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Originally posted by RonClinton View Post
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.
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Originally posted by sholloman81 View Post
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.Twitter: https://twitter.com/ron_clinton
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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
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Originally posted by sholloman81 View PostJust 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".ÂTwitter: https://twitter.com/ron_clinton
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Finished The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper, and though I liked it better than her short story collection that I DNF’d a couple of years ago, it still didn’t work for me. Probably my last attempt at reading Piper.
Currently half way through This World Belongs to Us, an anthology of horror stories about bugs. It’s been a very hit or miss anthology up to this point.
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