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Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 30th September 2023, 07:47 PM
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Not at all, totally agree. I've read a few Dick...

Not at all, totally agree. I've read a few Dick and for the most part rate his books. This was the first of his I read and found it tedious. Luckily I gave him another chance...

I loved A Scanner...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 15th March 2023, 10:39 PM
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Posted By Rob4
The Iron Giant was the first fiction book that I...

The Iron Giant was the first fiction book that I read completely on my own.

Just finished The Pet by Charles L. Grant

It's a Carrie-esque story about a teenager who can summon a demonic horse...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 29th July 2022, 07:23 PM
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Posted By Rob4
Twice Told Tales was a bit of a slog so gave up...

Twice Told Tales was a bit of a slog so gave up halway through. Swapped to the The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers which is partly made up of some loosely connected horror stories and some...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 20th June 2022, 10:17 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
Completed She. The Hammer film version,...

Completed She. The Hammer film version, notwithstanding the change of location from East Africa to North Africa, is very close to the book. The slight changes that were made I would say were mostly...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 12th June 2022, 10:45 AM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
My next audio book is She by H. Ryder Haggard....

My next audio book is She by H. Ryder Haggard. I'm looking forward to seeing how different it is from the movies.
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 12th June 2022, 10:44 AM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
I wasn't aware of this movie - What's it like...

I wasn't aware of this movie - What's it like Dem? I'd have thought it would need to be a mini-series to do the book justice. Also in the book the last chapter is incredibly gruesome (the R-rating...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 9th June 2022, 07:17 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
Can't believe I made this post just 6 days ago...

Can't believe I made this post just 6 days ago and have now finished The Monk. 15 hours of driving in 6 days for work...!

Anyway, just to note, the novel is 18th Century exploitation (filth?)...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 3rd June 2022, 04:31 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
I'm also finding it difficult to concentrate on...

I'm also finding it difficult to concentrate on reading so inspired by your post I downloaded The Monk by Matthew Lewis. Because it's so old with archaic language, there's no way I'd be able to read...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 23rd January 2021, 05:01 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
Some more Paperbacks from Hell I've read over the...

Some more Paperbacks from Hell I've read over the last few months

The Tribe (1981) turned out very good. A cabal of Jewish concentration camp survivors can conjure a Golem to destroy their...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 16th January 2020, 06:47 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
I read most of The Nest pretty quickly and then...

I read most of The Nest pretty quickly and then got bogged down at the end as this section was pretty anti-climatic. The best parts of the book were obviously the cockroach attacks, especially the...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 16th August 2019, 09:18 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
Tried to read Nightshades and Damnations by...

Tried to read Nightshades and Damnations by Gerald Kersh but his style is an acquired taste that I couldn't quite acquire despite a high recommendation from Harlan Ellison.

Moved quickly on The...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 8th March 2019, 02:06 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
Finished Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard...

Finished Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor. Cracking little ghost story with a surprise (and nasty) ending I only partially saw coming.

Now moving on to one of John Blackburn's...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 14th February 2019, 04:10 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
I finished The Moonstone Sickness and it was...

I finished The Moonstone Sickness and it was exactly what it promised to be except with a nice identity theft twist to The Wicker Man style denouement.

I've now moved to another Bernard Taylor...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 22nd January 2019, 03:39 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
Just started another Bernard Taylor novel, The...

Just started another Bernard Taylor novel, The Moonstone Sickness. Promises to be a Wicker Man type folk-horror.

What's feeding my resurgent pulp-horror obsession at the moment is a series of...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 19th January 2019, 03:04 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
well that was depressing - proper 1970s nihilism...

well that was depressing - proper 1970s nihilism :lol:

a good page turner though. it wasn't till after i'd finished that I realised the author had not even bothered to sketch in any close friends...
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 13th January 2019, 05:15 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
continuing my 70s binge i've just started The...

continuing my 70s binge i've just started The Godsend by Bernard Taylor. i've never seen the movie version, and i've never read any other books by him, so it will be all new to me.
Forum: Books, Magazines & Comics 31st December 2018, 03:15 PM
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Views: 278,021
Posted By Rob4
i've just started Nothing but the Night by John...

i've just started Nothing but the Night by John Blackburn, an author i never got around to sampling back in the seventies (i'm having a seventies pulp fiction binge at the moment). only a few...
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