Koontz: luminescent, bright, glowing, radiant, shining, glaring (yeah, yeah, we get it...it's a light bulb.
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Koontz: luminescent, bright, glowing, radiant, shining, effervescent, (yeah, yeah, we get it...it's a light bulb.
....for god's sake, he used the word brobdingnagian to describe a swimming pool!.....
I liked this book. I especially liked out the chapters were laid out like a catalogue and those selections kept getting darker and darkerBut this is what my front cover looks like:
I have put House of Leaves on (indefinite) hold.
Too much like hard work for me, I will persevere with 99% of the books I read, but the dripfeed of good bits was outweighed by too much bloat/boring filler for my liking. I picked up Gaiman's "Ocean at the End of the Lane" which was fantastic, great little fantasy story!
Too much like hard work for me, I will persevere with 99% of the books I read, but the dripfeed of good bits was outweighed by too much bloat/boring filler for my liking. I picked up Gaiman's "Ocean at the End of the Lane" which was fantastic, great little fantasy story!
Koontz: luminescent, bright, glowing, radiant, shining, glaring (yeah, yeah, we get it...it's a light bulb.
LOL. That's Koontz alright...I'll see your Dean Koontz and raise you an Anne Rice.
Marvelous, metamorphic, feline, velvet-clad, sarcophagal....Is she describing the discovery of King Tut's tomb?....Nope, just an overcoat worn by a vampire......I was going to read further but I'd somehow managed to jam a straight, wooden, linear, sharpened pencil thru each eyeball...
Hahaha, exactly.LOL. That's Koontz alright...I'll see your Dean Koontz and raise you an Anne Rice.
Marvelous, metamorphic, feline, velvet-clad, sarcophagal....Is she describing the discovery of King Tut's tomb?....Nope, just an overcoat worn by a vampire......I was going to read further but I'd somehow managed to jam a straight, wooden, linear, sharpened pencil thru each eyeball...
This was my first SK book too. Outstanding! I was hooked from then on. Strange how certain books stay with you
throughout your life isn't it. I know you will like it.
Yes, it is cool that way. Have about forty pages to go but had to switch over to the Connolly book for its next hundred page read.
Have read about 21+ from C.J. Box. Highly recommended, great story-teller.
Read Inherit the Dead. First one like that, a story where 20 writers, C.J. Box among them, collaborated on a whodunnit, where'd-she-go? I've read a few stories where two collaborated, but none where more than two did so and in this case, 20 writers each wrote a chapter. Good story, too. A few wonky lines in one chapter. Don't recall which writer wrote those lines. Maybe Marcia Clark. Of OJ-Simpson fame? Yeah, she's writing now, or has been. Haven't read anything else from her. And I read some "non-fiction'...The Greatest Spy Story Ever Told...or something like that. Some Russian guy decides to tell all to the French, 'cause for one, he was stationed there and two, the French had no active spy-works back in the U.S.S.R. Interested read...more so for what isn't told...all those stories about those this Russian guy gave away. All those secrets. (uh-oh, need to stop and eat ice cream)
Read Inherit the Dead. First one like that, a story where 20 writers, C.J. Box among them, collaborated on a whodunnit, where'd-she-go? I've read a few stories where two collaborated, but none where more than two did so and in this case, 20 writers each wrote a chapter. Good story, too. A few wonky lines in one chapter. Don't recall which writer wrote those lines. Maybe Marcia Clark. Of OJ-Simpson fame? Yeah, she's writing now, or has been. Haven't read anything else from her. And I read some "non-fiction'...The Greatest Spy Story Ever Told...or something like that. Some Russian guy decides to tell all to the French, 'cause for one, he was stationed there and two, the French had no active spy-works back in the U.S.S.R. Interested read...more so for what isn't told...all those stories about those this Russian guy gave away. All those secrets. (uh-oh, need to stop and eat ice cream)
Slade House. SK recommended it on Twitter the other day. It's really good.
I liked Slade House. Not a rip roarin' read, but entertaining.
You all seem to be reading like furies.. ... I just finished the Floating Admiral by the detection club. About 12 wellknown english writers that write a chapter eachbut it is one story. Written in 1931. The authors include Agatha Christie Dorothy Sayers and G.K. Chesterton. Each author also had to include their preferred solution to the mystery and they were added in an appendix which was fun to read. So many view in how the story ought to end and how the clubs ought to be interpreted. They sure had fun with this one.
Hey, thanks, Kurben! I ordered a used copy of The Floating Admiral. My post at #9450, said I'd read Inherit the Dead, a collaboration of twenty story-tellers and a pretty good read, written more recently. And I think the proceeds go to help victims of violence. Do they do more than this one? Looked like there might be more than a few by The Detection Club. I wonder how many other possibilities are out there, waiting? Thanks again!
LOL. That's Koontz alright...I'll see your Dean Koontz and raise you an Anne Rice.
Marvelous, metamorphic, feline, velvet-clad, sarcophagal....Is she describing the discovery of King Tut's tomb?....Nope, just an overcoat worn by a vampire......I was going to read further but I'd somehow managed to jam a straight, wooden, linear, sharpened pencil thru each eyeball...
Through each beautiful eyeball, I might add.
I started reading 'On Writing' again yesterday. It's been a long time since I had read it.
~What a wonderful book ~
~What a wonderful book ~
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I read this months ago and when I came to exchange it, the librarian took it from my hands and noted my return in the system and checked it out herself. WOW!
You dang right. I gave a copy to my sister, and since she has epublished her own novel, bless her heart. Her name is Gina Jones, and her book is called Faces, check it out. Yay for Gina (blehhhch).
Congrats to your sis!
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