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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #300 on: February 26, 2022, 05:49:39 PM »
THE MAGIC STORY (1900)
by Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey

47 minute audiobook


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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #301 on: March 02, 2022, 10:08:37 PM »
The moon phase is New Moon

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Stories 75 through 84 in the Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology (1998) :

75) Demon Bender by Tina L. Jens ∆
76) Demon Tears by Gordon Linzer *
77) Desert Shoreline by Brian Hodge ∆
78) Dining Made Simple by Allison Stein Best *
79) The Distances of Hell by John Maclay ∆
80) The Dogcatcher by Thomas S. Roche ∆∆∆∆
81) A Donation to the Homeless by Mark Bloodstone ∆
82) Don's Last Minute by Wayne Allen Sallee ∆
83) Double Crossing by Lawrence Schimel ∆
84) The Dread by Mandy Slater ∆

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #302 on: March 03, 2022, 02:07:48 AM »
The moon phase is New Moon

Read in 2022

Stories 75 through 84 in the Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology (1998) :

75) Demon Bender by Tina L. Jens ∆
76) Demon Tears by Gordon Linzer *
77) Desert Shoreline by Brian Hodge ∆
78) Dining Made Simple by Allison Stein Best *
79) The Distances of Hell by John Maclay ∆
80) The Dogcatcher by Thomas S. Roche ∆∆∆∆
81) A Donation to the Homeless by Mark Bloodstone ∆
82) Don's Last Minute by Wayne Allen Sallee ∆
83) Double Crossing by Lawrence Schimel ∆
84) The Dread by Mandy Slater ∆

* = liked
∆ = did not like

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What was it about 80) that rated the dreaded ∆∆∆∆?  :o

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #303 on: March 03, 2022, 11:54:46 AM »
What was it about 80) that rated the dreaded ∆∆∆∆?  :o

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Gore instead of story.

Logic problems. For example, if I were to write that I murdered a cop/investigator who paid me a visit. That I then pushed his car into a river. And that the police department "got the message" and stopped investigating me when they found the cop dead or missing . . . I would hope someone would tell me that was lazy crap writing.   

Such a police department would DESCEND upon my environment.

(The story did not use cops, but another department under city control.)

There were other problems. 



Making a binary call on many of these is not easy. Sometimes I like the whole story but hate the ending.  Depending on my mood and the moon,  it could receive either * or ∆.

But this was an easy call.  Also, just in general, the story didn't make a hell of a lot of sense. I guess if you mixed Kafka with splatterpunk and threw in some unexplained supernatural effect and shook thoroughly, you might write this.

As stated previously, I view this more as an editor's mistake in accepting the story than I am bashing someone's effort.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #304 on: March 05, 2022, 09:10:19 PM »
FOREVER ODD (2005)

by Dean Koontz

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #305 on: March 07, 2022, 06:59:52 PM »
Just ordered/purchased this.   Real correspondence through time perhaps. ?
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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #306 on: March 09, 2022, 04:14:43 PM »
Earth is invaded by alien elephants.
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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #307 on: March 09, 2022, 05:57:57 PM »
Earth is invaded by alien elephants.


That alien elephant was always a very effective eye grabber for the Science Fiction Book Club's full page magazine ads.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #308 on: March 09, 2022, 06:22:04 PM »
That alien elephant was always a very effective eye grabber for the Science Fiction Book Club's full page magazine ads.

Plus that audio book rendition [pirated I suppose but wouldn't YT yank it?] just gets a good vibe going when it starts barking out "Turn cassette over. Turn cassette over. Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  "

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #309 on: March 09, 2022, 08:44:06 PM »
Plus that audio book rendition [pirated I suppose but wouldn't YT yank it?] just gets a good vibe going when it starts barking out "Turn cassette over. Turn cassette over. Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  Turn cassette over.  "

Any self respecting pirate would edit that TCO out; and if wanting it to stay on youtube longer, add in an "audio book for the blind, a non profit initiative" yadda yadda at the beginning and at the end of the file as well as in the file description.  I like to call it the rubber stamp of doubt. It would not fool YouTube censor employees and assorted  script kitties, but might make YouTube users think twice before flagging it.

Saul Goodman: Who would ever wish to deprive a blind individual of the pure joy of listening to Niven and Pournelle's classic FOOTFALL as an audiobook? Nobody. Except dickheads. Which, admittedly are not in short supply out there. I mean,  just look at that cute elephant. Baseball, apple pie, and multi trunk abled elephants. What's not to like?


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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #310 on: March 11, 2022, 04:28:19 PM »
April 18th.
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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #311 on: March 11, 2022, 05:09:50 PM »
I suppose this goes best here - Jack Kerouac’s 100th birth day is tomorrow, March 12.
I wonder if he and Willie ever met.
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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #312 on: March 12, 2022, 08:21:41 AM »
I suppose this goes best here - Jack Kerouac’s 100th birth day is tomorrow, March 12.
I wonder if he and Willie ever met.



A Jack Carro(tC)ake 100.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #313 on: March 16, 2022, 03:05:48 PM »
Introducing:  -?-

A third rating type!

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Stories 85 through 94 in the Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology (1998) :

85) DREAD! by Brian McNaughton ∆
86) The Dream Book by Don Webb -?-
87) Drive by Joe Meno ∆
88) Drive to Distraction by Jacqueline Q. Shelton ∆∆∆∆
89) Dust in the Attic by Phyllis Eisenstein *
90) Each Day by Steve Rasnic Tem ∆∆∆
91) Early Retirement by Edward E. Kramer *
92) The Earwig Song by M. Christian ****
93) Easy Money by Mark Hannah *
94) Ebony Eyes by Francis Amery ∆


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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #314 on: March 16, 2022, 04:50:16 PM »
@Camazotz Automat So, looking above ^ you really didn't like Drive To Distraction.  I have done that before. Continued reading after realizing that I hate the book, all the while loathing every word written.