Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Blood and Kisses (Vampire Love Book 1) by J.T. Blackfriars
I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin
Short
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction
to Film by Patton Oswalt
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Runaway Robot by Lester Del Rey
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
Feral by Berton Roueché
Dr. Who and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks
Clans of the Alphane Moon by Philip K. Dick
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by
Haruki Murakami
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Gods Hate Kansas
by Joseph Millard
A Feast of Freedom by Leonard Wibberly
Ratman’s Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert
That last selection was a real surprise. It’s the Irish
novel on which the 1971 American film Willard and its 2003 remake were based. I
had long been curious about it, but I wasn’t expecting it to be a real work of
literature. It’s whimsical, witty and poignant, and the rats trained by the (unnamed)
narrator of the title are vividly characterized. Both movie versions are pretty
pedestrian by comparison.
Anyway…
Monster-of-the-Week: …this week the nod goes to the tentacled horror from
the wonderful cover art of another book on this list, Joseph Millard’s vintage
sci-fi tale The Gods Hate Kansas:
Unexpectedly, this picture isn’t a cheat, or at least not too much of a cheat—no such attack on the spaceship takes place, but there are, at least, creatures answering this description in the tale. Better yet, it turns out [spoiler alert!] that they aren’t bad sorts, once you get to know them.
No comments:
Post a Comment