It seems like the day after Christmas is a bad day to release a book. Then again, i’m not in marketing or publishing, so I could be very wrong. I’m sure I will be fighting crowds at Barnes and Noble to buy Charlie Hustons next book, Half the Blood of Brooklyn. It is the 3rd Joe Pitt novel from Huston. I burned through the first couple in about a day each… I don’t know that Vampire Fiction is real big on my favorites list, but Charlie Huston is way up there on my favorite writers right now. His take on vampires is pretty interesting… They definitely do not have an easy life in his world. Not enough food (apparently even in Brooklyn you can’t just go around willy nilly killing people for too long), rival vampire factions (hippie vampires, old school cult vampires, old money vampires), Van Helsing style killers who just want to prove they exsist and that fatal sun allergy. Immortality doesn’t seem to last that long in Joe Pitts world. Oh, yeah and his ‘girl friend’ is HIV positive, so he has some personal dilemma about turning her.
Go buy the first two. Now.
Or borrow mine… Vickie is reading the first one right now.
Charlies website
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- Kill Now, Pay Later By Robert Terall (Hard Case Crime)
- Slide By Ken Bruen and Jason Starr (Hard Case Crime)
- Colorado Kid By Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
- Lemons Never Lie By Richard Stark (Hard Case Crime)
- Flashfire By Richard Stark
- Slayground By Richard Stark
- The Man With The Getaway Face By Richard Stark
- Money For Nothing By Donald Westlake
- The Shotgun Rule: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Caught Stealing: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Six Bad Things: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- A Dangerous Man: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Already Dead: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- No Dominion: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
- The Winter of Frankie Machine By Don Winslow
- The Name Of The Game Is Death By Dan J. Marlowe
I guess with the exception of the Warren Ellis book and 2 of the Huston books (Already Dead and No Dominion) the year has been spent reading crime fiction. That’s not a horrible thing and there are certainly some super enjoyable reads on the above list. Let me know if you want to borrow one.
I have The Difference Engine next to my bed and know I should really pick it up. This book is seen as one of the seminal works in the Steam Punk genre. William Gibson and Bruce Sterling wrote this it in 1991, and I would like to get this book onto my completed list before it is 20 years old.
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Can you believe she’s had kids? How does this busy mother of 2 keep her looks up? In all fairness, there are some pretty bad pictures of me out there too. But, Damn.
Sometimes I hate being right.
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Just finished another Hard Case Crime book. This one was a pretty over the top crime book… It had dot-com crack dealers and a guy trying for the world record in serial killings. There is a great scene where the guy who lost everything in a failed internet start up decides to try crack. He achieves total clarity right after the first hit and decides crack is the wave of the future. Turns out working in fast paced world of high tech start ups doesn’t necessarily prepare you for a life of crime.
Updated 2007 Reading List:
- Slide By Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
- The Winter of Frankie Machine By Don Winslow
- Flashfire By Richard Stark
- The Shotgun Rule: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
- The Name Of The Game Is Death By Dan J. Marlowe
- Caught Stealing: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Six Bad Things: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- A Dangerous Man: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Already Dead: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- No Dominion: A Novel By Charlie Huston
- Money For Nothing By Donald Westlake
- Slayground By Richard Stark
- The Man With The Getaway Face By Richard Stark
- Colorado Kid By Stephen King
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Boing Boing does a good job of finding crazy steampunk items and posting them. Here is todays: Boing Boing Pac Man
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