- Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:00 pm
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tim28212 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 2:51 pm This is pretty much what I've been reading the first quarter of 2023I think it’s important to remember that the Road comes with the authors pedigree as well, while a lot of it is maybe familiar to genre readers a lot of people had never read anything like it but McCarthy himself carries extreme weight. I’d go as far as saying he’s the greatest living American writer so anything he writes gets a ton of attention. His latest is legit one of the finest novels I’ve ever read…and it’s taking me forever to get though but it’s so deeply rewarding.
Greg Iles is a new author I've discovered. His Pen Cage books (Game,Angel) are really hard to put down. 24 read more like a movie (which it was made into "Trapped") and was more easy for my to put down. Still good though.
Trying to get caught up on my King this year. I'd read Box when it first came out but gave it a re-read as a refresher before finishing the trilogy. Enjoyed the first half of Fairy Tale better than the second and really enjoyed reading another adventure of Holly's in If It Bleeds.
Simon Clark is a hit or miss for me. The short story collection was pretty good but the others, "meh". I think his earlier works are better.
Short story collection from Freemen had some good stuff in it. The Road was good. Took a while for me to get into it. But still not really sure why it got so much attention. Teeth and Chalk Man were both quick reads that were pretty good. Not sure any of these will stay in my collection but not sorry to have read them.
I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright. It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want me to do the show. Now gangway.