| Nov. 14th, 2009 @ 12:47 am Readables. Mostly. |
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Current Mood:  happy
So, yesterday I went by the library. There was a briefly disturbing moment when I saw John Fowles' The Collector on the "New and Hot Fiction" shelves[1]; there was also a brief and shining moment of joy when I his Ex Libris and found a trade copy of Haldeman's The Forever War. Picked it up; I shall give it to someone who needs to read it. There are people who do. One of them should let me know who they are.
Second, John and I went out to dinner and then decided not to hit a movie. We went by Chapters instead. So I'm browsing the horror section (up to a whole three shelves!) and uttering the usual complaints when a guy comes by and says "You want a good novel? Here." And what he pulls out is a copy of John Dies At the End, which I knew had gotten a book deal but had never actually seen.
--dammit, I just realized I forgot to tell him about the Dionea House. Damn damn damn.
So anyway, he says he likes that kind of thing, web-writing style. Suggest anthologies--short stories, wide variety of writers--and World War Z, which it turns out he has already read. John suggests Dracula--hey, it's a classic horror epistolary, right? Apparently the guy wanted that kind of quick style and/or zombies, so I ended up handing him only copy left of the Living Dead anthology from Night Shade Books[3] and what purported to be an illustrated field guide from the first year of the zombie invasion. Fortunately there were multiple copies of that. Advised against Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, recommended Junji Ito, and got an enthusiastic enough recommendation of Death Note[4] that I will be picking that up. Also the 20th Best New Horror, the Lovecraft Unbound anthology, and Ellen Datlow's new Year's Best Horror. I'll be picking all those up tomorrow, since that's when the 25% discount coupon comes into effect.
(I did get the 24th Year's Best Science Fiction today, since it was going for $7. By the way, I believe I also saw several copies of the 21st Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for the same price, and as I have mentioned before it contains Veronica Shanoes's excellent "Rats", starting on page 310. Seven bucks for over four hundred pages of fiction, what the hell are you waiting for?)
But yeah. What was meant to be a light wander through the store ended up in an discussion about horror with someone who was interested in the stuff, resulting in me picking up a couple of things I wouldn't have otherwise. Nice way to end Friday the 13th.
Spent about six hours trying to write a post describing a striptease from the dancer's POV. Turned out three paragraphs of something vague in detail but adequate enough to use to further the story. It is a royal pain to try and describe a performance in the written word.
Finally, have decided I dearly, dearly love Supernatural's current take on fandom. Remember, it's really not jumping the shark if you never come back down.
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[1] I mean that thing is how old?[2]
[2] 46 years. Well, I suppose it's good that people will have another chance to run across it...
[3] Lovely people and amazing... what do you call a publisher's collection of books? Not a stable, not a midlist... Anyway. Highly recommended.
[4] He actually pulled it off the shelf and dropped it on the pile I was carrying. Given that I actually didn't get any indication that he was fuzzy on personal space, I took it seriously.
(This post has been crossposted from DreamWidth) |
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