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Old 10-21-2006, 05:23 PM
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I´ve been reading At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.

The first 50 or so pages are very good and I was very excited about the book, but lately the story is so boooooooring! 20 or 30 pages with useless descriptions of EVERYTHING?? For what? To make me sleep, I guess...

Hope things improve, otherwise its just another disapointment.

Like Urgeok, I think there isn´t many good horror writers, let´s face it...
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Old 10-21-2006, 06:41 PM
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20 or 30 pages with useless descriptions of EVERYTHING?? For what? To make me sleep, I guess...
One of my only gripes with Lovecraft. Fantastic author IMO, but he can really get lost in descrption.
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Old 10-22-2006, 06:50 AM
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just finished Keene's THE RISING and i can see the complaint about it being very straightforward. that said i really enjoyed it and even was late to work on friday because i HAD to finish the last chapter (which was a cliffhanger - DAMNIT!) i agree with Noct- i liked the characters and found the action moved along at a rapid clip (ok- at times a bit irrationally rapid but i can see the whole chaos and insanity leading to crazy decisions).

am off to the mall today to try and find City of The Dead - I'm also looking forward to the new Keene novel _THE GHOUL_ which should be out sometime really soon.
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Monster Nation
Follow up to Monster Island
A little bit of political crap and some of the same old stuff but it's still a good read so far.
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Old 10-23-2006, 06:06 AM
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i started reading Gaimans: Anansi Boys (spelling ?)

i must have 6 books on the go now ..

since sorting my collection i've found a ton of stuff i want to read - all at the same time..
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Old 10-23-2006, 08:30 AM
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Old 10-23-2006, 09:13 AM
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time - i need more time..
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Old 10-23-2006, 08:25 PM
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I would love more time to finish reading all the books I have collected over the years...meh.

Well I've started "I'm the vampire, That's why" By Michele Bradsley...not too bad...but not great either.
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Old 10-24-2006, 10:09 AM
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i started reading Gaimans: Anansi Boys (spelling ?)

i must have 6 books on the go now ..

since sorting my collection i've found a ton of stuff i want to read - all at the same time..
Any good?

Ive been wanting to check out more of his stuff
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Old 10-24-2006, 12:19 PM
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Any good?

Ive been wanting to check out more of his stuff
so far so good ...
he gets a little frilly around the edges - more than necessary .. but still decent.
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