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Post by Fenril on Aug 14, 2004 0:24:06 GMT -5
Haven't read "the association", but Little is a very intriguing writer indeed.
I have read of him "The mailman" (good novel, awful ending), and "The store" (AWESOME... a bit over-the-top at times, but this one brilliant satire cleverly disguised as pulp fiction).
I definitely plan to get Dreadful Tales as soon as I can. Currenly I have read about six or seven Laymon books, all ranging from great to quite good to at least very entertaining. Hope you like it.
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 14, 2004 4:25:35 GMT -5
... a bit over-the-top at times, but this one brilliant satire cleverly disguised as pulp fiction... Same could be said about "The Association": it starts so "straight" that I thought it won't be a real horror novel but things change after some time; so much, in fact, that I often thought "Yeah, now Bentley went way too OTT - I'm pissed!" The ending is highly grotesque and not very realistic but I can't say I didn't like it. This being my first novel by Little, I have never read anything like it before. And 'Dreadful Tales' by Laymon is just near-perfect! I wouldn't think that he can make up enough interesting plots and ending twists for as many as 25 short stories, but he does that with no sweat. A must-buy for all fans of good horror! |
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 16, 2004 15:40:39 GMT -5
Right now I'm going through the biography written by Michael J. Fox ("Lucky Man. A Memoir"); boy, what a heart-breaking read! It's not all hellishly sad, though: Fox is great when describing all the funny stuff, too! On second thoughts: the book is never hellishly sad! Even the first symptoms of his disease (which he noticed after a drinking night with Woody Harrelson) he describes with lots of humour... but it still breaks your heart, of course.
Seriously: I think this one's a must-read for all true fans of Michael J. Fox; I liked him a lot since seeing him for the first time in Back To The Future but only now - while reading his book - I am getting to know what a cool guy he is!
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 16, 2004 17:47:51 GMT -5
One of my friends is reading it & she said it was really good. I'll have to put it on my list.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 24, 2004 16:33:31 GMT -5
Started reading 'Blindsighted' by Karin Slaughter yesterday. She's a pretty new author, she has 3 books out. Well, I think her 4th just came out a little while ago. All the reviews I read of her books were positive & she was compared to Thomas Harris quite a bit. The book is great so far, I've read almost half of it already.  |
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 25, 2004 6:58:28 GMT -5
Karin Slaughter was pissing me off when I was looking for Slade's books in England: coming to a letter S on the shelf I was always seeing HER name and not Michael's. Also, isn't it one of her novels that is called "Cut Throat"? Several times it made my heart jump as I thought it was Slade's "Cutthroat". ;D
But if she's good - I'll try one of her books. Waiting for your opinion, livingdeadgirl.
Right now I'm still reading "Lucky Man" and also started Slade's classic "Ghoul".
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Aug 25, 2004 17:17:46 GMT -5
Geez Bart, such hostility. She has a book called "Kiss Cut". I think it's her second one. When I finish the book I'll let you know what I think. |
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Post by Bartwald on Sept 16, 2004 12:16:35 GMT -5
Two of my favourite authors have just had their new books released, so I put aside everything else I was reading and am right now enjoying these two back-to-back: David Lodge's "Author, Author" and V.S. Naipaul's "Magic Seeds". Thrilling!
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Post by Fenril on Sept 25, 2004 0:16:01 GMT -5
Finished:
"Ringu", by Koji Suzuki... novel that started all that. It's quite good (and very different from both movies), but the english translation does leave something to be desired.
"Silk" by Alessandro Baricco. Read this one for school --Loved it, through it might not be to everybody's liking.
I'm currently readind "The minority report and other stories", by Phillip K. Dick. So far pretty good, and of course the title story is WAY better than the Spielberg movie. Some stories were kinda weak, however.
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Post by Bartwald on Sept 25, 2004 5:32:52 GMT -5
I'm currently readind "The minority report and other stories", by Phillip K. Dick. So far pretty good, and of course the title story is WAY better than the Spielberg movie. Some stories were kinda weak, however. I read that several years ago and I agree it's very uneven - but several stories there are great. I don't remember the titles, unfortunately - have been reading too much Dick back then. |
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Post by Fenril on Oct 2, 2004 14:41:43 GMT -5
Finished the Dick book and... yeah, very uneven. Apparently, this has his earlier stories, which explains a lot.
I think the best entries were "The minority report" (repeat: miles above Spielberg's movie), "The days of Perky Pat" (through it deserves an adward for "weirdest futuristic concept" --a postwar civilization where adults spend their days playing with Barbie-esque dolls!), "If there were no Benny Cemolli", "Oh, to be a Blobel!" and "Captive market".
The rest all have at least something of interest in them, but he was definitely not in his prime here.
Now I'm reading the legendary "It", by Stephen King. We'll see if it lives up to the rumors.
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 2, 2004 15:21:48 GMT -5
I'm reading Shaun Jeffrey's "Evilution" right now; it's pretty good so far: a woman receives a letter informing her that, in a competition she doesn't remember entering, she has won a beautiful house. Thrilled, she soon moves into it without caring much about some strange neighbours and the unsettling fact that the section of the town she now lives in is surrounded by a thick circle of fog that never goes away...  |
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 11, 2004 15:09:13 GMT -5
Hellboy: The Lost Army; a novel written by a horror author Christopher Golden. I didn't think it could be any good - but it is! Not just a lame cash-in on the comic books but a real novel that doesn't spoil Hellboy's magic. And it's illustrated by Mignola for good measure.  |
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Post by Phoenix on Oct 12, 2004 10:04:48 GMT -5
Hellboy: The Lost Army; a novel written by a horror author Christopher Golden. I didn't think it could be any good - but it is! Not just a lame cash-in on the comic books but a real novel that doesn't spoil Hellboy's magic. And it's illustrated by Mignola for good measure. That's pretty cool Bart! I will have to look for that, I had no idea there was even a Hellboy novel out! |
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 12, 2004 13:11:22 GMT -5
There are, in fact, two Hellboy books out: The Lost Army is from 1997, and the latest one - don't remember the title right now - from 2004. Both were written by Christopher Golden.
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