| Author | Message | ||
     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Really enjoying this MMS novel. Very creepy. Anyone else read it? Just bought BAD THINGS, too. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
It's one of the books I brought back from Toronto but I've yet to read, although I've always devoured his previous work (maybe I should try reading it instead) and I've read nearly everything else apart from BAD THINGS. I love his books, SF or thriller or whatever, and his short fiction. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Enviably fluent and smart prose writer. He's crossed Stephen King with Martin Amis and come up with a killer voice. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Both excellent novels. In my opinion his writing voice is completely unique- ie, he doesn't sound like anyone but Michael Marshall Smith who sounds like Michael Marshall who sounds like Michael S. Smith and they all sound a bit like Mike Smith. But thats just me. ;-) The last Amis novel I read I hurled across the room after 50 pages. Really enjoying reading the Impelled Gary BTW- really excellent. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Or was it Michael M. Smith- no wait- It was M.M. Smith actually. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Thanks, Karim! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
I was always dubious about MMS over the long haul of a novel. I'm afraid I'd no desire to continue reading him after his second straw men book... One of thos e writers I can handle shorts and enjoy, while not faring so well with the novels. Charles de Lint is another like that for me. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
That second book was ok, but not, for me, the stonking thriller the first was. However, I loved the third. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
Just dug out my copy of THE INTRUDERS and found this next to it:-  ...which I'd not read either... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.230 |
I love that Edward Miller artwork. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
MMS has written a children's book' hasn't he? A ghost story called The Servants, but I don't know if it's any good. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
THE SERVANTS is good - set in Brighton, where I think MMS lives, and you get a good feel for the part of the town where the characters live. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
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| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
ok that was a bit bigger than I had expected sorry- but you can see the great artwork, composition, highlights, the great use of colour of '15 limited copies' | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.58.219 |
I was given The Intruders in Toronto and haven't read it yet either Mick. Might read it soon. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.119.24 |
Just started it, Ally - I read the THIS IS NOW yesterday and loved the title story. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.101.79 |
Yeah, the title story is great. I can take or leave the other two. Still not read any of Smith's Michael Marshall stuff. Keep hearing mixed reports on it. |