Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door

[xg4bx]

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

What did you think of Clickers 3? I was pretty disappointed with that one myself. It "jumped the shark", I think is the expression, when they added religion to it and tried to shoe-horn Brian Keene's other books into it.

i dont want to derail the thread but i have a love/hate relationship with keene. he has very cool concepts but the execution is lacking. his best novel is Terminal and is probably also his best written. hes a very capable writer, it just seems like much of his stuff is written under a tremendous deadline.

i'm considering starting an off-shoot "extreme"/small press horror thread, i just don't know how much interest there would be.

[mr ploppy]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

i dont want to derail the thread but i have a love/hate relationship with keene. he has very cool concepts but the execution is lacking. his best novel is Terminal and is probably also his best written. hes a very capable writer, it just seems like much of his stuff is written under a tremendous deadline.

That might change now that he doesn't have a slavemaster demanding a new book every 6 months. Kill Whitey is my favourite of the ones I've read, but Terminal probably comes a close second. That was the one that made me think I might like crime books, which led to a few new writers making it onto my buy list.

Originally Posted by xg4bx

i'm considering starting an off-shoot "extreme"/small press horror thread, i just don't know how much interest there would be.

Do it and find out. As long as they're not all things I'd need a second mortgage to read I'd be subscribing.

[jhempel24]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

.....check out Biohazard by Tim Curran. its a very lurid and "gooey" nuclear apocalypse novel filled with giant insects and mutants. its so over the top with its creatures and descriptions that its almost funny but its a very fun read.

Tim Curran is a great, horribly underrated horror author in general. he's written everything from lovecraftian novels to horror westerns. his Dead Sea is an awesome, atmospheric novel involving the bermuda triangle. his novel Resurrection is "The Stand" of zombie novels. its almost 700 pages long but consistently good.

I picked this up, thanks for the recoomendation! It kind of reads like a bleaker game of Fallout 3/New Vegas only in the mid-west. I'm enjoying it so far!