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Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:49 pm
by Randall
Started reading elsewhere by dean koontz
Bit of a struggle but have to get on with it

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:17 pm
by Ross, Bob
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.

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:05 pm
by Randall
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:55 pm
by Ross, Bob
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.

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:02 pm
by Randall
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 4:36 pm
by Randall
As so often of late
Koontz has made a really interesting idea really quite uninteresting

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:40 pm
by Randall
Elsewhere was deeply underwhelming

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

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

Looks ok but more importantly it has quite large print

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:19 pm
by Ross, Bob
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:23 pm
by tungsten tossers
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
Top tune

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:33 pm
by Ross, Bob
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
Top tune
Fucks it gotta do with you

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:19 pm
by Randall
120 pages into the chalk man

Aj Tudor is billed as a female British stephen king
I can see why
Very good.

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:07 pm
by Randall
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:15 pm
by Randall
The deep by alma Katsu is next
A mystery set onboard the titanic and britannic
Right up my alley

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:04 pm
by mattp
Not read any Koontz since Lightning in 1990-ish. WHSmith’s horror shelves used to be all Koontz, King and Richard Laymon

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:12 pm
by Randall
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:16 pm
by mattp
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:22 pm
by Randall
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

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:26 pm
by Randall
Not that I have any objection to gore, and certainly not tits.

Re: Any good books - sponsored by Randall

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:35 pm
by mattp
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