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Sundae · 02-20-2015, 05:44 AM

Just finished Thinner, which I was rereading after a long time.
My perception of it was markedly different to when I read it as a late teen. I though the people in it were SO old and SO fat back then!

Some things didn't happen the way I remembered either. I think I may have watched the film in the intervening years, because what I remember incorrectly are plot points which I can't think I would have changed, but a Director might.

Reading The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (charity shop find) and Mr Shivers, which I picked up from the library yesterday. The first is surprisingly touching, the second it's too soon to tell. I like how spare it is though.

Clodfobble · 02-20-2015, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

what I remember incorrectly are plot points which I can't think I would have changed, but a Director might.

Unless you have been hiding a secret talent for film directing all these years!

Gravdigr · 02-20-2015, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

The end of that book leaves you hanging.

Srsly, or, is that a LumberJimism?

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Originally Posted by Sundae

Just finished Thinner

The one by Stephen King?

If so, it would be the first time (I think) that I've read a book that another Dwellar actually spoke of.

Sundae · 02-20-2015, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Unless you have been hiding a secret talent for film directing all these years!

I've been hiding it from myself too. Explains where all the money went I guess.

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

The one by Stephen King?

If so, it would be the first time (I think) that I've read a book that another Dwellar actually spoke of.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman, yes.

My Daddy brought me home his books when he worked at a printers. He occasionally..ahem... liberated them from the pulping skip.
Sadly, he ruined the surprise of The Long Walk by being too enthusiastic about a book he was reading where (decades old spoiler alert!) boys were killed if they walked below a certain speed.

lumberjism. Hahahahahaha.

Gravdigr · 02-20-2015, 04:58 PM

Ah, The Bachman Books.

You realize, of course, we're the lowest common denominator?

Sundae · 02-20-2015, 05:08 PM

I am.
I always am.

But we both look sexy in a wife beater.

DanaC · 02-21-2015, 07:13 AM

Oh man, I loved Thinner! I used to read a lot of King/Bachman. Every so often I revisit. I think my favourite was Needful Things (film was nowhere near as good, but did star Amanda Plummer, funnily enough ;p).

Right now I am in between books. I had a run of much wanted books - the latest instalments in several ongoing series: Zombie Fallout 8, Lycan Fallout 2, Half a Prayer (Tome of Bill book 6) and San Francisco Night, the sixth Jack Nightingale mystery. This run of good books has spoiled me.

Have tried getting into a couple of sci-fi and fantasy books, but nothing is grabbing me. Seriously considering going back to the start of the Zombie Fallout books and rereading.

Anybody else read the Jack Nightingale mysteries? I highly recommend them - particularly the first one - the rest are all good, but that first one was awesome. They're written by Stephen Leather - and like most of his books there's a strong thread of detailed police/spy procedural.

Here's the plot summary for Nightshade, the first in the series:

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'You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale': They are words that ended his career as a police negotiator. Now Jack's a struggling private detective - and the chilling words come back to haunt him.

Nightingale's life is turned upside down the day that he inherits a mansion with a priceless library; it comes from a man who claims to be his father, and it comes with a warning. That Nightingale's soul was sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his thirty-third birthday - just three weeks away.

Jack doesn't believe in Hell, probably doesn't believe in Heaven either. But when people close to him start to die horribly, he is led to the inescapable conclusion that real evil may be at work. And that if he doesn't find a way out he'll be damned in hell for eternity.

Gravdigr · 03-02-2015, 05:48 PM

Starting Dean Koontz's "77 Shadow Street" tonight.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-19-2015, 02:48 PM

one of NAG's fakes.

DanaC · 03-19-2015, 02:55 PM

Hahahahhaha. That's wicked.

busterb · 04-18-2015, 07:19 PM

Frozen in time, by Mark Kurlansky. About Clarence Birdseye.

Gravdigr · 04-19-2015, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Starting Dean Koontz's "77 Shadow Street" tonight.

Not quite halfway through.

Not really grabbing me.

DanaC · 04-19-2015, 04:58 PM

I seem to remember giving up on that about a third of the way through

busterb · 05-26-2015, 09:04 PM

Finished The Exiles, book 1 of the Australians. By W. S. Long Next, The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye.
I read these books back in the early 80s

Gravdigr · 05-29-2015, 04:01 PM

Still haven't finished "77 Shadow Street".

Reading this book should be a form of punishment. It really is like work.

02-20-2015, 05:44 AM	#2731
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Just finished Thinner, which I was rereading after a long time. My perception of it was markedly different to when I read it as a late teen. I though the people in it were SO old and SO fat back then! Some things didn't happen the way I remembered either. I think I may have watched the film in the intervening years, because what I remember incorrectly are plot points which I can't think I would have changed, but a Director might. Reading The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (charity shop find) and Mr Shivers, which I picked up from the library yesterday. The first is surprisingly touching, the second it's too soon to tell. I like how spare it is though. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-20-2015, 04:58 PM	#2735
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Ah, The Bachman Books. You realize, of course, we're the lowest common denominator? __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

02-20-2015, 05:08 PM	#2736
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I am. I always am. But we both look sexy in a wife beater. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-02-2015, 05:48 PM	#2738
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Starting Dean Koontz's "77 Shadow Street" tonight. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

03-19-2015, 02:48 PM	#2739
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	one of NAG's fakes. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-18-2015, 07:19 PM	#2741
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Frozen in time, by Mark Kurlansky. About Clarence Birdseye. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-26-2015, 09:04 PM	#2744
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	Finished The Exiles, book 1 of the Australians. By W. S. Long Next, The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye. I read these books back in the early 80s __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-29-2015, 04:01 PM	#2745
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Still haven't finished "77 Shadow Street". Reading this book should be a form of punishment. It really is like work. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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