Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 8, 2024 0:45:28 GMT -5
I love Stephen King. Insomnia was one of the first “big” books I read as a kid and even did a book report on. When I got to Cujo, I just could not get through that shit. Of the King books I have read, Cujo is definitely the worse when it comes to padding--Dreamcatcher too. But Cujo it stands out because the cereal sideplot is literally just a crux to get the husband away and yet is a third of the book. That could have been handled by giving him a job as a travelling salesman who is away from home alot. There you go, sorted and 150 pages of guff are gone. Instead we got massive details about cereal advertising and the cereal making kid's urine turn green and the Cereal Professor and none of which matterded Honestly, I know he got a reputation of coming up with great concepts and just farting out some of the details, but Christine was a quality book at least.
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Post by saneiac on Apr 8, 2024 13:51:47 GMT -5
So I just finished this an hour ago. What did you think? First time I've read anything by Clive Barker. I've been a huge Clive Barker fan since my teens. Hellbound Heart is a perfect introduction to his work in my eyes. It's a nice quick read and sets a tone (and visually) that the Hellraiser adaptation managed to miss at times. I'd recommend the Books of Blood collection or Cabal if his work appealed to you. I will second the recommendation for Books of Blood. The big Clive Barker novels I’ve read (Great and Secret Show, Imajica, Weaveworld) I felt all had interesting ideas but too many plotlines and way too many characters. The short story format of Books of Blood let Barker just focus on a single idea, and results in some stunning works.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Apr 9, 2024 8:37:24 GMT -5
Night Shift short story collection by Stephen King
I criticise his novels a fair bit for the sheer amount of padding and filler that could be trimmed. But his short stories are fantastic.
Actually, they have the opposite problem. With many of them, I want more.
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Sam Punk
Hank Scorpio
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Post by Sam Punk on Apr 14, 2024 4:06:54 GMT -5
atomic habits
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Apr 14, 2024 4:41:01 GMT -5
I finished Daedalus and Daedalus's Children in the last couple of weeks. Now I'm reading Last Full Measure
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 23, 2024 13:26:23 GMT -5
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Here's the wikipedia blurb
Quick (see also: novella) fun read
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Apr 23, 2024 13:47:21 GMT -5
I finished Daedalus and Daedalus's Children in the last couple of weeks. Now I'm reading Last Full Measure Now I'm on Rosetta. After that I'm going to watch the last five episodes of Star Trek Enterprise.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 23, 2024 14:05:14 GMT -5
I need to refocus my reading.
I'm almost done with The Expanse book 6, Babylon's Ashes after months and months.
Manye a third into The Wayfarer series book 3, Record of a Spaceborn Few.
And for some godforsaken reason I just plopped The Wheel of Time on top of my reading pile.
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Post by bibboid on Apr 27, 2024 14:07:22 GMT -5
Day of the Dragonstar by David Bischoff and Thomas Monteleone
Take the spacecraft from Rendezvous With Rama and fill it with the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park and throw in a bunch of badly written humans and vaguely racist political intrigue. Not worth the time I spent reading it.
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