Library of The Nocturnal

Futurecrook · 13-03-2009 3:34pm

Oh stephen king, I completely forgot about him. I started reading his books when I was only eleven. Used to drive my local library crazy as they wouldn't let me borrow them on a child's card so i tried to apply for an adult's one but they wouldn't let me. Eventually my mum gave me her card. The librarian was shocked and appalled.

Handsome Bob · 13-03-2009 3:41pm

Futurecrook wrote: »

Oh stephen king, I completely forgot about him. I started reading his books when I was only eleven. Used to drive my local library crazy as they wouldn't let me borrow them on a child's card so i tried to apply for an adult's one but they wouldn't let me. Eventually my mum gave me her card. The librarian was shocked and appalled.

Your mom is hardcore!:eek: Mine wouldn't even let me go see Jurassic Park in the cinema.:pac:

Stephen King is an old favourite of mine. What was it that first introduced me to him? My cousin showing kid me IT the movie.:( But now I terrorise his niece with stories of IT so it has come full circle.:D:pac:

shellyboo · 13-03-2009 3:59pm

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Your mom is hardcore!:eek: Mine wouldn't even let me go see Jurassic Park in the cinema.:pac:

LOL

My Dad let me watch Silence of the Lambs when I was about 8 or something :P

In fact, there's another good one - Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising. Not a fan of Hannial Rising myself, but including it for the sake of completeness!

Futurecrook · 13-03-2009 4:31pm

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Your mom is hardcore!:eek: Mine wouldn't even let me go see Jurassic Park in the cinema.:pac:

Stephen King is an old favourite of mine. What was it that first introduced me to him? My cousin showing kid me IT the movie.:(

She really is. She brought me to my first protest too.

But I digress...

The book is definitely far more terrifying than the film. I had a fear of drains for quite a while after I read it. One book of his that I was really never into was The Girl who loved Tom Gordon. I read it a few times and each time I finished it I just said "wtf?"

I find I'm not really that into his writing anymore.

Nevyn · 13-03-2009 4:54pm

Clive Barker's books of blood.

Gloom · 13-03-2009 5:45pm

Goosebumps! Great stories for kids.

But.

Richard Laymon. Love his stuff.

cyberwolf77 · 13-03-2009 5:51pm

Gloom wrote: »

Goosebumps! Great stories for kids.

But.

Richard Laymon. Love his stuff.

That's the ticket Gloom, hook em early and they ours for life. Laymon is good but have you tried Bentley Little: The Store, The Walking, The House, The Collection(short stories), The Association.

Gloom · 13-03-2009 6:09pm

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

That's the ticket Gloom, hook em early and they ours for life. Laymon is good but have you tried Bentley Little: The Store, The Walking, The House, The Collection(short stories), The Association.

Haha! Remember the TV show? used to be on Fox Kids and stuff. I still have a collection of Goosebumps. Yellow crumpled pages ftw!

I mean, who didn't crap their pants watching this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMb5E_HkJM

Holy crap. You read Laymon? Which books did you read from him. He's my favourite author!

I also suggest, Christopher Pike. Great books especially The Last Vampire series and his books targeted at older audiences, The Cold One and The Listeners.

cyberwolf77 · 13-03-2009 6:18pm

The only Laymon I've read was One Rainy Night. Made me worried to go out in the rain for months afterwards.

Handsome Bob · 13-03-2009 7:16pm

shellyboo wrote: »

In fact, there's another good one - Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising. Not a fan of Hannial Rising myself, but including it for the sake of completeness!

I haven't actually read any of the books those films were based on. Silence of the Lambs is a classic piece of cinema though, I'd be curious to see how the books compare.

Futurecrook wrote: »

The book is definitely far more terrifying than the film. I had a fear of drains for quite a while after I read it. One book of his that I was really never into was The Girl who loved Tom Gordon. I read it a few times and each time I finished it I just said "wtf?"

I find I'm not really that into his writing anymore.

The Girl who loved Tom Gordon is a bit of a strange tale (even for King). His vagueness in regards to the plot is a sticking point.

Yeah his work hasn't been great recently, with the latter stages of The Dark Tower series being his only saving grace in the naughties.

Gloom wrote: »

Goosebumps! Great stories for kids.

Loved Goosebumps when I was younger. My favourite one was the story about the Coffin in the basement. Really great stuff.

Delirium · 14-03-2009 12:11am

What about Chuck Palahniuk?? Any of the books of his I've read have been very dark.

Teutorix · 14-03-2009 12:14am

I read through the thread, and you have no idea how glad I am that twilight wasn't mentioned once.

Woops just mentioned it :P

Delirium · 14-03-2009 2:04am

Also would recommend Natsuo Kirino.

Grotesque, I've yet to read but I really enjoyed Out

cyberwolf77 · 14-03-2009 8:16am

Teutorix wrote: »

I read through the thread, and you have no idea how glad I am that twilight wasn't mentioned once.

Woops just mentioned it :P

Nice one teutorix, bring up the sparkle vamps.

koth wrote: »

What about Chuck Palahniuk?? Any of the books of his I've read have been very dark. Also would recommend Natsuo Kirino.

Grotesque, I've yet to read but I really enjoyed Out

How did we forget the author of Fight Club. Kirino I haven't read yet, will be putting himon the list though.

cyberwolf77 · 14-03-2009 1:37pm

Hey now, why has no one mentioned Harry yet. I mean of course Harry Dresden, not the other one. You gotta love a series that features: werewolves, vampires, demons, faeries, spirits, mobsters, warlocks, trolls, a talking skull, and oh yeah Harry's a wizard who carries a .44 for when magic just won't cut it.

Zwillinge · 14-03-2009 1:45pm

Oooh books

Some of these would be nocturnal ridden, others not so much.

Darren Shan - The Sage of Darren Shan (vampires) Soon to be a film also, which should be out in October, can.not.wait.!!

Also the Demons series by Master Shan...damn them is all a good series

Cliff McNish has a good trilogy about witches. I also consider him the male JK Rowling, since his books started out as bedtime stories for his children that he made up as he went along. And they don't drag, there's no big backround check on all the character, just after a page twisted stuff starts to happen

Sure while I'm at it JK Rowling books are pretty decent :P

The Forbidden Game trilogy, I think they were part of the Point Horror

series, but they are fantastic. An RPG boardgame gone wrong :eek: but it has horror, love, darkness, shadow men...seriously nocturnal young adult books :cool:

Kelly Armstrong does some decent books about werewolves, starting with Bitten. There's another werewolf book I've floating around the house...werewolves and nazis. Scary stuff!!!

For the girly girl in you, Girls in Love by Jacqeline Wilson, full of the joys of being a teenage girl, hell I've had big burly men read them too :pac: Good brain fluff books. Throw in Miss Ahern for the girl fluff books while I'm at it.

If you can get your mits on some classics - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Anderson's fairy tales

And for something truely terrifying, try Ross O'Carroll Kelly ... it's all so true

cyberwolf77 · 14-03-2009 1:53pm

Now you talking Zwill. I love a good werewolf yarn. Speaking of which a decent set of novels are the Kitty books by Carrie Vaughn. An interesting take on the reluctant werewolf stereotype that is prevalent nowadays.

shellyboo · 15-03-2009 1:12am

LZ5by5 wrote: »

I haven't actually read any of the books those films were based on. Silence of the Lambs is a classic piece of cinema though, I'd be curious to see how the books compare.

I really liked them... particularly Hannibal, it's FAR superior to the film. Set mostly in Florence with some beautiful descriptions of the city. They are, in essence, crime novels for the most part... each has an investigator trying to track down a killer. But Hannibal Lector gives an extra level of darkness to it, he's so creepy and twisted!

Speaking of Goosebumps... anyone remember the Point Horror books?! They were great chilling reading when I was a teen

Remembered one of my all-time favourite novels - Wuthering Heights. Amazingly gothic, could lose myself in that book.

Delirium · 15-03-2009 1:18am

shellyboo wrote: »

Remembered one of my all-time favourite novels - Wuthering Heights. Amazingly gothic, could lose myself in that book.

Ah, memories of a somewhat drunk english teacher reading that after lunch-break on Fridays:D (we studied it for the leaving cert;))

cyberwolf77 · 15-03-2009 12:36pm

Speaking of Gothic how can we forget Mr. Edgar Allen Poe, or as I call him: Mr. Thanks for the insomnia.

Gloom · 15-03-2009 1:29pm

Zwillinge wrote: »

Oooh books Some of these would be nocturnal ridden, others not so much.

Darren Shan - The Sage of Darren Shan (vampires) Soon to be a film also, which should be out in October, can.not.wait.!!

Also the Demons series by Master Shan...damn them is all a good series

Cliff McNish has a good trilogy about witches. I also consider him the male JK Rowling, since his books started out as bedtime stories for his children that he made up as he went along. And they don't drag, there's no big backround check on all the character, just after a page twisted stuff starts to happen
Sure while I'm at it JK Rowling books are pretty decent :P

The Forbidden Game trilogy, I think they were part of the Point Horror series, but they are fantastic. An RPG boardgame gone wrong :eek: but it has horror, love, darkness, shadow men...seriously nocturnal young adult books :cool:

Kelly Armstrong does some decent books about werewolves, starting with Bitten. There's another werewolf book I've floating around the house...werewolves and nazis. Scary stuff!!!

For the girly girl in you, Girls in Love by Jacqeline Wilson, full of the joys of being a teenage girl, hell I've had big burly men read them too :pac: Good brain fluff books. Throw in Miss Ahern for the girl fluff books while I'm at it.

If you can get your mits on some classics - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Anderson's fairy tales

And for something truely terrifying, try Ross O'Carroll Kelly ... it's all so true

Just reread these. Loved them.

Point Horror are amazing. I have a collection from when I was allowed raid our local library. Found a box of horror books that no one wanted.

Zwillinge · 15-03-2009 1:36pm

shellyboo wrote: »

Speaking of Goosebumps... anyone remember the Point Horror books?! They were great chilling reading when I was a teen

Gloom wrote: »

Just reread these. Loved them.

Point Horror are amazing. I have a collection from when I was allowed raid our local library. Found a box of horror books that no one wanted.

Point Horror

Who couldn't love them? Though when I was sort of toning down on reading them, I realised I could tell who dunnit from the beginning. Excpet for anything by Caroline B Cooney. She was the most nutjobbish author for those books

Really fantastic at times, but then slowly insane with others, especially Freeze Tag.

Anyone remember Point Romance? Ugh! >.<

Another great series is Garth Nix. The Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen collection are really imaginative. I'd be surprised if a production company didn't pick up the rights to them in the near future.

cyberwolf77 · 15-03-2009 1:36pm

Sheesh, look at all the bookworms we has in this forum. Who woulda thunk it. Seriously though to everyone who's mentioned Terry Pratchett +1 to you all. He is awesome for a late-night read. I always read Hogfather near the holidays for some reason. Another good funny writer to try is Christopher Moore. I loved Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck (Vampires, duh), A Dirty Job(Soul Reassignment), Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove(Sea Monster ).

Zwillinge · 15-03-2009 2:05pm

Bookworms the lot of us

I've never read any Terry Pratchett. Where should I begin when I get around to it?

cyberwolf77 · 15-03-2009 2:11pm

Zwillinge wrote: »

Bookworms the lot of us

I've never read any Terry Pratchett. Where should I begin when I get around to it?

First one I read by him was Guards, Guards!. Basically start anywhere on the Discworld and strap yourself in for a wild ride.

Zwillinge · 15-03-2009 2:13pm

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

First one I read by him was Guards, Guards!. Basically start anywhere on the Discworld and strap yourself in for a wild ride.

Where's Randy when you need him?

Am gonna go read some light hearted Irish Brendan O'Carroll now

cyberwolf77 · 15-03-2009 2:16pm

You has a filthy mind Zwill. I like that in a person. Maybe I'll check out O' Caroll meself.
*Heads for Amazon*

shellyboo · 15-03-2009 6:11pm

Tidied my bookshelf last night and rediscovered some more...

Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Children of Men by PD James
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (how did we get this far without a Tolkien mention?!?!)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Gloom · 15-03-2009 8:48pm

Zwillinge wrote: »

Point Horror Who couldn't love them? Though when I was sort of toning down on reading them, I realised I could tell who dunnit from the beginning. Excpet for anything by Caroline B Cooney. She was the most nutjobbish author for those books Really fantastic at times, but then slowly insane with others, especially Freeze Tag.

Anyone remember Point Romance? Ugh! >.<

Another great series is Garth Nix. The Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen collection are really imaginative. I'd be surprised if a production company didn't pick up the rights to them in the near future.

Yeah LMAO! I loved Diane Hoh too. She added creepiness to each chapter by going into the mind of the criminal. Stuff like:

"I did it. I heard them all scream and it made me smile. But I put pretended to scream with them Pretty soon I will reveal myself and they will all pay. All of them."

And you're like OSHI-!

You're making me want to go read through all of them again! :pac:

Christopher Pike's books for teens are great.

Delirium · 15-03-2009 9:39pm

Some more suggestions.

The View from the Mirror by Ian Ivine

Amazon.co.uk Review
Magic pathways from world to world were a curse, making possible invasion and enslavement, and long ago those paths were closed leaving three worlds and the void between them a hopeless jumble of what had been and what is now. Ian Irvine's A Shadow on the Glass, first volume of his fantasy quartet "The View from the Mirror", takes us to one of those worlds and to two adventurers, a scholar and a psychic, who find themselves dragged into the conflicts of the mighty and the ambitious. Karan is blackmailed into helping steal a magic mirror, and finds herself on the run from warlords and warlocks; all that Llian wanted to do was find a great story to tell, and clarify some minor ambiguities in the archives of the college of storytellers--but he finds himself expelled and ostracised, and accompanying Karan on her breakneck journeys on high barrens and treacherous rivers. What Irvine brings to the mix is a sense of irony and some intelligent observation of character: Llian and Karan are not your average squeaky clean hero and heroine, and their opponents are hardly villainous, just people acting out the planned treacheries that seemed like a good idea. --Roz Kaveney

Review
'Irvine has built a history and wonderful culture for his vivid world. His first novel vibrates with originality' THE WEST AUSTRALIAN 'The complex cultures, detailed geography, and the palpable weight of history provide a solid background to an intense story that ... becomes increasingly compelling. This stands out as a worldbuilding labour of love with some truly original touches' LOCUS

I'd also recommend the Chronicles of the Raven series and the Legends of the Raven series by James Barclay. One of the better fantasy series I've read in a while.

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