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« Reply #420 on: January 22, 2010, 02:43:28 AM »
Quote from: ghosTea on January 04, 2010, 02:47:21 PM
Graham let me know what you thought of Pulp when you are done.. It makes me sad that pulp is the only real "fiction" book he wrote.

I know they are all technically fiction, but i don't think i need to explain myself  :/

I wouldn't even consider Pulp to be fictitious. Just Bukowski role-playing himself if he happened to be a private-eye with some pretty grande symbolism of his ever-nearing death when he wrote it.
I really dug it, as I inevitably would. Poetically sleazy and hateful as only Bukowski could put it. Now I await the arrival of the Red Sparrow to swallow me up in all her glory...much like Bukowski waited for his 70-odd years on earth.

I am now reading Bukowski's Women, and Let The Right One In. Given the speed I am reading both of these (LtROI at home. Women at work), I should have them both finished in a month or two  :/
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« Reply #421 on: January 22, 2010, 03:09:54 AM »
Y'know, Graham, I realized the other day while reorganizing my book shelf that I still have a book that belongs to you. The Demon, by Hubert Selby JR. I remember providing my opinion on it here a while back--didn't care for it that much (though I love Selby's writings in general--or at least the adaptations of his writings, esp. Requiem For A Dream).

I'll get the book back to you. Was this an exchange or just a straight-out loan? I don't remember.
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« Reply #422 on: January 22, 2010, 03:15:21 AM »
Quote from: ScaryLarry on January 22, 2010, 03:09:54 AM
Y'know, Graham, I realized the other day while reorganizing my book shelf that I still have a book that belongs to you. The Demon, by Hubert Selby JR. I remember providing my opinion on it here a while back--didn't care for it that much (though I love Selby's writings in general--or at least the adaptations of his writings, esp. Requiem For A Dream).

I'll get the book back to you. Was this an exchange or just a straight-out loan? I don't remember.

Ahh. Totally forgot about that. I think it was a loan. I reorganized my bookshelf the other day as well and didn't notice anything of yours.
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« Reply #423 on: January 22, 2010, 03:34:00 AM »
Yeah, I figured as much. I'll get it back to you anyway. I travel to your area once in a while--maybe we can meet up. Anyway, anything more about that should probably be through PM.
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« Reply #424 on: February 11, 2010, 12:10:51 AM »
The Incredible Shrinking Man--Richard Matheson
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« Reply #425 on: February 11, 2010, 09:22:08 AM »
Giallo Scrapbook

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« Reply #426 on: March 05, 2010, 01:49:48 AM »
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« Reply #427 on: March 05, 2010, 02:07:18 AM »
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Haunted America

I think I have that one. No. Wait. I have Haunting in the Heartland: Hauntings in America's Mid-West.
I'm assuming Haunted America is a collection of testimonials from various paranormal occurrences?
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« Reply #428 on: March 05, 2010, 03:19:03 AM »
Yes, I think it's the sequel to Haunting in the Heartland. Or Haunted Heartland--whatever. I guess it's a bunch of stories about various ghostly incidents supposed to have occurred throughout the US and Canada.

Anyway, it was mentioned in another book that I had recently read--The Best Horror of the Year--wherein they listed the best horror novels of the year before going on to present the best short stories. So I remembered it from that, and snatched it up.
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« Reply #429 on: March 11, 2010, 01:42:26 AM »
Finally finished Let The Right One In. Fantastic book. Just fantastic. Much better than the movie in a lot of respects. I particularly liked Virginia's plight and her struggle with her disease...shame the movie glossed over it for the most part.
I am nearly done with Bukowski's Women. And am now starting on McCarthy's Child of God.
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« Reply #430 on: March 11, 2010, 03:34:38 AM »
Quote from: Orion Jeriko on March 11, 2010, 01:42:26 AM
Finally finished Let The Right One In. Fantastic book. Just fantastic. Much better than the movie in a lot of respects. I particularly liked Virginia's plight and her struggle with her disease...shame the movie glossed over it for the most part.

I agree 100%. I loved the book!

I'm nursing Fahrenheit 451.
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« Reply #431 on: March 11, 2010, 10:38:49 AM »
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And am now starting on McCarthy's Child of God.

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« Reply #432 on: April 13, 2010, 10:46:17 AM »
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Cannibal Killers
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« Reply #433 on: April 13, 2010, 03:51:40 PM »
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« Reply #434 on: April 13, 2010, 07:40:36 PM »
Finished The Hellbound Heart. Great book.

Went to buy Let Me In, but it had the film on the cover.. so there goes that idea.
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