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booklover72

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i am reading the dark half and bob. haven't read TDH is about 15 years. did someone say they were reading rage, i read it in c87-88 when i was a nipper, but lost my copy and i can't seem to get a copy of the book ith rage in it. I think because of the violence the story was like edited and cut out. does anyone know where i can get the complete 4 stories including rage.

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i am reading the dark half and bob. haven't read TDH is about 15 years. did someone say they were reading rage, i read it in c87-88 when i was a nipper, but lost my copy and i can't seem to get a copy of the book ith rage in it. I think because of the violence the story was like edited and cut out. does anyone know where i can get the complete 4 stories including rage.

thanks


it is the tale not he who tells it
To get a copy with Rage in it. You have to get a used copy.
 

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I started Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice today. :'D This book is going to make me die of joy.

Have to say it almost finished me off out of boredom (started out OK, but then kind of lost me). I enjoyed The Vampire Lestat a lot more, so reading 'Interview...' wasn't really much of a loss in the end. With that said, I might not have read TVL if I hadn't been given the the 'trilogy' set (including Queen of the Damned) as a gift - the giver seeing the books were about vampires and assuming they were horror.
 

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i am reading the dark half and bob. haven't read TDH is about 15 years. did someone say they were reading rage, i read it in c87-88 when i was a nipper, but lost my copy and i can't seem to get a copy of the book ith rage in it. I think because of the violence the story was like edited and cut out. does anyone know where i can get the complete 4 stories including rage.

thanks


it is the tale not he who tells it
Like kff said, sk requested that rage no longer be printed, any copy now will have to be second hand. You will get one from play.com

Play.com - Buy The Bachman Books - Richard Bachman online at Play.com and read reviews. Free delivery to UK and Europe!

I got mine from there, for under £3. Just make sure you get the one pictured. Of course there's also eBay, but I've got most of my books from play.
 

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New Moon On The Water by Mort Castle - finished. Great collection of short stories. Castle is a jazzy huckster, buckster, flamboyant writer who is not afraid of breaking the fourth wall. An excellent showcase of his writing skill with an eclectic collection where no two stories are remotely similar.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon - reread finished. Been over twenty years since my initial read. The book is corny as hell, reads like a very early work, and a straight out hommage to King's - The Stand.

But dammit! I love the characters and their fates still managed to get me choked up from time to time with either joy or sadness. Even if the delivery of those moments was often clunky, McCammon has the elusive gift of making me care about his characters. And in the end, that is the most important thing.

These Are The Voyages - Season One by Mark Cushman - ongoing. An in depth, episode by episode recounting of the creation of Star Trek including the two pilots. Most detailed look at the series since Stephen Whitfield's - The Making of Star Trek. Two more books to come - one for each season.

Turn Down The Lights from Cemetery Dance - 25th Anniversary Anthology - reading.

Table of Contents:
"Turn Down the Lights..." an introduction by Richard Chizmar
"Summer Thunder" by Stephen King - has been read. This is an odd one. It's King. It's well written with characters that feel alive. But it's a story that also feels 20 - 30 years too late. It's also a major downer and not something I'll come back to.
"Incarnadine" by Norman Partridge
"The Western Dead" by Jack Ketchum
"An Instant Eternity" by Brian James Freeman
"In the Room" by Bentley Little
"Flying Solo" by Ed Gorman
"The Outhouse" by Ronald Kelly
"Lookie Loo" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"Dollie" by Clive Barker
"The Collected Short Stories of Freddie Prothero" by Peter Straub
Afterword by Thomas F. Monteleone
 
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booklover72

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Reading Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein. Almost finished with it, really like it so far, but now the main character is in Officer Training, and I think the Heinlein ideaology is really going to start spewing from the mouth of the professor. Ohwell...
Try "a Stranger in a strange land" or "i will fear no evil" by Robert Heinlein
 

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New Moon On The Water by Mort Castle - finished. Great collection of short stories. Castle is a jazzy huckster, buckster, flamboyant writer who is not afraid of breaking the fourth wall. An excellent showcase of his writing skill with an eclectic collection where no two stories are remotely similar.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon - reread finished. Been over twenty years since my initial read. The book is corny as hell, reads like a very early work, and a straight out hommage to King's - The Stand.

But dammit! I love the characters and their fates still managed to get me choked up from time to time with either joy or sadness. Even if the delivery of those moments was often clunky, McCammon has the elusive gift of making me care about his characters. And in the end, that is the most important thing.

These Are The Voyages - Season One by Mark Cushman - ongoing. An in depth, episode by episode recounting of the creation of Star Trek including the two pilots. Most detailed look at the series since Stephen Whitfield's - The Making of Star Trek. Two more books to come - one for each season.

Turn Down The Lights from Cemetery Dance - 25th Anniversary Anthology - reading.

Table of Contents:
"Turn Down the Lights..." an introduction by Richard Chizmar
"Summer Thunder" by Stephen King - has been read. This is an odd one. It's King. It's well written with characters that feel alive. But it's a story that also feels 20 - 30 years too late. It's also a major downer and not something I'll come back to.
"Incarnadine" by Norman Partridge
"The Western Dead" by Jack Ketchum
"An Instant Eternity" by Brian James Freeman
"In the Room" by Bentley Little
"Flying Solo" by Ed Gorman
"The Outhouse" by Ronald Kelly
"Lookie Loo" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"Dollie" by Clive Barker
"The Collected Short Stories of Freddie Prothero" by Peter Straub
Afterword by Thomas F. Monteleone
I am still waiting for my limited edition copy to come from the publisher. Guess I should've ordered the trade edition as well so that I wouldn't have to be the last one to read King's story......
 
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danie

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I'm still stuck in The Dress Lodger, which is quite tedious, but I guess an okay story. I just never "leave" the story and get caught up in it to where I don't realize I'm reading. Does that make sense?
Anyway, as a side book, I downloaded Sh*t My Dad Says, a memoir from his son. It's really funny, has it's LOL moments. I keep picturing Tony Soprano as the dad...
 
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