Edgar Allan Poe "The Complete Tales & Poems of"

Thomas Harris "Red Dragon", "The Silence of The Lambs", "Hannibal" & "Hannibal Rising" 

John Ronald Reuel "J.R.R" Tolkien "The Hobbit", "The Fellowship of The Ring", "The Two Towers", & "The Return of The King"

Howard Phillips "H.P." Lovecraft "The Tomb"---"The Haunter of The Dark"

Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth" {FOLLOW YOUR BLISS}

Jack Van Impe aka  "The Walking Bible"  "Revelation Revealed"

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” - HP LOVECRAFT

Lovecraft's Guiding Aesthetic & Philosophical Principle was what he Termed "Cosmicism" or "Cosmic Horror", the idea that Life is Incomprehensible to Human Minds and that the Universe is Fundamentally Inimical to the Interests of Humankind. As such, his stories express a Profound Indifference to Human Beliefs & Affairs. Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos story cycle & the Necronomicon, a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden lore

na never heard ov "Eternal Darkness" wish i wud ov known 10 yrz ago when it prob came out lol

Hunter S Thompson

JRR Tolkin

C.S. Lewis when i was younger

George RR Martin

Of course whenever books are talked about ima be mix. I enjoy reading Lovecraft and Poe and Billy Graham. Lois Lowry is pretty good she wrote the Giver series which i read has been given a green light for a movie. I love that series man its very thought provoking and sparks all kinda conversation about what is a "utopian" society if you can choose or listen to music or read or feel kinda like that movie Equalibrium.

Ive read some Anne Rice she ok but her books are slow like listening to a slow classical movement its interesting but also has potential to put u to sleep. The Series she did on Jesus was good but she didnt finish it cuz she went athiest again. She writes alot about gay vampires and lesbian witches haha. I want to read a book of hers called Cry to Heaven its about a Castrato and his ups and downs. If you dont know what a castrato is look it up cuz thats wut makes it interesting and if you ever hear one its haunting.

Im going to go to the old school after i finish Tom Gordon and read some HG Wells then maybe venture out some my goal is to read more this year than i did last year. 

I ran out of stuff to read once so I read The Witching Hour by Anne Rice because my sister had it, that book blew me away. The sequel Lasher was great too, beyond that I really have no interest. I've looked at some other ones, but I'm just not really into vampires, which seems to be her specialty. That's why I mentioned her Mayfaire witches books because those are the only 2 I'll vouch for. I also liked the movie Interview with the Vampire, tried to read the book after I saw the movie way back in the day and gave up after 150 pages or so. I didn't mean to give the impression that I really like Anne Rice, just her Mayfaire witches books, those were great. I don't normally read about witches either, it was more about a really evil family legacy.

I only got so far on Interview as well cuz its super freakin slow. And its written in like sections not chapters so the sections are like 60 pages or more til there is a break in the story and the action is very far apart one of the things i remember from that book is that the main vamp thats being interviewed cuts someones head off with a shovel. I'd like to read Memnoch The Devil it has an interresting concept that Lucem might like has to do with a devil trying to be the good guy. haha

Im looking forward to getting into that small HG Welles stack i got.

Mos Def im curious on his stuff too. He's got some stories he's co wrote with him the latest is calld In The Tall Grass i think but the dude has a novel called Heart Shaped Box and Horns. So he's on some hardcore type stuff too. Just havent ventured to his novels yet.

So it ended up being Pat/Slu and myself continuing to talk about the books at this one. Who else reads good books out there?