I'm still doing the stay at home dad thing for the baby and its driving me absolutely bat-shit crazy. I have read and RE-read every damned book in my library.

As Im on this forum I do not need to say that I am a horror or thriller fan. But i am also a comedy fan.

Please tell me somebody on here has something I havent read. I can spend hours in a bookstore and I either find nothing worth even reading in the store, or I find good stuff... but i have read it al already.

John Dies at the End by David Wong. You probably won't be able to find it in bookstores anymore and the author had it for free on his website until the publisher who put out William Shatner's last book bought the rights to his, but it will be re-released sometime next year. You should be able to find a used copy.

It's the perfect blend of horror and comedy and one of the absolute BEST books I have ever read. I highly recommend it.

Tim Powers has written some nifty books - Last Call is almost, but not quite, brilliant, and Declare is pretty good.

Arturo Perez-Reverte, on the other hand has written a couple of brilliant books - The Club Dumas and Captain Alatriste as examples. The Fencing Master is also quite good as is The Flanders Panel.

Tim Powers has written some nifty books - Last Call is almost, but not quite, brilliant, and Declare is pretty good.

I should read more of Powers' books. I dearly love The Drawing of the Dark and Dinner at Deviant's Palace.

Yeah, read it. It was in high school, but it wasn't for a class or anything. Anytime the teachers would assign books to be read and reported on they would just ask me for a report knowing I had already read whatever it was on my own. Thats how I ended up sitting up at the teachers desk in most of my classes joking around while everybody else worked. I'd even go out to the local convenience store with one of them on coffee runs, or he would just bring me a coffee.

I wasn't a nerd of Potsy-like proportions or anything. I just loved to read.

And you're so very right about the size of that book. The my ex and I watched the latest film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo and she said she would like to read the book. Next time we were in a book store I showed it to her and laughed.

She didn't buy it.

Funny, one of the main reasons I took two years of French in high school was so I could read Dumas in the original. Started with the Classics Comics version of The Three Musketeers, read an abridged version for "young adults" then an unabridged translation. I wanted the original. While studying French, I read every other Dumas translation I could find. Once I felt I was good enough at reading French (I never got good at speaking it) I tracked down a lot of copies of the original texts. (This was in New Hampshire, which had a fairly large percentage of Francophones in the population).

My French teacher died a couple of years ago. I hadn't seen him since I was home on leave from the USAF in 1977, but we exchanged a fair amount of email after he tracked me down in the late 90s. He and I were the only two real science fiction readers at Laconia High School (there were a few Trekkies). We loaned each other books all the time (and returned them).

I'm still doing the stay at home dad thing for the baby and its driving me absolutely bat-shit crazy. I have read and RE-read every damned book in my library.

As Im on this forum I do not need to say that I am a horror or thriller fan. But i am also a comedy fan.

Please tell me somebody on here has something I havent read. I can spend hours in a bookstore and I either find nothing worth even reading in the store, or I find good stuff... but i have read it al already.

John Dies at the End. Might be hard to find,though.

George Chesbro mentions! His Mongo series was exceptional. Veil was a great character. Wonder whatever happened to him (Chesbro, not Veil!)

Tim Powers -- Last Call was an exceptional book...

Hell On Earth and Mr. Twilight by ummm....can't recall his name. Its about a guy that does occult stuff and is kept company by an angle and a demon. Pretty riveting, actually.

Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff.

The Magdelene Cipher by John Case

Hell On Earth and Mr. Twilight by ummm....can't recall his name. Its about a guy that does occult stuff and is kept company by an angle and a demon. Pretty riveting, actually.

I believe you are talking about Michael Reaves, although Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff co-wrote Mr. Twilight. I do agree that they are worth reading as is most of his stuff. I think Voodoo Child is one of the lesser-known great horror novels of the past 10 years. All you New Orleans fans should check it out. He doesn't seem to be writing much besides novelizations these days unfortunately.

If it hasn't been suggested yet I would suggest Tim Dorsey. IMO his books are hilarious (of a dark style) I like how he writes, which almost reminds me of following a movie with how he explains the scenes. But the main characters of all but one of his books is an insane serial killer whos a genius almost by mistake who has an insane addiction with florida history. I would recommend all of his books but Orange Crush which I have not read myself yet as from what i have heard its not as good as his others and doesn't involve serge storm his main character.

If it hasn't been suggested yet I would suggest Tim Dorsey. IMO his books are hilarious (of a dark style) I like how he writes, which almost reminds me of following a movie with how he explains the scenes. But the main characters of all but one of his books is an insane serial killer whos a genius almost by mistake who has an insane addiction with florida history. I would recommend all of his books but Orange Crush which I have not read myself yet as from what i have heard its not as good as his others and doesn't involve serge storm his main character.

Anything by the great F. Van Wyck Mason, master historical novelist.