November 2021 Poll

[SailorScoutMandy | 782]

Poll will run until 10/31 11:59 EST

Any suggestions for future reads please check out this thread.

John Dies at the End by David Wong

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.

The important thing is this: The drug is called Soy Sauce and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault.

 

Dresden Files #1: Storm Front by Jim Butcher

Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.

Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.

So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get interesting.

Magic - it can get a guy killed.

 

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.

Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.

CONTENTS
"I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream"
"Big Sam Was My Friend"
"Eyes of Dust"
"World of the Myth"
"Lonelyache"
"Delusion for Dragonslayer"
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"

 

Neverwhere by Niel Gaiman 

Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere

 

[doner24 | 1,195]

I’ve already read Dresden and Neverwhere, but still voted Dresden. Been about 15 years since I read it and think everyone should read the series!

[SailorScoutMandy | 782]

2 minutes ago, doner24 said:

I’ve already read Dresden and Neverwhere, but still voted Dresden. Been about 15 years since I read it and think everyone should read the series!

Right. I started the series and read if off and on the last few years. I think it's funny and easy reads. I'm on number #12, but Always up for a reread. 

[Gloves | 11,761]

Similar to Doner, I've already read I Have No Mouth, but voted it (I'll happily re-read it).

[doner24 | 1,195]

12 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Similar to Doner, I've already read I Have No Mouth, but voted it (I'll happily re-read it).

How dare you.

[Gloves | 11,761]

1 minute ago, doner24 said:

How dare you.

You inspire me!

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

I read Dresden a few years ago and JDatE maybe 7-8 years ago.  Voting for Ellison because I need some brevity.

[doner24 | 1,195]

3 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I read Dresden a few years ago and JDatE maybe 7-8 years ago.  Voting for Ellison because I need some brevity.

How dare you 

[G-type | 2,479]

I should be done with Words of Radiance in time to join the November book.

[G-type | 2,479]

2 minutes ago, G-type said:

I should be done with Words of Radiance in time to join the November book.

 Not sure I want to do 3 massive books in a row.