Originally posted by Will EverittGreat book, HG Wells' best apart from the final crappy sub-Swiftian epilogue.
The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Quite short though started today and have almost finished.
I'm reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood. "In the Hills, the Cities" is the most amazing weird tale I've read in years.
Joan Samson's The Auctioneer. This is the most uniquely disturbing novel I've ever read, and I'm still only half-way through. Crying shame that a weird tale classic like this is out of print, grab it second-hand from an online vendor if you can.
The story reads a bit like a cross between a Peter Straub and William Faulkner novel with a little bit of Niemoeller thrown in for good measure: an auctioneer arrives in a New England backwater sometime in the late 60s and starts a series of auctions designed to pay for extra deputies in the name of the community, even though crime is virtually zero. Before long more and more deputies are hired and every Thursday they turn up at the doors of the farmers asking for donations - and gradually they become more and more intimidating, people start going missing, having "accidents" and so on...it all centres around one frustratingly passive family, but it smacks of truth: if you had three women depending on you, would you really find it so easy to pull a gun and take on ten deputies? Or would you carry on letting strangers strip your house bare until your spirit or your sanity finally broke?
Originally posted by AmauroteSome of his short stories are quite good. I've read the invisible man and the time machine as well, I liked the the time machine more because it made me think about the line that life could go in as oppose to anything else I have ever read about time travel.
Great book, HG Wells' best apart from the final crappy sub-Swiftian epilogue.
I'm reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood. "In the Hills, the Cities" is the most amazing weird tale I've read in years.
I am about half way through the ancestor's tale by Richard Dawkins at the moment it's a good interesting book but as with some science books can get heavy and times and tends to flitter around. The Selfish gene didn't though that was very readable I would recommend that you can almost read it in oen sitting.
What else have I read recently? Self sufficiency by John and Sally Seymour, Fight club(twice), The know it all AJ Jacobs, Che Guevara Bolivian diary.