne Rice thread. Note: Read everything except the witch series and the newest one, just got burned out. Favorite: "The Feast of All Saints", for obvious reasons, enjoy knowing a little why things are like they are.

Anyway, just wanted to say I understand. For some reason every since I was a kid I have always had to have at least 2 books going at a time, anything will do. When I get bored with one I bounce to the other, currently, I've been taking a trip back to the classics. Just finished "The Odyssey", trying to get syked up for "Alice in Wonderland", but taking a detour to something more digestable.

The Witching Hour was a great read until the last 50 pages when she smelled sequel. Her style has changed so much that I can't even read her anymore.

oh, and here's what i'm reading right now:



i saw the movie and even though i liked kirsten drunkst in it more than i thought i would (i usually loathe her), i wasn't as taken by the movie as i was intrigued to know more about marie antoinette...and i hear this is the best bio thus far.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Oh you will love the curious incident of the dog in the night time.. great book, really cleverly written..