I am reading The Light We Cannot See as well...and really enjoying it.
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I was a Sega kid and grew into a N64 fan. This should be a good read.
I'm reading a book entitled simply "Zombies" which is a collection of short stories compiled John Skipp and though it has many I've already read the one it leads off with is "Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyev. Holycrappinchristmas it is bleak. The only story on par is 1984. Has anyone else read this? It affects you. It plays on the sense of ultimate entropy which is the antithesis of life. It's awful and amazing. I like it so much for something I hate. Well done. I prefer to fight against this feeling but woah did he capture it.
Started reading John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In. Reading it in English. Seems like a good book... The movie is great, I guess the book should be not worse.
Sounds like a winner...this the Lazarus story then? : Lazarus by Leonid N. Andreyev
Dead Like Me by Adam-Troy Castro : The Living Dead
another, dead like me, by castro?
I had read some of the authors short fiction and a memoir and was blown away by his writing and his well drawn characters. I'm hoping to finish it this weekend.
There are actually two film adaptations. I've seen the one with Chloe Grace Moretz and it takes the core of the novel and really succeeds in portraying the poignancy of the relationship of the two main characters.
I'm almost done with Natchez Burning and I'm back into the habit of head shaking at the implausibility of the plot, but I try to calm my literary snobbery and remind myself it is a thriller and I make a relax.
I'm not familiar with the book, but it seems to me that a story should be at least plausible under its own predetermined rules. I couldn't get through "The Da Vinci Code" because I was laughing too much at the ludicrous dialogue. Preposterous nonsense, unintentionally hilarious.
I'm looking forward to reading Ruth's Journey: The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Gone with the Wind.
By Donald McCaig
By Donald McCaig
I read 'Rhett Butler's People' and 'Scarlett'. 'Scarlett' was a waste of time (for me) as she didn't learn anything from her previous trials and tribulations. RBP was s-l-o-w and boring. Hopefully Mammy's tale will be better.
I'm reading a book by Richard Matheson called 'Earthbound.' Unfortunately, after reading 'Hell House' I can honestly say this one is disappointing me.
Hell House had me excited in a chilled and thrilled kind of way through almost every page, so I was expecting to be extra super scared or creeped out with this one; although the creepiness is actually there.
Hell House had me excited in a chilled and thrilled kind of way through almost every page, so I was expecting to be extra super scared or creeped out with this one; although the creepiness is actually there.
Join us for SKMB Open Reading and Discussion Group beginning in a couple minutes in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes Thread. We will be discussing "You Know They Got a Hell Of A Band".
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I'm pretty sure I read this one. It's about a rug right? It's a little out of my fantasy range ordinarily but the plot moved along at such a pace it captured me. In a way it reminded me of Gaimans 'American Gods'.
Was 'Earthbound' written in the latter part of his life? He really fell off toward the end. I remember his contribution to Night Gallery being so sad knowing he had written 'I am Legend'. I forgave him of course because he gave us greatness but that only makes the sad more so.
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I have a feeling I'm going to love this! I'll keep you posted baby-daddy.
MM, Please join us next week. We will be discussing 'Home Delivery'. In the Nightmares and Dreamscapes thread with 10.24.14 date.
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