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Goth Gratitude Day 16

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I don’t follow many living authors, and even when I do I have a terrible time keeping track of release dates. This is the main reason I don’t follow comics–I always lose track of time and miss issues. It’s easier to read old series like Sandman and Hellblazer that have been collected into graphic novels. With regular novels, I just google them once in a while and when they have a book available for pre-order I jump right on it. Today I’m grateful to have three new books pre-ordered for the coming months.

Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick, the sequel to Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, comes out in October and already I’m dying for it. In late September I’ll probably start preparing by reading Fancy Suits for the fourth or fifth time. Hopefully, the kids will be in physical school again by then and I’ll have some blissful alone time to read it.

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As if that wasn’t exciting enough, last night I googled around and found out that the Harry Dresden series is finally starting up again. The next book is set for late July and another is set for a couple months after that. The Dresden mix of elaborate fantasy with hard-boiled crime really does it for me. I also really appreciate the way the series keeps track of minor characters and subplots. I’ve never read a light genre series that weaves everything together as deeply as this one while still being full of flawed, interesting characters. 

Things might suck for quite a while, but at least I’ll have some of my favorite worlds to escape into. It’s the little things that make life bearable.

7 responses to “Goth Gratitude Day 16”

  1. Donnalee of Kingston NY Avatar
    Donnalee of Kingston NY

    I don’t know these, but that’s an intriguing weenie-related title. I could be interested in a series that started earlier than now–like maybe the Jim Butcher one. How do either of these compare to, say, Richard Kadray (sp?), which was funny and hardcore?

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    1. Corvus Chaos Avatar
      Corvus Chaos

      I haven’t read and Richard Kadrey, but looking at him on google makes me want to. Fancy Suits was like a horror comedy–incredibly violent with a bit of sci fi, but also really funny. When I read it I didn’t know it would become a series. Pretty much every series I follow was basically an accident; I pick up a random book and fall in love, then find out there are more. Luckily when I found Dresden Files there were already almost a dozen books so I haven’t been stuck waiting until now. They’re much tamer than Fancy Suits but they have a nice mix of humor, mystery and occasional horror.

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      1. Donnalee of Kingston NY Avatar
        Donnalee of Kingston NY

        I had a while when I was too PTSDed for horror, but since watching Buffy for the first time last year, that’s pretty much all I expect anymore. Kadrey was really interesting, in the first person, so dude who has been in hell for some time comes back to postapocalyptic earth, LA probably, lives with self and others, many freaky in their ways, lots of violence and humour happens. They may be hard to get, but I somehow got the first six or so, and that did me fine for a while a few years back. Only one was too gross in places for me, but that’s okay. I loved the concept that the scars on the guy’s body protected him from harm or bveing killed in that way again–I forget if it was death or harm, but that is cool, since I cling to my street cred of having been dead three times in the last twenty or so years–it makes me relate to other characters like Buffy and Spike who have been dead and still are around. I guess it depends on my mood whether the extreme is okay or if I skim it–some days I have no tolerance for tension, so am not so much into ‘slowly I turned, step by step…’ but am okay with ‘do the job and cut off his head NOW’. I’m more an efficiency expert in inclination than a waste-time-freaking type.

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      2. Corvus Chaos Avatar
        Corvus Chaos

        That sounds really awesome. The novels, not the part where you’ve been dead multiple times. That sounds pretty traumatic.
        I definitely relate to sometimes being up for violence and sometimes just . . . not being able to handle it. I’ve always been very drawn to spooky, larger than life novels but I have to be mentally ready for graphic violence. That’s probably why I like Victorian gothic stuff so much–spooky but rarely graphic the way modern horror is.

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      3. Donnalee of Kingston NY Avatar
        Donnalee of Kingston NY

        The dead was okay–first time sucked, the others were great. The novels being in first person really have that sort of compelling quality, like one of the books by the guy who wrote silence of the lambs–not my speed, but whichever book it was really made it seem fun and logical to be a badguy due to the first-person aspect. I read Kadrey during probably the worst period of my life–taking care of a condo in a senior community near the NJ Turnpike for a few years. It was like house arrest in a ruined area that was trying to resemble what used to be something good–and me being a body empath and all, I turned out to manifest lots of the yuck of the elderly and dying and their meds. Yuck.

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  2. Yolanda Chavez Sherman Avatar
    Yolanda Chavez Sherman

    Been waiting for the new Dresden book for a long time! I lost track of it. I’m so glad a new one will be out soon. I had lost hope.

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    1. Corvus Chaos Avatar
      Corvus Chaos

      Yeah, I was starting to worry the Dresden Files would never get finished up. It was a nice surprise to see he’s back to it.

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