Just started Mr Mercedes, and BAM, page three, arc sodiums. What's with the arc sodiums already?
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And his recent fascination with carnys? I mean, Joyland, then Revival, and now I understand Christine Lives will also deal with carny life. Is it a Florida thing?
You know that Christine Lives was an April Fool's joke, right?
Christine Lives? Did I miss something about a sequel? Nevermind, just saw Danie's post above.
Don't forget to look for the word "trundled" and the phrase "that was!"
No. No, I sure didn't. But then, I had noticed a total lack of fanfare for it.
Probably just as well. Who needs another book about a sixty-something ex-alcoholic carny who gets up to urinate in the middle of the night and notices a woodchuck outside his bathroom window, trundling beneath the arc sodium lights until being run over by a car that never existed?
Damn it...I do.
Yes it is my real name. If you liked Barclay you might like Harlan Coben. Really liked Tell No One, Hold Tight, Play Dead and Just One Look. He has similarities to Barclay. Has also written a series of books featuring the sport agent Myron Bolivar but i don't think they are as good as his stand alone novels. The ones i mentioned are stand alone novels.
Hi!
I found this list. Some of these books sound interesting.
16 Of The Most Exciting Books Of 2015 From Independent Publishers
danie Hi! Hope you are doing well. Enjoy your snow day/weekend!
I found this list. Some of these books sound interesting.
16 Of The Most Exciting Books Of 2015 From Independent Publishers
danie Hi! Hope you are doing well. Enjoy your snow day/weekend!
I read Stephen's short story A Death earlier and man, what a cool tale! Only problem was it just wasn't enough. It gave me something to think about.
Finished the 3rd of The Border Trilogy...good stories...I'd read them on the kindle or other e-reader that can translate Spanish for ya...lots of Mexican Spanish. Started The Moon Is Down, #10 from Steinbeck for me...I think I've read 10 from McCarthy, too. The Moon is Down (title from Macbeth) is a "propaganda" story, well-received in occupied Europe during the world war two, people translated it, printed it, at times right under the Gestapos' cocaine-addicted nose...distributed it...at least once badgering some Germans into helping load boxes of the small book into waiting vehicles. But the story received harsh criticism from those not occupied and boy, why does that sound familiar? Some thought it portrayed the Germans as too human.
I agree, MM. I found that pretty entrancing; I love a story where the author doesn't spoon feed the reader everything and you have to really think about it afterward.
I remember thinking that he (the sheriff) bought that tale rather easily about what where the silverdollar was found. It made me wonder....I agree, MM. I found that pretty entrancing; I love a story where the author doesn't spoon feed the reader everything and you have to really think about it afterward.
So I've decided that, after having recently tackled the magnificent tome that is The Count of Monte Cristo (a fantastic door-stopper that took me literally months to read), I would throw myself into the fire yet again with Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
I am a masochist. Help me.
I am a masochist. Help me.
In that case try Crime and Punishment by Fjodor Dostojevskij or Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Great books but demand a little effort.
Crime and Punishment is on my TBR list. Wuthering Heights is a title I'm familiar with, but I have no idea where I've heard it from. I'll certainly look into it.
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Don't fool around. If it shouldn't be a little unfriendly to do so i would put a leash on you so i could have a friend nearby. You are a caring gem of a person!!
that is so cute! 
and thanks to you too FlakeNoir
Things are a bit better now but thanks for the support
Still reading Misery, by the way (just to stay on topic)
Jacob! Good to see you, you've been a bit quiet lately--must have been that huge book.
and thanks to you too FlakeNoir
Things are a bit better now but thanks for the support
Still reading Misery, by the way (just to stay on topic)
I'm glad to hear things are improving, Neese.
Jacob! Good to see you, you've been a bit quiet lately--must have been that huge book.
Well, my list of books I've read this year isn't very impressive. But before the year is over I'll have some serious bragging rights about the three or four books I did manage to read.
I am reading Death on a Friday Afternoon by Richard Neuhaus, meditations on the last words of Jesus from the Cross, and My Sister's Grave , a homicide detective's sister's body is found twenty years later, this is by Robert Dugoni.
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