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Finished this today, it was ok but 2 things really really annoyed me about it.

1-The forced and utterly pointless connection of Marvel comic books, Salander's online alias is WASP, yeah apparently it's from the Marvel superhero, it even shoehorns in mentions of Thor and Thanos etc, I know that Marvel is popular at the moment but come on for fucks sake, there was just no need for it, it really wound me up

2-It is basically the 1998 Bruce Willis film Mercury Rising, I mean the whole concept...

The NSA are massively corrupt and a young autistic kid who also happens to be a savant has info that they don't want getting out, their only option is to kill him, then the hero has to 'unwillingly' take the kid into their care and protect them with their very life.

Is that a little summary of Mercury Rising or is that a little summary of The Girl In The Spiders web? the answer is it is honestly a little summary of both of them.

And I was always going to end it by saying that he didn't get Salander's character right, she was like a watered down version of the original.

4 out of 10

I'm going to be starting this tomorrow

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From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness.

In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage.

But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.

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I've just had a quick flick through and its only 250 pages but the font is fucking microscopic

On the Beach, Nevil Shute
After World War III has devastated the planet with atomic detonations, a few survivors in Australia await the end they know is rolling towards them in the toxic clouds. But when an American submarine captain hears a signal from what was once Seattle, he sets off in hopes of finding survivors.

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Finished this last night, good book actually, woman falls in love with a psychopath, goes crazy herself, it's I was expecting the book itself to verge on the side of batshit crazy but it was actually pretty grounded.

The story is told from the perspective of the womans shrink after all of the events have occured, I struggled with the first 1/3 of it but then really motored through the rest.

it was hard to feel sorry for the majority of the characters and the main woman came across to me as a real villain even though it was the illness and not her if that makes sense.

Any way it's on to this motherfucker next

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first released in 1820

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Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin's diabolic tale raised the genre to a new and macabre pitch. Its many admirers include Poe, Balzac, Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire.

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It's gunna be a beast of a read but I'm looking forward to this one

Just finished this

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An elderly, incontinent Elvis Aaron Presley teams up with an deeply incognito John Fitzgerald Kennedy to defend their East Texas nursing home from an ancient Egyptian soul-sucking mummy. This is the short story that became the cult classic major motion picture, inspiring a generation of care-givers, archaeologists, and public servants. TCB.

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Someone told me to watch the film on YouTube and I discovered it was a book (well short story, I think it clocks in at about 150 pages) so I thought I'd read it before I watched it.

Elvis is an old miserable bastard who may not actually be Elvis but an Elvis impersonator who fell off stage and broke his hip and convinced himself that he was the real deal.
JFK is alive and well, his brain is in a jar and wired up to batteries in the white house, his own head is now filled with sand...oh yeah...this JFK is black as well

Thing is there is a mummy dressed like a cowboy sucking people souls out through their ass holes, on that basis why couldn't it be the real Elvis and black JFK

Not really my sort of book but it passed an hour or so on a boring Sunday afternoon

The book sounds interesting @Batman. Stay awake.

Interesting is probably the best way to describe ribe it, Elvis also has a pus filled boil on the end of his knob which pops and erupts during a rather intense masturbating session, the boil actually gets mentioned far more than is required.

Anyone read any Salinger? I've yet to dive into his books, but after watching the documentary on him (titled 'Salinger') my interest in his works has grown. I always heard that 'Catcher In The Rye' was a masterpiece and often misunderstood (mostly by famous murderers, which caused Salinger to seclude himself and stop having his works published while he was alive).

His newly released books which deal with his time serving in the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) in World War 2 and shortly thereafter and also some other works about the Glass family which were very in depth works of fiction are intriguing. Salinger supposedly married a woman in Germany who was a former Nazi and then annulled the marriage. Salinger was set to marry a young Oona O'Neil after having courted her in the time prior to World War 2 and an ancient Charlie Chaplain stole her away while Salinger was fighting in Europe.....as if I needed anymore reason to think poorly of Chaplain, W.C Fields was 10 times the comedian that Chaplain claimed to be!



Also I wonder about Mark Twain's Autobiography....I am not sure I could get through that one in an entire lifetime. That is some very heavy lifting mentally to get through such a long 2 volume set.


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Anyone read any Salinger? I've yet to dive into his books, but after watching the documentary on him (titled 'Salinger') my interest in his works has grown. I always heard that 'Catcher In The Rye' was a masterpiece and often misunderstood (mostly by famous murderers, which caused Salinger to seclude himself and stop having his works published while he was alive).

His newly released books which deal with his time serving in the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) in World War 2 and shortly thereafter and also some other works about the Glass family which were very in depth works of fiction are intriguing. Salinger supposedly married a woman in Germany who was a former Nazi and then annulled the marriage. Salinger was set to marry a young Oona O'Neil after having courted her in the time prior to World War 2 and an ancient Charlie Chaplain stole her away while Salinger was fighting in Europe.....as if I needed anymore reason to think poorly of Chaplain, W.C Fields was 10 times the comedian that Chaplain claimed to be!



Also I wonder about Mark Twain's Autobiography....I am not sure I could get through that one in an entire lifetime. That is some very heavy lifting mentally to get through such a long 2 volume set.


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Catcher in the Rye was a good book, it is obviously pretty dated now but it was pretty controversial at the time of its release, I've gotta be honest it's been a good few years since I've read it, I might have to dust my old copy off if I ever manage to get through the beast of a book that I am reading now.

I just remember the kid in it (his name escapes me now) doing my head in, I get what Sallinger was trying to get across but he needed to extend the kids vocab a little bit, he called every fucker in the book a phoney.

Holden Caulfield is the boy in Catcher in The Rye

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Holden Caulfield is the boy in Catcher in The Rye

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Anyone read any Salinger? I've yet to dive into his books, but after watching the documentary on him (titled 'Salinger') my interest in his works has grown. I always heard that 'Catcher In The Rye' was a masterpiece and often misunderstood (mostly by famous murderers, which caused Salinger to seclude himself and stop having his works published while he was alive).

His newly released books which deal with his time serving in the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) in World War 2 and shortly thereafter and also some other works about the Glass family which were very in depth works of fiction are intriguing. Salinger supposedly married a woman in Germany who was a former Nazi and then annulled the marriage. Salinger was set to marry a young Oona O'Neil after having courted her in the time prior to World War 2 and an ancient Charlie Chaplain stole her away while Salinger was fighting in Europe.....as if I needed anymore reason to think poorly of Chaplain, W.C Fields was 10 times the comedian that Chaplain claimed to be!



Also I wonder about Mark Twain's Autobiography....I am not sure I could get through that one in an entire lifetime. That is some very heavy lifting mentally to get through such a long 2 volume set.


Anyone check into those books?

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I've never read Catcher in the Rye. It was recommended to me years ago as someone said I would relate to the main character. I just never got around to reading it though. I probably should. I bet he's a bit weird and aloof.

I am currently reading a biography of Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd. Only just started, but I am currently quite envious of the upbringing he had. Smart, interesting parents, decent well adjusted siblings and a fondness for drawing. Lucky bastard. Still as life shows it all turns a little bit queer sometimes.

I finished this on Thursday

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Blimey what a struggle that was, it took me nearly 4 weeks to read it.

It is extremely wordy (even for the time that it was written) and the story never really goes any where, well I say the story, it is actually a story in a story in a story...possibly in another story, the main character is barely in the book and the problem with the multiple stories that all tie in together is that if you get one or two that you can't get into or don't enjoy then you start drifting off and ultimatly end up getting kind of lost.

I was hoping to find something like The Monk but unfortunately I was left pretty dissapointed

Anyway, now it's time for some controversial reading

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The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War, there began for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon, describes the social, political, and economic disintegration that plagued the South during Reconstruction, depicting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the reactions of two families to racial conflict. This study in social history was alternatively praised and damned by contemporary critics. As historian Thomas D. Clark notes in his introduction, the novel "opened wider a vein of racial hatred which was to poison further an age already in social and political upheaval. Dixon had in fact given voice in his novel to one of the most powerful latent forces in the social and political mind of the South." For modern readers, The Clansman probes the roots of the racial violence that still haunts our society.

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I'm about half way through now, it's not easy going, and the author is clearly not going to win any awards for his writing style but it's interesting.
I have to admit that I was expecting it to be 'negroe this' and 'negroe that' but it's actually not like that at all so far, the majority of the book has been about the politics behind the scenes after Abe Lincoln was shot.
There is the obligatory love interest between a bloke from the sound and a girl from the North but there really hasn't been any abuse directly towards the blacks at all so far.

Having said that you can feel it is building and you know that it is going to be a case of 'South good' North bad' Blacks very very bad'

It's interesting to read it just to see the opinions of those at the other side of the fence even if you don't agree with them.

Ah yes very controversial indeed, that book became immortalized as D.W. Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation'....which if the book is at all like the film that is going to be like running a marathon through the mud. SOOOOO tedious and that was just the film mind you.

I recon everyone should read Post office by Bukowski, one of the best books i've read. if have have read it, let me know what you thoughts of it, i bet anyone can relate to that book.

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I recon everyone should read Post office by Bukowski, one of the best books i've read. if have have read it, let me know what you thoughts of it, i bet anyone can relate to that book.

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Good shout, I've never got around to reading it but I might make that one of my next books, I've got about 5 that are sitting down waiting for me to pick up (my next one is all about the investigation to catch John Wayne Gacey, I'm quite looking forward to that)

Is it hard going though? I kind of need something that isn't too taxing after Melmoth the Wanderer and Clansman

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The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War, there began for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon, describes the social, political, and economic disintegration that plagued the South during Reconstruction, depicting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the reactions of two families to racial conflict. This study in social history was alternatively praised and damned by contemporary critics. As historian Thomas D. Clark notes in his introduction, the novel "opened wider a vein of racial hatred which was to poison further an age already in social and political upheaval. Dixon had in fact given voice in his novel to one of the most powerful latent forces in the social and political mind of the South." For modern readers, The Clansman probes the roots of the racial violence that still haunts our society.

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Finished this today

I was actually surprised, I enjoyed the first 1/2 or 2/3 of the book, it was very much the polictical views of a disgruntled southerner, it was nice to hear their viewpoint and try to see things from their point of view, the only times you really hear it from them it is coming from some fat redneck in a hood or someone opposed to their viewpoint telling us why the Southerners are wrong.

The problem started in the second half of the book when the black characters came into it and were given the freedom of the vote, I understand that there would have been some regional dialect but it was fucking laughable and at times impossible to understand, the descriptions of them completely blasted any possible constructive argument that the writer might have been trying to get across.

Every single black character in the book was either outright gutless and kissed the boots of every white man that they saw or they were out and out monsters, the cowardly blacks and the evil blacks had all been dummed down to the point of retardation as well.

I'll see if I can be arsed to type up some of the dialogue between them just so you can see how amazingly racist and just well...bad it was

I understand that it was a different time and people had a completely different outlook but even back then people must have rolled their eyes when they read it, I note that the book isn't credited with the 'rebirth' of the klan and that it was the film that was based on the book (birth of a nation)

next up is this

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THE CHICAGO KILLER: The Hunt For Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy is the story of the capture of John Wayne Gacy, as told from the perspective of the former Chief of Detectives of the Des Plaines, Illinois Police Department, Joseph Kozenczak. The conviction of Gacy on 33 counts of murder is a record in the archives of the criminal justice system in the United States. Two additional bonus chapters give the reader a comprehensive insight into the use of psychics and the lie-detector in a serial murder investigation.

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He was a cracker old Gacey was, not on the same level as Dahmer but he wasn't a bad serial killer, I'm quite looking forward to this, I'm hoping it'll be in the same vein of 'Helter Skelter' about Charley Manson, fucking brilliant that book was

Ever read Zora Neal Thurston? Reading in dialect can be a fucking chore....Raisin in The Sun Their Eyes Were Watching God was short, but I fucking hated reading it and I'm from the South!

here we go then, here is a bit of convo from the book

'you hear 'bout de great sassieties de Gubment's fomentin' in dis country?'
'Yas I hear erbout em'
'I yer er member er de Union League?'
Na-sah. I'd rudder steal by myself. I doan' lak too many in de party!'
En yer aint er No'f Ca'liny gemmen, is yer- yer ain't er member er de 'Red Strings?'
Na-sah I come when I'se called- dey doan' hatter put er string on me- ner er block. ner er collar, ner er chain, ner er muzzle'

that is honest word for word how it is wrote, page 102

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here we go then, here is a bit of convo from the book

'you hear 'bout de great sassieties de Gubment's fomentin' in dis country?'
'Yas I hear erbout em'
'I yer er member er de Union League?'
Na-sah. I'd rudder steal by myself. I doan' lak too many in de party!'
En yer aint er No'f Ca'liny gemmen, is yer- yer ain't er member er de 'Red Strings?'
Na-sah I come when I'se called- dey doan' hatter put er string on me- ner er block. ner er collar, ner er chain, ner er muzzle'

that is honest word for word how it is wrote, page 102

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Did you hear about the great societies the government is fomenting in this country?
Yes, I have heard all about them.
Are you a member of the Union League?
No Sir, I would rather stay by myself. I do not like too many in the party.
are you or aren't you a North Carolina gentleman, are you or aren't you a member of the 'Red Strings'?
No Sir, I come when I am called. They don't have to put a string on me, nor a block, nor a collar, nor chain, nor a muzzle.


Translated as best I can ;)



From 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'
What she doin coming back here in dem overhalls? Can’t she find no dress to put on? – Where’s dat blue satin dress she left here in? – Where all dat money her husband took and died and left her? – What dat ole forty year ole ‘oman doin’ wid her hair swingin’ down her back lak some young gal? – Where she left dat young lad of a boy she went off here wid? – Thought she was going to marry? – Where he left her? – What he done wid all her money? – Betcha he off wid some gal so young she ain’t even got no hairs – Why she don’t stay in her class? – "

Just hurts my brain to read like that....can't understand how people write like that. I'm from the South so naturally everything I read comes into my brain with a twang, no need to funk the words all up unless someone is talking and even then as an author you can put in things like "They said, in their thick Southern accent"

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Good shout, I've never got around to reading it but I might make that one of my next books, I've got about 5 that are sitting down waiting for me to pick up (my next one is all about the investigation to catch John Wayne Gacey, I'm quite looking forward to that)

Is it hard going though? I kind of need something that isn't too taxing after Melmoth the Wanderer and Clansman

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I recon you should read it. it's not hard going at all, as soon as I started reading i couldn't stop. It's quite a funny book. hard to explain but I bet no one will dislike it. except some feminisms people

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finished this yesterday, good book, the author clearly has a huge ego but I guess that is required in his profession and especially when dealing with a case of this magnitude.

Gacy sounds as though he was a real bastard, most times serial killers are quite charming and people wouldn't ever suspect them of their crimes however Gacey sounds like he was just an out and out arse hole.

next up is

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"So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away" is a beautifully-written, brooding gem of a novel - set in the Pacific Northwest region of Oregon where Brautigan spent most of his childhood. Through the eyes, ears and voice of Brautigan's youthful protagonist the reader is gently led into a small-town tale where the narrator accidentally shoots dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of 'What if...' fuels anguish, regret and self-blame as well as some darkly comic passages of bitter-sweet romance and despair. Taken with the recently discovered, "An Unfortunate Woman", these two late Brautigan novels are a fitting epitaph to a complex, contradictory and often misunderstood genius.

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It's only around 100 pages so it should only take a few hours to power through it when I get around to picking it up

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Not bad, not brilliant, kind of a 'what if sort of book' it's about a kid (12 yers old) who bought some bullets for his .22 instead of going next door and buying a burger, he ended up accidentally shooting and killing his only real friend with one of them bullets.

next up, I've read it before and I might not read it all this time but it'll keep me ticking over until my next set of books are delivered

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"The Exorcist", a 1973 movie about a twelve-year-old girl possessed by the Devil, frightened people more than any horror film ever did. Many moviegoers sought therapy to rid themselves of fears they could not explain. Psychiatrists coined the term "cinematic neurosis" for patients who left the movie feeling a terrifying presence of demons. At the Washington premiere, a young woman stood outside the theater, trembling. "I come out here in the sunlight," she said, "and I see people's eyes, and they frighten me."Among the few moviegoers unmoved by the horror were two priests, Father William S. Bowdern and Father Walter Halloran, members of the Jesuit community at St. Louis University. "Billy came out shaking his head about the little girl bouncing on the bed and urinating on the crucifix," Halloran remembers. "He was kind of angry. 'There is a good message that can be given by this thing,' he said. The message was the fact that evil spirits operate in our world."Bowdern and Halloran knew that the movie was fictional veneer masking a terrible reality. Night after night in March and April 1949, Bowdern had been an exorcist, with Halloran assisting. Bowdern fervently believed that he had driven a demon from a tormented soul. The victim had been a thirteen-year-old boy strangely lured to St. Louis from a Maryland suburb of Washington. Bowdern's exorcism had been the inspiration for the movie.The true story of this possession, told in Possessed, is based on a diary kept by a Jesuit priest assisting Father Bowdern. The diary, the most complete account of an exorcism since the Middle Ages, is published for the first time in this revised edition of Possessed.

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Finished 'possessed' this morning, first time round I gave it 2 out of 5, this time I've increased it to 4 out of 5, really enjoyed it.

gunna be starting this today

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Leyton examines true-life cases of ordinary children who turned into deadly assassins. He investigates case studies to reveal the all-too-common pressures on middle-class life that have led to the arlarming increase in this terrifying phenomenon.

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I dunno if it will be any good or not but I'm gunna give it a shot, it only cost 1p off Amazon so I'm not all that bothered if I don't finish it

world war 3

A Confederacy of Dunces

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This true story tells of a real-life Hannibal Lecter. 53 murders, not a single witness and barely a shred of evidence, this was the challenge facing Chief Inspector Kostoev in 1985. Six years later thanks to this one man, Andrei Chikatilo - the "Russian Ripper" - was brought to trial. The search culminated in a ten-day interview with Chikatilo before the killer finally broke down and confessed.

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Started this today, it's pretty decent so far

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This true story tells of a real-life Hannibal Lecter. 53 murders, not a single witness and barely a shred of evidence, this was the challenge facing Chief Inspector Kostoev in 1985. Six years later thanks to this one man, Andrei Chikatilo - the "Russian Ripper" - was brought to trial. The search culminated in a ten-day interview with Chikatilo before the killer finally broke down and confessed.

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Started this today, it's pretty decent so far

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You read crazy fast or you spending your time reading 24/7.

I gave up on the last book, I might return to it someday, I only bought it on a whim so I wasn't really invested in it.

I do spend a lot of time reading though.

A 300 page book normally takes me 2 or 3 days, I read for about 90 minutes in the morning before work, an hour on my lunch break and then once I've finished practicing my piano and masturbating at about 9pm then I'll read for an hour or two in the evening.

I don't watch much telly, it's amazing how people say they don't have time to read yet they watch hollyoaks, corrie, X factor, celebrity jungle, celebrity dancing and all that shite, the fact that recording something is so easy now it just means people spend more time in front of the idiot box.

Are you training for a transition to being a real life vigilante, @Batman ? Bit of a murder theme going on;D

I can never figure out how to post pictures properly on here, but I got these two books out from the library yesterday, hopefully I'll enjoy them. Haven't read a good novel in donkeys years I must admit.


One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

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Are you training for a transition to being a real life vigilante, @Batman ? Bit of a murder theme going on;D

I can never figure out how to post pictures properly on here, but I got these two books out from the library yesterday, hopefully I'll enjoy them. Haven't read a good novel in donkeys years I must admit.


One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

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I'm more likely to go the other way and go on some massive murder rampage, I've always had a thing for the macabre or sinister, I kind of love anything to do with evil, my favourite stuff is paranormal non fiction, demonic possession and the likes of, I've done pretty much all of those books though so I'm branching out to the bog standard serial killer in the hope that I can pick up some tips.

Keep us updated on 'This Is Your Brain on Music' I might have a look at that if its any good

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Just finished, Chikatilo was one fucked up dude, he used to cut people lips off because they reminded him of genitalia, I'd actually like to read a bit more about this because this book was wrote almost as a story which kind of detracts from the realism of it all, also I'd like to understand a bit more about how Russian politics affected the case because the police seemed to be a major stumbling block in actually catching him.

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This is the tale of Monsieur Trelkovsky, an ordinary man, against whom apparently ordinary circumstances conspire until he is enmeshed in an extraordinary and terrifying situation. It portrays a nightmare world which is only separated from everyday life by a sliver of sanity.

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I've been waiting absolutely ages to get this book, it's been impossible to get hold of for about 12 months so I'm quite looking forward to getting started on it.

Well The Tenant was a truly bizarre book, not what I was expecting at all but it was a great little read, it's only short (clocks in at 180 pages)

It starts off with a regular dude haggling to move into an apartment in France, the previous tenant threw themselves out of the window.
The neighbours are off with poor old regular dude right from the off, banging on the walls every time he makes a sound, he ends up alienating himself as his neighbours manipulate his life and his very being, his paranoia grows and then things get really weird in the second part of the book, the end will leave you scratching your head as to what you have just been reading.

A lot of it seems to be left down to the reader to decide what has actually happened to the main character.

It was reminiscent of Thomas Ligotti's work (for a modern reference) and it was like a watered down Kafka.

Well worth a read.

I don't know what to read now I've got a few books lined up but I'm not too sure what I fancy at the minute

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The original novel -- a terrifying battle with an obscene, unspeakable evil that must end in victory...or madness and death -- completely and brilliantly read by its author, and winner of the Audie Award for his performance.

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decided to start re-reading The Exorcist again last night, one of my favourite books (and films) of all time, I thought I'd revisit it as I'm watching the TV series which is a direct sequel to the first film (it completely disregards The Heretic)

and also I didn't get out of bed until 7am this morning, my back was in agony so I decided to pop into town for a bit of a wonder to loosen it off a bit, I bought this from Waterstones

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only re-read this in November and William Peter Blatty is dead, as I said in my previous post, one of my all time favourite books, I've probably read it about 10 times

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The Vatican, 5th century A.D. Pope Gregory has ordered to be sealed forever the 9th Gregorian chant - a profane, unholy invocation to the devil
San Francisco, 1977
Emily Blake has begun to hear strange disembodied voices calling to her in her home. Her husbands lover has burned to death, in a chair, behind a locked door. The ancient charge of murder by witchcraft has been leveled at Emily...
Emily whose only hope may be a grotesque eleven year old boy with a demonic sexual craving, a little boy who has already taken her once, evilly. A little boy who taught her the tune of a chant unheard for fifteen hundred years.

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Just ordered a few books to keep me occupied next week when I'm off work

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The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call wasfound on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.
Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the "Miami Times,"returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises himthe story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming tofree--and meet--her convicted "fiancé ."

With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, theybarrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate astruth takes a back seat to headline news...

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One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menacedby unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.

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The village of Hemmersmoor is a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition: There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age-in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-toface with the village's darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, evocative of Stephen King's classic short story "Children of the Corn" and infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm.

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Those are creepy looking books Batman.

Enjoying the dvd series Deadwood at the moment.

Latest book: Alcatraz from the inside.

Next: The Kite runner.

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Enjoying the dvd series Deadwood at the moment.

Latest book: Alcatraz from the inside.

Next: The Kite runner.

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I've got the boxset of Deadwood, loved that series it was just a shame it never got a proper ending, I know the director or writer was desperate to make a Deadwood film after it was cancelled but it never came to fruition