Over the past month or so I've repurchased four books from my (let's call it...) youth. I have lost a lot of stuff from my childhood home and while I can't replace everything, I do like that I can some things.

In this case, the items are actually upgrades.

Picked up hardback copies of #StephenKing ,errr #PeterStraub (ha) #TheTalisman and #TheBlackHouse. Also grabbed hardbacks of #CliveBarker #WeaveWorld and #Imajica. (I've also got autographed copies of #Everville and #TheGreatAndSecretShow, but those were picked up years ago)

I've read them all in paperback way, way back in the day, but I like the security of hardback.

All I know is, I'm gonna be pissed if Amazon ever buys #ThriftBooks.

I found my copy of "Weaveworld" and I'm thinking about reading it again. I remember liking it better than "The Great and Secret Show". I also have "Abarat" but just couldn't get into it.
I'm not sure where my "Books of Blood" ended up.
I reread "Cabal" not too long ago, followed by Midian Unmade. It's quite impressive how much of "Cabal" Clive Barker was able to include in the movie "Nightbreed" although I think he could have done a better job translating Baphomet to the screen.
"The Last Illusion" is a much better story than what we got with "Lord of Illusion". I still like the movie. But there is some really disturbing stuff in the book that I was sad to see excised.
"The Scarlet Gospel" reads like a "fuck you" to everybody who wanted to make "the hell priest" (colloquially known as "Pinhead") into the main character.

Good night, Fedi. May your dreams be wet and visceral.

#CliveBarker #Weaveworld

It’s an office day today. I’m up early to start my exercising and to get some shite* done and here I am typing in this completely useless blog post.

Motivation level = Zero.

Hey! I am trying to pick off another episode of Torchwood because I am trying to finish off the show (even though I don’t exactly love it) and here is season three episode one and Peter Capaldi is in it! Doctor Who Number 12’s actor in his second of two Doctor Who related roles from before he was actually cast as The Doctor. Fascinating.

Where was I?

Oh yeah. The morning routine. Let’s start my exercising and maybe get some shite done before I have to drive in to work.

*Back in the 1980’s I started obsessively reading the novels and short stories written by Clive Barker. Mr. Barker, in at least one of his works, used the word “shite”. I had never heard or read that word before. Mr. Barker is from Liverpool. Is shite a Liverpudlian thing? I don’t know. I do know that I am currently a little more than half way through the audio book version of Weaveworld and hearing the word shite get used again is making me feel nostalgic for the old days of language discovery and shite.

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#books #cliveBarker #doctorWho #exercise #motivation #peterCapaldi #shite #Television #torchwood #weaveworld

Family Portrait: Sister Immacolata summoning the silver fluid of the Menstruum, her ghostly triplet sisters Magdalene and the Hag (whom immacolata strangled in utero), and the latest brood of the Magdalene's babies.

Characters from #Weaveworld by #CliveBarker , #AIgenerated with #Midjourney.

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Ok #7bookstoknowme is tough right, only picking 7 I mean! I don't read as much as I should, but here are the first 7 which came to mind:

#AmericanGods - @neilhimself
#Weaveworld - #CliveBarker
#GuardsGuards - #TerryPratchett
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy - #DouglasAdams
All the Light We Cannot See - #AnthonyDoerr
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - #SusannaClarke
#TheRoad - #CormacMcCarthy

Honestly I could have filled all 7 choices with #discworld books though 🙂