What are you currently reading..?

[David Brzeski]

For some reason, I've just never liked David Gemmell's work at all. Yet, I so often see him listed alongside so many authors whose work I love in lists like your Willie.

[Stephen Theaker]

I quite enjoyed Legend, but thought it was essentially a retelling of the battle at Helm's Deep - haven't got around to reading anything else of his yet.

[williemeikle]

My favourite Gemmell character is Jon Shannow, the Jerusalem Man, a cowboy travelling a post-apocalyptic world looking for redemption (before King's gunslinger.) WOLF IN SHADOW is my favorite Gemmell book by quite some way.

As for what I'm reading... a viewing of John Carter sent me back to Burroughs. Not to Barsoom, but to THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.

[David Brzeski]

Talking of horror/cowboy crossovers, have you tried Edmund M. Erdelac's Merkabah Rider series? I couldn't resist grabbing them some time back, because they sounded really interesting, but I haven't got around to reading them yet.

[jim mcleod]

David, I read and really enjoyed the first one. 

[Ash Hartwell]

Vigil: vampire apocalypse by Graig Saunders.

About a third in and enjoying it. I'm not a fan of vampire books so I'm pleasantly surprised.

[Stephen Theaker]

Just finished Worldsoul, a smart novel by Liz Williams about a city that kind of exists in a story dimension. I've probably made that sound daft, but I very much enjoyed it. Took me a fortnight to finish, but that was because the Euro 2012 football has eaten into my reading time.

Also read a big pile of Grant Morrison Batman comics that I bought in a sale, so they weren't complete series. Liked Batman RIP, and loved the early issues of Batman and Robin (Dick Grayson made a brilliant Batman in that). I was a bit ambivalent about Batman Incorporated at first, but once Chris Burnham took over on art it was superb.

[Stephen Theaker]

Last night finished Rhys Hughes' Rhysop's Return, his second set of fables, which was very good fun. It contained a brilliant surprise, when I found myself Tuckerized in its pages: see here!

I might have to give up on reading ace blogger Stacia Kane's How to Be a Sex Writing Strumpet, not because it isn't good, but because I'm blushing so much it's going to burst my capillaries. Highly recommended to anyone who writes *those* kind of scenes!

[Des Lewis]

Last night finished Rhys Hughes' Rhysop's Return, his second set of fables, which was very good fun. It contained a brilliant surprise, when I found myself Tuckerized in its pages: see here!

Indeed, I can empathise with your excitement at that. To be tuckerised by Rhys, I know, is wonderful.
To be lampooned and cryptically-tuckerised by him at the same time throughout a single book is my own ambition. An honour indeed.

[David A. Riley]

I'm not going to name the author, title or publisher, but I recently received a small press short story collection through the post and, quite honestly, if I had been the publisher I would have sent it straight back to the printer with an angry message.

It must be one of the worst printed books I have ever come across. The pages have been gummed in a most peculiar way, both too tight, so that the book is difficult to open, and unevenly, so that the parts of the pages nearest the spine have wrinkled. It is not a pleasant book to read, not because of anything the author has written, but because it is difficult to hold open and creaks in protest when you leaf through it. On top of this a small number of the pages near the middle jut out along the outermost edge like a blunt knife blade.

No printer's name included in the book, but definitely someone to avoid.

Which is a real shame, both on the small press that is trying to get itself established and on the author who, if their copy is as bad as mine, can hardly feel satisfied with what they have got.

As I say, the publisher really should not have been willing to accept such sloppy work from the printer and should have had the guts to send any copies like this back to them. I just hope mine is an aberration though I doubt it.

[Stu]

Currently reading Michael Moorcock's second Corum collection The Prince with the Silver Hand. Haven't read Moorcock for ages; I'd forgotten how fun his stuff can be.

[Stu]

Just finished The Burning Soul by John Connolly. Brilliant book.

Eighteen months since I last read a Connolly novel and that was his horror-comedy Hell's Bells so it's about two years since I last read one of the Parker series. It was like coming home.

[David A. Riley]

Read The Burning Soul a week or so back. I've now started Connolly's short story collection, Nocturnes. The opening is a novella called The Cancer Cowboy Rides, which is every bit as nasty as it sounds. O
I don't know whether it was ever nominated for an award but it should have been.

[Stu]

Far as I can see 'Miss Froom, Vampire' is the only story from Nocturnes to get nominated for an award.

[Andrew Hook]

Blogged "55 Reading Questions" over at http://andrew-hook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/55-reading-questions.html