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danie

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I don't know exactly why, but Duma Key is one of my favorites!!!! I loved it!!!
Duma Key has everything a good novel should have... wonderful characters, a spooky mystery, thrills, chills, Plus (and I didn't know there was such a thing as southern gothic until this summer when I read Blackwater and The Elementals by Michael McDowell) it has a southern gothic atmosphere :)

One of my favorites of Mr. King's! It has everything that a reader would want: characters, spookiness, mystery, atmosphere and its by the water!! Maybe its time for a re-read for me.
Duma Key was the first book to make me literally gasp from surprise in many, many years, the first time I read it. It still tickles me to remember that! :)
The lawn jockey still creeps me out!
 

ghost19

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You've got to give it a go....fascinating series!!! I am sorry Mr. McDowell is no longer with us; His final, unfinished novel Candles Burning was completed by novelist Tabitha King and published in 2006.

Mr. King referred to Mr. McDowell as the finest writer of paperback originals.
Interesting. I'll go diving thru my boxes and boxes of books this weekend. I remember seeing it a few months ago while looking for something else but can't remember which box....thanks for the info.
 

do1you9love?

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Duma Key was the first book to make me literally gasp from surprise in many, many years, the first time I read it. It still tickles me to remember that! :)
Come on! Don't leave us hanging! What made you gasp??;;D

I finished Swan Song and then quickly read through Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (I say quickly, because it's a screenplay and moves pretty fast). Really enjoyed both of them. Now reading one my daughter picked up, If You Read This by Matthew Baker. It's from the POV of a young boy who is a math genius, probably autistic, who has a brother that's a tree and a grandfather he just met who has forgotten where he hid the "family heirlooms". I love it when she finds books that we both enjoy. Won't be much longer till we're sharing SK books!:love:
 

Haunted

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LOL! It was when
he comes downstairs and the Fog water zombie thingy was in the kitchen and it almost got him.
I was so into the story that I didn't see that coming at all. No idea why it caught me so much by surprise, but it did.
That was definitely a WOOO0HOOO moment!
 

ghost19

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Be worth the dig! Who knows what else you might find!
No doubt. I've got hundreds of books packed away in boxes from my move back in 2004 from my apartment into my house. Never have been able to get around to buying bookshelves so I've forgotten what I have. I know there are several SK books from the early 80's in there somewhere plus a whole bunch of books I picked up over the years. I think the last time I counted it was 14 or 15 reinforced packing boxes spread out over three closets...
 

Haunted

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No doubt. I've got hundreds of books packed away in boxes from my move back in 2004 from my apartment into my house. Never have been able to get around to buying bookshelves so I've forgotten what I have. I know there are several SK books from the early 80's in there somewhere plus a whole bunch of books I picked up over the years. I think the last time I counted it was 14 or 15 reinforced packing boxes spread out over three closets...


WOW
 

Tery

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quickly read through Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (I say quickly, because it's a screenplay and moves pretty fast).

Yes, it goes fast. I read it in a couple of hours. My husband read it when it arrived and was really anxious for me to read it so we could discuss it. Currently, I am reading the companion book to the BBC series Medieval Lives by Terry Jones and another Discworld book, Pyramids.
 

Kurben

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Reading Far from True by Linwood Barclay. The second, i have learned, in his Promise Falls-trilogy. Usually i really like Barclay but here too much is going on that, at least so far, seem unrelated. Hoping it will get better. I'm about 1/3 in. Also started Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong. She is a great religon history person. This is about violence related to religion and the, according to her, false belief that every major war has religious grounds. She has some very good arguments. She is always interesting and covers all religions, not just Christianity and Islam.
 
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...he was one of the writers I consumed(so to speak)during my sci-fi period a hunnert years ago....

I was a major sci-fi fan a hunnert years ago too lol... before wizards and unicorns somehow snuck into sci-fi. I downloaded a sci-fi novel, that Kindle suggested I might like, titled Fortune's Rising by Sara King. It sounds pretty good :)
 

MarkS73

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The lawn jockey still creeps me out!

I'm reading Duma Key right now. I first read in 2008, i had completely forgotten how good it is.
Actually, i don't remember much at all about the book, that's the only upside from having a mediocre ability to remember things, you can read books more than once and it's still relatively new:)
 

Kurben

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Finished Far From True. What can I say....... Its not bad but Barclay can much better. So yes it was a disappointment to me. The best of his stories have been focused stories about ordinary people and here he gets a bit unfocused with too many characters. Lets hope this was a temporär thing and that he soon is back in form.
 

doowopgirl

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Finished Far From True. What can I say....... Its not bad but Barclay can much better. So yes it was a disappointment to me. The best of his stories have been focused stories about ordinary people and here he gets a bit unfocused with too many characters. Lets hope this was a temporär thing and that he soon is back in form.
I read this and felt the same. Not bad, just not up to standard. I felt a bit let down that we have to wait yet again for an answer.
 
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