February 24, 2005

From the WWR Bookshelf, A Continuing Series

You can cease with the e-mails pleading to know what I'm reading. Why? Because I, right this moment, shall tell you:

Just Finished

Ghost Story by Peter Straub. I'd never read the book, although I was well aware of its existence and have memories of seeing trailers for the movie on television when I was considerably younger. So, finally, I got around to reading it.

Good story, could have been 100 pages shorter. I imagine that, when it was released, back in the 1970s, as horror literature was re-emerging to the American mind, it seemed fresh and exciting and tense and original. Now, while it was a story pretty well told, it at times felt like "been there, done that."

Probably what a lot of teens said about The Taming of the Shrew after having seen "10 Things I Hate About You."

Reading Underway

Galveston by Sean Stewart. Borrowed from fellow blogger Zombyboy. Twenty-seven pages in as of this afternoon and I'm enjoying it, both the story and the style of the writing. More thoughts on it later.

If you're good and ask nicely. Else, no pudding for you.