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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:im on the last few pages of AMYGDALATROPOLIS and as soon as your feeling better after NEGATIVE SPACE its a great way to get you feeling like poo poo again I've got it sitting on my shelf and I'm trying to gin up the courage, lol. Gotta be in the right headspace.
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anilEhilated posted:Thanks for the recommendation, enjoyed this book a lot and I wouldn't even hear about it otherwise. Not very scary but definitely a page-turner. Late, but you're welcome! I have no idea where I personally found it. Only the goodreads page is in my history, so, hmm perhaps I have been afflicted by the Ghost Dadman. Also yeah that ending was awfully telegraphed. I wish there was more ambiguity or something. Do y'all like that there Yellow King fella? You know, Mr Chamber's goofy eldritch horror OC. Well here's two recs about that.. The Final Reconciliation - Todd Keisling. Unfortunately heavy on the misogyny. I do understand it's purposefully unlikeably protag from a dinky Small Town, USA, but it's pretty eye rolling at times. The rampant use of the g*psy is also a lot of nonsense to me. Either way, I enjoyed the novella, it was well done and an interesting take on the Yellow King mythos. It does feel flat and heartless at some points, and the plot twist endings was unappealing. I enjoyed the imagery of the Otherworld the most. I think I'd like it better if it was like a never ending curse of a 'Camilla' haunting through the ages, trying to complete her ritual via unwitting victims in order to return to Carcosa. Not to purely play off the 27 Club myth, but it could be through various arts like theatre and movies, too. Idk, I feel it could have given more depth to it's horror if it went beyond 'evil female bitch groupie'. Not unlike Silent Hill and them repeatedly trying to give birth to their god. Minor spoilery content warning. Hey there's male sexual assault in the second chapter. It's a few paragraphs long, and can be skipped over straight to the next chapter. I feel remiss not to mention it because it's pretty explicit he doesn't want physical sexual contact and she does not care about him telling her to stop. That scene or subject does not come up again after that. quote:TAKE OFF YOUR MASK In the Court of the Yellow King edited by Glynn Owen Barass. A crap shoot, like many anthologies, but I liked Masque of the red queen' and 'the penumbra of exquisite foulness'. It least every story is focused on the theme and not random horror stories with a bare mention of the color yellow. Here's the table of contents. quote:These Harpies of Carcosa — W. H. Pugmire Unrelated to the Yellow King, two other recs. The story 'Snow Woman' from 'Biogenesis' short story collection by Tatsuaki Ishiguro. If you like vampires and folk lore, you might like this take on this Japanese folk tale. The other stories are also great, but they are scifi / speculative fiction. Though the story Midwinter Weed is kind of Horror genre in being pretty creepy with blood devouring ghost flowers, though I think it's more a metaphor for how Korean PoW were forced laborors / slaves during WW2 I'm not sure, I think I need to reread that one more slowly. The vampiric parts were certainly horrifying to me. Metaphors all over the drat place, frankly. Major spoilery disclaimer for Snow Maiden. There's implied incest and racism, specifically against the Ainu people of Japan. I don't know the author's family history, but but I feel like it's in poor taste to imply some of the Ainu are inhuman monsters. Where They Wait by Scott Carson This wasn't half bad. It was certainly more scifi suspense mystery than purely scifi horror, I feel. The premise sounds goofy but I swear it's taken sincerely and has a little more depth than 'oh gently caress my phones got a haunted app, help meh XD'. Though I won't lie, [major ending spoilers] the one adult able bodied woman dying at the end felt like the author didn't know how to close off her arc at all. Like oh poo poo, gently caress, uhhh the ending is literally the last few chapters. Um, kill everyone but the man MC. And his mom, I guess, but she's stuck in a nursing home and isn't really a Problem for the MC anyways, so.... I'm not saying it's misogyny per se, just that it read like the author wrote himself into a corner and the publisher was banging on the door for the finished story. It was stupid and took a few paragraphs. I think we were supposed to appreciate that happening? I thought there was enough remorse on the woman MC's part. She was also barely a child so she too was manipulated by a adult woman decades older to abuse a child with medical experiments. She hosed up, but she regreted it and had been trying to help the man MC the entire book. It was a poo poo ending to a character, imo. quote:A new supernatural novel about a sinister mindfulness app with fatal consequences from the New York Times bestselling author of the "grips from the first page" (Stephen King) thriller The Chill.
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Opopanax posted:Do any good horror comedy books exist? Jeff Strand is kinda my go-to comedy horror author. Maybe check out a short story collection like Dead Clown Barbeque or something to see if his style works for you.
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Opopanax posted:Do any good horror comedy books exist? Did you think John Dies At The End was funny?
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Good Citizen posted:Jeff Strand is kinda my go-to comedy horror author. Maybe check out a short story collection like Dead Clown Barbeque or something to see if his style works for you. I think the first Andrew Mayhem is a good starting point. Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary)
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Skyscraper posted:Did you think John Dies At The End was funny? Haven't read it but it is on my list. I'll check the other guy out too, thanks all
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Opopanax posted:Do any good horror comedy books exist? The John Dies At The End books (fourth one coming!) are very funny cosmic horror.
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Value-brand cereal I very much appreciate all these thoughtful reviews. In fact this thread is full of helpful forum-users write-ups. Still laughing about dick-bees.
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Would anyone be interested in a brand new copy of Mr. Gaunt by John Langan. I also have a few other books for sale, The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingingway, Franklin Library first edition (as well as Arrowsmith, Age of Innocence, and two others from this set), Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians, some King hardbacks, Boatman's Daughter, and about two dozen others. Figured I'd offer y'all a crack at these first - working on a thread in SA Mart, will be up tomorrow. But soon after that they'll be going on eBay. I'll always tell you the condition down to every flaw. Working my way through Murder Ballads by John Hornor Jacobs at the moment, his only short story collection. Loved Lush and Seething Hell and Southern Gods.
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escape artist posted:Would anyone be interested in a brand new copy of Mr. Gaunt by John Langan. I also have a few other books for sale, The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingingway, Franklin Library first edition (as well as Arrowsmith, Age of Innocence, and two others from this set), Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians, some King hardbacks, Boatman's Daughter, and about two dozen others. Yes! I would love a copy of Mr. Gaunt! What's your price? I have PM's or I can post my SA burner e-mail.
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Thoughts on the best Laird Barron collection to begin with? Should I just read The Imago Sequence first?
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ClydeFrog posted:Value-brand cereal I very much appreciate all these thoughtful reviews. You're welcome for the recs! I'm glad to share interesting things, because I got a lot of great recs from the thread too. Sorry this is a late reply, I meant to post some recs at the same time but hit a reading slump. But I did finish White Tears by Hari Kunzru and A God in the Shed by J F Dubeau . White Tears was wild. Ok some disclaimers. This is Kunzru. quote:Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist, author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions. Of mixed English and Kashmiri Pandit ancestry, he grew up in Essex. He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford University, then gained an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. His work has been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York City. This the White Tears book. quote:From one of the most talented fiction writers at work today: two ambitious young musicians are drawn into the dark underworld of blues record collecting, haunted by the ghosts of a repressive past. It's hard to say what I liked about the book. The book summary absolutely does not sell this book very well. It excludes the surreal portion near the end, which is a drat shame for those into stranger kind of fiction. It's very well written and I liked the gimmick the author gave Seth with the audio visualization that echoes through time. I wish that was used more. I also liked how Seth fully became the main character. It was a neat outside perspective of watching someone who is obviously a Main Character in a narrative. And then abruptly the sidekick became the main character. It sets up the way Seth keeps getting hosed over by social class throughout the book. He's definitely a flat character but I think that's intentional because Seth has no personality or existence outside of fetishizing Black culture. The summary and first 2/3rds of the book were about what the summary mentioned. The last half? Oh boy. Major spoilers for this book and My Heart Struck Sorrow by John Hornor Jacobs . This touches on the intentional antiblackness of the White Tears characters, as well. One of MC of My Heart Struck Sorrow undergoes a journey to find and meet the Black man's ghost who sang the song, but ultimately 'fails' in that he never finds the ghost but has a mental breakdown, then this is the opposite. Seth, the MC of White Tears, meets the Black man's ghost in a very intimate manner. Not a sex joke but not far off the mark either. It's deeply hosed up to me. I think it was a full circle of how Seth fetishized and wanted to embody being a Black man. To the point of either being possessed by a Black man's ghost or having a mental break down from police brutality to think he is a Black man getting revenge on rich white people. The last half was a surreal haze which felt quite different from the beginning. It felt claustrophobic and frantic and desperate. Like antiblackness, this ghost curse cannot be bargained with. It's not an exact venn diagram, but it reminded me of the last half of Night Film by Marisha Pessl , how the Scott McGrath character wandered solo trying to find answers and keeps meeting the bizarrest poo poo. I think the supernatural portion of the haunting was quite interesting as well. The way it manifested differently in mutiple characters, and its results. I only half hearted rec this book because, like other people mentioned in their own reviews, it's fairly tactless to center white characters in a story about Black people's pain and suffering, and it does carry tones of Magical N*gro. That this is written by a nonblack man makes it an issue. I do recommend this because the plot is unique, interesting, well written, and I enjoyed the paranormal concepts. It's obvious why but Black people's ghosts generally aren't a thing? I assume? Like I've picked up semi nonfiction historical ghost hauntings books and unless it's about Black slavery, most ghosts are white. A drat shame. I want to see glorious bloodshed and revenge from Black ghosts and Ghosts of color. There is also a fair amount of explicit imagery of antiblack racism. I don't consider it romanticized levels of trauma porn but it doesn't shy away from the effects of Jim Crow and antiblack racism heavily embedded into us society. Like, there's not endless paragraphs and chapters about Black people being harmed gratuitiously. But I also understand that I don't have the right or personal experience to forgive and excuse this kind of content. It's an interesting story, very well written and utilizes perhaps in a exploitive way antiblack racism in the horror genre. I'd like to see more of it. People mentioned this feels like the Get Out movie which I think is a poo poo comparison because that was a Black man exploring antiblack racism in the horror genre. There is one novella I can't remember the name of that fits this kind of horror genre. It's written by a Black man about a Black couple who find an aunt's magical machete(?) go on a murder rampage against police. Final disclaimers / content warnings. There is rape, male on female and male on male, police brutality in a Black Site, and a lot of explicit anti black racism, especially near the end of the book . Themale rape and brutality might be able to be skipped over? The rape isn't fully explicit but the violence is. The antiblack racism at the end of the book can't be . The other book I read and rec is A God in the Shed by J F Dubeau Despite the medium levels of copaganda and frenchiness, it's an enjoyable murder mystery with heavy cult horror and supernatural horror. I like the rotating cast, the teen povs don't feel like a scooby doo stranger things knock offs. Also some minimal cave horror. I think the beginning if the book sets up too high expectations. There is a sequel to this called Song of the Sandman , though I feel you could read this solo if you didn't feel too invested. I kinda think like there's some generational abuse themes going but maybe it's not that deep? There's some child abuse but not over the top. If you read Revelator by Daryl Gregory , this is sort of in the same field of vision. Not a duplicate or the same plots, per se, but does feature a cosmic entity and a cult built around it. And yes, there is a young girl involved. PS if anyone knows of similar books or plots to White Tears or My Heart Struck Sorrow PLEASE post them. I love a good ghost story. Just gently caress me up with ghosties! tHank you god bless!
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Ornamented Death posted:I'd be interested in seeing the full list of what you're selling. I will compile a list by the end of the week, with photos. Right now I have Night of the Mannequins on eBay for $6 with free shipping. Let me know if anyone wants to bid on that. Xiahou Dun posted:Yes! Let's discuss a price via PM's.
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Ragle Gumm posted:Thoughts on the best Laird Barron collection to begin with? Should I just read The Imago Sequence first? I’d say so. The protagonists are almost exclusively violent macho men finding out that cosmic horrors are even tougher than they are, while later collections have broadened the spectrum in that sense, but it has some really good stories and is a good way to gauge whether he is your thing.
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Experimental Film by Gemma Files is on sale for Kindle today. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08F9NT1K7&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_0W19DQ1KCTEE09B468NN Haven't read it myself yet but I think I've seen it mentioned in the thread.
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Oh god, Experimental Film is extremely good. If you're on the fence, go get it on sale now. Me and my insomnia return with a few recs. A Certain Hunger - Chelsea G. Summers quote:Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. It's heavy on the sexual content and the gore, but not in a erotica or splatterpunk way. It's quite lurid and very well written. It's not a Hannibal Lecter rip off either, despite the cannibalism and gourmet food theme. I loved the details about dishes and the descriptions of food made me salivate. Also the author is a former sex worker which is pretty neat, support your SWers and get a neat horror book about of it. A minor disclaimer. Maybe antisemitic? The plot involves a Jewish man who's not as religiously faithful as he coulda woulda should be. I don't think it was a statement on all Jewish people but eh you know, fair warning. It does utilize the Jewish faith as a plot point, to say the least. A last heads up for content warnings. There is a rape scene. It's not mentioned again after that but it is explicit. Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand quote:When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen or heard from again. This was interesting but kind of a flop to me. I liked the plot, it was decently written, and the rotating POV kept things fresh. I just didn't care for how sparse the horror was. It was more focused interpersonal relationships and the aftermath. I liked the architecture horror and the folk horror. I wished there was more emphasis on the surreal occurrences, or that there was a POV from Julian Blake, the missing man. Maybe this will be more appealing to someone else. Come Closer by Sara Gran quote:If everything in Amanda\'s life is so perfect, then why the mood swings, the obscene thoughts, the urge to harm the people she loves? What are those tapping sounds in the walls? And who\'s that woman following her? The mystery behind what\'s happening to Amanda in Come Closer is so frightening that it "ought to carry a warning to...readers." An honorary mention. It was a neat possession story, at least. Not especially memorable but it was a decent read. Quite a hopeless situation, so it gets points for not being the same old The Exorcist adjacent possession plot.
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I'd echo your feelings about Wylding Hall almost exactly. It was good, I'm glad I read it, but it was almost a really excellent horror novel. As is it's just fine, which is sort of a bigger disappointment than if it had been a little worse.
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*stumbles into the thread in a daze* Hey y'all read Sundial by Catriona Ward. A lot of heavy themes like explicit domestic abuse, child abuse, animal cruelty / experimentation. If none of that is off putting, definitely dive in. It's REALLY good. She also wrote Rawblood if the name seems familiar.quote:Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street. Ok that's all for now thank you <3 value-brand cereal fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Hey, you messed up the spoiler tags so there's just typed-out code in there ; you added an "s" at the end of "spoiler". (I do that constantly.) Also I don't know how useful it is to spoiler content warnings because the whole point is that they're warnings, so you need to be able to see them, but whatever you do you I ain't got a horse in that fight.
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Oh poo poo you're right. Thank you, thats fixed now. And yeah thats true. I figured there's a few people whode prefer to go in as blind as possible to get the full plot unveiling in their own way. Im not sure what the general trend is for content warnings itt. It's not that the mere mention would be triggering, i guess.
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Rereading Jurrasic Park after several decades and it's interesting how long it really takes to get going. Other than a few moments with the Compies in the early part, no dinosaurs actually show up until about a quarter of the way through, and while the cracks are starting to show I'm nearly halfway through and things haven't really kicked off yet. The science is also kind of funny, it's got Crichton's usual blend of action sequences and hard science, but a lot of hard science has been proven wrong ("Brontosauruses" show up and the T Rex is considered the greatest predator of all time), plus there's one particular section about the dilophosaurs where they keep saying they're "poisonous" when they mean "venomous". It's interesting too how much it expects people to know nothing at all about dinosaurs, but I guess it makes sense that they really weren't in the zeitgeist before the movie came out. My main complaint though is that someone really needs to release a new edition where Malcolm's lines are rewritten with Goldblum interjections, it's weird to try and read it in his voice as is.
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The Night Stockers by Kristopher Triana is basically Assault On Precinct 13 but set in a Kroger. And it is way funnier than it has any right to be. The lovingly and bluntly inserted metal references that really speak to the author being a metalhead of a certain age. Things like chapters called "Butchered at Birth" or a laundry list of the bands on the shirts our Satanic grocery store clerk antagonists are wearing. I'm just now really getting into it but it's a lot of fun.
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Opopanax posted:Do any good horror comedy books exist? The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins definitely fits. It's all Elder Gods / Cosmic Horror, but sneaks in a lot of humor without it ever becoming too distracting or off-putting.
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Paddyo posted:The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins definitely fits. It's all Elder Gods / Cosmic Horror, but sneaks in a lot of humor without it ever becoming too distracting or off-putting. i thought the humor sucked the life out of the otherwise compelling premise, every character talked like they were in a fuckin joss whedon show
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Blastedhellscape posted:I'm about a quarter of the way through Negative Space by B.R. Yeager, and what a wild, bleak ride, psychedelic ride. drat! Quite so, I read it entirely in one day (yesterday!) I'm definitely going to have to re-read it at some point, I found myself flipping back to check things as other things were revealed. It's not an easy read but it is a fast one.
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I got in late on Aron Beauregard's hardcover pre order for Nightmare Nirvana, and so what did he do? Sent me his author's Copy  he's such a great guy in addition to being a great authorHe set out to make an adult version of the classic Scary Stories books and so far it's pretty wonderful.  . 
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Bonaventure posted:i thought the humor sucked the life out of the otherwise compelling premise, every character talked like they were in a fuckin joss whedon show Yeah. I'm reading that book right now and enjoying it a lot, but my one negative note is that a lot of the obvious jokes fall flat and get over-emphasized. "This guy who is the most terrifying murderer to have ever existed in any possible universe happens to be wearing a tutu. I repeat, he's wearing a tutu. Isn't that funny? I'll repeat the joke for the thousandth time in case anyone missed it." Hmm. This may be cliche or controversial, but when it comes to horror/comedy novels my top recommendation would probably be John Dies at the End, if you haven't read it yet. It drags a bit in the middle, but has some amazing moments in the early and later parts. I also liked the movie adaptation a lot.
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Count Thrashula posted:I got in late on Aron Beauregard's hardcover pre order for Nightmare Nirvana, and so what did he do? Sent me his author's Copy Which books by Aron have you liked the most? I've read a few of his books now and sometimes he clicks with me and sometimes he really doesn't So far I've read Beyond reform - Story collection that starts strong and then the last two stories really didn't work for me All smiles until I return - This one was great throughout, especially if you like non-standard depictions of hell/the afterlife In the hands of heathens - Built around a mystery that just wasn't interesting to me at all. I put it down a little over half-way through and didn't even bother flipping to the end to see if I was right about who the killer was. I want to like his books but I feel like I've been kinda burned twice now so I want to know what I should read next from him. This post also functions as a recommendation that more people should read All smiles until I return if you have the stomach for splatter/extreme
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So I guess I could talk about Necroscope here instead of the What Did You Just Finish thread. I finished the first one today and started the second and I said to myself "These are fun. How many of them are there?" This is absurd. How many of these do I actually read? Should I stick to the Necroscope series itself or should I just give up on that at some point too?
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I'm mostly a sci-fi donk. Read 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons around ten years ago and loved it. Truthfully it is one of my favorite books of all time. Since then I've knocked through a number of his books.....seeing as how he jumps between and blends horror with sci-fi and historical fiction. 'Carrion Comfort' is an absolute tomb. But the way Simmons busts it up into three distinct sections makes it pretty palatable. Finished it a second time this past week. It's a masterpiece nearing 'Hyperion' imo. Didn't care for 'Summer of Night' nearly as much. 'Drood' was a complete slog. Interesting premise....but Simmons seemed too eager to inject it full of studied research that the casual reader cares nothing about....ballooning the book to a stupid length with way too much dead weight. Anyone have any suggestions?
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I'm mostly a sci-fi donk. Read 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons around ten years ago and loved it. Truthfully it is one of my favorite books of all time. Since then I've knocked through a number of his books.....seeing as how he jumps between and blends horror with sci-fi and historical fiction. 'Carrion Comfort' is an absolute tomb. But the way Simmons busts it up into three distinct sections makes it pretty palatable. Finished it a second time this past week. It's a masterpiece nearing 'Hyperion' imo. Didn't care for 'Summer of Night' nearly as much. 'Drood' was a complete slog. Interesting premise....but Simmons seemed too eager to inject it full of studied research that the casual reader cares nothing about....ballooning the book to a stupid length with way too much dead weight. Oh, and he's a shithead. Anyhow, if you like sci-fi horror, my go-to recommendation is Unto Leviathan/Ship of Fools by Richard Russo. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 3, 2022 |
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I'm mostly a sci-fi donk. Read 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons around ten years ago and loved it. Truthfully it is one of my favorite books of all time. Since then I've knocked through a number of his books.....seeing as how he jumps between and blends horror with sci-fi and historical fiction. 'Carrion Comfort' is an absolute tomb. But the way Simmons busts it up into three distinct sections makes it pretty palatable. Finished it a second time this past week. It's a masterpiece nearing 'Hyperion' imo. Didn't care for 'Summer of Night' nearly as much. 'Drood' was a complete slog. Interesting premise....but Simmons seemed too eager to inject it full of studied research that the casual reader cares nothing about....ballooning the book to a stupid length with way too much dead weight. The Last Astronaut.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I'm mostly a sci-fi donk. Read 'Hyperion' by Dan Simmons around ten years ago and loved it. Truthfully it is one of my favorite books of all time. Since then I've knocked through a number of his books.....seeing as how he jumps between and blends horror with sci-fi and historical fiction. 'Carrion Comfort' is an absolute tomb. But the way Simmons busts it up into three distinct sections makes it pretty palatable. Finished it a second time this past week. It's a masterpiece nearing 'Hyperion' imo. Didn't care for 'Summer of Night' nearly as much. 'Drood' was a complete slog. Interesting premise....but Simmons seemed too eager to inject it full of studied research that the casual reader cares nothing about....ballooning the book to a stupid length with way too much dead weight. I really really liked The Terror and to a lesser extent, Abominable but they are very heavy in detail about their respective settings and focus (Arctic exploration and travel, and mountaineering respectively) so if you don't have an interest in those aspects they're possibly a bit of a slog. They're my favourite of his however.
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