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finished The Crossing, really good book it was.
I'm not sure what I'm going to read next, its out of
1984 - George Orwell (1949)
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
Zofloya or the Moor - Charlotte Dacre (1806)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (1890)
and I'm currently waiting of delivery of
Bend Sinister - Vladomir Nabokov (1947)
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall (2007)
I also had this delivered the other day, I can't wait to get started on this but I'm going to wait until I've completed my 2017 challenge on Goodreads before starting it
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One book. Two readers. A world of mystery, menace, and desire.
A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown.
THE BOOK: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey.
THE WRITER: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world’s greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him.
THE READERS: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they’re willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears.
S. , conceived by filmmaker J. J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don’t understand. It is also Abrams and Dorst’s love letter to the written word.
Its absolutely crammed full of little odds and sods that help tell the story, newspaper cuttings, postcards, diaries, even a fucking napkin (yes an actual napkin) with a map drew on it, I'm going to have to get some post it notes and stick them to all the detachable pieces because they will no doubt fall out at some point, its definitely a book to be read at home and not on the bus.
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`Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the fifteenth century. The novel follows Victoria's progress from spoilt daughter of indulgent aristocrats, through a period of abuse and captivity, to a career of deepening criminality conducted under Satan's watchful eye. Charlotte Dacre's narrative deftly displays her heroine's movement from the vitalized position of Ann Radcliffe's heroines to a fully conscious commitment to vice that goes beyond that of `Monk' Lewis's deluded Ambrosio. The novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of Victoria's intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya that transgresses taboos both of class and race. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, Zofloya has been unduly neglected. Contradicting idealized stereotypes of women's writing, the novel's portrait of indulged desire, gratuitous cruelty, and monumental self-absorption retains considerable power to disturb. The introduction to this edition, the first for nearly 200 years, examines why Zofloya deserves to be read alongside established Gothic classics as the highly original work of an intriguing and unconventional writer.
Well that was tough going, decent book but far too similar to The Monk by Matthew Lewis, the author actually uses the pseudonym of Rosa Matilda so she didn't even try to hide the influence.
The ending was a complete rip off of The Monk but nowhere near as good.
The characters were pretty standard and the story didn't excite me, I'm glad that I read it and I would recommend it to fans of this genre but I can think of many books that I would put above it.
I'm just about to start this now (at last, Amazon lost the first copy that I ordered so they had to resend it)
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The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk – known as the ‘Toad’. Grieving over his wife’s recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk’s activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque ‘Toad’ himself.
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
Don't worry El Kabong, I'll be getting started right on 1984 once I have finished this one.
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Finished this, cracking book, not as good as Lolita but still well worth a read.
Nabokov has a strange way of making really dark subject matters quite light hearted, his characters kind of remind me of Kafka's in their blase approach to serious situations.
Krug is a celebrity philosopher and when a new government comes into power called the Ekwilists who enforce equality upon everyone and believes that if no one is individual then everyone must be happy, Krug opposes this and the head of this new political party try to force him to publicly support them, they arrest his friends and everyone close to him and he still refuses to back down, eventually they take things up a level and its only right at the end of the book when you realize how far they are willing to go to get the support that they want. Oh and the head of this party is nicknamed The Toad, an name bestowed upon him when he was at school with Krug, yeah it turns out that Krug used to bully The Toad rather severely whilst they were at school.
one thing I would say is if you are going to read this then take a look at Hamlet first and familiarize yourself with the general story because there is a 20 page chapter devoted to it.
anyways, I'm finally going to be getting started on
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Winston Smith is a low-rung member of the Party, the ruling government of Oceania. He works in the Ministry of Truth, the Party's propoganda arm, where he is in charge of revising history. He is but a small brick in the pyramid that is the Party, at the head of which stands Big Brother. Big Brother the infallible. Big Brother the all-powerful. In a totalitarian society, where individuality is suppressed and freedom of thought has its antithesis in the Thought Police, Winston finds respite in the company of Julia. Originality of thought awakens, love bloosoms and hope is rekindled. But what they don't know is that Big Brother is always watching...
lets see how this stacks up to Bend Sinister then
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My son 15 year old is reading 1984 for his GCSE.
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My son 15 year old is reading 1984 for his GCSE.
Yeah, its one of those books that everyone should have read but I have just never got around to it, I'm trying to work my way through all of the 'books to read before you die' sort of lists.
I've never read Animal Farm either (I've seen the naughty video though tee hee)
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@El Kabong finished it last night, I have to say that on balance I think I would opt for re-reading Bend Sinister by Nabakov over 1984.
Both brilliant books released at roughly the same time about the same subject, 1984 was more of a standard story whilst Bend Sinister made me stop and think a little bit more.
As I was reading 1984 I kept thinking to myself 'wow this still seems pretty damn fresh considering it was released in 1984' then I would catch myself and think 'hang about, it is set in 1984 but it was released in 1948.
It still reads as though it could have been published for the first time just yesterday.
Orwell really did have the future nailed on, I mean we are 33 years down the line from when the book was set and the things that he was imagining are not far from reality now, he did a fantastic job in that regard.
What was it that old Hill Dog said about it then? you mentioned it was something about how we need to 'trust the government' just those 3 words seem to go against the entire premise of the book.
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Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. So begins a thrilling adventure that will send Eric and his cynical cat Ian on a search for the Ludovician, the force that is threatening his life, and Dr Trey Fidorus, the only man who knows its secrets.
I started this today, only on about page 30 or 40 but it seems like good fun so far
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She said the following....
“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism,” Mrs. Clinton writes. “This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered.
“The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves,” she continues.
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She said the following....
“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism,” Mrs. Clinton writes. “This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered.
“The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves,” she continues.
In that case she is a fool, he wasn't being tortured in order to breed mistrust, he was being conditioned to blindly follow.
The first two thirds of the book is where the mistrust is formed, the final third of the book shows how far The Party are willing to go in order to ensure that blind worship, they forced Winston to abandon every belief he held against The Party and Big Brother, even when he meant it, it still wasn't enough for them, they needed 100% compliance and the only way to do that was to go after the one person he loved, by the end of it there wasn't any room for anyone else other than Big Brother.
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She said the following....
“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism,” Mrs. Clinton writes. “This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered.
“The goal is to make you question logic and reason and to sow mistrust towards exactly the people we need to rely on: our leaders, the press, experts who seek to guide public policy based on evidence, ourselves,” she continues.
In that case she is a fool, he wasn't being tortured in order to breed mistrust, he was being conditioned to blindly follow.
The first two thirds of the book is where the mistrust is formed, the final third of the book shows how far The Party are willing to go in order to ensure that blind worship, they forced Winston to abandon every belief he held against The Party and Big Brother, even when he meant it, it still wasn't enough for them, they needed 100% compliance and the only way to do that was to go after the one person he loved, by the end of it there wasn't any room for anyone else other than Big Brother.
Thank you for the confirmation :thumb:
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Well this took me a week longer than anticipated but that is only cuz I was pretty fucking ill last week and the meds I was on knocked me the fuck out so I was in no fit state to do any reading.
I'm a bit conflicted by this book, some parts of it were extremely well done and pretty fucking clever, other parts (a large chunk at the end) was just outright plagiarism and that bothered me.
Its basically about a bloke who wakes up with no memory at all of who he was, he goes on a voyage of self discovery, falls in love, and has to do battle with a big fuck of conceptual shark that eats memories...yeah
There are some pretty cool sections with 'text imagery' including a few pages of a shark made up of nothing but text, it works pretty well, its like a watered down, easier to read version of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
Once you get to the end you have to go over in your head the whole book that you have just read and try to figure out where it actually begins and if there is a cross over, I'm pretty sure I have got it figured out and after having a quick look online it looks like there is quite a few people that agree with me so I'm pretty satisfied with the conclusion.
I've also just hit my reading challenge for the year, 30 books I've read so far, everything else is just a bonus now.
I'm not overly sure what to delve into next, its out of
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First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum; puppeteers; street musicians; and a deaf-mute silhouette artist.
Lurking in its inhabitants’ subconscious is the Golem, a creature of rabbinical myth. Supposedly a manifestation of all the suffering of the ghetto, it comes to life every 33 years in a room without a door. When the jeweller Athanasius Pernath, suffering from broken dreams and amnesia, sees the Golem, he realises to his terror that the ghostly man of clay shares his own face. . . .
The Golem, though rarely seen, is central to the novel as a representative of the ghetto's own spirit and consciousness, brought to life by the suffering and misery that its inhabitants have endured over the centuries. Perhaps the most memorable figure in the story is the city of Prague itself, recognisable through its landmarks such as the Street of the Alchemists and the Castle.
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During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but one of the finest of them of all, Elliott Chaze, remains unjustly obscure. Now, for the first time in half a century, Chaze’s story of doomed love on the run returns to print in a trade paperback edition.
When Tim Sunblade escapes from prison, his sole possession is an infallible plan for the ultimate heist. Trouble is it’s a two-person job. So when he meets Virginia, a curiously well-spoken “ten-dollar tramp,” and discovers that the only thing she cares for is “drifts of money, lumps of it,” he knows he’s met his partner. What he doesn’t suspect is that this lavender-eyed angel might just prove to be his match.
Black Wings Has My Angel careens through a landscape of desperate passion and wild reversals. It is a journey you will never forget.
I'm also tempted to re-read Dantes Divine Comedy (or maybe just Inferno) I'm not decided yet
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Cambridge to 'decolonise' English literature
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...d=tmg_share_tw
Yyyyyyeah, see I'm of the mind that we can learn NEW things and discuss NEW things by reading authors from different cultures and places, but still classics are classic for reasons and there's no need to kick authors out of a curriculum based solely on their race.
@Batman your thoughts?
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Cambridge to 'decolonise' English literature
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...d=tmg_share_tw
Yyyyyyeah, see I'm of the mind that we can learn NEW things and discuss NEW things by reading authors from different cultures and places, but still classics are classic for reasons and there's no need to kick authors out of a curriculum based solely on their race.
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Batman your thoughts?
OK so this is what bothers me in this birds 'open letter'
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What we can no longer ignore, however, is the fact that the curriculum, taken as a whole, risks perpetuating institutional racism.
Why not just broach the subject, the very first paragraph throws out 'institutional racism' that is similar to that tranny model who was sacked from the shampoo advert for saying 'all white people were racist' only to backtrack and say that what she meant was that 'all white people are institutionally racist' or some shit like that, by whacking the word 'institutional' in front of racism it appears that does not constitute saying that anyone is purposely racist, just that they are racist but its not their fault.
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The inclusion of two or more postcolonial and BME authors on every exam paper.
This is the main part that boils my piss, its like when the BBC made that new rule that every comedy panel show now needs to have at least one female comedian (even though I don't like the bloke fair play to Jason Manford for refusing to go on anymore BBC shows after that)
What this girl is saying is that BME authors need to be shoe horned into every single exam paper regardless of how good they are or regardless of the fact that there could be hundreds of white authors more deserving of it, the BME authors need to get in purely based on their race (is that not encouraging institutional racism and discrimination?)
End of the day the as you said the classics are classics for a reason, because they are the best in their genres, not because the author was white, black, yellow or green.
There is an old saying, never judge a book by its cover, this would completely go against that.
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"The Daily Telegraph has admitted its story suggesting the University of Cambridge was being “forced” to drop white writers from its curriculum was inaccurate, as the black student who featured on its front page spoke out after suffering “racist and sexist abuse” as a result.
The newspaper on Thursday offered a ‘clarification’ after Lola Olufemi, the women’s officer at Cambridge University Student Union, was among dozens of students to sign an open letter to the university’s English department calling for non-white authors and “postcolonial thought” to be “meaningfully” incorporated into the current syllabus."
Finally the DT does the right thing after days of racist garbage on this page....
Don't believe everything you read mate. And certainly don't believe something that Lyle posts after being pointed towards it by his alt right hysterical gay white failed British overlords.
Lyle does not believe in intellectual integrity. To even broach the subject of diversity makes you a snowflake in his book. We used to have proper debates here, very hard nowadays but just for another point of view maybe have a gander at this and then see if you think The Telegraph was being honest
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...mi-curriculums
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"The Daily Telegraph has admitted its story suggesting the University of Cambridge was being “forced” to drop white writers from its curriculum was inaccurate, as the black student who featured on its front page spoke out after suffering “racist and sexist abuse” as a result.
The newspaper on Thursday offered a ‘clarification’ after Lola Olufemi, the women’s officer at Cambridge University Student Union, was among dozens of students to sign an open letter to the university’s English department calling for non-white authors and “postcolonial thought” to be “meaningfully” incorporated into the current syllabus."
Finally the DT does the right thing after days of racist garbage on this page....
Don't believe everything you read mate. And certainly don't believe something that Lyle posts after being pointed towards it by his alt right hysterical gay white failed British overlords.
Lyle does not believe in intellectual integrity. To even broach the subject of diversity makes you a snowflake in his book. We used to have proper debates here, very hard nowadays but just for another point of view maybe have a gander at this and then see if you think The Telegraph was being honest
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...mi-curriculums
Oh so it's not being "forced".....maybe "coerced" is a better word but whatever YOU do @Beanz never even address that there MIGHT be an issue, never change
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We used to have proper debates here
Ummm, WE used to, you never got fucking close to debate because you don't know how to and you've never been interested in what others might think ergo your penchant for snarkiness and name calling.
As for your article :shakehead:
"The racialised misogyny activists receive when they are viewed as disruptive is evidenced in the recent smear campaigns against Esme Allman and Munroe Bergdorf. "
Munroe Bergdorf :vd: you mean "all white people are racist" Munroe Bergdorf? THAT Munroe Bergdorf?
The author links to another story where he says "I simply meant to observe that racial prejudice, where it exists, transcends gender, class, sexuality and age. Hence my statement that “white middle class, white working class, white men, white women, white gays, white children” are racist, while rhetorically hyperbolic, was a clear reference to the fact that racism is not an exclusive characteristic of any one demographic. My experiences as a black gay man facing racism from white gay men have taught me this."
But I suppose you're in agreement with this Beanz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr2ra0mIw7A
There's the author of the piece right there.....glad you are in support of it Beanz, I'm glad to know that is where you stand.
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Not wanting to get this thread derailed with the usual stuff on this forum, the article that Lyle posted would only let me read the first few paragraphs, the quotes that I picked out and took issue were from her 'open letter' not from any actual article .
I'll take a look at the links you posted later when I get home.
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Not wanting to get this thread derailed with the usual stuff on this forum, the article that Lyle posted would only let me read the first few paragraphs, the quotes that I picked out and took issue were from her 'open letter' not from any actual article .
I'll take a look at the links you posted later when I get home.
I did not want to derail the thread, just wanted your opinion on it since most folk start their reading habits in school before they branch off and read whatever they would like to.
In school I read several books which weren't to my liking (I believe we all do because we all have different preferences) however teachers and professors are supposed to help us all cultivate certain critical thinking skills and hone our reading comprehension so that being the case I am all for other more exciting authors being made available to students....what I don't like is tossing out authors who are quite accomplished because of assumed supremacy or colonialism of one form or another and yes, that is very much happening.
Yale English students call for end of focus on white male writers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...e-male-writers
I believe I may revisit some of my Dashiell Hammet pulpy noiry detective stories next, those are always good fun.
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24 hours at Waterloo by Robert Kershaw.
It's an outstanding book, it goes into more details about the Battle of Waterloo than I've found elsewhere.
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Not wanting to get this thread derailed with the usual stuff on this forum, the article that Lyle posted would only let me read the first few paragraphs, the quotes that I picked out and took issue were from her 'open letter' not from any actual article .
I'll take a look at the links you posted later when I get home.
I did not want to derail the thread, just wanted your opinion on it since most folk start their reading habits in school before they branch off and read whatever they would like to.
In school I read several books which weren't to my liking (I believe we all do because we all have different preferences) however teachers and professors are supposed to help us all cultivate certain critical thinking skills and hone our reading comprehension so that being the case I am all for other more exciting authors being made available to students....what I don't like is tossing out authors who are quite accomplished because of assumed supremacy or colonialism of one form or another and yes, that is very much happening.
Yale English students call for end of focus on white male writers
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...e-male-writers
I believe I may revisit some of my Dashiell Hammet pulpy noiry detective stories next, those are always good fun.
Wasn't aimed at you mate.
It isn't just the 'tossing out authors' bit that I disagree with, it is the fact that apparently the solution is to have a certain amount of obligatory BME authors, that is the worst part.
If its good enough it should be included, simple as that.
Oh and Munroe Bergdorf thats the tranny model that I was talking about in my earlier post
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24 hours at Waterloo by Robert Kershaw.
It's an outstanding book, it goes into more details about the Battle of Waterloo than I've found elsewhere.
@Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.
Anyways I opted to read this, started it yesterday, it's not fantastic but its alright, I might try and get it finished tonight
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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-to-face 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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Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.
You don't need any prior knowledge of the battle to enjoy it. It covers everything.
The movie Waterloo is very good, it goes well with the book.
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Not wishing to derail .... my own fucking thread ;D
I will just remind you Lyle without having to resort to multiple @mentions or any of your millenial gaybo stuff of your own opening sentence . Maybe reflect on that and think of it as a reading comprehension excercise
"Oh so it's not being "forced".....maybe "coerced" is a better word but whatever YOU do @Beanz never even address that there MIGHT be an issue, never change"
See now you have me fucking @mentioning myself by quoting your drivel. You were the one who had to bring a fucking race argument into a thread about books. Seriously does it keep you up at night? Is it so troubling to you that you can't continue to be the dominant young white male demographic forever and a day? A fucking race to the bottom mate that seems to be what you are intent on making the forum. Wind up the tension, throw in a few hand grenades, bluff ignorance and steadily drip , drip your fucking belly aching until IT seems normal and all the other posters are painted as 'Them' 'Snowflakes' 'the enemy' 'Goons'
We were all mates,We are all going to die, and you are wasting your time on this shit?
Yes YOU have to change but it is really not that hard.
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Good stuff, I've added it to my 'To read' list which is currently sitting at 136 books, I'm going to have to trim that down a bit, some of the books have been on that list for 5 years, I can't even remember what they are.
I think I've got 4 books that I actually own that I have gotta read, then I'll be stocking up on a few more, I've given myself an Amazon ban, last month I spent over £60 on books so I've had to make a concerted effort to get through the ones I've already got.
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I have to downsize our entire library. Literally hundreds of books and even first editions are not worth a lot any more. We are going to have to move to a smaller place and it is breaking me trying to decide what to keep and not. I have a lot of reference works from supporting students across the subject spectrum, My boxing collection, seminal stuff on sound, technical stuff on recording, art and installations etc, music and then the film making and photography books. I am writing more and more for a living now and so I actually tend to read very quick and easy fiction to unwind.
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Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.
You don't need any prior knowledge of the battle to enjoy it. It covers everything.
The movie
Waterloo is very good, it goes well with the book.
Napoleon was a brilliant man, very shrewd military leader, not a nut job like Hitler. Whatever one is to say of dictators and despots it takes scheming to get in power and even more so to remain in power, to have a second act the way Napoleon did is playing the game almost as well as Caesar Augustus.
I've been meaning to study up on him more and of course Waterloo, I might have to add this to my list as well.
It's a shame Kubrick never was able to see his Napoleon film come to be....Jack Nicholson was to play Bonaparte.
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Not wishing to derail .... my own fucking thread ;D
I will just remind you Lyle without having to resort to multiple @
mentions or any of your millenial gaybo stuff of your own opening sentence . Maybe reflect on that and think of it as a reading comprehension excercise
"Oh so it's not being "forced".....maybe "coerced" is a better word but whatever YOU do @Beanz never even address that there MIGHT be an issue, never change"
See now you have me fucking @
mentioning myself by quoting your drivel. You were the one who had to bring a fucking race argument into a thread about books. Seriously does it keep you up at night? Is it so troubling to you that you can't continue to be the dominant young white male demographic forever and a day? A fucking race to the bottom mate that seems to be what you are intent on making the forum. Wind up the tension, throw in a few hand grenades, bluff ignorance and steadily drip , drip your fucking belly aching until IT seems normal and all the other posters are painted as 'Them' 'Snowflakes' 'the enemy' 'Goons'
We were all mates,We are all going to die, and you are wasting your time on this shit?
Yes YOU have to change but it is really not that hard.
I use @ mentions to get your attention.....don't want me to post directly @ you, fine I won't post @ you at fucking all....OH WAIT, I can't do that because I nearly drowned in your tears from the last time I do that.
I @ mentioned Batman, he didn't cry about it....why do you?
I asked Batman a question, not you, YOU jumped in why? Because why not, I cannot post without you throwing a temper tantrum apparently....why do you bother me, yes, YOU take YOUR time and follow ME around the forum. Just tell me "Hey, I don't want you to post in here" fucking type it out instead of your constant bitching, I'll leave YOU alone, too bad that's not a mutual thing.
Call all your mates Nazi's do you? Accuse them of sympathizing with that group do you? You're a piece of shit, I'm not your fucking mate....wouldn't piss on you if you burst into flames and that was all I could put it out with.
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I got rid of a fuck load of books a while ago, I really wish I hadn't even the shit ones I miss, I got rid of about 200 I think, I probably should have only got rid of about 20 or 30 of them max
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Freedom blimey thats got a pretty high score on GoodReads, do you need much knowledge on the battle to enjoy it, I'm pretty limited in that respect but this sounds pretty decent.
You don't need any prior knowledge of the battle to enjoy it. It covers everything.
The movie
Waterloo is very good, it goes well with the book.
A lot of Napoleonic prisoners were kept here in Plymouth and then Princetown on the moor. Napoleon himself was kept prisoner on a ship anchored in Plymouth Harbor for a while too.
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What a fantastic book that was, the story was simple enough, Tim Sunblade (as he is now known) has been working a shitty job on an oil rig he finishes work and gets himself a prostitute, she ends up staying with him for a few days and although he wants to he can't seem to shake her off, she is quite honest about her interests and motives 'once the moneys gone, I'm gone' but neither of them can stay away from the other.
Its a pretty volatile relationship, certainly of the love/hate variety, she tries to steal him money, he gives her a bit of a beating, she fights back, he realizes that against his better judgement he has fell in love with her and she is just the right person to help him carry out an armed robbery that he has been planning since he was inside.
Virginia is certainly a restless type of girl, the mundane life doesn't agree with her, Tim Sunblade knows what he wants, he doesn't know why he wants it just that he does.
Fantastic book I'd recommend it to anyone, I can't wait to get the chance to pick it back up and re-read it.
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The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents despair, the doctors are unable to halt Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls the terrifying events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories begin to surface and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed.
Really enjoyed this, it seems like its been a while since I read a bog standard exorcism horror, this ticked all the boxes apart from one, it wasn't scary at all.
There are three different narratives in the book, Merry when she is 8 years old describing things as they happened, Merry 15 years on when she is being interviewed for a true crime and finally a random blogger who describes things as seen in the TV docuseries.
The influences in the book were obvious, almost too obvious, the lead character Merry is basically an extension of Merricat from Shirley Jacksons 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' she is playful and naive and doesn't fully understand what is going on around her (An 8 year old girl trying to deal with her 14 year old sisters schizophrenia/demonic possession) and whilst she doesn't have that twisted sense of mischief that Merricat had but the whole of her narrative had the almost exact same feel (the author actually admits after the book that this was his inspiration but it was painfully blatant. He did however manage to keep it entertaining and enjoyable, sometimes books written from a kids perspective can be cringe worthy but he managed to avoid this.
Paul Tremblay really did try to drag the dated exorcisms into today's world of Wikipedia, iPods and reality TV, it didn't always hit the mark though, the actual 'horror' side of the book suffered from this, the exorcism almost took the backseat for the descriptions of the TV show's cast and crew.
There is a nice little section after the book where the author gives a break down on each chapter describing where his ideas and influences came from, and he has a little chat about his favourite horror films and books etc, I like that sort of thing, it gives you an idea into how their mind works.
It certainly isn't the greatest of books but it was certainly a cracking little page turner.
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I think I'm going to stick with the whole 'horror, demon, exorcist' shizzle for the minute and start this tomorrow
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In a peaceful Vermont courtroom, humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable -- armed with sensuality, delusion and horrible death -- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance.
Not since The Exorcist has there been such a powerful novel of demonic possession as Son of the Endless Night.
Now I have no recollection of buying this at all, I just got home from work one day and there it was on the floor as I walked through the door, I have either hit the 'one click buy' button on Amazon without realizing it or I have made another of my drunk purchases, I really have no idea, usually if I am buying books when drunk I'll get 4 or 5 delivered sporadically over the course of a few weeks, its actually quite good fun not having any idea of what it could be, I've stumbled across a few gems that way.
Anyway, if its shit I'll put it down to the 'once click buy' button, if its good then I'll chalk it up to drunk batman being out of his noggin on Stella or Rum.
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OK then as the year is drawing to a close I thought I'd post the full list of everything I've read this year, I'm hoping to get another one or two done before the year is out but I'm feeling a bit burnt out now so we'll see how I get on.
J.Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas - 1864
Charles Portis - True Grit - 1968
Albert Camus - The Plague - 1947
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men - 1937
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood - 1965
Ian Rankin - Knots & Crosses - 1987
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - 1962
Oakley Hall - Warlock - 1958
Ian Rankin - Hide and Seek - 1991
Shirley Jackson - The Birds Nest - 1954
Ray Celestin - The Axemans Jazz - 2014
Zecharia Sitchin - The Lost Book of Enki - 2001
James Herbert - The Rats - 1974
S. Elliot Brandis - Young Slasher
Ian Rankin - Tooth and Nail - 1992
James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - 1824
Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake - 2003
Charles Bukowski - Post Office - 1971
Jim Al-Khalili - Aliens: Science asks: Is there anyone out there?
Lauren Beukes - Broken Monsters - 2014
Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project - 2014
Stephen King - It - 1986
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian - 1985
Stefan Grabínski - The Dark Domain
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita - 1955
Michael Connelly - The Crossing - 2015
Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya, or the Moor - 1806
Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister - 1947
George Orwell - 1984 - 1949
Steven Hall - The raw Shark Texts - 2007
Stefan Kiesbye - Your house is on fire, your children all gone - 2011
Elliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel - 1953
Paul Trmblay - A Head Full of Ghosts - 2015
Max Ernst - Une Semaine de Bonté - 1934 (this is a bit of a cheat because its just pictures)
John Farris - Son of the Endless Night - 1985
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That is a lot of books! Pace yourself and enjoy them. It is not a race.
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That is a lot of books! Pace yourself and enjoy them. It is not a race.
meh, its less than a book a week, I'd rather read than sit down watching the telly constantly.
It's a nice (mostly) cheap hobby and it keeps me out of trouble.
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Hey I just started the Stephen king book about kennedy. Most of what I read is history, philosophy and and theology along with a smattering of economics. I'm looking foreword to this nonfiction.
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I just read Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Count Philippe-Paul De Segur.
GREAT book, the author was a young aide-de-camp to Napoleon during the campaign. You get a feeling of what it was like to be there from reading this.
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OK then as the year is drawing to a close I thought I'd post the full list of everything I've read this year, I'm hoping to get another one or two done before the year is out but I'm feeling a bit burnt out now so we'll see how I get on.
J.Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas - 1864
Charles Portis - True Grit - 1968
Albert Camus - The Plague - 1947
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men - 1937
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood - 1965
Ian Rankin - Knots & Crosses - 1987
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - 1962
Oakley Hall - Warlock - 1958
Ian Rankin - Hide and Seek - 1991
Shirley Jackson - The Birds Nest - 1954
Ray Celestin - The Axemans Jazz - 2014
Zecharia Sitchin - The Lost Book of Enki - 2001
James Herbert - The Rats - 1974
S. Elliot Brandis - Young Slasher
Ian Rankin - Tooth and Nail - 1992
James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - 1824
Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake - 2003
Charles Bukowski - Post Office - 1971
Jim Al-Khalili - Aliens: Science asks: Is there anyone out there?
Lauren Beukes - Broken Monsters - 2014
Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project - 2014
Stephen King - It - 1986
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian - 1985
Stefan Grabínski - The Dark Domain
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita - 1955
Michael Connelly - The Crossing - 2015
Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya, or the Moor - 1806
Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister - 1947
George Orwell - 1984 - 1949
Steven Hall - The raw Shark Texts - 2007
Stefan Kiesbye - Your house is on fire, your children all gone - 2011
Elliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel - 1953
Paul Trmblay - A Head Full of Ghosts - 2015
Max Ernst - Une Semaine de Bonté - 1934 (this is a bit of a cheat because its just pictures)
John Farris - Son of the Endless Night - 1985
That is an awful lot of fiction. If you were on the same bus as Bill Hicks, God knows what the "We got ourselves a reader" bloke would have made of you. Books are good..m'kay. Well done . I would buy you a pint but you live miles away. Merry Crimbo oh caped peruser
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OK then as the year is drawing to a close I thought I'd post the full list of everything I've read this year, I'm hoping to get another one or two done before the year is out but I'm feeling a bit burnt out now so we'll see how I get on.
J.Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas - 1864
Charles Portis - True Grit - 1968
Albert Camus - The Plague - 1947
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men - 1937
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood - 1965
Ian Rankin - Knots & Crosses - 1987
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - 1962
Oakley Hall - Warlock - 1958
Ian Rankin - Hide and Seek - 1991
Shirley Jackson - The Birds Nest - 1954
Ray Celestin - The Axemans Jazz - 2014
Zecharia Sitchin - The Lost Book of Enki - 2001
James Herbert - The Rats - 1974
S. Elliot Brandis - Young Slasher
Ian Rankin - Tooth and Nail - 1992
James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - 1824
Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake - 2003
Charles Bukowski - Post Office - 1971
Jim Al-Khalili - Aliens: Science asks: Is there anyone out there?
Lauren Beukes - Broken Monsters - 2014
Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project - 2014
Stephen King - It - 1986
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian - 1985
Stefan Grabínski - The Dark Domain
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita - 1955
Michael Connelly - The Crossing - 2015
Charlotte Dacre - Zofloya, or the Moor - 1806
Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister - 1947
George Orwell - 1984 - 1949
Steven Hall - The raw Shark Texts - 2007
Stefan Kiesbye - Your house is on fire, your children all gone - 2011
Elliott Chaze - Black Wings Has My Angel - 1953
Paul Trmblay - A Head Full of Ghosts - 2015
Max Ernst - Une Semaine de Bonté - 1934 (this is a bit of a cheat because its just pictures)
John Farris - Son of the Endless Night - 1985
That is an awful lot of fiction. If you were on the same bus as Bill Hicks, God knows what the "
We got ourselves a reader" bloke would have made of you. Books are good..m'kay. Well done . I would buy you a pint but you live miles away. Merry Crimbo oh caped peruser
@Beanz I can add another 2 to that list now
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'The horror, whatever it was, had not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous beauty'
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.
cracking book, I don't know why I'd never read it before now, its very much a book of morals and whilst it isn't shocking or controversial in this day and age if you like fiction from this era then its definitely worth reading, I'll definitely revisit this in the future.
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Darkness lives within ...Cash-strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So when she takes a new room at the right price, she believes her luck has finally turned. But 82 Edgware Road is not what it appears to be. It's not only the eerie atmosphere of the vast, neglected house, or the disturbing attitude of her new landlord, Knacker McGuire, that makes her uneasy - it's the whispers behind the fireplace, the scratching beneath floors, the footsteps in the dark, and the young women weeping in neighbouring rooms. And when Knacker's cousin Fergal arrives, the danger goes vertical. But this is merely a beginning, a gateway to horrors beyond Stephanie's worst nightmares. And in a house where no one listens to the screams, will she ever get out alive?
Just a bog standard horror this was, I've read Adam Nevill before but never realised he was a Brummie himself, it was strange trying to read about a haunted house in Handsworth, I just couldn't imagine it, he also mentions how Perry Barr is mainly populated by Asians but the Eastern Europeans are taking the area over, the main character actually works in the bull ring, it was pretty nice to see Birmingham get the full on horror treatment.
Its certainly pretty bleak for the main part, its kind of like Jack Ketchums 'The Girl Next Door' with elements of Eden Lake and Martyrs thrown in for good measure.
This was delivered today, I'm really looking forward to getting started on it tomorrow
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Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror, surrealism, crime, and noir. Set in a large America city, Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late-night streets: prostitutes, pimps, a thief, an arsonist, a police detective, a psychotic killer, and more. Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Baldwin’s striking illustrations. This is a dark read with some explicit graphic content.
“Original, intelligent and exquisitely rendered, Sacrificial Nights is an absolute tour de force, a richly layered Chinese Box of sorts, where each part is as important as the whole. In a world of cookie-cutter plots and tired poetry, Sacrificial Nights is a shot of cool night air, shadowy, dangerous, and addictive as sin.” —Greg F. Gifune, author of The Bleeding Season
"When a book is both lucid and hallucinogenic, the effect can be shocking, luminous … transgressive. The collision of talents in this extraordinary work practically establishes a new genre – macabre noir." —Robert Dunbar, author of Willy
“Populated by denizens who straddle the line between salvation and damnation, Sacrificial Nightsreads like a flashlight exploration of the darkness lurking behind closed doors and down blind alleys. Boston and Manzetti deftly navigate the shadows where human monsters dwell.” —Michael McBride, author of Subterrestrial
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I'd really like to get Simon Sinek’s book 'Together is better'
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I'm doing something that I never do at the minute and I'm reading 2 books at the same time.
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Welcome to Hell.
One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned.
Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned at the stake, this dramatic, frightening and, at times, sardonically humorous vision of Hell still has the power to shock and horrify
I'm re-reading Inferno, I've got two copies of it the little paperback in the picture above and the whole Divine Comedy in a big leather bound hard back with some glorious animations, I'm alternating between the two of them, paperback at work and hard back at home.
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Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and ’80s . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary’s Baby. It’s an affectionate, nostalgic, and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of two iconic decades, complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles. You’ll find familiar authors, like V. C. Andrews and R. L. Stine, and many more who’ve faded into obscurity. Plus recommendations for which of these forgotten treasures are well worth your reading time and which should stay buried.
After reading Son of the Endless night a few weeks back it got me to realising how much I used to love this genre, this takes a look through them, I'm hoping it'll help me unearth a few cheap gems on Amazon.
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A few I've read lately
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After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier — and is now ready to kill again . . .
Brilliant book, I really enjoyed this one, it was a real slow burner and only picked up in the final 20 or 30 pages but that didn't bother me.
The characters were great as well, the Dad who actually treated his daughter like a human being rather than the stereotypical father who raps his pride and joy up in cotton wool, then there was Odessa who was stereotypical, the black maid who loved the family and would go to the ends of the earth for them.
A real good book that I will no doubt revisit in the future
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At a party, six college kids play with a Ouija board - that same one that Professor Dalton swore never to touch again - not after Jake's death. And now a spirit is telling the students about a vast fortune, hidden in the mountains. But surely they won't be stupid enough to head off into the wilderness on the say-so of a 'toy' ... would they?
Decent paint by numbers horror, kids play with a Ouija board which promises to lead them to masses of treasure, they go on a camping trip and shit gets real.
The one thing that grated on me though was the constant talk of sex, it just got boring. The dialogue was clunky but fun and the entire story is bizarre but actually really good
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It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists are puzzling over the growth, Karen`s personality is beginning to drastically change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moved. Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes in contact with Karen Tandy understands the very depths of terror. Her body and soul are being taken over by a black spirit over four centuries old. He is the remembrance of the evils the white man has bestowed on the Indian people and the vengeance that has waited four hundred years to surface. He is the Manitou.
A young woman is having strange dreams and notices a lump on her neck which starts growing at an alarming rate, she goes to the doctors about the lump and goes to a 'fraudulent' psychic about the dreams, the two things are quickly connected and things move along at a breakneck speed.
Anyway she ends up giving birth (out of her neck) to a fully grown 600 year old red Indian, that's when the battle commences.
Its completely bonkers, if you are prepared to leave your brain at the door you will have good fun reading this.
I wouldn't say its a classic but its certainly enjoyable.
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I'm reading The Greatest Salesman in the World by OG Mandino; Wired That Way by Marita Littauer; Murderers Row by Springs Toledo.
