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mydrugbuddy
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some of it is, one of his books was atrocious "cell" everything about it was bad, it just screamed B movie right from the first word, and probably wouldnt even make that. He has done some good stuff though; the source material for The Shining, The Dead Zone, Misery and Carrie must have been excellent, though ive not read the books they were great films. Also as i allready mentioned Gerald's Game really is good.
Some of his books have a feel of "i must churn out 5,000 words today" which i believe he does something in that order, whether he's inspired or not. Theres bounds to be some duds, but i dont think you should dismiss him complteley.
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StoneHappyMonday
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That's a great line BHM. You should write. I hear there's loads of money in it.
Christmas reading.
Not sure I heard wether or not Shambles had recieved the copy I sent him a few months ago...
I'm reading Joyland by Stephen King, my favourite author, though not without his faults. Also almost finished Albion Dreaming by Andy Roberts, a history of LSD use in the UK.
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Been reading loads of stephen kings recently, particularly liked under the dome & needless things but they've all been fantastic so far, any recommendations Si?
Also read the girl with the dragon tattoo/millienuim triology, great books nice easy reads and real 'page-turners'
Also read the girl with the dragon tattoo/millienuim triology, great books nice easy reads and real 'page-turners'
Hi guys! 
I've copied and pasted this link from my phone, it's the first time I've copied & pasted on my phone, so I hope it works.
It's is a link to a quite spooky & very eerie story. I read this a few months ago and it has really stuck in my mind. I read a lot of horror, but this one really stood out from the rest for me. It will take you less then ten minutes to read it and in my opinion it's well worth reading. Enjoy..... Muahahaha!
http://banoosh.com/blog/2013/12/22/the-russian-sleep-experiment-during-world-war-ii/
I've copied and pasted this link from my phone, it's the first time I've copied & pasted on my phone, so I hope it works. It's is a link to a quite spooky & very eerie story. I read this a few months ago and it has really stuck in my mind. I read a lot of horror, but this one really stood out from the rest for me. It will take you less then ten minutes to read it and in my opinion it's well worth reading. Enjoy..... Muahahaha!
http://banoosh.com/blog/2013/12/22/the-russian-sleep-experiment-during-world-war-ii/
knock
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Hi ructions! yes it works.
Seen it before though! In this thread! :D A previous version of this thread.
Aw... Thanks a million for checking Knock! You should read it, if you haven't read it before.
I can't open your spoiler, it doesn't seem to work/open on my phone for some reason. I have a new phone, so it taking me a while to figure out how to use it properly. My previous phone was Jurassic and quite straight forward to use, but I have to admit it's great having decent internet access on my phone.
Enjoy the eerie story, please don't have nightmares.....
I can't open your spoiler, it doesn't seem to work/open on my phone for some reason. I have a new phone, so it taking me a while to figure out how to use it properly. My previous phone was Jurassic and quite straight forward to use, but I have to admit it's great having decent internet access on my phone.
Enjoy the eerie story, please don't have nightmares.....
Sounds good!
It would be alot easier to make a list of King books I wouldn't recomend! Lol From A Buick 8, Cell, Duma Key & The Eyes of the Dragon. I've read everything he's written apart from Joyland (50 pages in), Doctor Sleep (it's right here next to me) & his non-fiction works like On Writing, Danse Macabre & Stephen King goes to the Movies... In fact, add Cycle of the Werewolf & Blockade Billy to those & that's everything I havent read yet. So he's written about 60 books & I've not read 5 or 6 of them.
I like real epics coz I read very quickly, so I'd recomend The Dark Tower series. There were 7 of them & I read the first one when it came out in 1988 & last one when it came out in 2008 (I think), but King wrote another one to slip into the middle, so that's 8 books now. It's an epic story of an old gunslinger as he navigates a strange world parallel to our own populated with demons, wizards, magic & dragons. It's a Lord of the Rings style fantasy, but typical King, very immersive & a very, very long read.
The Talisman is similar, fantasy written with Peter Straub, also very immersive & quite long, but just the one book this time.
The Stand another truly epic book about a virus that wipes out 99% of humankind & those left have to battle for the future against an evil force.
11/22/63 is about a guy who finds a way to return to the 60's & decides to try to prevent the JFK assasination. I was surprised by how the tension built up in this book, I found it gripping & I could hardly put it down!
Insomnia about this old man who can't sleep, & as he becomes more & more exhausted he starts seeing stuff that doesn't entirely make sense.
IT something wakes up underneath the town of Derry, & it's got a clowns face, just to help you relax.
He writes excellent mysterys & ghosts stories, it's not all horror & fantasy. I'd recomend Bag of Bones & Liseys Story too.
A Merry Christmas to every "Constant Reader"
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knock
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pretty out there so far, but i havent read much of it yet, and always end up loving stuff i read by castaneda
They're enthralling books. Literally. And there's nine of them. A veritable headful of nonsense! There are better things to fill your head with. If you must read them, treat them as fiction, which they are.
Sounds good!
It would be alot easier to make a list of King books I wouldn't recomend! Lol From A Buick 8, Cell, Duma Key & The Eyes of the Dragon. I've read everything he's written apart from Joyland (50 pages in), Doctor Sleep (it's right here next to me) & his non-fiction works like On Writing, Danse Macabre & Stephen King goes to the Movies... In fact, add Cycle of the Werewolf & Blockade Billy to those & that's everything I havent read yet. So he's written about 60 books & I've not read 5 or 6 of them.
I like real epics coz I read very quickly, so I'd recomend The Dark Tower series. There were 7 of them & I read the first one when it came out in 1988 & last one when it came out in 2008 (I think), but King wrote another one to slip into the middle, so that's 8 books now. It's an epic story of an old gunslinger as he navigates a strange world parallel to our own populated with demons, wizards, magic & dragons. It's a Lord of the Rings style fantasy, but typical King, very immersive & a very, very long read.
The Talisman is similar, fantasy written with Peter Straub, also very immersive & quite long, but just the one book this time.
The Stand another truly epic book about a virus that wipes out 99% of humankind & those left have to battle for the future against an evil force.
11/22/63 is about a guy who finds a way to return to the 60's & decides to try to prevent the JFK assasination. I was surprised by how the tension built up in this book, I found it gripping & I could hardly put it down!
Insomnia about this old man who can't sleep, & as he becomes more & more exhausted he starts seeing stuff that doesn't entirely make sense.
IT something wakes up underneath the town of Derry, & it's got a clowns face, just to help you relax.
He writes excellent mysterys & ghosts stories, it's not all horror & fantasy. I'd recomend Bag of Bones & Liseys Story too.
A Merry Christmas to every "Constant Reader"
Have you read any book by Clive Barker? If you like the fantasy / horror genre then I can highly recommend checking his books out. If you have never read his stuff then his early books - Weaveworld, Abarat, The great and secret show, Mister B Gone, Cabal (the film Nightbreed was based on this) etc are fantastic. Same with the Early James Herbert stuff - read most of them but cannot get into 'Ash' from last year - picked it up read a few pages and put it down, read four other books in between the few chapters of 'Ash'.
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a separate reality had an absurd number of connections for me to taoist/buddhist/hindu thought, in a veiled and vague way, and imo there was a lot of profound knowledge which is in that book, albeit in a slightly detached mystic sense which i could understand why it would put you off
do you have an active interest in eastern philosophy?
diff strokes for diff folks
knock
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I was not "put off".
I devoured the books and tried to put them into practice.
It was such a waste of time, although, nothing is a waste of time because I suppose I did learn things from it.
But the only practically useful thing I learned, in the end, was that in order to relax, focus your attention on your solar plexus, doing so releases waves of relaxation throughout the body.
There you go, I digested the books for you and shat out the rubbish, this was the bit that was worth keeping :D
No I have no active interest in Eastern philosophy but I did have many years ago. I'm not interested in voodoo and magic any more
I'm interested in improving things for us people in the real world.
In fact yeah, The Magic Cottage by Herbert, I seem to recall being excellent, because I still have the paperback. I tried Barkers material, struggled a bit or found it simply incomprehensible, but this was some time ago, a decade or two, so I might have a rethink...
StoneHappyMonday
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Christmas reading.
Ok, Xmas is mental here, lovely meal last night but coping with 17 people at once means I've escaped to my room more than once for a quick read of Mike Power.
Two things. First, considering the hard time he was given here by many, including myself, BLUELIGHT comes out with flying colours. He has been more than fair to this website and recognises, more than once, the brilliant, nay, life-saving job that it does.
Second point is not so hot. Whatever happened to editors and proof readers? The following is from one single paragraph in the prologue, ie on about the third page.
Same paragraph, five lines apart.
I'd be embarrassed and very pissed off if that was my book.
Happy Christmas, back to the madness that is breakfast for 17....
Well worth it (was funny last night just after I posted I was channel hopping and Nightbreed was on TV (Cabal)
- on the Fantasy (not horror) genre then - Twelve /Passage (Justin Cronin) are brilliant as is the Trilogy of Dust by Hugh Howley which I think are the best few books I have read in a long time.