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The Buck Stops Here by Sean Seebach
Amazon US $0.99
p. 85

Abigail Laine is comfortable being the sheriff of Rockbridge, Ohio. She only conducts a few traffic stops a week, has minimal paperwork, and cruises the town's mostly vacant streets. This leaves her plenty of time to read and keep her living space and work area orderly. But when Caleb Welsh gets murdered on his way home late one Friday night, she's forced to blow the dust off her badge and find the killer.
With the help of Rockbridge's finest civilians, Laine must draw a line in the salt lick and assure that The Buck Stops Here.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Let us know if it's any good. But, if like me, your TBR probably (?) stretches into a magical kingdom (in Lands Far Away), then it may be some time.

You know me well.

By the way, you may wish to check out Spider, by Patrick McGrath, especially if you enjoy gothic horror. He's a literary horror writer who creates characters that are twisted by insane and (often) sexual obsessions that descend into madness. I'm almost finished with it, and I think it's great. It's dark, twisted, and gloomy. Unfortunately it's expensive as hell. I can't remember where I bought mine; I know I've had it for some time. Years ago, I read a thoroughly enjoyable collection of short stories by him.

I was like "It's only $5.99!" but that is a Spanish edition

Have you seen the David Cronenberg movie?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

You know me well.



I was like "It's only $5.99!" but that is a Spanish edition

Have you seen the David Cronenberg movie?

Well, I've seen the remake of The Fly, and I thought it was great - and gory, but with a lot of pathos.

It's possible I've seen something else by him, but I can't remember.

By the way, is Crash based upon the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name? (That's an author I very much admire.)

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Well, I've seen the remake of The Fly, and I thought it was great - and gory, but with a lot of pathos.

It's possible I've seen something else by him, but I can't remember.

By the way, is Crash based upon the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name? (That's an author I very much admire.)

David Cronenberg is worth checking out.

His movie Crash is based on the Ballard novel (and is not the same as the other movie called Crash that won best picture years ago).

He also adapted William Burroughs Naked Lunch (one of the strangest movies I've ever seen) and importantly to you, he adapted Patrick McGrath's Spider.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

David Cronenberg is worth checking out.

His movie Crash is based on the Ballard novel (and is not the same as the other movie called Crash that won best picture years ago).

He also adapted William Burroughs Naked Lunch (one of the strangest movies I've ever seen) and importantly to you, he adapted Patrick McGrath's Spider.

I'll have to check out the two adapted films: Spider and Crash. I read Naked Lunch (which I didn't really care for), when it was fashionable for a horny teenager to read that and The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy, by Henry Miller. I still like Henry Miller. A wonderful writer keyed in to the repressed sexuality (still present) in the American culture.

Thanks for the heads up on those two films.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'll have to check out the two adapted films: Spider and Crash. I read Naked Lunch (which I didn't really care for), when it was fashionable for a horny teenager to read that and The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy, by Henry Miller. I still like Henry Miller. A wonderful writer keyed in to the repressed sexuality (still present) in the American culture.

Thanks for the heads up on those two films.

I'd say you owe it to yourself to try the Naked Lunch movie. Cronenberg made it partly because it is unfilmable, same reason he made Crash. There was a funny interview with Cronenberg where he discussed talking to Burroughs and getting his permission to make changes to Naked Lunch, like trying to have an actual plot

Any Cronenberg movie is worth watching. If you haven't seen his early horror movies, especially The Brood, Videodrome, Scanners, The Dead Zone you should.

His later movies, I'd recommend M. Butterfly, Existenz, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (I haven't seen the four he's made since Eastern Promises, so I am not saying they aren't worth watching).

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I'd say you owe it to yourself to try the Naked Lunch movie. Cronenberg made it partly because it is unfilmable, same reason he made Crash. There was a funny interview with Cronenberg where he discussed talking to Burroughs and getting his permission to make changes to Naked Lunch, like trying to have an actual plot

Any Cronenberg movie is worth watching. If you haven't seen his early horror movies, especially The Brood, Videodrome, Scanners, The Dead Zone you should.

His later movies, I'd recommend M. Butterfly, Existenz, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (I haven't seen the four he's made since Eastern Promises, so I am not saying they aren't worth watching).

Wait - I did see The Dead Zone! I had forgotten about that. I haven't seen that movie since it came out. (I read the book when it first came out, and I remember it had me riveted.)

I'll definitely give those earlier Cronenberg films a watch.

Thank you for the recommendations.

[ZodWallop]

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty is $1.99 at Amazon US. Just in time for Halloween.

After all these years, the make-up still creeps me out.

[Critteranne]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (himself a legend) is $2.99. Now you can find out what the movies get rong.

[Tarana]

NOS4A2 By Joe Hill $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Horror

Devolution by Max Brooks $2.99 Amazon, Kobo
Zombies

[ReadingManiac]

Last day of A Halloween Tale by Austin Crawley for 2.99. Normally 4.99.

[ZodWallop]

It's kinda hard to follow-up on a Joe Hill/Max Brooks one-two punch like that.

But here's a couple of books on sale:

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.

But there will be no turning back.

Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:

They are not alone.

They’re looking for the truth…
But what if it finds them first?

Come find out.

The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy is $2.99 at Amazon US.

The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew, including a twelve-year-old who has been fitted with a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness; a technophobic journalist; a one-time child evangelist with an arsenal in his basement; and a hacker who believes himself a soldier of the Internet.
Set in present-day Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back.

[Dr. Drib]

Zodwallop:

I'm about to start Demon Fire (great cover!) as soon as I finish two other books. I'll let you know if it's any good.

Do you read much Fantasy, such as those old Ballantine Adult Fantasy series of paperbacks?

[salty-horse]

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is $1.99 on Amazon.com

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle, or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks.
For ten years, he and his family have lived a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes--always on the move across the South to stay one step ahead of the law. But the time is drawing near when Darren and Libby will finally know if their nephew is like them or not. And the close calls they've been running from for so long are catching up fast now. Everything is about to change.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Zodwallop:

I'm about to start Demon Fire (great cover!) as soon as I finish two other books. I'll let you know if it's any good.

I finished The Manse, which I liked (I didn't love it, but I will read the sequel, Torments). Right now I am reading Spook Night.

Do you read much Fantasy, such as those old Ballantine Adult Fantasy series of paperbacks?

I used to, decades ago. It all got a little too samey for me after a while. But I did start that sword and sorcery thread in the reading recommendations thread. And having said that, I still like the idea of a traditional high fantasy story. I just haven't read one in a while. I enjoyed Terry Brooks Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold!

I started reading a fantasy series called The Stone Dance of the Chameleon. The author got the rights to his paperback trilogy back and has rewritten it as seven ebooks (though he claims he actually cut out a lot of unnecessary stuff). It's an odd series. Definitely not your usual Tolkien-clone.

I've read the first two books so far.