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Thanks for that
I won't have to read it now.

/may read it one day
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:10, archived)
"Cool Air" (I think, about a man who is melting)
is very good. Lovecraft's certainly worth a look, even though much of his work has dated to the point where it isn't even remotely scary.
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)
'At the mountains of madness'
still r00x0rs my s0xors or whatever it is the cool kids say these days.
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:24, archived)
Gah,
What is it about horror that seems to attract all the "1337-kidz"?

I much prefer some Murakami or Brookmyre or Mankell. To name but a few...
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:29, archived)
Read 'The Wind-up bird chronicles'
which I loved, 'Hard-boiled wonderland' is in the pile of books next to my bed that I need to get round to reading.
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:32, archived)
Wild Sheep Chase is fantastic too :D

(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:34, archived)
We already know about your weekend activities,
what about books though?
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:36, archived)
Pfft.
Also I'm rather keen on Yukio Mishima for trad Jap Lit, any other Jap Lit recommendations gratefully accepted :D
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:42, archived)
I'm reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles on the recommendation of Fenris
at the moment.

Brookmyre is also fab.

Mankell?
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:43, archived)
Mankell = Henning Mankell
Swedish crime writer, quite bleak - very much in the vein of Rankin's Rebus, but set in Sweden, so colder, yet cleaner.

I've become rather hooked, as proven by the fact I seem to have bought all of them over the past few months :S
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:52, archived)
I feel compelled to investigate
Any particular one that I should start off with?
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:54, archived)
The first one (keeps any back story clear)
Which is called Faceless Killers
(, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:57, archived)