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Old 09-06-2006, 06:10 AM
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upstairs - i'm reading Off Season - Jack Ketchum

how is this?
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Old 09-06-2006, 06:16 AM
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What do you think of it? Do you think I'm completely out of my mind yet?! :D

i've read it before - remember :)

i remember it being ok (considering i'm not a fan of horror fiction)
so far - it's ok again ... nothing to write home about ..good for killing time while eating my morning cereal :)
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Old 09-06-2006, 06:19 AM
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i've read it before - remember :)

i remember it being ok (considering i'm not a fan of horror fiction)
so far - it's ok again ... nothing to write home about ..good for killing time while eating my morning cereal :)
Well, the menopausal brain forgot that you read it before! :D Hey, I could have gone on Who Wants to be a Superhero and been called "The Amazing Menopausal Brain"! :D
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Old 09-06-2006, 06:22 AM
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how is this?
well, he suggested i buy it because it's his first novel (i bought this and one other from him)

i'm about 100 pages in and i have to say it's pretty impressive for a first work.

he does one thing i like - a lot .. he doesnt feel the need to provide every little detail to describe the characters .. he builds a framework via the actions of the characters and lets you fill in the blanks yourself.

he also avoids a lot of other cliches i see in horror fiction all the time .. painfully obvious forshadowing ... silly characters ...

so far its pretty good ..
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Old 09-07-2006, 05:55 AM
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just finished Ketchum's Off Season (the uncut version)

excellent writing considering that this is his first novel ..

it has the same feel and flow as Last House or I Spit ..
intense, brutal, no frills.

no cliches either .. impossible to know how this one will end at any time in the novel..
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Clive Barker-The Hellbound Heart.
Great story. One of the few occasions where I like the story and the movie equally.
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Old 09-10-2006, 07:04 PM
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Im fighting my way through Treasure Island by Robert Lousis Stevenson.

I really dont like novels like this...normally I would have given up on it, but I have to read it for a stage version that Im in this fall. Our play is gonna rock, but God the book is boring.

Oh, if anyone is famiulliar with the book...Im Dr. Livesay:)
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it's a horror anthology that won the Stoker award this year - great shorts from Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Steve Niles, Whitlry Strieber, Richard Matheson and others.

also reading Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker
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