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Post by dark sister on Aug 15, 2017 13:25:42 GMT -5
I'm reading We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby. It's hilarious.
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Post by darkandstormy on Aug 25, 2017 19:26:12 GMT -5
I just finished a Stephen King collection of short stories entitled "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams". There were 21 tales of the unusual, weird, strange and creepy. I didn't read it straight through because it just didn't capture my interest like some of his other works, like "It" and "The Stand". I picked it up and put it down for about 3 weeks, until I finished it ~ when I can devour a good book in 2-3 days, depending on how busy I am.
One thing of note ~ there was a police officer by the name of Andy Clutterbuck in the story "Drunken Fireworks", which made me LOL!
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Post by Rosie on Aug 27, 2017 13:31:21 GMT -5
I just finished a Stephen King collection of short stories entitled "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams". There were 21 tales of the unusual, weird, strange and creepy. I didn't read it straight through because it just didn't capture my interest like some of his other works, like "It" and "The Stand". I picked it up and put it down for about 3 weeks, until I finished it ~ when I can devour a good book in 2-3 days, depending on how busy I am. One thing of note ~ there was a police officer by the name of Andy Clutterbuck in the story "Drunken Fireworks", which made me LOL!LOL! I had forgotten all about this story. This book was published in 2015. He may have named the police officer as a nod to Andrew Lincoln.
Nope - Andy Clutterbuck was the deputy sheriff in several King stories set in Castle Rock. stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Andy_Clutterbuck
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Post by Rosie on Aug 27, 2017 13:35:49 GMT -5
I just finished a very interesting book - Afterlife by Marcus Sakey. It went straight to movie rights before it was published July 11, 2017.
"Imagine the love story in the film "Ghost" dropped into the "Matrix". "Astonishing."
I really enjoyed this book and read it non-stop.
Ron Howard and Brian Glazer are attached to the film with Marcus Sakey writing the script.
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Post by nana on Aug 28, 2017 23:06:34 GMT -5
I just finished a very interesting book - Afterlife by Marcus Sakey. It went straight to movie rights before it was published July 11, 2017. "Imagine the love story in the film "Ghost" dropped into the " Matrix". "Astonishing." I really enjoyed this book and read it non-stop. Ron Howard and Brian Glazer are attached to the film with Marcus Sakey writing the script. There is a Japanese movie called Afterlife... the deceased pick their favorite memory, it is made into a movie for them to keep and take with them to the afterlife.
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Post by Rosie on Sept 4, 2017 14:48:36 GMT -5
I just finished My Absolute Darling by a new author, Gabriel Tallent.
Triggers - physical, psychological, sexual abuse including rape/incest by a father inflicted upon his daughter.
From Kirkus:
"A 14-year-old girl struggles to escape her father’s emotional and physical abuse in this harrowing debut.
Turtle (born Julia) lives with her father, Martin, in the woods near the Mendocino coast. Their home is equipped like a separatist camp, and Martin opines officiously about climate change when he isn’t training Turtle in gun skills or, at night, raping her. Unsurprisingly, Turtle is isolated, self-hating, and cruel to her classmates. She also possesses the kind of strength that suggests she could leave Martin if she had help, but her concerned teacher and grandfather are unsure what to do, and once Martin pulls her out of school and her grandfather dies, the point is moot. Can she get out? Tallent delays the answer to that question, of course, but before the climax he’s written a fearless adventure tale that’s as savvy about internal emotional storms as it is about wrangling with family and nature. Turtle gets a glimpse of a better life through Jacob, a classmate from a well-off family (“she feels brilliantly included within that province of things she wants”), and her efforts to save him in the woods earn his admiration. But when Martin brings another young girl home, Turtle can’t leave for fear of history repeating. Tallent often stretches out visceral, violent scenes—Turtle forced to sustain a pull-up as Martin holds a knife beneath her, homebrew surgery, eating scorpions—to a point that is nearly sadistic. But he plainly means to explore how such moments seem to slow time, imprinting his young characters deeply. And he also takes care with Martin’s character, showing how the autodidact, hard-edged attitude that makes him so monstrous also gives Turtle the means to plot against him. Ultimately, though, this is Turtle’s story, and she is a remarkable teenage hero, heavily damaged but admirably persistent.
A powerful, well-turned story about abuse, its consequences, and what it takes to survive it."
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Post by darkandstormy on Sept 6, 2017 13:47:01 GMT -5
I just finished a Stephen King collection of short stories entitled "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams". There were 21 tales of the unusual, weird, strange and creepy. I didn't read it straight through because it just didn't capture my interest like some of his other works, like "It" and "The Stand". I picked it up and put it down for about 3 weeks, until I finished it ~ when I can devour a good book in 2-3 days, depending on how busy I am. One thing of note ~ there was a police officer by the name of Andy Clutterbuck in the story "Drunken Fireworks", which made me LOL!LOL! I had forgotten all about this story. This book was published in 2015. He may have named the police officer as a nod to Andrew Lincoln.
Nope - Andy Clutterbuck was the deputy sheriff in several King stories set in Castle Rock. stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Andy_ClutterbuckOh okay, thank you for the clarification! I never noticed that before and I've been reading his works for years. So it's just coincidental then. So many Andy Clutterbucks!
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