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[Saapanael]

You should. That book is scary as hell in a very psychological and creepy sense. The formatting tricks (different colors and fonts, text spinning on the page, or in other bizarre shapes, etc) make this a book you will want a new copy of, not something that has been pawed over at the library. Enjoy!

Thanks for the recommendation. Interesting that you’ve also just read Murakami, I’m reading Norwegian Wood.

 

[Whooten]

Thanks for the recommendation. Interesting that you’ve also just read Murakami, I’m reading Norwegian Wood.

Murakami is great. My favorites are Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Dance Dance Dance, and Kafka on the Shore. [I like the weirder ones.]

 

[Magnus]

Murakami is great. My favorites are Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Dance Dance Dance, and Kafka on the Shore. [I like the weirder ones.]

Totally agree about the first two, plus the trilogy of the Rat (of which Dance Dance Dance is the fourth). The Elephant Vanishes (short stories collection) has some great stuff as well. The Strange Library is a short but quite disturbing gem.

 

[Whooten]

The Strange Library is a short but quite disturbing gem.

After Dark is very similar, and only slightly longer.

 

[Magnus]

After Dark is very similar, and only slightly longer.

Library is more disturbing though, I think.

 

[Saphrax]

Fire and Blood by George R R Martin.

 

[Lord of Wolves 78]

Dracula by Bram Stoker for the third or forth time. I finished 'The Gates of Hell' by Dennis Wheatley and it was a fantastic book.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Dracula by Bram Stoker for the third or forth time. I finished 'The Gates of Hell' by Dennis Wheatley and it was a fantastic book.

I'm actually reading Dracula right now for the first time, nearly 2/3's of the way through. It is...dated, but interesting.

 

[Diesel 11]

Dracula is one of the best written books of all time, IMO. Forget what's happening - using letters and diary entries and what have you to form the story was a stroke of genius on Stoker's part. Great novel as a whole, quite a gripping tale.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

...using letters and diary entries and what have you to form the story was a stroke of genius on Stoker's part.

Please. This was a bog-standard literary framing device, widespread in victorian (& earlier gothic) fiction.

 

[Edington]

Lovecraft did a similar thing with Call of Cthulu if I remember rightly.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

You do.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

The storytelling device was certainly not new, but I can say that I find Stoker’s use of it quite fantastic. Lovecraft, of whom I am a huge fan, wasn’t nearly as good at weaving a tale in the same manner (though he was better at conjuring genuinely frightening images).

 

[Diesel 11]

Please. This was a bog-standard literary framing device, widespread in victorian (& earlier gothic) fiction.

My mistake then, not a stroke of genius per se. Still...

The storytelling device was certainly not new, but I can say that I find Stoker’s use of it quite fantastic.

^This.

 

[Black Wizard]

Fire and Blood by George R R Martin.

I'm not sure I'll bother with this one. I'd rather he just wrote the next damn book in the series.

 

[Edington]

I'm not sure I'll bother with this one. I'd rather he just wrote the next damn book in the series.

I don't think he'll ever write that one.

 

[Lampwick 43]

I don't think he'll ever write that one.

I hope you're wrong.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

It is what it is, Lamps.

 

[Lampwick 43]

It makes for an interesting question though: What will happen first, Iron Maiden playing ATG live, or GRRM releasing The Winds of Winter?

 

[LooseCannon]

The real question is: will Iron Maiden retire before GRRM dies mid-sentence?