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    Ken Bruen

    During the summer months, lacking benzodiazepines, I plowed through a ton of different books from just as many authors. Some were decent reads that helped ease the surrounding crock of boiling feces known as ”life”. Some just fuelled my rage. Then I discovered Ken Bruen and my life changed. Um...
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    It's So Easy: and other lies - Duff McKagan

    Let's get it clear first that I am not, and have never been, a big fan of Guns n' Roses. There is no denying that Appetite for Destruction is a hell of an album, and I sure listened a lot to it back in the days. But apart from that I never really cared what they were up to, the following albums...
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    The perfect number

    It's flattering with all the likes. Thank you very much, but I'd be glad if I could stay with this number:
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    Andre Dubus III - Townie

    Perhaps, if it weren’t already taken, a more suitable title for Dubus’ autobiography would have been ”A History of Violence”. The author and protagonist starts to fight as a boy, partly out of a necessity to defend himself and, as the oldest male in a single mother household, his family -...
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    Marcus Sakey - A Better World

    As I have mentioned elsewhere on this fine community, Marcus Sakey is one of my absolute favourite ”new” authors. A Better World is the second book in the Brilliance trilogy. A sci-fi series about people with a genetic mutation that makes them something of savants in different ways. That is the...
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    Your five favourite authors

    This has probably, in one way or another, been asked before, but I am curious about who your other favourite authors are. Pick your five favourites, excluding Stephen King, and post them here if you like. I'll start: Franz Kafka John Steinbeck Ian Rankin E. M. Remarque George Pelecanos
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    Sarah Lotz - The Three

    Let's get this settled first: I don't like metafiction, and that is a problem since The Three is just that; a work of fiction that contains a work of fiction. Still, I am impressed, because it is a very well crafted book. You can tell that Lotz has done her research and covered a lot of angles...
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    Dorothy Allison - Bastard Out of Carolina

    At least in my corner of the world, there used to be a trend with publishing houses to promote what I call ”trauma pornography”. They were basically competing with each other in trying to publish the most gut wrenching autobiograpy ever written. All of that left a bad taste in my mouth, and I...
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    Edits

    This question might have been asked before, but I couldn't find it. How come there is a time limit on editing posts? I just hate it when I find out I've made a spelling error, and it bugs me that it will be there, for all eternity!
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    Kelly Braffet - Save Yourself

    Two things are certain: Kelly Braffet has extensive knowledge of the history of Heavy Metal, she is also a really talented writer. Save Yourself is a good book that I enjoyed. Nothing more and nothing less. There are a couple of things that prevent me from calling this a ”great” book. First of...
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    Oculus

    Finally I had some ”me time”, and watched Oculus. It turned out, sadly, to be just one more film to add to the long list of pretty predictable and not really scary so-and-so horror movies I have seen. It is a long list by the way. Sometimes, the movie feels like The Shining (Kubrick's version)...
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    The Wire

    This is the series that made me interested in television as a medium again. Before The Wire I, incorrectly, assumed that if it was on TV - it had to suck. Don't get me wrong, I still believe that assumption to be true in at least 80% of the case, but it is - as I have learned - a major error to...
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    Alex Marwood - The Wicked Girls

    Not that I pay that much attention to awards and the like, but I understand why this book won this year's Edward for ”Best Paperback Original”. Marwood can, without a doubt, write a gripping tale. This is a book about two women, Jade and Annabel, who were once kids at opposite ends of the...
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    Mark Yarm - Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

    It was this thread that lead me to this book. First of all, the fact that an author called Mark Yarm wrote this book is absolutely hysterical. If you don't know why, then you know absolutely nothing about the so-called grunge scene. This is not the best music biography (if you can call it that...
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    Alex Marwood - The Killer Next Door

    There are few things I find as boring as serial killers. Judging by how popular they are in fiction, one could almost assume you would find one in every apartment complex. That said, The Killer Next Door is indeed about a pretty disturbed serial killer, but I enjoyed the book immensely. This is...
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    Hidden gem

    For some reason this one seems to fly under the radar when discussing ”best Stephen King movies”. I don't see why though. Ian McKellen is great, as is the Ethan Hawke look-alike Brad Renfro* (who plays Todd). Last but not least, it is directed by Bryan Singer, who - according to Wikipedia -...
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    This is it

    As I mentioned elsewhere, I didn't really know which SK book was my favourite. But now I do, it has to be Full Dark, No Stars. There is no point in me reviewing the book. You have all probably read it, and your opinions are as valid as are mine. The difference between this book and the other...
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    Repost of my first post...

    Hello! I don't log in a lot. But now it seems all my former posts are gone. That can happen of course, the forum does look a lot different (in a better sense) than it used to, and I guess a lot of old posts didn't make it through the design shift. Anyway, below is a rerun, if you will, of my...