Finished (and enjoyed!) the first Bridge book, and will likely come back to the series after I've made more of a dent in the rest of my reading list. (I will also offer a discount rate as proofreader on future editions, no joke.)
Another recent read was "Weapon: Mouth (Adventures in the Free Speech Zone)" by Stoney Burke, whom I know from listening to many of his comedic rants at the Berkeley campus over the years when I was a student (he was one of many local weirdos who did that type of thing at a regular time each day); some may also know him as the truck driver from the freeway scene in Matrix: Reloaded. I actually wasn't prepared for what a good writer he is, and would recommend the book to some folks here. The stories he tells about getting arrested at Republican conventions and that kind of thing gave me HST vibes.
Shifting from actual books to literary junk food, I learned about the Gou Tanabe manga adaptations of Lovecraft recently, found his "At the Mountains of Madness" at the library, and plowed through it in a couple sittings, backward pages be damned. Really fucking good and makes me sad that we'll probably never get the del Toro movie.
Saw this post and checked out Mountains of Madness. You're right, that was an excellent adapation, and the artist did a great job with it. Very accurate to the book as well, which is always a nice change of pace. Was always curious to see a visualization of what they were seeing in that book, and this is probably the only way. Because lets face it, any movie version they do is going to shift the story heavily since the book is very much a slow burn with no action except the bit at the very end, which doesn't work for hollywood movies.
