My current reading list

[TheLuckyOne]

I'm a little more than halfway through Leslie Klinger's The Essential Dracula. It's annotated by the same guy who did the annotated Sherlock Holmes volumes that were out a couple of years ago. The idea to treat it as if the story is true, passed on to Bram Stoker by the real "Jonathan Harker," is kind of interesting, but man does it wear thin quickly. Most of the annotations are still interesting, though, and it does really bring to light just how incompetent and bumbling the vampire hunters really were.

Out of curiosity, has anyone read any of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories? I'm starting to get interested in them- I've heard the stories had a great undercurrent of dark humor running through them, and certainly they influenced umpteen zillion "giant sword-wielding barbarian and his small, nimble friend with daggers" characters who came after them.

-D

[StarOpal]

Just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Now reading Some Like it Hot Buttered by Jeffrey Cohen. It's the first in a murder mystery series that's about a guy who owns a theater that only plays comedies. So that should give you an idea of the gimmick, tone, and punniness of it. I'm about a third of the way through, and unless something dumb happens, it's heading into B territory.

[Buttercup]

The Gospel Of Filth, Weird New England, Transmetropolitan, The Invisibles, and Elaine Bergstrom's Beyond Sundown (when I get a copy).