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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 26, 2021 16:41:18 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 26, 2021 16:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 27, 2021 21:45:52 GMT -5
Just got a collection of short horror stories from a variety of authors via a pen pal. He has one published in it and thought I might like a look.  |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 3, 2021 17:53:54 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 8, 2021 21:38:14 GMT -5
FINALLY found this one listed at MELCAT so I can get it sent to my library.  REDHEADED PECKERWOOD by Christian Patterson. A used copy costs a king's ransom. It seemed to go out of print instantly. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 8, 2021 22:51:23 GMT -5
FINALLY found this one listed at MELCAT so I can get it sent to my library. REDHEADED PECKERWOOD by Christian Patterson. A used copy costs a king's ransom. It seemed to go out of print instantly. What's that one about? I've heard of redheaded stepchildren... |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 9, 2021 22:09:28 GMT -5
FINALLY found this one listed at MELCAT so I can get it sent to my library. REDHEADED PECKERWOOD by Christian Patterson. A used copy costs a king's ransom. It seemed to go out of print instantly. What's that one about? I've heard of redheaded stepchildren... It's a combination photo essay and travel book on the murder spree of Chuck Starkweather -- the title of the book is how he described himself -- and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 10, 2021 13:18:57 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 10, 2021 13:19:43 GMT -5
Just got a collection of short horror stories from a variety of authors via a pen pal. He has one published in it and thought I might like a look. What's it called? |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Aug 16, 2021 14:05:16 GMT -5
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Yes, this is a fanboy thing. Yes, I'm still happy it's here.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 16, 2021 22:32:52 GMT -5
Just got a collection of short horror stories from a variety of authors via a pen pal. He has one published in it and thought I might like a look. What's it called? It's called COLP: TREASURE and features an illustration of a white cat with a small black bleeding bird in it's mouth. I have no idea what the title refers to. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Aug 30, 2021 5:03:43 GMT -5
I just realized - in freakin' August (almost freakin' September actually) - that I never posted my 2020 reading list. I vowed three a month and I managed to pull it off, admittedly using some tricks to get there like loading up on pulp novels I knew would read quickly. Not doing nearly as well this year, but I still have time to do better.
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Winter Father: Collected Short Stories and Novellas, Vol. 2, short fiction by Andre Dubus
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Night Walker by Donald Hamilton
Oblomov by Ivan Gonchorov
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Handle by Richard Stark
Stain of Suspicion by Charles Williams
The Comedians by Graham Greene
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carre
The ABCs of Science by Giuseppe Mussardo
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Duff Guide to 2 Tone by Stephen Shafer
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, short stories by Haruki Murakami
Had I But Groaned by Carter Brown
White Nights & Other Stories, short stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Dumpty, poems by John Lithgow
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Berlin! Berlin! Dispatches from the Weimar Republic, essays by Kurt Tucholsky
Petrovka 38 by Julian Semyonov
Can a Mermaid Kill? by Thomas B. Dewey
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
My Favorite Animal Stories, compiled by Gerald Durrell
The Name of the Game Is Death by Dan J. Marlowe
Branded Woman by Wade Miller
Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual, short stories and pieces by Jonathan Winters
Happy to Be Here: Even More Stories and Comic Pieces, short stories and pieces by Garrison Keillor
Ghouls by Edward Lee
Draw the Curtain Close by Thomas B. Dewey
Sleeping with Moscow by Anatole Verbitzky and Dick Adler
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 17, 2021 7:04:49 GMT -5
Ages ago I read FALLING ANGEL and it left no taste in my mouth at all. I decided to take another stab at it and just got a copy in the mail. Here's the odd thing: I clearly remember it as a svelte mass-market paperback of 135 pages. This one is almost 300 pages and has 47 chapters. It makes me long for the old days when it was easier to find out about the different editions of a book. These days everything is crowdsourced and the 13-year-olds selling their copies on Amazon think the edition in their hands is the original publication date. A book that's been on Kindle since 1923 has an original publication date of 2017. Feh.  |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 21, 2021 16:24:26 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 21, 2021 16:27:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deeky on Sept 21, 2021 17:45:21 GMT -5
Oh god, I haven't seen that Manson book in 30 years. I'd forgotten it existed.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 23, 2021 14:38:03 GMT -5
Oh god, I haven't seen that Manson book in 30 years. I'd forgotten it existed. Yeah, so many Manson books, so little time, am I right? In the teeth of what I expected he isn't raving that he's Jesus Christ at all in here, but then he did tell the author that he was on injectables. The other one posted above, on the other hand -- LET'S ROLL -- was oppressively churchy and Christy and faithful as shit. Guh. |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Sept 23, 2021 15:34:03 GMT -5
Oh god, I haven't seen that Manson book in 30 years. I'd forgotten it existed. Yeah, so many Manson books, so little time, am I right? In the teeth of what I expected he isn't raving that he's Jesus Christ at all in here, but then he did tell the author that he was on injectables. The other one posted above, on the other hand -- LET'S ROLL -- was oppressively churchy and Christy and faithful as shit. Guh. Jesus hath laid his hands upon thee and made thee a trained Sky marshal... No...not buying that. |
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Post by Deeky on Sept 23, 2021 16:20:20 GMT -5
Wasn't the whole "let's roll" thing debunked anyway?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Sept 23, 2021 16:26:32 GMT -5
Wasn't the while "let's roll" thing debunked anyway? Apparently it was "let's croissant". |
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