knock
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I really need to work on my prose style because you didn't offend me and I didn't think you were trying to attack me. What is it about what I wrote that suggested otherwise?
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I really need to work on my prose style because you didn't offend me and I didn't think you were trying to attack me. What is it about what I wrote that suggested otherwise?
You having a go at me ? WTF have I done now ? Sheesh ...
Mysterie
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the put off in hyphenation or whatever suggests you are using your index and middle fingers to do the thing which is quite patronising in real life whilst quoting som1, the full stop helps to suggest that imo
i took this as you trying to insinuate that i am stuck in an interest in voodoo or magic, which does not benefit other people, which thus makes me a selfish person
in retrospect reading ur post again only the first sentence has the tone of aggressiveness which provoked my response, but i think im overanalysing a bit
knock
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I think you are and I don't think full stops or quotation marks are a sign of aggressiveness
But I could have used more smilies
Kronos
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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"
Got the first few dark towers books for christmas! The stand sounds ace aswel, read a fair few (loved IT! was a little disappointed with the ending though but when a book is that good all the way through theres not much room for an even better ending)
Cheers for the suggestions, i'll keep an eye out at carboots n that, didn't realize he'd written so many!
mydrugbuddy
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I know you werent talking to me, but allthough Clive Barker's speciality is fantasy and horror, i prefer his work when he's dealing with plain old realism and reality. I love his descriptive way with words when he is describing a setting, or a character, abolutely brilliant, but when things start getting literally incredible and fantastical Im afraid he looses me, which happens in all his novels that i have read. I like his short stories though, the Books Of Blood Volumes I and II both very good. I started re-reading Cabal recently, really enjoyed the opening, but as with many books recently for some reason ive only read the openings and then dropped them for something else, even though i was enjoying them.
I think Im gonna try again with Cabal, it opens with a psychiatrist trying to come to some sort of understanding, or to get Cabal to come to some sort of understanding, i havent got past the first few pages yet, but I am interested enough to want to know what happens next.
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I always feel like were all sitting with each other - doesn't have to be aimed at you directly but certainly open for you to chime in
. Cabal is a strange one - fantasy/ horror/ realism (we live with monsters - what shape do these people form in our minds) (brilliant - compared to the movie version 'Nightbreed')) but as you say his attention to detail, the way he brings characters, worlds to life is something else 
. Weaveworld, Abarat, The great and secret show - are must reads if you like Clive Barker. If you like the older style of writing and realism / surrealism - have you read any of the Brian Lumley early stuff? At the time I loved them - not sure how I would feel reading them now though?
knock
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I got a book for Christmas, Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks, the neurologist (The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat etc)
Family know me a bit too well.
Family know me a bit too well.
That looks pretty interesting actually, might see if I can get a copy down the library.
I'm reading Rasselas, by some dude whose name I can't remember. In fact I'm not even sure if I've spelled the title right. Regardless, it's pretty good. Is about a ridiculously well off prince who has everything he could ever want and is confined to his castle. Ends up going off on a journey to find happiness along with his sister and some philosopher dude before ultimately realising he will never be entirely happy, but now has a way to sort of gauge his happiness, having seen the world outside his palace.
Is technically for an essay I'll be writing after new year's but I've always liked travel books. Narrow Road to the Deep North is another one I'm reading at the moment, purely for the hell of it. Is by a guy called Matsuo Basho, is a load of linked verse haiku accompanied by prose detailing his journey to said deep north. Love linked verse haiku, feels kinda like one of those flash things you see online that endlessly zoom in on a scene, giving you the impression of travelling into it.
I'm reading Rasselas, by some dude whose name I can't remember. In fact I'm not even sure if I've spelled the title right. Regardless, it's pretty good. Is about a ridiculously well off prince who has everything he could ever want and is confined to his castle. Ends up going off on a journey to find happiness along with his sister and some philosopher dude before ultimately realising he will never be entirely happy, but now has a way to sort of gauge his happiness, having seen the world outside his palace.
Is technically for an essay I'll be writing after new year's but I've always liked travel books. Narrow Road to the Deep North is another one I'm reading at the moment, purely for the hell of it. Is by a guy called Matsuo Basho, is a load of linked verse haiku accompanied by prose detailing his journey to said deep north. Love linked verse haiku, feels kinda like one of those flash things you see online that endlessly zoom in on a scene, giving you the impression of travelling into it.
COCOCARTER
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The Miracle of Intention, by Pat Davis.
try not to have an eppie when you get to the bits where i'm quotedChristmas reading.
happy holidays.
alasdair
dopemegently
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I'm reading the new Stephen King, Joyland (x-mas present), and the Kindly Ones, Jonathan little. Probably gonna read the Stand again, too.
^that sounds like a good read. Is it about the RC scene, or the Silk Road, stuff like that?
^that sounds like a good read. Is it about the RC scene, or the Silk Road, stuff like that?
StoneHappyMonday
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try not to have an eppie when you get to the bits where i'm quoted
happy holidays.
alasdair
Oh, you're not quoted are you Ali? Really? You should have said.
Yeah, tore that page out, was pretty worthless.
brimz
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Can't focus atm but sounds like He was a Cunt send a review in 2 ix Mag or sunnink or at least get it around he is chatting bollox n not H/R
Sure us lot could help .
Oh n when u finished let me have a look mate i 'll have it back in 5 days max just don't want him gettimg any sales init .
Well we will just past one copy copy between Us , Marmz , Knockers , Da Bear , Issy all the ones that give a fuk about h/r .
Did he mention the Smack section oof eadd ?BLUELIGHT
have abrealk n go mental 4 45 mins y all have to today i command therte is a quiz later well a question .
Septonn
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Started reading Brave New World yesterday (in a lame Dutch translation, which sucks, but I got it as a present). Another one down on my still-must-read-list.
mydrugbuddy
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Yeah, tore that page out, was pretty worthless.
lol, thats interesting that alasdair was quoted. It would have been even more interesting oif they'd delved deeper into BL, it would have been nice to see some posts from yourself or brimz or shambles or any other well known EADDer quoted too. What was the alasdair quote ? "BL is a harm reduction community, blah, blah, blah etc" ?
Im trying again with Clive Barkers' Cabal; I got to about page 10 last night before falling asleep. Woohoo. Thats the furthest ive made it into a book for some time.
knock
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lol
Is three quotes too many? I liked it that much.
To be fair to ali his role as Director of Public Relations forces that shit onto him. To be unfair to ali he probably suggested they create that role.
Yeah, and then realised it amounted to making 3 quotes a year and he had nowt to do, so got the Administrator title put back on his nick as well ...
or was that cos Tambo has now left? or seems not to be an admin anymore? Tambo was ace. Hope he's still around somewhere here
or was that cos Tambo has now left? or seems not to be an admin anymore? Tambo was ace. Hope he's still around somewhere here
knock
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Tambo has left BL staff, I understand this is because he is busy "IRL".
mydrugbuddy
Bluelighter
He very occasionally contributes to some EADD threads. Dunno if he's 'spreading himself too thin' by trying to keep on top of, or in with, every subforum, must be allmost impossible to do that if you have a full time job aswell. I've been here coming up to 3 years now and Ive still only visited about 1/3 of all the different sub forums of BL, let alone been a regular poster on any other sub forum.
However if i am going through a learning curve with any substance i use the Other Drugs subforum a lot in that circumstance, its good to get hundreds of peoples take on things sometimes to get the full range of opinions and facts and anecdotes, and then sift through everything to come to your own conclusions, rather than on here, there's just dozens of people, so the amount of responses is gonna be smaller, allthough you tend to know who each of them is and what they are like.