raina
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Post by raina on Feb 21, 2009 23:59:38 GMT -5
Drood by Dan Simmons and All Fall Down by Erica Spindler.
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Post by Bartwald on Jun 22, 2009 11:44:12 GMT -5
Michael Laimo's "Dead Souls" - great if you like meaty and suspenseful horror stories!
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Post by Bartwald on Aug 22, 2009 12:34:28 GMT -5
Now I'm reading Jack Ketchum's novella "Right to Life" - very tense so far, just like his best stuff.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Sept 3, 2009 19:12:07 GMT -5
I just started on the last book in King's Dark Tower series...not very far into it yet but so far so good!  |
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 6, 2010 7:37:33 GMT -5
LDG - please tell us how you liked this last installment, will you? Myself I was rather disappointed with it, even though I loved some of the previous books in the series.
I'm currently reading Joe Hill's Horns - it's funny rather than scary, but I can't say I'm not enjoying it.
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Post by HerBlackWings on Oct 13, 2010 22:47:15 GMT -5
I just finished a book called "Sundays With Vlad". It's about the history of Dracula and vampire culture. Written hilariously, very sarcastic, but is actually full of really cool information!
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 15, 2010 13:36:54 GMT -5
Sounds interesting and since I'm now into vampire books I may want to get it.
Reading now: Harlan Coben's Play Dead. Let's see if my head doesn't fall off after all Coben's typical twists and turns...
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Post by spacer on Oct 15, 2010 19:14:27 GMT -5
I've read for the second time "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Great sci-fi masterpiece. Written in early seventies but is still fresh and I gulped it quickly. War's main theme but surprisingly during my second reading I realised that it has only few battles described while reading for first time I felt it was full of them. Future fantastically and vividly depicted, no anticlimactic old-fashioned elements.
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Post by HerBlackWings on Oct 15, 2010 21:12:05 GMT -5
It's pretty good, Bart. A lot of it has to do with the history and politics of Romania and Hungary, but written well enough not to be boring as hell. haha
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Post by spacer on Oct 16, 2010 15:11:09 GMT -5
Now I'm reading another classic - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I've seen the movie several times and when I visited library last time my eyes found it in a new hardcover I couldn't resist taking it. Anyway my first thought was, how on earth it happened that I haven't read anything written by this cult author. I'm still at a loss - but this time it will be remedied. Next thing - The Martian Chronicles naturally.
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Post by Bartwald on Oct 16, 2010 15:16:56 GMT -5
Something Wicked This Way Comes would be my recommendation, spacer - a very short, yet quite magical novel. Gotta love Bradbury for this, Fahrenheit and The Martian Chronicles at least.
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Post by spacer on Oct 16, 2010 15:35:17 GMT -5
Something Wicked This Way Comes would be my recommendation, spacer - a very short, yet quite magical novel. Gotta love Bradbury for this, Fahrenheit and The Martian Chronicles at least. I'll take your advice and get the novel. Thank you for info. Changing subject and setting off on a different tack: Do you have any book by Chuck Palahniuk? |
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Post by Fenril on Oct 16, 2010 22:17:08 GMT -5
In celebration of October some of my friends and I have been doing a "short story club" of shorts, read one spooky short story a day (sometimes short-shorts) and discuss it the next day over lunch. We haven't been able to do this every single day due to real life incidents getting in the way, but almost.
So far we have read the following (note: some of these stories are written in spanish; I don't know if they have been translated to english, but am providing a literal translation of the title just in case):
- The statement of Randolph Carter. H. P. Lovecraft.
- Cool air. H. P. Lovecraft.
- Adivinanzas (Riddles). Poli Délano.
- Miriam. Truman Capote.
- El ramo azul (The blue bouquet). Octavio Paz.
- Thanatopia. Ruben Dario.
- Loba menguante (Withering she-wolf). Pilar Pedraza.
- Cain rose up. Stephen King.
- A scary night. Anton Checkhov.
- Spooked. Richard Laymon.
- Something about a death, something about a fire. Peter Straub.
- Adonis. Catherine Lim.
- Angels in love. Kathe Koja.
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Post by spacer on Oct 17, 2010 16:15:17 GMT -5
In celebration of October some of my friends and I have been doing a "short story club" of shorts, read one spooky short story a day (sometimes short-shorts) and discuss it the next day over lunch. It reminds me famous horror story contest between Byron, Polidori and the Shelleys which Mary S. won and the great masterpiece Frankenstein was spawned. Maybe you come up with some bloodcurdling idea  |
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Post by Fenril on Oct 18, 2010 19:34:29 GMT -5
It reminds me famous horror story contest between Byron, Polidori and the Shelleys which Mary S. won and the great masterpiece Frankenstein was spawned. Maybe you come up with some bloodcurdling idea In fact we were planning to do a round robin for the last week (that exercise where one person writes a paragraph, another continues it, and so on), we would just have to agree on the general theme. And minus the use of opium... So, yeah, maybe. I'll let you know if anything comes out of that, through I dobut I can produce a Frankenstein or a The vampire |
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