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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #315 on: March 16, 2022, 06:19:27 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.

@KSM

Absolutely. I don't know if it's born of stubbornness or a "finishing what I started" attitude, but I have suffered until the end books that I did not like.

Thankfully, these are all short stories and no greater than 750 words in length.

Still, after reading that particular one, I was like,

W
T
F

did I just read?

I like her name, though.  All those syllables have good texture. And that somewhat mysterious "Q" as a middle initial would be a natural eyecatcher on a book's dustjacket.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #316 on: March 26, 2022, 07:56:54 PM »
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Stories 95 through 104 in the Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology (1998) :

95) Edwina Talbot by Benjamin Adams ∆
96) Empathy's Bed at Midnight by Martin R. Soderstrom ∆∆
97) Encore by Hugh B. Cave ****
98) Engorged Pereute by Lois H. Gresh ∆
99) Erosion Road by Gary A. Braunbeck ∆∆∆
100) The Evil Dark by Gary Jonas ∆∆
101) Extract by Brian Hodge ∆∆∆∆
102) Eyes Like Diamonds in a Subway Tunnel by Edward Gaillaed ∆∆∆
103) Fall of Man by Graham P. Collins -?-
104) Fashion Victim by Martin Mundt -?-


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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #317 on: March 26, 2022, 09:02:45 PM »
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Stories 95 through 104 in the Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology (1998) :

95) Edwina Talbot by Benjamin Adams ∆
96) Empathy's Bed at Midnight by Martin R. Soderstrom ∆∆
97) Encore by Hugh B. Cave ****
98) Engorged Pereute by Lois H. Gresh ∆
99) Erosion Road by Gary A. Braunbeck ∆∆∆
100) The Evil Dark by Gary Jonas ∆∆
101) Extract by Brian Hodge ∆∆∆∆
102) Eyes Like Diamonds in a Subway Tunnel by Edward Gaillaed ∆∆∆
103) Fall of Man by Graham P. Collins -?-
104) Fashion Victim by Martin Mundt -?-


* = liked
∆ = did not like
-?- = liked and disliked


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Hmmm... Cave was not the pits. ;)

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #318 on: March 27, 2022, 12:22:14 AM »
Hmmm... Cave was not the pits. ;)

And just in time . This has turned into a bit of a slog. Heh heh

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #319 on: March 27, 2022, 04:30:35 AM »
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Stories 95 through 104 in the Horrors! 365 Scary Stories anthology (1998) :

95) Edwina Talbot by Benjamin Adams ∆
96) Empathy's Bed at Midnight by Martin R. Soderstrom ∆∆
97) Encore by Hugh B. Cave ****
98) Engorged Pereute by Lois H. Gresh ∆
99) Erosion Road by Gary A. Braunbeck ∆∆∆
100) The Evil Dark by Gary Jonas ∆∆
101) Extract by Brian Hodge ∆∆∆∆
102) Eyes Like Diamonds in a Subway Tunnel by Edward Gaillaed ∆∆∆
103) Fall of Man by Graham P. Collins -?-
104) Fashion Victim by Martin Mundt -?-


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It's 365 Scary Stories, not 365 Good Stories - should your ratings system include whether they were scary or not?    :o

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #320 on: March 27, 2022, 10:23:33 AM »
It's 365 Scary Stories, not 365 Good Stories - should your ratings system include whether they were scary or not?    :o

No.

(If you want to argue using that logic, it's also not called 365 Mostly Suck Ass Stories, but I'll be damned if that's not the case so far.)

Generally speaking, they do qualify as "campfire stories." Scary is too ambiguous of a word, as would be rating it that way.  That is one of many reasons the title is inferior.

The absolute WORST is the subtitle.

Daily Dose of Terror?

Perhaps it is a foolhardy mission, but I'm going to keep digging for gold.

I do like how my how copy is designed. It is a beautuful slipcase edition, apparently distributed to Barnes & Noble sales reps.

It doesn't have that ldiotic dustjacket.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #321 on: March 27, 2022, 04:11:44 PM »
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IT CAN'T BE EASY TO HANG A GIRAFFE IN A CHEAP HOTEL ROOM (2021)

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Illustrated by Bruce Lanning


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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #322 on: March 27, 2022, 06:36:22 PM »
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IT CAN'T BE EASY TO HANG A GIRAFFE IN A CHEAP HOTEL ROOM (2021)

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #323 on: March 27, 2022, 09:14:09 PM »
Wrong thread

Noted. But it is the correct thread.

Executve decision.

Read the book. Liked it. Posted it.

No one wants to hear about, nor would believe, the weird coincidence that placed the book into my exalted orbit.

I can hardly believe it myself.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #324 on: March 27, 2022, 09:18:15 PM »
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IT CAN'T BE EASY TO HANG A GIRAFFE IN A CHEAP HOTEL ROOM (2021)

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #325 on: March 27, 2022, 10:31:58 PM »
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“I see dead giraffes!”  :o

A giraffe walking over my grave...

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #326 on: March 28, 2022, 06:24:38 PM »
I have never felt 'stressed' on a personal level when reading a book. Until now.
To say that this is worrisome, is to say that go-cart toppled the twin towers on September 11, 2001.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #327 on: March 28, 2022, 06:59:54 PM »
I have never felt 'stressed' on a personal level when reading a book. Until now.
To say that this is worrisome, is to say that a go-cart toppled the twin towers on September 11, 2001.

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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #328 on: April 22, 2022, 10:40:52 PM »
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Joe R. Lansdale
Anna L. Davis
E. R. Bills
Stephen Patrick
Carmen Gray
Bret McCormick
Russell C. Connor
Michael H. Price
Tom Bont
Ernie Lee
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Re: The Book Lodge - Drive Thru Open 24 Hours
« Reply #329 on: April 22, 2022, 11:18:20 PM »
Just finished the Handmaid's Tale and the Testaments. Middle Anerica or Eilead goes to Hell in a handbasket. DeSantis wet dream comes true but all the good ones run to Canada or California

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