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Steven Kings "It".

I was never able to get through It, even after more than one try, as I found it a boring as whale s**t.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You just described most of my Stephen King reading experiences. I stopped reading him permanently the moment I discovered Richard Matheson.

Grant Morrison - Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Great book comics. I just read the first part about the Golden Age of comics and it is fantastic.

Currently:
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
The Transparency of Evil - Baudrillard
The Second Sex - Simone De Beauvoir

all are consistently excellent.
'cept Baudrillard maybe, with his constant hyperboles on that ridiculously torpid 'Fractal Marxism' paradigm thing that occasionally gets drowned in several pages of half-metaphorical COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION PERPETUATE LITERALLY EVERY ASPECT OF SOCIAL INTERACTION, I. E. THE MEDIA; WHERE IS MEANING??, OH I LAMENT.
I mean it's bloody concise and thought-provoking, but being written from an apparent *this is what will happen* perspective I find myself longing for him to produce an adequate analysis of the media as a historical and evolving entity, rather than extrapolating endlessly on some ambiguous ad valorem of liberation.
I also disagree with his hackneyed critique of Trans-sexuality, but whateves.

Nonetheless I'm probably just really daft (first legit encounter with continental philosophy, horray!), and should promptly plunder the library for further jests from dear Jean, yea.
where do i go from here

@TEGH - are you any wiser for the reading?

Finished "Cigarettes" into "Tlooth" now.

After this, I'll be done with Harry Mathews. Sad.

I'm trying to read this. Although my concentration is very poor at the moment.

I'm careful not to think of myself as wise. In the long run, truths are just as changeable as anything. Honestly, I know very little.

I remember really enjoying reading that in college. Now, the same copy is helping me out by keeping my AC unit proped up in place in my bedroom window. Hope it doesn't get ruined, but it was the perfect size to serve it's current purpose and it's really hot out.

I'm finishing up something else and am debating between two books I picked up at a thrift store that I'm excited about- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and other Stories by Carson McCullers and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and One Hundred Years of Solitude both blew my mind when I read them and I've been meaning to get back to these two writers for years ... can't decide which to choose first!

Great book.

My list over the last few weeks - I read when I can concentrate properly:

A Spot Of Bother - Mark Haddon (finished it this afternoon)
An Englishman In Paris - Michael Sadler
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

And...because I harbour designs on writing a crime thriller....

The Man Who Went Up In Smoke - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (I liked it)
Fox Evil - Minette Walters (which I thought was crap)
Harm Done - Ruth Rendell (which I simply couldn't read - it was earnest and dull and I gave up on it)

The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Crime. Which, as the title implies, has many photos of criminals and the people they shot, hanged, disembowed, etc. Delightful bedtime reading.

I'm currently reading Poul Anderson's Time Patrol. It's an anthology of Anderson's Sci-fi stories with historical backgrounds, where time travelers police and research history. He has the ability to economize his words, but can paint the most vivid pictures.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows. Rule 34 next up.