Curt's Read-Bag: Maybe cool novels coming out 2009

[curt_holman]

Beat the Reaper - Josh Bazell (Jan. 7) "Hot" thriller already w/movie deal
The Steel Remains - Richard K. Morgan (Jan. 20) Talented 'post-cyberpunk' sci fi novelist takes on the fantasy genre.
Drood - Dan Simmons (Feb.9) Long historical thriller about... Charles Dickens?
Fool - Christopher Moore (Feb. 10 ) Comic/revisionist take on 'King Lear' by

Comments

Thomas Pynchon

[curt_holman]

Honestly, I'm not a fan. I've *tried* -- I read Vineland and The Crying of Lot 49, read about 100 pages of V. in high school and about one-third of Mason & Dixon when it came out, and he just doesn't do it for me.

[glazomaniac]

october?! martin was supposed to have that out by april! damnit!

[curt_holman]

I LOVE the first three books -- I may even read them again, which I never do -- but thought that things were getting really convoluted in the fourth. I'm not holding my breath until the next ones come out, although the possibility of an HBO show really intrigues me.