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Andrew Hook
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 Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:41 am |
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Finished PostScripts #24/25 which was a bit mixed in my opinion, leaning towards the less-liked side. Picked up James M Cain's "Seranade" which is rollicking so far.
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Pete
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:17 pm |
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Last night read "Bullets and Fire", a short story by Joe R. Lansdale (chapbook length) that was (and still is) a free download on Amazon, and a lot of fun if a tad predictable.
And tonight finished "Devil's Drums" by Vivian Meik - his post-WW2 non-fiction book about Hitler sold 100,000 copies and probably would have sold even more if not for paper rationing. Nowadays he's chiefly remembered for his supernatural stories set in colonial Africa, and this collection was issued in a limited edition of 300 copies. Oh how the mighty are fallen.
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Pete
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:22 pm |
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Just finished the collection "Bone Marrow Stew" by Tim Curran, which was a very pleasant surprise. I've read a few of his stories before and not felt particularly elated, but these were excellent in the main, with a couple of real crackers.
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Pete
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:41 pm |
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Read the Joe Lansdale story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", which is available as a free download from Amazon:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... &x=12&y=23Also finished a couple of collections, "Black Horse and Other Strange Stories" by Jason Wyckoff and "Nightingale Songs" by Simon Strantzas.
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Ray
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:15 am |
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Location: Portsmouth
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Reading, and very much enjoying, Gaiman's collection Smoke and Mirrors, and another James Lee Burke, this time a collection called The Convict and other stories and, for something different, Byatt's Ragnarok - inspiring myth stuff but not convinced she'd doing anything with it as a story other than retell the Norse legends.
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Stu
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:21 am |
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Currently reading Michael Moorcock's second Corum collection The Prince with the Silver Hand. Haven't read Moorcock for ages; I'd forgotten how fun his stuff can be.
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karswell
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:13 am |
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Location: Northumbrian Coast, North East England
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Finally finished Black Hills and enjoyed it very much although I now know more about the construction of Mount Rushmore and The Brooklyn Bridge than any man has a right to. I can also now converse freely in Lakota.
Alt-Zombie has actually warmed me to zombie fiction and I've just devoured Simon Bestwick's Tide of Souls and have Gary McMahon's Hungry Hearts on the TBR pile. Right now though I'm appreciating Mr McMahon's editorial skills with Visions Fading Fast.
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Pete
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:14 am |
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Last night I went completely off the reservation with "Haiku for the Single Girl", written by Beth Griffenhagen and illustrated by Cynthia Vehslage Meyers. Very funny in places, with a "Sex and the City" vibe. Don't look at me like that 
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karswell
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:33 am |
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Location: Northumbrian Coast, North East England
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Sex and the City?
In the form of Japanese Poetry?
I think not.
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Pete
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:40 am |
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People are soooooooooo judgemental 
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karswell
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:48 am |
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Writing haiku. Attempt humour, try to be clever. Not very good.
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Pete
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:06 pm |
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Did not understand.
Haiku are five syllables,
Then seven and five.
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Andrew Hook
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:27 pm |
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I always liked John Cooper Clarke's haiku:
To convey one's mood
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic
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karswell
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:41 pm |
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Wikipedia Say no definitive rule about syllables So it must be true... 
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Pete
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:26 pm |
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I'll see your wiki,
And raise an Oxford dickie.
Rhyming is hard too.
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