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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
08-23-2007, 10:35 AM
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- Pet Semetary: Stephen King
- Blood Crazy: Simon Clark
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08-23-2007, 01:00 PM
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1. Cujo
2. Misery
Awesome.
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08-24-2007, 02:43 AM
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Apt Pupil in that Stephen King novella gave me chills. The movie freaked me out too- Ian McKellen as a Nazi? Yikes!
As an aside, the cover for my copy of Carrie is horrific- blank staring eyes with blood coating her face. Eesh. That movie sucked btw.
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08-24-2007, 03:34 AM
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Quote:
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- Pet Semetary: Stephen King
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Sematary. Spell your misspellings correctly plz.And I agree.
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08-24-2007, 04:28 PM
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Greeleys Cove by John Gideon. The most insane, fucked up, sickest book I have ever read. Damm, just thinking about it now makes my skin crawl.
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08-24-2007, 05:21 PM
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Quote:
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Greeleys Cove by John Gideon. The most insane, fucked up, sickest book I have ever read. Damm, just thinking about it now makes my skin crawl.
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08-25-2007, 01:08 AM
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PM me your address, I'll send you a copy for Christmas SFeigley.  |
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08-25-2007, 07:45 AM
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Probably Carrie by King. I'm generally not one to read scary novels, nor be scared by any that I happen to read, but that one was unnerving...
Oh yes, and Sybil. Like the part where the mother gives Sybil a douche.
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08-26-2007, 01:04 PM
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The Shining and Pet Sematery. King is (was?) a master of all things creepy.
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09-17-2007, 12:54 AM
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"Pet Sematary" for me too. I'm glad I'm not alone on that one. I can't even watch the movie...and movies almost never scare me.
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09-17-2007, 02:51 AM
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I'm thinking of In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka.
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09-17-2007, 03:02 AM
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H P Lovecraft
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09-17-2007, 11:21 PM
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Salem's Lot by Steven King spooked me.
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09-22-2007, 12:55 PM
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I'll have to read more scary books...
I have to agree that Dracula is at least dark - I love the subject.
As far as Stephen King, the books I read weren't necessarily scary, but the scariest were Carrie and Pet Sematary. I haven't read Salem's Lot and I read Cujo so long ago I really don't remember if it was scary or not. I thought It was alright until the end when the clown turns into a spider. That was just tacky and uncalled for. Why did the clown need to turn into anything? Why couldn't it just have remained an evil clown? And giant spiders aren't scary.
I like the children's picture book, The Bones of Fred McFee. (I have kids). It's a great Halloween story.
I'll have to read some Poe. I'm interested. I love some of his poems.
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10-02-2007, 02:32 AM
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Though I truly love Stephen King's work, I have to give the scariest nod to the Pit and the Pendulum. Though Misery comes in a close second.
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