MissMohawk
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13 hours ago, Hayley said:
I was very sad to hear it - he was a brilliant actor!
Aldo very sad to hear of Angela Lansbury’s death
. I have good memories of watching Murder, She Wrote after college to relax and I can’t imagine how many times I watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks as a child!
I always loved Murder She Wrote. I watched it as a child and right up til now. I'm named Jessica because of that show 😁
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A most relaxing morning.
I have a college assignment to work on so I will be doing that for a few hours. Hopefully I will get another hour of reading in afterwards. Then I will probably watch a few episodes of Supernatural or Walker or both 😁
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I'm currently reading A Discovery of Witches. It is only in the past year or so that I have varied my reading, I used to read mainly crime fiction.
I am in love with this book 😍 it just makes me smile. It is so brilliantly written, the images that I conjure up while reading are just magical (excuse the pun 😅).
I get utterly lost in it and forget the world around me.
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I thought that would be much easier but the number one character that comes to my mind is Edmond Dantes.
Will Trent, Robert Hunter, Carlos Garcia definitely (Karin Slaughter and Chris Carter)
I have several characters that would be from the TV version of the books so having not read the books I won't include them (the characters from my mind never match the TV versions so that wouldn't be the same)
Hmmm... 🤔 Who else....
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I always remember the first full book I ever read and enjoyed was Toilet Terror. I was probably around 10 and read it for a read a book competition we used to have in school.
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32 minutes ago, NoLongerHuman said:
Chris Carter? As in, X-Files guionist Chris Carter? Man I love the X-Files.
Different Chris Carter. Creator of Robert Hunter.
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Chris-Carter/65784651
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I just pre ordered Chris Carter's latest book Genesis.
I've read all his books and loved them all. Really looking forward to this one too.
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Hi Jimmy,
You are very welcome here. Look forward to engaging with you on here.
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4 minutes ago, muggle not said:
That sounds good. Have you tried Jack Daniels?
I have, No. 7 and Gentleman Jack, I prefer Gentleman Jack over No. 7.
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A pour of Buffalo Trace for me this fine evening.
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I'm still reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I have about 1/5 left to read. I am really enjoying it. Admittedly, I got a bit lost at one stage during it so I sat it down for about a week, then picked it back up again.
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I've turned into a forum lurker even though I am a new member. I want to interact more but I find it difficult to. I'm a slow reader and find I have little time to read so it can sometimes take me a good while to get through a book, so unless I post that I am reading the same book over and over again, I have little to say 😂
I look at the forum on mobile, which isn't always the best way to see everything but, I will probably continue to use mobile anyway.
I came to forums because I dislike Facebook so much, it's a toxic environment.
I am on another forum and tend to be more active on that, it isn't a book forum. On that forum there is a bit more image sharing (mainly on topic, off topic ones tend to be minimal and go in off topic sections). You can react with a like to posts also. Sometimes it is little things like that that can encourage more interaction.
Anyway, instead of telling others how to encourage more activity, I think I shall instead endeavour to become a more active member by posting more and getting better acquainted with navigating the forum.
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17 hours ago, jjacks1 said:
I'm starting to worry about early onset Alzheimers. My memory is shot. You are absolutely right and I owe you again big time! That has to be the one although I have limited time to read today. Have someone coming to fix the furnace and it's Kentucky Oaks day in Louisville. I have a serious love/hate affair with horse racing. I see you're from Ireland which is absolutely beautiful. Is there something in the water that makes all the Irish horses so gorgeous? Because they are. Promise to get back to you about the book.
I wasn't aware Irish horses were any different or any more gorgeous than horses from elsewhere 😁 perhaps it's the good Irish soil.
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15 hours ago, jjacks1 said:
Yes that was the book. Finished the published edition and it was just as gross and horrifying as I remember. Now I have before me the unpublished version that the publishers didn't like but that the author tacked on because he liked it better. Not quite up to reading the same thing back to back so I started on Endurance and am rather disappointed. The haunted house with crazed hillbillies in West Virginia (or Kentucky where I live) is such an old trope I don't think I will finish it.
But I am looking for another book LOL. This one really makes me mad because I had it now I can't find it. Matt Shaw. People are killed in a mansion that supposedly opens a portal to the devil or hell. Psychic investigators are hired by the widow to check out the place. What happens - if I remember correctly is creepy and horrifying. I would be eternally grateful for help. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go out and buy a bottle of Prevagen. Thanks!
I know you said Matt Shaw, but you mentioned previously in a post Edward Lee. Any chance it is Flesh Gothic?
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14 hours ago, jjacks1 said:
OMG I love you! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I DO have that book, will check it immediately!
And thank you also for saving me from reading a bunch of Matt Shaw's new stuff. I think he's trying to get away from all the gore and sex but he's not doing it very well.
Please do let me know if that is in fact the book you are looking for, if not we can try again. 😁
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9 hours ago, jjacks1 said:
Hello all! I am new here but I love to read and at my age, 63, I have read a lot!
I am searching for a book I read - of course I don't know the title or the author and I only know a snippet about the plot.
But I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could help.
It's an extreme horror novel. The protagonist is escaping from somewhere or trying to track someone down. He enters a cave (or a compound) and is hiding. One room he bursts into has a limbless man that is being kept as a "pet." (Also tongueless I think.)
I have checked all my Edward Lee and Matt Shaw books - flipped through them - but can't find this. It's driving me mad! PLEASE help?
PS - I do read other things than extreme horror, just so you know I'm not some deviant.
Hi,
Any chance it could be J. A. Konrath's horror novel Trapped? A blind, deaf, mute and limbless man being kept as a pet...
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I just googled it and found A Hundred Pieces of Me
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Many fiction books can enrich your knowledge. Fictional stories can still teach you a great deal, about people, places, era's. Well written books can enhance your knowledge of language. Although the events and characters are fictional there can be a lot of reality in the story too.
For non fiction, a good book for me depends on the subject and what I expect to get from it. A good book on something technical for instance, is written in a way that makes you understand the subject. The language can be matter of fact. A good factual book based on history, would again be different for me and depends on why I am reading it, whether it is for study or for pleasure. If reading it for pleasure then I would define a good book as one that is easy to read (as in the words flow well together) and keeps me interested in the subject.
For fiction, a good book can be many different things again for me. Classics have beautiful language, words that are no longer used, and they allow for great use of your own imagination to conjure up the images of the story in your head. If you like, compare it to modern 4k movies, where the image is so vivid and spectacular, and the color pops and the visual effects are amazing, that to me is what Classics are but the visuals are done with language rather than technology.
Crime fiction, good books again are well written, good plots, ones where you get attached or even attracted to the characters because of how they are described and how you picture them in your head. Thrillers where you try predict what happens next but you never expected what comes next. Stories where you just cannot put the book down because you are so invested in knowing the rest of the story.
Good books draw you in, rouses your emotions and leaves you reeling when it's over.
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Hello everyone,
I'm new here. I have always liked reading but I have recently started to expand on the type of books that I read. For many years I was reading crime fiction and not much else. Favourite authors being Chris Carter and Karin Slaughter.
Very recently I decided to pick up some different types of books and to my surprise a whole new world opened up.
I recently flew though Pride and Prejudice and really enjoyed it. I just finished The Call of the Wild and although it was short it was brilliant. I am currently about a third of the way through The Count of Monte Cristo.
I am a physical paper book kind of person.
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Oh thank you. I wasn't aware. I have just requested to join.