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Old 09-24-2009, 05:21 AM   #2641
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the only book that ever scared me enough so that it made me uncomfortable to read it was Stephen Kings "PetSematary". Read it once and not to keen on reading it again.
Agree with you there, it left you waiting for the middle of the night knock on the door, one of his best I thought.
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Old 09-24-2009, 05:41 AM   #2642
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the only book that ever scared me enough so that it made me uncomfortable to read it was Stephen Kings "PetSematary". Read it once and not to keen on reading it again.
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Agree with you there, it left you waiting for the middle of the night knock on the door, one of his best I thought.
Agreed.... but a few years earlier was Salem's Lot. That one caused me to sit up all night (with every light on) just waiting until it was light enough to go into work early.
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Old 09-24-2009, 05:44 AM   #2643
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Agreed.... but a few years earlier was Salem's Lot. That one caused me to sit up all night (with every light on) just waiting until it was light enough to go into work early.
Nah... Salems lot is about vampires, and vampires doesn't really scare me

As for PetSemetary, it was the whole atmosphere and feel of the book that gave me the heebie jeebies
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Old 09-24-2009, 05:53 AM   #2644
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Nah... Salems lot is about vampires, and vampires doesn't really scare me

As for PetSemetary, it was the whole atmosphere and feel of the book that gave me the heebie jeebies
Well, I was under 21, in my first apartment AND it was the first time I was so far away from home.
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Old 09-24-2009, 08:06 AM   #2645
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Currently about halfway through the new E. L. Doctorow "Homer and Langley" and loving it.

Here's some background info as the novel is based on a true story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/col...rothers/12165/

http://images.google.com/images?q=co...title&resnum=4

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ows-pack-rats/


Highly recommended.
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Old 09-24-2009, 08:07 AM   #2646
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Old 09-24-2009, 09:09 AM   #2647
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I'm reading "Body in the Library" by Agatha Christie.
If you've never read it before you will NEVER guess who done it on a first read! Extremely well plotted!
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Old 09-24-2009, 10:32 AM   #2648
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Just finished Flash Forward by Robert Sawyer - will be interested to see how this translates into a tv show. In general I liked lots of the book as a general read but wasn't in love with the very end part.

Next is Poisonwood Bible I think.

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Old 09-24-2009, 12:24 PM   #2649
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Just started "Dreamers of the Day" by Mary Doria Russell - an odd book - part historical fiction, part feminist romance ??? - not at all like her previous SciFi ("The Sparrow"). Set in Egypt just after WWI and the Influenza epidemic - populated with historical figures (TE Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Winston Churchill) and a dachshound named Rosie.
Very entertaining so far.
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Old 09-24-2009, 02:42 PM   #2650
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Just finished Flash Forward by Robert Sawyer - will be interested to see how this translates into a tv show. In general I liked lots of the book as a general read but wasn't in love with the very end part.

Next is Poisonwood Bible I think.

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Poisonwood Bible is an interesting read. I was introduced to the author, Barbara Kingsolver, when my son was assigned one of her books in middle school English to go along with Orwell's Animal Farm, Sinclair's The Jungle, etc. Since I also read what he was assigned (for discussion with him) we read three of her works (The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, and Poisonwood Bible).

Let me know how you like it..
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Old 09-24-2009, 02:48 PM   #2651
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Agreed.... but a few years earlier was Salem's Lot. That one caused me to sit up all night (with every light on) just waiting until it was light enough to go into work early.
I thought pet cemetery was much better /believable than Salem's lot, (also good). Anybody who had buried a pet could identify - real classic SK!

Come back classic SK!!!
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Old 09-25-2009, 02:47 PM   #2652
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Homer and Langley - E.L. Doctorow

Just finished. Highly recommended.

He is such an excellent writer!
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Old 09-25-2009, 03:02 PM   #2653
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Just finished. Highly recommended.

He is such an excellent writer!
I've never read his books, but I did see the Broadway show of Ragtime, and it was excellent.

Currently reading "The Darkest Whisper" by Gena Showalter, then on to either "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan or "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.
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Old 09-26-2009, 02:27 AM   #2654
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*Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl* is my book at bedtime this week. Vintage, non-fiction by the 'slave girl' herself. I kid ye not, even Steve King can't get scarier than this. It's chilling to think how recently this kind of hell was daily life to millions in the
US. Public domain, of course, so it's a free download from several sources. Cheers Neil
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Old 09-26-2009, 02:37 AM   #2655
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heh. you're lucky. i've got this problem called "hyperactive imagination" which can embroider elaborate and terrifying extrapolations starting from even the simplest of images, completely out of my control. a book like that one is just gives it far too much to work with !


yep, i keep far, far away from anything by stephen king. reading any of his books would probably kill me.
I made the mistake of reading The Shining. Once. Never, ever again. I now am like you, Zelda, and stay far, far, away. I love the man's nonfiction writing. But I simply can't handle his fiction.
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