Thank you, @Kittyskyfish . While I don't normally read westerns, I'll see if it can suck me in.
And thank you, @Alf .... I put that one in the queue.
I have been in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian kind of phase for a couple years now. I think I have read everything. Well, except the Uglies series... that one keeps putting me to sleep. So if anyone has any suggestions, I'm open.
Also looking for suggestions in grit lit and horror.
“You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You’re joining the circus. Ain’t that the best news you ever got?” Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind’s greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place—peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous—where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead! Echoes of Lovecraft, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and early Stephen King resound through the pages of this magical, gleefully macabre work nominated as Best Novel by the International Horror Guild.
Currently reading this one because killer, psycho clowns.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4748221-the-pilo-family-circus
If you like that, you would love Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback O...more
Great story. Amazing ending. Really well written.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13872.Geek_Love
Started Factotum by Bukowski last night.
I've read most of his work, but this one hasn't quite sucked me in like the others.
We shall see.
You'll like it. It's pretty twisted. I zipped right through it.Currently reading this one because killer, psycho clowns.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4748221-the-pilo-family-circus
I'm a total history buff and came across this book and just loved it. It's piqued an interest in me for Native American History, as it relates to the Indians of New England. We've heard so much about the plains tribes, but this man Uncas, was truly a master statesman.
I cannot recommend this book enough. I'm actually reading it for the second timeI agree the Plains tribes get the lion's share of attention, which I find interesting since North "American History" as we know it (as in the arrival of the "rebs" seeking freedom from The Crown) began with the eastern coastal tribes. Sounds like something I'd like, too.
I am currently re-re-rereading the Hodgdon 2015 Complete Reloading Data Manual.
--Al
If anyone is interested The New Yorker has given free access to its 1946 article about 6 survivors of the Hiroshima bomb who were interviewed about the day and weeks that followed.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
I just finished "Shot Through The Heart" by Mikal Gilmore, the youngest brother of Gary Gilmore.
Amazon product ASIN 0385478003
Now I'm reading "Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer about Gary Gilmore.
Amazon product ASIN 044658438X
First guy executed after the death penalty was re-instated in Utah, and he practically begged to be executed.Why?