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Old 02-20-2015, 04:44 AM   #2731
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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.
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Old 02-20-2015, 11:12 AM   #2732
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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!
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:41 PM   #2733
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The end of that book leaves you hanging.
Srsly, or, is that a LumberJimism?

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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.
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:52 PM   #2734
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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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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.
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Old 02-20-2015, 03:58 PM   #2735
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Ah, The Bachman Books.

You realize, of course, we're the lowest common denominator?
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Old 02-20-2015, 04:08 PM   #2736
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I am.
I always am.

But we both look sexy in a wife beater.
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Old 02-21-2015, 06:13 AM   #2737
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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.
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Old 03-02-2015, 04:48 PM   #2738
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Starting Dean Koontz's "77 Shadow Street" tonight.
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Old 03-19-2015, 01:48 PM   #2739
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Old 03-19-2015, 01:55 PM   #2740
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Hahahahhaha. That's wicked.
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Old 04-18-2015, 06:19 PM   #2741
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Frozen in time, by Mark Kurlansky. About Clarence Birdseye.
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Old 04-19-2015, 03:51 PM   #2742
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Starting Dean Koontz's "77 Shadow Street" tonight.
Not quite halfway through.

Not really grabbing me.
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Old 04-19-2015, 03:58 PM   #2743
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I seem to remember giving up on that about a third of the way through
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Old 05-26-2015, 08:04 PM   #2744
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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
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Old 05-29-2015, 03:01 PM   #2745
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Still haven't finished "77 Shadow Street".

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