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Pete
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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:18 pm |
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You're probably right Tony, but I still get to keep my secret story, only now it's being written by OCR software, which could explain why it's such gibberish.
In other 'news' just finished "Curfew & other eerie tales" by Lucy M. Boston.
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StephenBacon
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:30 pm |
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I'm rereading Ramsey Campbell's Scared Stiff - Tales of Sex and Death. I was probably just out of my teens when I first read it, but twenty years has done little to diminish its power. Superb stuff.
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Pete
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:03 am |
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Anthology weekend for me, with "Where Are We Going?" edited by Allen Ashley and "The Satyr's Head" edited by David A. Sutton.
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Pete
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:00 pm |
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Just finished "Busy Blood", a volume of 'combo' stories by Stuart Hughes and D. F. Lewis.
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Pete
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:41 pm |
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Just read "The Architect", a novella by Brendan Connell. Great stuff.
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Mike A
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:59 pm |
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Location: Sussex Coast
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Re-reading Now Wait for Last Year for the first time in about 20 years. I'm always wary of revisiting a book I enjoyed in my youth, for fear it might not live up to the memory, but PKD seldom disappoints - as ever, I am bowled over by his wit, imagination and intelligence. I gather there is a film version of this in production, and pray (against all odds) that some of those qualities might survive the translation.
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Ray
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:47 pm |
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Fletcher's The Leaping for me. And just started the new Shadows & Tall Trees - Nina Allan's 'The Elephant Girl' was excellent.
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Andrew Hook
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:05 pm |
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Ray wrote: And just started the new Shadows & Tall Trees - Nina Allan's 'The Elephant Girl' was excellent. My contributor's copies came yesterday and I read Nina's story last night too. Enjoyed it a lot. Looking forward to your story Ray.
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Pete
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:21 pm |
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Tonight's book, "A Glimpse of the Numinous" by Jeff Gardiner.
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Rafala
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:09 am |
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"Nova" and "The Ballad of Beta 2" by Samuel Delany.
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Andrew Hook
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:14 am |
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Finished "Shenanigans" by Noel K Hannan (an early Pendragon Press publication) which I enjoyed but was probably too military SF for my tastes. Picked up Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop". Still reading Douglas Thompson's "Apoidea" at work.
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Mike A
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:47 pm |
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Andrew Hook wrote: Picked up Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop". I love her earlier novels. Well, I love all her novels, but the 60s and early 70s ones particularly.
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Andrew Hook
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:55 pm |
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Mike A wrote: Andrew Hook wrote: Picked up Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop". I love her earlier novels. Well, I love all her novels, but the 60s and early 70s ones particularly. I've only read "The Bloody Chamber" so am looking forward to this. Meanwhile, I just finished Douglas Thompson's "Apoidea". A rollicking read with an intriguing central concept but not without its flaws. I've reviewed on goodreads should Alexander Stark pop his dead head in here...
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Alexander Stark
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:41 pm |
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Andrew Hook wrote: Meanwhile, I just finished Douglas Thompson's "Apoidea". A rollicking read with an intriguing central concept but not without its flaws. I've reviewed on goodreads should Alexander Stark pop his dead head in here... Interesting review, sounds like a good book, Andrew, I must order a copy up. Do Amazon deliver to the choir invisible I wonder? Being dead isn't all bad some days. I'm hoping Ray Bradbury might come and sit with me for a while later once he's got through the customs formalities...
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Andrew Hook
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:59 pm |
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Alexander Stark wrote: Andrew Hook wrote: Meanwhile, I just finished Douglas Thompson's "Apoidea". A rollicking read with an intriguing central concept but not without its flaws. I've reviewed on goodreads should Alexander Stark pop his dead head in here... Interesting review, sounds like a good book, Andrew, I must order a copy up. Do Amazon deliver to the choir invisible I wonder? Being dead isn't all bad some days. I'm hoping Ray Bradbury might come and sit with me for a while later once he's got through the customs formalities... I imagine Amazon will deliver anywhere! Picked up David Guterson's "Snow Falling On Cedars" to read at work. Had this years, but reading the blurb makes me wonder why I've taken so long to select it.
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