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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 18:27:10 GMT
I just finished off the Bill Hodges Trilogy, which was great for two books, then decent for the third. I'm cracking into Pet Sematary now. This is my first read, and I hear it is one of the better King books, some I'm excited to see what comes. I read that one last year, and I think that it made me less scared of death. Sometimes dead is better.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 18:30:50 GMT
'Salem's Lot. First 100 pages.
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 28, 2019 4:24:55 GMT
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
First discovered Williams reading some of her short stories for a class last year...immediately fell in love with her writing; some of the best short fiction I've ever read. This is the first novel of hers I'm reading. Very much in the vein of what I've already read...everyday black comedy, mostly about death and the environment, that about sums it up. While I do think her style is more suited for a shorter form, this still possesses so much of her wicked charm that it's hard not to love. In a way it sort of operates in a vignette structure more than as a complete narrative (at least, 2/3 of the way through it, ending may actualize that more), like a collection of connected short stories on its own. A bit disjointed, and the shifting perspective makes it inconsistent overall, but goddamn, it's hilarious. I'll certainly still maintain that Williams is one of the most under-appreciated writers alive today...can't wait to read even more from her.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 28, 2019 6:38:41 GMT
I just finished off the Bill Hodges Trilogy, which was great for two books, then decent for the third. I'm cracking into Pet Sematary now. This is my first read, and I hear it is one of the better King books, some I'm excited to see what comes. So far my King hot take is that his short fiction is better than his long-form material. Either way, if you enjoy Sematary I definitely recommend checking out Night Shift and Nightmares & Dreamscapes in the least. Those two collections were my introductions to King so many years ago, and I loved the hell out of them. So many nasty stories in there. I distinctly remember reading "The Ledge" on a long roadtrip and putting it down midpoint when we stopped for lunch Everything's Eventual is definitely worth checking out too, and his most recent collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, has some real gold in it. I also have fond memories of Full Dark, No Stars. but anyways, tell us what you think when you finish PS!
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Post by Pavan on Mar 28, 2019 7:50:30 GMT
Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 6, 2019 23:19:50 GMT
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Post by DeepArcher on Apr 8, 2019 4:36:47 GMT
Just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Really incredible character work here. Some of its stories/chapters are better than others, but the way all coalesce is incredibly gratifying. Often quite inventive, especially one very notable chapter towards the end that takes a pretty innovative approach and does so damn effectively. Very poignant take on self-destructiveness and the toll of the passing of time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2019 19:37:58 GMT
The Shining. 150+ pages in.
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Post by stephen on Apr 9, 2019 15:18:50 GMT
Lincoln in the Bardo, which might be the closest thing I've seen to someone evoking Terrence Malick's style in prose form. It's beautiful, ethereal.
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 9, 2019 18:13:10 GMT
Frankenstein
It's... really boring, actually.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2019 23:56:34 GMT
FrankensteinIt's... really boring, actually. Its been on my shelf for 3 years now, and this isn't promising lol
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 10, 2019 1:58:27 GMT
FrankensteinIt's... really boring, actually. Its been on my shelf for 3 years now, and this isn't promising lol Shelley's writing is first person from Frankie's point of view, and what a mopey, self-loathing asshole he is. It would be okay to follow such a loser if we weren't subject to his every thought, but having to spend page after page listening to him go "THE HORROR OF WHAT I'VE DONE IS UNSPEAKABLE" and then doing jackshit about it rubs me the wrong way. I've just now properly met the monster, and after around one page of him speaking, he seems to be just as much of a mopey bitch. Just go to therapy, gawd.
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Post by jimmalone on Apr 12, 2019 7:32:57 GMT
After a couple of bad books I found some good ones again as well: The Elephant's Journey (A Viagem do Elefante) by Jose Saramago Three Comrades (Drei Kameraden) by Erich Maria Remarque
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Post by evilbliss on Apr 12, 2019 13:35:37 GMT
After a couple of bad books I found some good ones again as well: The Elephant's Journey ( A Viagem do Elefante) by Jose Saramago Three Comrades ( Drei Kameraden) by Erich Maria Remarque José Saramago
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 2:51:58 GMT
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Short Stories
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Post by jimmalone on Apr 13, 2019 9:17:57 GMT
After a couple of bad books I found some good ones again as well: The Elephant's Journey ( A Viagem do Elefante) by Jose Saramago Three Comrades ( Drei Kameraden) by Erich Maria Remarque José Saramago Have now read eight of his novels and liked most of them a lot. His prose is wonderful, witty and amusing. Blindness is his masterpiece in my eyes, but I also highly recommend The Cave (A Caverna).
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 13, 2019 11:07:45 GMT
Blood Drops - WB Welch
A collection of short stories all horror - some very short. I've been revisiting some anthology TV shows like Night Visions and this is almost the written form of that show. Recommended if you think this is your kind of stuff and you can read this in like 2 days ............easily.
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 13, 2019 12:48:40 GMT
Just finished Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King.
Despite the bad reviews, I liked it. Could have had about 200-300 pages less and be much better but overall I enjoyed it.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 14, 2019 14:31:47 GMT
So I finished Pet Sematary and it most definitely is one of the best King novels. Like most of his books, the weakness is in the dialogue between characters. I'm somewhere in the region of 50% of the way through his books now, and the ongoing criticism I have when I read them, is that King seems to have a tin ear when it comes to how people talk to each other. Although that blazing row Louis and Rachel have early in the novel, was rather fantastic and makes a bit of a liar out of me.
I will be reading Pop. 1280 next, as my main man Lanthimos is adapting it, and I'm intrigued.
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 14, 2019 19:39:44 GMT
So I finished Pet Sematary and it most definitely is one of the best King novels. Like most of his books, the weakness is in the dialogue between characters. I'm somewhere in the region of 50% of the way through his books now, and the ongoing criticism I have when I read them, is that King seems to have a tin ear when it comes to how people talk to each other. Although that blazing row Louis and Rachel have early in the novel, was rather fantastic and makes a bit of a liar out of me. I will be reading Pop. 1280 next, as my main man Lanthimos is adapting it, and I'm intrigued. I've read about 90% of King's books and I agree with you. He seems to try to make his dialogues realistic but he kind of fails most of the time. And I also dislike his descriptions. Very detailed, almost too much and thus very boring. But I agree 100% that Sematary is one of his very best. Unlike the movies based on it.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Apr 17, 2019 12:35:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 0:10:53 GMT
The Great Gatsby.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 19, 2019 17:09:58 GMT
Its been on my shelf for 3 years now, and this isn't promising lol Shelley's writing is first person from Frankie's point of view, and what a mopey, self-loathing asshole he is. It would be okay to follow such a loser if we weren't subject to his every thought, but having to spend page after page listening to him go "THE HORROR OF WHAT I'VE DONE IS UNSPEAKABLE" and then doing jackshit about it rubs me the wrong way. I've just now properly met the monster, and after around one page of him speaking, he seems to be just as much of a mopey bitch. Just go to therapy, gawd. George Guidall's voice is the only thing that made this book bearable when I was in highschool. Before picking up the audiobook I had tried and failed more than once to get through it but Guidall made it tolerable.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2019 5:46:23 GMT
Horseman, Pass By.
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Post by jimmalone on Apr 27, 2019 13:33:39 GMT
The Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
Maybe not as brilliant as the two first books of this epic saga (could change though, still have a few hundred pages to read), but still a very strong sequel. Stormlight Archive could very well end among my top 5 fantasy sagas, though from Sanderson's plans it will be a long way till his magnum opus will be finished.
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