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[RonClinton]

Just finished reading the Earthling LE of Tyler Jones' "Midas". This was such a fantastic read. I was already a big fan of Jones due to his Thunderstorm Collection "Turn Up The Sun", but "Midas" has now made Jones a must-read author for me. Everything about this story works. Fully-fleshed out characters, a unique setting, a very interesting plot, a cool mythos, lots of scares, and some very memorable villains. Overall, this was an A+ read for me.

Am now reading the reading the signed hardcover of Kristopher Triana's "That Night in the Woods".Â

I made a mistake passing on Earthling’s MIDAS…one of these days I’ll rectify that.

[sholloman81]

Just finished reading the Earthling LE of Tyler Jones' "Midas". This was such a fantastic read. I was already a big fan of Jones due to his Thunderstorm Collection "Turn Up The Sun", but "Midas" has now made Jones a must-read author for me. Everything about this story works. Fully-fleshed out characters, a unique setting, a very interesting plot, a cool mythos, lots of scares, and some very memorable villains. Overall, this was an A+ read for me.

Am now reading the reading the signed hardcover of Kristopher Triana's "That Night in the Woods". 

[dannyboy121070]

I grabbed an ARC of Ray Garton's THE LOVELIEST DEAD off of the shelf after I heard he had passed, and it's a banger so far. Really enjoying it.

[RonClinton]

That's a bummer to hear about the Beast You Are. Haven't picked it up yet and but was hoping for something more in vain of his Growing Things collection which I enjoyed. I'm sure the free-verse novella of poetic narration thing will not be my cup of tea either; however, I'm sure that I'll give the book a chance up the road.

Yeah, I really dug GROWING THINGS, too. Until recently, I'd enjoyed everything he'd written (to varying degrees), including GROWING THINGS, his second collection.

[sholloman81]

Chiming in on THE PALLERBEARERS CLUB (if I haven't already, but I don't recall doing so) with another thumbs down...and I'm a big fan of his work. Unlike Sholloman81, I didn't make it to the final two chapters, so will have to take his work for it that it finishes strong, but everything else he mentions is spot on: unlikeable characters, one of whom has the classic unreliable narration which adds nothing to the plot other than confusion, and a slow slog of a rather shallow plot...if there was some rich subtext going on under that surface telling of this story, it escaped me (or, at least, the first half that I read before DNFing it). I'm looking forward to HORROR MOVIE, his new one that's due out in a couple months, and have confidence it'll be a return to form. Then again, I had hoped that as well from his most recent offering, THE BEAST YOU ARE, half of which was a free-verse novella of poetic narration, which turned me off -- fairly or not -- immediately, so I didn't pick up that one. I like that Tremblay is experiemental to a degree in his form and isn't wary of taking chances and expanding his approach, but like all readers I guess I have my limit and "The Beast You Are" pushed it over the red line for me.

That's a bummer to hear about the Beast You Are. Haven't picked it up yet and but was hoping for something more in vain of his Growing Things collection which I enjoyed. I'm sure the free-verse novella of poetic narration thing will not be my cup of tea either; however, I'm sure that I'll give the book a chance up the road.