Category: Reading

Last week I read Christopher Pike’s Weekend and Christopher Fowler’s Roofworld. Weekend was okay. It was an entertaining read, but my favourite out of the two books was, most definitely Roofworld. It is the first time that I have read anything written by Christopher Fowler, but I saw the book in my local bookshop and…

I’ve just finished reading Armed and Dangerous – A Writer’s Guide to Weapons, by Michael Newton. I know very little about guns and I thought that this book would be handy to have as a reference source. Now that I’ve read it I am sure that I was correct in that assumption and I have…

I’ve started reading a new book today – Nocturnes by John Connolly. I’d never even heard of him until last week saw the book in a charity shop and liked the cover so picked it up and took a look. It was only £1, and, when I looked inside it, it was a signed 1st…

I’ve started reading a new book today – Nocturnes by John Connolly. I’d never even heard of him until last week saw the book in a charity shop and liked the cover so picked it up and took a look. It was only £1, and, when I looked inside it, it was a signed 1st…

Well, I am still reading Lovecraft (and no it isn’t a text book for rebellious virgins). H.P. Lovecraft has been credited with inventing the modern horror tradition. I know. It says so on the back of my book. The thing is reading some of Lovecraft’s work has been on my to-do-list for quite some time….

I finished reading Demon Seed, yesterday. There was a lot of hidden depth to it, but I can’t say that it was on of my all time favourite Dean Koontz novels. I may hunt out the original version sometime, though, and try that. As I have never read any of Lovecraft’s works – crazy aint…