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Post by Randall » Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:49 pm

Started reading elsewhere by dean koontz
Bit of a struggle but have to get on with it
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Post by Ross, Bob » Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:17 pm

Randall wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:49 pm Started reading elsewhere by dean koontz
Bit of a struggle but have to get on with it
Read Koontz about 25 years ago, didn't know he was still alive.

Always considered it a bit like King light.
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Post by Randall » Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:05 pm

Ross, Bob wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:17 pm
Randall wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:49 pm Started reading elsewhere by dean koontz
Bit of a struggle but have to get on with it
Read Koontz about 25 years ago, didn't know he was still alive.

Always considered it a bit like King light.
25 years ago most things he put out were good
Recently he has been very hit and miss

The premise of elsewhere is very "kingy"

I'm 110 pages in and enjoying it
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Post by Ross, Bob » Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:55 pm

Randall wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:05 pm
Ross, Bob wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:17 pm
Randall wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:49 pm Started reading elsewhere by dean koontz
Bit of a struggle but have to get on with it
Read Koontz about 25 years ago, didn't know he was still alive.

Always considered it a bit like King light.
25 years ago most things he put out were good
Recently he has been very hit and miss

The premise of elsewhere is very "kingy"

I'm 110 pages in and enjoying it
After not being able to read for months, I reckon you'd enjoy any book now.
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Post by Randall » Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:02 pm

Ross, Bob wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:55 pm
Randall wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:05 pm
Ross, Bob wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:17 pm
Randall wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:49 pm Started reading elsewhere by dean koontz
Bit of a struggle but have to get on with it
Read Koontz about 25 years ago, didn't know he was still alive.

Always considered it a bit like King light.
25 years ago most things he put out were good
Recently he has been very hit and miss

The premise of elsewhere is very "kingy"

I'm 110 pages in and enjoying it
After not being able to read for months, I reckon you'd enjoy any book now.
It felt good to be reading again
I've been putting it off
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Post by Randall » Tue Feb 16, 2021 4:36 pm

As so often of late
Koontz has made a really interesting idea really quite uninteresting
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Post by Randall » Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:40 pm

Elsewhere was deeply underwhelming
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Post by Randall » Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:49 pm

The chalk man by cj Tudor

Looks ok but more importantly it has quite large print
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Post by Ross, Bob » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:19 pm

Randall wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:49 pm The chalk man by cj Tudor

Looks ok but more importantly it has quite large print
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Post by tungsten tossers » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:23 pm

Ross, Bob wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:19 pm
Randall wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:49 pm The chalk man by cj Tudor

Looks ok but more importantly it has quite large print
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Post by Ross, Bob » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:33 pm

tungsten tossers wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:23 pm
Ross, Bob wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:19 pm
Randall wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:49 pm The chalk man by cj Tudor

Looks ok but more importantly it has quite large print
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Post by Randall » Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:19 pm

120 pages into the chalk man

Aj Tudor is billed as a female British stephen king
I can see why
Very good.
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Post by Randall » Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:07 pm

The chalk man was very good
All was not as it seemed
Some of it I worked out some not
Certainly interested to read more of her work
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Post by Randall » Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:15 pm

The deep by alma Katsu is next
A mystery set onboard the titanic and britannic
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Post by mattp » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:04 pm

Not read any Koontz since Lightning in 1990-ish. WHSmith’s horror shelves used to be all Koontz, King and Richard Laymon

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Post by Randall » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:12 pm

mattp wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:04 pm Not read any Koontz since Lightning in 1990-ish. WHSmith’s horror shelves used to be all Koontz, King and Richard Laymon
Afternoon matt
I've not read him really since he started the odd Thomas and Frankenstein series but elsewhere interested me, alas no good.
I've still got 77 shadow street to read which again looks good.....

Pity layman died
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Post by mattp » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:16 pm

Randall wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:12 pm
mattp wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:04 pm Not read any Koontz since Lightning in 1990-ish. WHSmith’s horror shelves used to be all Koontz, King and Richard Laymon
Afternoon matt
I've not read him really since he started the odd Thomas and Frankenstein series but elsewhere interested me, alas no good.
I've still got 77 shadow street to read which again looks good.....

Pity layman died
Laymon was entertaining crap. Ok for a quick switch-off between King, Straub, Barker etc.
Seemed to be aiming at teenage boys, with the gore and tits

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Post by Randall » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:22 pm

mattp wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:16 pm
Randall wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:12 pm
mattp wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:04 pm Not read any Koontz since Lightning in 1990-ish. WHSmith’s horror shelves used to be all Koontz, King and Richard Laymon
Afternoon matt
I've not read him really since he started the odd Thomas and Frankenstein series but elsewhere interested me, alas no good.
I've still got 77 shadow street to read which again looks good.....

Pity layman died
Laymon was entertaining crap. Ok for a quick switch-off between King, Straub, Barker etc.
Seemed to be aiming at teenage boys, with the gore and tits
I loved

Come out tonight
Night in the lonesome October
The travelling vampire show
The beast house trilogy

But yes a lot of it was just tits and gore
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Post by Randall » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:26 pm

Not that I have any objection to gore, and certainly not tits.
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Post by mattp » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:35 pm

Randall wrote: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:26 pm Not that I have any objection to gore, and certainly not tits.
Read all James Herberts stuff, and currently catching up on a lot of Graham Masterton - so tits n gore is no issue

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