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title: Reading List - 1984
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# Title: 1984
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## Author: Orwell, George
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A true classic. Have read it multiple times. I can't resist comparing it to the affairs in America under Trump
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title: Reading List - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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# Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
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## Author: Fulghum, Robert
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title: Reading List - Bossypants
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# Title: Bossypants
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## Author: Tina Fey
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title: Reading List - Content, Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
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# Title: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
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## Author: [[Cory Doctorow]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-09-07
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-13
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I liked “Little Brother” and I recognize Cory Doctorow as a sort of patron-saint of open-source (or probably more correctly free-use).
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I'm about half way through this. I like it. Small digestible chunks of advocacy for free-use and arguments against copyright and DRM and other crap.
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title: Reading List - Deliver Us From Evil
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# Title: Deliver Us From Evil
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## Author: Allen Lee Harris
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**Started Reading**: unknown
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#readinglist/read
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52414163-deliver-us-from-evil)
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From the back cover:
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> Deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, in a place called 'the snake well' by the locals, a twelve year old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret...NOW...A young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town...and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the 'snake well.' An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawlspaces. The townsfolk's darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets. And two young boys must face an evil that has been waiting for millennia to bring humanity an everlasting night.
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> Allen Lee Harris lives in Georgia with his eight cats. He began college when he was 14, graduated at 19, then attended Harvard Divinity School before getting a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He returned to Georgia, where he was working toward his PhD when he began writing full-time. While writing he supported himself at various jobs, including tending an all-night gas station where he wrote some of the more frightening parts of Deliver Us From Evil.
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Only in paperback.
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title: Reading List - Driven to Distraction
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# Title: Driven to Distraction
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## Author: Edward M Hallowell MD
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**Started Reading**: 2021-01-11
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**Finished Reading**: DNF
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108593.Driven_to_Distraction)
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title: Reading List - Election
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# Title: Election
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## Author: Tom Perrotta
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**Started Reading**: 2017-11-09
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-09
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[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28282.Election)
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I always liked the movie and I was interested once I found out that it was based on a book. I finally found the book and decided to check it out. I am half through the book at this point. It reads just like the movie - I'm even picturing the characters from the movie as I read.
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END NOTE: The end took a different turn than the movie that, while thought provoking, wasn't as satisfying as the movie. Still glad I read it.
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title: Reading List - Elevation
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# Title: Elevation
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-27
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Borrowed from Cuyahoga County library via Libby. I'm having a hard time finding the time to read, but this seems like typical King so far.
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END NOTE: Too long for a short story and too short for a novel. Felt like it belonged in Bazaar of Bad Dreams except it wasn't really a horror story. More of a fantasy. Not mad that that I read it.
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title: Reading List - End of Watch
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# Title: End of Watch
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-06-08
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-12
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Book three of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]]
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More of a true sequel to the [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes]]. The call-backs to the previous books are nice, but he sets them up well - you didn't have to read the previous books to understand this one.
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title: Reading List - Finders Keepers
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# Title: Finders Keepers
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-06-07
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-08
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Book two of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]]
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OK - within the first few chapters, we're seeing the events that started [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes]] from another point of view. I guess I'll be reading this one too. - Well, I finished it. Like a good "second-in-a-trilogy" this one left us with shadows of what's to come for book three. I'm not sure I'll get to book three right away. I should, but I've found that Mr Mercedes was a mini-series on TV. From what I can see they butchered the plot. I might have to peek at that before moving on to [[Reading List - End of Watch]]
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title: Reading List - Forrest Gump
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# Title: Forrest Gump
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## Author: Winston Groom
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**Started Reading**: 2021-02-08
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**Finished Reading**: DNF
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186190.Forrest_Gump)
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We watched Forrest Gump recently and I got caught up in the IMDB trivia. There was [one entry](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/trivia?item=tr1311738) that alluded to there being a sequel to the first book. First book? I never knew Forrest Gump was a book. So I found it on Libby and read the first chapter before checking it out. I'm not sure if I'll finish it (it's really different from the movie), but I was able to get through the first chapter pretty quickly.
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I couldn't get through this. It's just too weird after watching the movie. It's like a bad fan-fiction of the movie.
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title: Reading List - Gerald's Game
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# Title: Gerald's Game
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-12-04
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-12-06
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I've begun binging Netflix shows and found this in their 'Netflix Originals' section. I watched the trailer only to find it was a movie and not a series, but still - it looked really interesting. Thinking I must have this book somewhere - I found it and am on Chapter 10. I'm promising myself I'll read it before I watch the movie. So far - so good. A bit of "United States of Tara"-style multiple-personality going on but only in Jessie's head. Stephen rarely lets me down, so I'll keep reading this one. UPDATE: This was a strange book. I still think it should have been over after chapter 34. The last six chapters were almost unnecessary. It took a story about survival and introspection and made it a monster movie. Meh.
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title: Reading List - Hack
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# Title: Hack
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## Author: Peter Wrenshall
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**Started Reading**: 2020-08-12
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-16
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377037-hack)
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This is YA title that seems to get the technology right. It's a short book that I'm enjoying so far, but the copy I found is poorly formatted. Doesn't matter, I halfway through it.
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END NOTE: this was bad. It really was like a young adult book. No real details and no satisfactory resolution. You could see the end coming a mile away.
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title: Homeland
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# Title: Homeland
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## Author: Cory Doctorow
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**Started Reading**: 2022-05-31
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**Finished Reading**: DNF
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12917338-homeland)
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## My Take
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This is the sequel to "Little Brother", which I read long ago , but never logged in my reading list. I enjoyed Little Brother with all it's high-tect storyline and real world examples. I am hoping this is just as good.
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title: Reading List - I Alone Can Fix It
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# Title: I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
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## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
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**Started Reading**: 2021-08-02
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**Finished Reading**: 2021-08-18
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58411199-i-alone-can-fix-it)
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Another book I was surprised to have found interesting. I knew all the bullet points already as we'd lived through them, but seeing it all layed out makes me wonder how many people out there might see the last year in a different light. I suppose the hard-core Trumpies will never see the disaster this man wrought on this country, but much like Trump himself repeating lies over and over again until they are accepted as truth, hopefully the flood of these books hitting the market will start to sink into the zeitgeist and remind people of what a sack of shit Donald Trump is.
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title: Reading List - I Quit Sugar
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# Title: I Quit Sugar
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## Author: Sarah Wilson
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**Started Reading**: 2019-10-25
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-28
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via LIBBY
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I wasn't going to count this book on my reading list, but I *did* read almost all of it (except the 2nd half of the book which are all recipes). It was interesting that she leans so hard on the no-sugar angle without ever touching the carbs angle (or mentioning keto). But I agree with all her claims about feeling better and how hard it is to find really sugar-free foods.
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title: Reading List - If It Bleeds
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# Title: If It Bleeds
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2020-05-17
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-12
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46015758-if-it-bleeds)
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His latest book of short stories.
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**MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE**: I liked the concept of this story. The thought of a cell phone ringing in a casket 6 feet underground is creepy. The thought of getting a text message in response is worse.
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**THE LIFE OF CHUCK**: I'm not sure I entirely got this one. I think I read somewhere that if references other works of his that I'm not familiar with.
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**IF IT BLEEDS**: The best of the bunch, for sure. Not until I got to this story did I remember hearing about a reappearance of Holly Gibney. I'm glad I read the [[Reading List - The Outsider|The Outsider]] and the Bill Hodges trilogy ([[Reading List - Mr Mercedes|Mr Mercedes]], [[Reading List - Finders Keepers|Finders Keepers]] & [[Reading List - End of Watch|End of Watch]]. It makes this story make a lot more sense.
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**RAT**: Started good and ended meh.
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END NOTES: typical Stephen King lately: these really good stories ended with a shrug
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title: Reading List - I’m Thinking of Ending Things
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# Title: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
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## Author: Iain Reid
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**Started Reading**: 2019-10-08
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-11
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**AUDIOBOOK**
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I am trying to avoid spoilers, but I have heard this book has a surprise, twist ending that most people find unsatisfying. But I want to decide for myself.
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END NOTE: I'm still not sure what to think. A lot of people recommend reading it twice (like "The Sixth Sense" you see the ending coming upon a second viewing). There's a lot to think about and whole [webpages](http://afterthingsend.com/) devoted to interpretation of the book.
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2020-08: The [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7939766/) is coming to Netflix. I may have to check it out.
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title: Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'
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# Title: Let's Go Play at the Adams'
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## Author: Mendal W. Johnson
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**Started Reading**: 2021-02-28
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**Finished Reading**: 2021-03-02
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202604.Let_s_Go_Play_at_the_Adams_)
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~~PDF file~~ (I found an [epub](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50490085-let-s-go-play-at-the-adams) from the [[Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction|Paperbacks from Hell Collection]])
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I don't know how I feel about this book. It's not something I would have picked up on my own, I don't think. The reputation was what drew me to it. Written in the 70's I think it probably was more shocking then. Not that it isn't a sad, twisted story. I read reviews praising it's "well-written" style and I guess I see that. For the subject matter - the book was pretty thorough in trying to flesh out the characters and see all the viewpoints.
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This quote from a [reviewer on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/905239662?utm_content=reviews_full_review&utm_medium=email&utm_source=bookend&ref_=pe_7171740_474197500) sums it up pretty well:
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> 5 kids are not going to quickly turn into psychopaths able to systematically abuse and murder a person within a week unless they were already deranged. only one of them is characterized as having mental issues; none have traumatic backgrounds or guidance from a disturbed adult. there is no believable context to why they do the things they do, unless it is mere coincidence that brings these 5 deeply disturbed individuals together. that's a hell of a coincidence. no, I don't believe in the world of this book.
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I suppose it's books like this that inspired more graphic horror in the years following, but it's premise of "killing for killing's sake" is disturbing and sad. You don't finish this book feeling good, that's for sure.
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I'm glad I can say I read it, but I won't be looking for similar books.
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# Title: Life as I Blow It
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## Author: Sarah Colonna
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-01-28
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Silly "junk-food" book. I can't believe I finished the whole thing
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title: Reading List - Mazes and Monsters
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# Title: Mazes and Monsters
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## Author: Rona Jaffe
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**Started Reading**: 2017-01-28
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-20
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About as good as the movie. Robbie was sick way before he played the game.
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# Title: Microserfs
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## Author: Douglas Coupland
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**Started Reading**: 2017-02-26
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**Finished Reading**: DNF
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Wasn't sure I was going to read this, then I got to the third chapter. Still not sure I'll finish it...
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# Title: Mr Mercedes
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-06-06
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-07
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#readinglist/read
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Book one of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]]
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Found out there is a character in [[Reading List - The Outsider|The Outsider]] (Holly Gibney) that originated in the "Bill Hodges Trilogy" of [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes|Mr Mercedes]], [[Reading List - Finders Keepers|Finders Keepers]] and [[Reading List - End of Watch|End of Watch]]. So I started Mr Mercedes. So far so good.
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I never pegged Stephen King as a crime writer - or me as a crime reader.
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title: Reading List - Nest of Nightmares
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tags: [ readinglist/inprogress ]
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# Title: Nest of Nightmares
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## Author: Lisa Tuttle
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**Started Reading**: 2021-04-29
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**Finished Reading**:
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||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753143.A_Nest_of_Nightmares)
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title: Nightmare Alley
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tags: [ readinglist/dnf ]
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# Title: Nightmare Alley
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## Author: William Lindsay Gresham
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**Started Reading**: 2021-10-10
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**Finished Reading**: dnf
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7140096-nightmare-alley)
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Based on a recommendation from [Nocturnal Revelries](https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2021/09/19/freaks-and-con-artists-william-lindsay-greshams-nightmare-alley/), I decided to give this book a try.
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Months after not being able to really get into this book, I saw the [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/) and that took all the zest for finishing the book out of me.
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It was a good story, though.
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title: Reading List - Prisoners at the Kitchen Table
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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# Title: Prisoners at the Kitchen Table
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## Author: Barbara Holland
|
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**Started Reading**: 2021-05-20
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**Finished Reading**: 2021-05-24
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|
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/184269)
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This was a Weekly Reader book I remember reading in grade-school. I found the PDF online and started thumbing through it. Before long I was actually reading it again. I'm sure it wouldn't have held my interest if I had discovered it recently, but having read it over 30 years ago, it was filled with nostalgia.
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I remember identifying with Josh, the more level-headed, high-anxiety, character. I'm sure that the fact that of the two main characters, a boy and a girl, I identified with Josh because he was a boy my age. Polly was brash and loud and spoiled by her parents. She spent the entire book complaining about not getting her way and giving up when the situation got too intense. Josh was a careful thinker, too easily cowed by adults and what was "accepted as correct behavior". He was also less well-off than Polly and seemed to respect his possessions more because of it.
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Apart from the moral of the story a Weekly Reader book was trying to teach, 30 years or more has put more perspective on the story. While the lesson in the book is timeless (independence, courage and the ability to stand up for oneself) the sad fact is that in reality, both of those kids would have been sexually abused and possibly murdered once the ransom was not paid.
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A neat little buttoned up ending befitting a Weekly Reader.
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Nevertheless I found a couple more Weekly Readers online and may just read them as well.
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title: Reading List - Radicalized
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tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby, readinglist/audiobook ]
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|
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# Title: Radicalized
|
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|
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## Author: [[Cory Doctorow]]
|
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|
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**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10
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|
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-24
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|
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via LIBBY
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|
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I got the job at OverDrive and now have access to thousands of ebooks and audiobooks! This is my first loan from Cuyahoga County library and experienced with the Libby app. I'm about halfway through. The first story, "Unauthorized Bread" was really good. I'm not a huge fan of the second story (Model Minority) so far, the Title story was red by Wil Wheaton (what's not to like?) and the last story is a fun modern version of The Masque of the Red Death that I kind of kept on in the background. I think I may have given up if I'd been reading this book, but I liked listening to it. I certainly like some stories more than others.
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title: Reading List - Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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|
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# Title: Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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||||
|
||||
## Author: Harris, Thomas
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**:
|
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|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2016-12-03
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|
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#readinglist/read
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - Santa Took Them
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
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|
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# Title: Santa Took Them
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: William Malmborg
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2018-11-09
|
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|
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-11-28
|
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#readinglist/read
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|
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Starting my self-imposed regiment of reading holiday-themed books with this book I started last year and never finished. It's short - so I'm making myself finish it this year. A pretty good Halloween/Xmas segue book. Open-ended makes me wonder if there will be a sequel or if the author just wanted to leave us with a cliff-hanger. A fun read reminiscent of [[Reading List - Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3)]]
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - Say You Love Satan
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Say You Love Satan
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: David St Clair
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
|
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|
||||
The story behind the Acid King, [Ricky Kasso](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-island-devil-cult-murder-ricky-kasso-david-breskin-901069/). Found and read during my flirtation with Satanism in the early 90's. Only in paperback
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|
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title: Reading List - Shit My Dad Says
|
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Shit My Dad Says
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Justin Halpern
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2017-07-05
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2017-07-09
|
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|
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#readinglist/read
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|
||||
I'm just glad to be reading again - I was doing pretty well the first few months of the year. Then... nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
But this book is fun and seems like an easy read. Like Robert Fulghum spent time with Tucker Max
|
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|
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|
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[[Reading List Index]]
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|
||||
title: Reading List - Shock Rock
|
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Shock Rock
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Jeff Gelb (editor)
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/641739.Shock_Rock_Volume_I)
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
From a [goodreads.com review](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1157940834)
|
||||
|
||||
I) FORWARD - ALICE COOPER (February 16, 2017)
|
||||
Cool!
|
||||
|
||||
II) INTRODUCTION - JEFF GELB (February 16, 2017)
|
||||
Nostalgic summary of rock/metal and horror mashups.
|
||||
|
||||
III) "YOU KNOW THEY GOT A HELL OF A BAND" - STEPHEN KING - (February 16 - February 17, 2017) (**** Rating)
|
||||
To stumble into the small town of Rock 'n' Roll Heaven, Oregon would definitely be shocking for anyone who knows music. This is still not a half bad short story. I'd watched the short movie on You Tube a couple years ago and it was as good as the story in the book.
|
||||
|
||||
IV) "BOB DYLAN, TROY JONSON, AND THE SPEED QUEEN" - F. PAUL WILSON (February 17, 2017) (**** Rating)
|
||||
This one left me wanting more, as the story seemed to just be getting started. It was alright.
|
||||
V) "ODEED" - DAVID J. SCHOW (February 17, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
Too short and too much chaos in the writing of it. Too much going on in too short of a story.
|
||||
|
||||
VI) "VARGR RULE" - NANCY A. COLLINS (February 17, 2017) (*** Rating)
|
||||
Once again, another short story that left me wanting more. It sort of reminded of Whitley Strieber's, "The Wolfen".
|
||||
|
||||
VII) "BLOOD SUEDE SHOES" - RONALD KELLY (February 18, 2017) (**** Rating)
|
||||
Interesting concept! Didn't mind this one.
|
||||
|
||||
VIII) "THE DEAD BEAT SOCIETY" - DON D'AMMASSA (February 19, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
Nothing special here. Didn't care for it.
|
||||
|
||||
IX) "VOODOO CHILD" - GRAHAM MASTERTON (February 19, 2017) (** Rating)
|
||||
Wasn't too bad. I like to believe that this is an original idea for a story.
|
||||
|
||||
X) "RITES OF SPRING" - PAUL DALE ANDERSON (February 19, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
Too short for my liking.
|
||||
|
||||
XI) "DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOATHE" - MICHAEL GARRETT (February 19, 2017) (*** Rating)
|
||||
I'd rate it a three out of five. Would make a decent work of fiction if the author developed the story another three hundred pages or so.
|
||||
|
||||
XII) "REQUIEM" - BRIAN HODGE (February 20, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
This one didn't do anything for me. The writing was okay.
|
||||
|
||||
XIII) "HEAVY METAL" - R. PATRICK GATES (February 20, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
It started out interesting and then interest failed for me.
|
||||
|
||||
XIV) "BUNKY" - REX MILLER (February 20, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
Starts off like concert banter from Ted Nugent ad becomes so much worse than it does better. Too much, "Ya dig?" and other nonsense in the writing style. Not for me,
|
||||
|
||||
XV) "THE BLACK '59" - BILL MUMY & PETER DAVID (February 20, 2017) (*** Rating)
|
||||
Held my interest enough to enjoy it. It reminded me of the movie, "Trick or Treat" for the most part.
|
||||
|
||||
XVI) "GROUPIES" - RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON (February 20, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
What the fuck did I just read?
|
||||
|
||||
XVII) "REUNION" -MICHAEL NEWTON (February 20, 2017) (* Rating)
|
||||
A lot of action but no chub!
|
||||
|
||||
XVIII) "BOOTLEG" - MARK VERHEIDEN (February 20, 2017) (** Rating)
|
||||
It was okay. Had a couple good moments.
|
||||
|
||||
XIX) "WEIRD GIG" - RAY GARTON (February 20, 2017) (**** Rating)
|
||||
Something straight out of "Tales From The Crypt"! Not bad at all.
|
||||
|
||||
XX) "HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT" - JOHN L. BYRNE (February 20, 2017) (**** Rating)
|
||||
Another one which fits well with "Tales From The Crypt". Decent.
|
||||
|
||||
XXI) "ADDICTED TO LOVE" - THOMAS TESSIER (February 20, 2017) (*** Rating)
|
||||
Potential for something good....but was just okay.
|
||||
|
||||
XXII) "FLAMING TELEPATHS" - JOHN SHIRLEY (February 21, 2017) (*** Rating)
|
||||
This one too, would make an awesome mini-movie for "Tales From The Crypt"!
|
||||
|
||||
XXIII) CONTRIBUTING BIOGRAPHIES (February 21, 2017)
|
||||
Backstory of authors.
|
||||
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
title: Reading List - Suck It, Wonder Woman
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Suck It, Wonder Woman
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Olivia Munn
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - The Bedwetter
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Bedwetter
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Sarah Silverman
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: unknown
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - The Black Arts
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Richard Cavendish
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 'unknown'
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 'unknown'
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354619.The_Black_Arts_)
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
I bought this soft-cover book from the Ninth House Book Shoppe in Brecksville over 30 years ago. In May of 2021 I found a decent PDF.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Highlights
|
||||
|
||||
> Knots are very sinister things, much used by witches, because to tie a knot is magically to tie and impede the person who is the target of the spell. An example is the terrible death talisman of the string with nine knots, sometimes called 'the witches' ladder'. The string is tied with fierce concentration of hatred against an enemy and hidden somewhere close to hlm. The knots slowly thottle the life out of him and he dies. The only cure is to find the string in time and untie the knots.
|
||||
> -- pg 17
|
||||
|
||||
> The blood of an executed criminal is a strong protection against disease and misfortune, because it carries the vigorous energy of a man cut off in full health and the powerful force of his resentment and fury at the fact. Spectators at executions, includlng those of Charles I of England and Louis XVI of France, struggled to dip cloths and hand-kercheifs in the dead man's blood.
|
||||
> -- pg 25
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - The Halloween Tree
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Halloween Tree
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Ray Bradbury
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2019-09-18
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-24
|
||||
|
||||
I thought this looked interesting but it wasn't available on Libby - so I put a hold on it and got a message a couple hours later that it had been checked out to me! So far so good - a little stilted in the language - but a cool concept. I had to watch a couple YouTube reviews before I understood what's going on with Pipkin. It's a YA title - I'm hoping to finish it soon. UPDATE: what a cool book. A little hard to read, but the way it told the history of Halloween was awesome.
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/dnf ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Ron Jeremy
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2016-12-16
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: DNF
|
||||
|
||||
Gave up half-way through this, need to finish
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - The Haunting of Hill House
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Haunting of Hill House
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Shirley Jackson
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2020-10-07
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-18
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393407-the-haunting-of-hill-house)
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
via Libby
|
||||
|
||||
This was much more difficult of a read than I'd expected. I'm glad to have the experience under my belt, but I feel like after seeing so many re-imaginings of this story, the original fell a bit flat. Sort of like the original War of the Worlds inspired so many, much more intense variations on the "alien attack" theme. I respect this story for the door it opened in the "haunted house" genre, but ultimately found it a bit tedious.
|
||||
|
||||
## Highlights
|
||||
|
||||
All from the introductory chapter: Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors: On the Penguin Horror Series by GUILLERMO DEL TORO
|
||||
|
||||
> I take great pride in presenting a new edition of Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories as part of this Penguin Horror series.
|
||||
|
||||
> Which brings us to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. There is so much to say about him and such illuminating texts have been written by brilliant scholars (above all else my kind accomplice S. T. Joshi), colleagues (L. Sprague de Camp’s Lovecraft biography), or fellow authors (H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Michel Houellebecq)
|
||||
|
||||
> Henry James was fascinated by ghost stories—which he defined as fairy tales for adults—and studied them carefully. He devoted considerable time to the creation and contemplation of such tales and, in my opinion, devised one of the most moving and tenuous of all ghost tales in “The Way It Came."
|
||||
|
||||
> It is not until Poe that the seat of evil is transferred back to its proper place: the human mind.
|
||||
|
||||
> "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex."
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
---
|
||||
title: The Hawley Book of the Dead
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Hawley Book of the Dead
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Chrysler Szarlan
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2021-09-22
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2021-10-10
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20342498-the-hawley-book-of-the-dead)
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
I found this through Libby a few months back and naturally thought the title was interesting. I've read almost the first section and am intrigued. There's a part of me that's afraid I am reading a ladies romance-novel without the romance (at least so far). It's told from a female protagonists perspective. The main character was part of a magic duo with her husband, whom she accidentally killed in a botched magic act. They have three daughters. The husband's death was suspicious and a back-story involving real magic is just starting up. It's interesting enough to keep reading. So far, it seems like a good book for this time of year.
|
||||
|
||||
Glad to have finished this book. It had a lot to do with mythology and magic and a dark family secret, but I agree with a lot of th GoodReads reviews that this book had a pacing problem and the main character became incredibly dense near the end. It wasn't as "fluffy" as I was afraid it would be, but it also wasn't what I expected fro the title.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
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||||
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|
||||
title: Reading List - The Impossible Fortress
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Impossible Fortress
|
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## Author: Jason Rekulak
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**Started Reading**: 2017-09-05
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-05
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753698-the-impossible-fortress)
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Finished this in an afternoon. Liked it a lot. It was like the book version of a fun 80's movie. Some situations were contrived and some plot-lines were obvious but all-in-all I had fun reading it. Hard to believe I finished it in one afternoon.
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title: Reading List - The Jungle
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# Title: The Jungle
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## Author: Upton Sinclair
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**Started Reading**: 'unknown'
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**Finished Reading**: 'unknown'
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#readinglist/read
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle)
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> "Sinclair famously quipped, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." His primary concern, what initially drew him to the subject of the packing yards, was the condition of labor following the failed meatpackers' strike of 1904, and not the corruption of meat."
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I never thought I'd be a fan of this kind of fiction, but I found the story engrossing. Admittedly, I was attracted to the graphic descriptions of the fledgling food industry, but I stuck around for the story.
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title: Reading List - The Keto Reset Diet, Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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# Title: The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever
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## Author: Mark Sisson
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**Started Reading**: 2018-08-07
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23
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#readinglist/read
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Fueled by my recent liver disease diagnosis I started losing weight and following the keto diet (mostly). Thought I'd read a book about it. I was impressed with Mark's Youtube videos, so I'm giving it a chance. End note: A good book, I gave up at the end because the entire second half of the book is recipes. Great reference material for keto, though.
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title: Reading List - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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# Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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## Author: Washington Irving
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**Started Reading**: 2019-09-30
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-08
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#readinglist/read
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Much like [[Reading List - A Christmas Carol]] last year, I decided it was time to read a classic story that I've know my whole life, it seems, but never read the original.
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UPDATE: Sort of disappointing: the book leads you to believe that Brom Bones was the horseman and there never was a ghost. Fascinating how many (better) derivatives this story has inspired.
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title: Reading List - The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins
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tags: [ readinglist/inprogress ]
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# Title: The Linux Philosophy for Sysadmins
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## Author:
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**Started Reading**: 2021-04-28
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**Finished Reading**:
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||||
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||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40014223-the-linux-philosophy-for-sysadmins)
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title: Reading List - The Nerdist Way, How to Reach the Next Level
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tags: [ readinglist/dnf ]
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||||
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||||
# Title: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level
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## Author: Chris Hardwick
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||||
**Started Reading**: 2016-12-16
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**Finished Reading**: DNF
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Gave up half-way through this, need to finish
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title: Reading List - The Outsider
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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# Title: The Outsider
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-06-04
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-05
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A page-turner to be sure. I was disappointed to find the seemingly main character killed off before the half-way point. The rest of the book took a fantastical turn to explain the events of the first half. While it was good, it just feels like it was kind of a cop out. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, however.
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This book introduced me to Holly Gibney and was the reason I read the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]]
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title: Reading List - The Perks of being a Wallflower
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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# Title: The Perks of being a Wallflower
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||||
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||||
## Author: Stephen Chbosky
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2017-07-20
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-07-24
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This one snuck up on me. I found the movie online and I remember watching the movie with Ashley and Carrie. I googled the story and found the book online and the next thing you know it I was finished reading it. I wish there had been a book like this when I was 14. Maybe there was, but I just never found it.
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - The Queen's Gambit
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The Queen's Gambit
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Walter Tevis
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2021-06-09
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2021-08-23
|
||||
|
||||
[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit)
|
||||
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||||
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||||
This took me forever to finish. Probably because it was pretty much exactly the same as the Netflix series (which I enjoyed). I wound up taking a break and reading another book in the middle of this one, which made it take even longer, but since I knew the outcome of the book I wasn't chomping at the bit to see what came next.
|
||||
|
||||
I did make me want to get back into chess a little bit though.
|
||||
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||||
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
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tags: [ readinglist/read ]
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||||
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Cory Doctorow
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2017-11-08
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-08
|
||||
|
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#readinglist/read
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||||
|
||||
A short-story that reminds me of 1984 - but somehow in the future. One of those books that I'm gonna have to think about for a bit to decide how I feel. An easy read with a few bumps in the the flow that had me going back and re-reading parts to make sure I was understanding things. Doctorow's books have all been interesting, at least, and this one is no different.
|
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[[Reading List Index]]
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@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
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||||
title: Reading List - Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Mary L Trump
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2020-07-14
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2020-07-15
|
||||
|
||||
Well, I'm almost 1/4 through the book on the day I got it, so I'd better log it here.
|
||||
UPDATE: I finished the book in just over 24 hours. What a piece of shit Donald Trump is. Had I any reservations about that before, they are completely dismissed. I hope like hell everyone reads this book. What a dick.
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|
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|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
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|
||||
title: Reading List - Under the Dome
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read ]
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Under the Dome
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: [[Stephen King]]
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2018-06-13
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-22
|
||||
|
||||
#readinglist/read
|
||||
|
||||
Just picked book at random and am 5 chapters in. May as well count it as a book I'm going to read. Pretty good so far - another story that was made into a miniseries - but I think I'll wait on that until I'm finished. DONE: Stephen King really has a thing with aliens and monsters. This was a really good story, though. An adult "Lord of the Flies" that only worked because they were trapped. This took a long time to get through, but it was worth it.
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
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|
||||
title: Reading List - When You Are Engulfed in Flames
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby, readinglist/audiobook ]
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Title: When You Are Engulfed in Flames (audiobook)
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: David Sedaris
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2019-11-15
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: 2019-11-22
|
||||
|
||||
via Libby audiobook
|
||||
|
||||
Like Robert Fulghum (or Jean Sheppard) with swearing. Another audiobook. Still funny. I've only ever listened to David read his books. Now I may never read one.
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
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@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
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||||
---
|
||||
title: Reading List - Where Wizards Stay Up Late
|
||||
tags: [ readinglist/dnf ]
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
# Title: Where Wizards Stay Up Late
|
||||
|
||||
## Author: Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon
|
||||
|
||||
**Started Reading**: 2017-07-09
|
||||
|
||||
**Finished Reading**: DNF
|
||||
|
||||
Wanted to read this one for a while. Seems like a Hacker's (Heroes of the Computer Revolution) - type book. So far so good.
|
||||
|
||||
[[Reading List Index]]
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
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