Name the last three books you have read...

[Tamstrong]

I enjoyed them all. I really like this author.

 

[Tamstrong]

Yep x 3.

 

[Tamstrong]

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

 

[Tamstrong]

I thoroughly enjoyed these two. I read Stranger Still first not realizing it was the sequel to the other one, but it works well as a standalone book. I hadn't read anything by this guy before, but I'm impressed enough to add him to my list of favorite authors.

The "extreme horror" descriptor is no exaggeration. It's pretty fucked up, and the graphic violence and sexual content are more than a lot of people could handle. Amazon even provides a warning:

EXTREME CONTENT WARNING! This book contains explicit violence and sexual content. Do not purchase this book if you are easily offended or require trigger warnings!

For those who can handle it, it's worth reading. He's another impressive author.

 

[CAKicker]

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I thoroughly enjoyed these two. I read Stranger Still first not realizing it was the sequel to the other one, but it works well as a standalone book. I hadn't read anything by this guy before, but I'm impressed enough to add him to my list of favorite authors.

The "extreme horror" descriptor is no exaggeration. It's pretty fucked up, and the graphic violence and sexual content are more than a lot of people could handle. Amazon even provides a warning:



For those who can handle it, it's worth reading. He's another impressive author.

If your son scare you from behind while your reading the books, would you jump out of your seat?

 

[Tamstrong]

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If your son scare you from behind while your reading the books, would you jump out of your seat?

No, I'm not that skittish. If he did it intentionally though, it would probably get him a few choice words and a foot in his behind for disturbing me while I'm reading. lol

 

[Bookworm616]

I'm not reading as much anymore. I miss reading and need to get back into it. So many people seem to have so much free time in quarantine and I'm over here with two jobs, both of which are "essential" and my life has changed minimally - the biggest being my commute.

I did read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I enjoyed it, though I have to say, if I was editing the book, I could have easily cut out a good 200 pages and it would have made for a much better book. There was too much emphasis on Lucy's condition that didn't need to be in the book. That part got old really quickly.

I'm currently in the middle of reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. At least Frankenstein is a much shorter book.

Seeing a theme? LOL.

 

[Tamstrong]

I'm not reading as much anymore. I miss reading and need to get back into it. So many people seem to have so much free time in quarantine and I'm over here with two jobs, both of which are "essential" and my life has changed minimally - the biggest being my commute.

I did read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I enjoyed it, though I have to say, if I was editing the book, I could have easily cut out a good 200 pages and it would have made for a much better book. There was too much emphasis on Lucy's condition that didn't need to be in the book. That part got old really quickly.

I'm currently in the middle of reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. At least Frankenstein is a much shorter book.

Seeing a theme? LOL.

I've been there, so I feel your pain, Bookie. It's tough working two jobs and having so much on your plate that there's little time doing the things you enjoy. I hope you're able to get back to your regular reading. Reading is what keeps me (somewhat) sane these days.

I haven't read either of those yet, but they've been on reading list for a while.

You sound like me with the editing thing. I find myself editing things while I'm reading, and sometimes I wish I could turn off that part of my mind. When I read from my Kindle, I'm always reporting errors that bug me. lol

 

[Bookworm616]

I've been there, so I feel your pain, Bookie. It's tough working two jobs and having so much on your plate that there's little time doing the things you enjoy. I hope you're able to get back to your regular reading. Reading is what keeps me (somewhat) sane these days.

I haven't read either of those yet, but they've been on reading list for a while.

You sound like me with the editing thing. I find myself editing things while I'm reading, and sometimes I wish I could turn off that part of my mind. When I read from my Kindle, I'm always reporting errors that bug me. lol

If I had a Kindle, I'd be doing that, too!

Memes are the worst though. There are so many times I'd like to share a meme and it's like, really? You can't look up the correct spelling of xxxx?? Or you can't figure out if a word needs an apostrophe or not?? It bugs me so much!

 

[Tamstrong]

If I had a Kindle, I'd be doing that, too!

Memes are the worst though. There are so many times I'd like to share a meme and it's like, really? You can't look up the correct spelling of xxxx?? Or you can't figure out if a word needs an apostrophe or not?? It bugs me so much!

Same here. I see so many memes that make me want to tell the creators how great the memes would be if they hadn't screwed them up. Sometimes I do leave comments about them on Pinterest. It drives me especially crazy when the use the apostrophe to make words plural. What the hell is that about?!?

 

[Bookworm616]

Same here. I see so many memes that make me want to tell the creators how great the memes would be if they hadn't screwed them up. Sometimes I do leave comments about them on Pinterest. It drives me especially crazy when the use the apostrophe to make words plural. What the hell is that about?!?

OMG! Yes! What is that all about? That drives me nuts! LOL.

 

[Tamstrong]

Five strangers have woken up in a white room. A room with no doors, no windows. A room with no hope. Because these strangers have been kidnapped, drugged... and brought here as the newest contestants in the world’s most high-stakes scavenger hunt. Run by a madman named Mr. Do-Good, the game offers only two options: win or die. All they have to do to survive is complete every task on time and not break any of Do-Good’s rules. Playing the game will bring the players to their breaking point and beyond. But play they will, because Do-Good has plans for these strangers, and their only chance to live through the night is to discover what's really behind his Scavenger Hunt.

A father, a mother, a child, and a new baby with a devastating disease...
The Douglas family just wants to live their lives, and maybe find a bit of happiness. But when the ghost in their home breaks out of a centuries-long sleep, all hope for happiness will die. Because the thing that haunts them is not just evil... It is something much, much worse. Watching them from the shadows. Hungry to start killing once more. And thirsty for the blood of the children, the blood he has so long been denied. The thing that haunts them is not just evil......it is TWISTED.

It was supposed to be just one more job: in, out, and millions the richer. But when four thieves break into THIS house, they discover the owners were ready. And waiting. Now, the thieves find themselves in a deadly maze of traps. Traps designed not only to steal their lives, but their sanity. The only way out is the front door. The only way to get there is to survive. And the only way to survive is to be willing to do anything, to suffer all... and to lose everything in The House That Death Built.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

Yo! Gives us the meats! Basic story book plot. What makes them good reads, stingy...

 

[Tamstrong]

Yo! Gives us the meats! Basic story book plot. What makes them good reads, stingy...

You must really want to know if you quoted me twice.

I edited my post to add the blurbs from Amazon for you and any other inquiring minds.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

You must really want to know if you quoted me twice.

I edited my post to add the blurbs from Amazon for you and any other inquiring minds.

I don't know how or why it quoted your post twice. When I tried editing one of the quotes out it showed up in the edit window as a single long quote rather than 2 seperate quotes.

Thank You for the blurbs. Didn't mean for you to do all that hard & tiresome work.

 

[Tamstrong]

I don't know how or why it quoted your post twice. When I tried editing one of the quotes out it showed up in the edit window as a single long quote rather than 2 seperate quotes.

Thank You for the blurbs. Didn't mean for you to do all that hard & tiresome work.

There's no telling why it did it; probably just another weird glitch.

You're welcome. No worries. I was still able to be somewhat lazy about it...I still had the tab open from when I made my post.

 

[Tamstrong]

I like the way he ended it, but the getting there I didn't like as much. It was okay but not as well written as some of his other stuff.

They have the beginnings of a perfect family. A husband, a wife, a baby on the way.

But something will stop them from being happy as they move into their new house: the power of the undead that roam the halls of their home.

The demons that have come to claim them. The darkness that seeks to destroy them.

The story had potential, but the book didn't quite live up to it. The start was way too slow and it was hard to get interested in the story or the characters. Once something finally started happening things were disjointed and never really came together for me. The two "bad guy" characters' presence in the story came across as something random just to create some drama with no actual connection to the story. Why were they there; what was their connection? There were no answers to those questions. What happened with other bad guy in the book who actually was somehow connected to the story/protagonist made no sense, and it seemed to be done just to force the story along toward the desired ending. I was thinking maybe there'd ultimately be some connection between him and those random bad guys that would make things come together in a way that made sense in connection to the story...or something. Instead the dude magically ended up someplace he realistically wouldn't have on his own. It left me shaking my head in disappointment. I still love this author though.

She is one of the only animals
who can chase a lion from its kill...

Evie Childs hoped the all-expense-paid trip to Africa would give her a chance at adventure. Maybe it would even let her forget a past that haunts her, and find safety from a husband who abuses her.


Her jaws can crush bone to powder...

But when a group of "freedom fighters" kidnaps her safari tour group, intent on holding them for ransom, the adventure turns to nightmare.

She knows no mercy, only hunger...

Now, Evie and the rest of the survivors must travel across miles of the harshest, most dangerous environment on Earth. No food. No water. No communications.

And they're being hunted.

She is the only animal alive
who laughs as she hunts...

A pack of Africa's top predators have smelled the blood of the survivors, and will not stop until they have fed. Because in this place, you can be either one of the prey...

...or one of the PREDATORS

This one was good. I'm glad I read some of this author's best stuff before I read the other two books in this post. If I'd read one of them them first, I'd have never bothered with any of the rest.

There is no light at the end of some tunnels....

The New York subway system has:
656 miles of track... 468 stations... 31 thousand turnstiles...
and
1.64 BILLION fares yearly.<:/i>

For six of those fares, the trip is going to be one they will never forget.

Six strangers will board a subway. But this subway is unlike the others.

This subway doesn't take you where you want or where you need. It takes you where you fear.

This subway...is DARKBOUND.

 

[CAKicker]

 

[Tamstrong]

Not bad. I won't be rushing to read the author's other stuff, but I still enjoyed it.

Sal had woken up with no recollection of the night before a few times but never like this … in a forest … alone … confused … scared. She scoured her surroundings, desperate for some clue as to how she’d ended up here. Fragments of conversations, snapshots of memories were all she could scramble together. But, suddenly, none of it mattered. A stranger. A warning. And the hunt is on. Now Sal and her friends are in a battle like no other. Death and terror lurk around every corner. Can they defy the odds and live to fight another day? Or will they fall like so many before? Is it all a nightmare or is it for real? One thing is for sure, it’s relentless.

Pretty good.

Part thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a novel as timeless as The Catcher in the Rye and as hauntingly lyrical as The Lovely Bones. Christopher Barzak’s stunning debut tells of a teenage boy’s coming-of-age that begins with a shocking murder and ends with a reason to hope.

Adam McCormick had just turned fifteen when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an autumn that will change his life forever. Jamie Marks was a boy a lot like Adam, a boy no one paid much attention to—a boy almost no one would truly miss. And for the first time, Adam feels he has a purpose. Now, more than ever, Jamie needs a friend.

But the longer Adam holds on to Jamie’s ghost, the longer he keeps his friend tethered to a world where he no longer belongs . . . and the weaker Adam’s own ties to the living become. Now, to find his way back, Adam must learn for himself what it truly means to be alive.

Another great trilogy by this man.

A name was tattooed on his finger.

Marcus woke in a cell. No memory of how he got there or what his name was. Just a tattoo. There were others like him. They called this place unreality. They told him this was where someone was hiding him.

Clues lead him on a journey in search of who he is, who he was, and why someone did this to him. Each time he finds someone connected to a mysterious symbol, something inconceivable happens. Something even the people who live in unreality can't explain.

Micah and the investors built the Maze, a massive alternate reality that feeds on the players who enter. But now someone is pursuing them. One by one, the investors begin to vanish.

When clues are left behind, Micah suspects who it is that’s taking them. It’s someone from a game played long ago and a promise she made. He believes she wants to avenge all those responsible for what they did to her. And her son. But she wants something much more than to destroy the Maze. He must stop her before all hope is lost. He thought she was dead. But he was wrong.

She was only waiting.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

Marvel has re-worked the Hulk over the last 3 years fully embracing the concept of him being a monster resulting in his current comic run, The Immortal Hulk, becoming a true horror/sci-fi comic.


The Immortal Hulk Volume One.

THE RETURN OF BRUCE BANNER!

You know Bruce Banner. He's quiet, calm, never complains. He's a man who believes he can use the darkest elements of his personality to do good in the world. If someone were to shoot him in the head... All he'd do is die. But the horror lives deeper. A horror that refuses to die.

When night falls something other than the man gets up again.

The horror is the Immortal Hulk.




The Immortal Hulk Volume Two.

Bruce Banner is alive and on the loose — and now the entire world knows it. Soon the Hulk finds himself hunted once again — this time by the government, Alpha Flight, the mysterious Shadow Base...and the Avengers! Someone’s going to find him first, but which option is least bad? It might not matter, because Bruce has bigger problems. Something terrible has infected him. Something with unspeakable plans for humanity. And the only one who knows about this dark infection…is the Hulk! Meanwhile, Carl “Crusher” Creel was just trying to live. Now, to save what he’s built for himself, he must do the impossible. The Absorbing Man must kill the Immortal Hulk! But the Hulk is the one thing standing between the world of the living — and the Green Door!


Immortal Hulk Volume Three.

Carl Creel is in Hell. Walter Langkowski is in Hell. Eugene Judd is in Hell. Los Diablos is in Hell. Shadow Base is in Hell. New Mexico is in Hell. We are all in Hell…and so is the Immortal Hulk! And now the creature that rules Hell has come to collect. It whispers through many mouths. It destroys with many hands. Its only weapon is hate. It wears human souls like masks to work its will. But in the lowest Hell, underneath all others, all the masks come off — and the One Below All is revealed! Bruce Banner belongs to him. But the Hulk…not even Hell is strong enough to hold the Hulk. Meanwhile, in the world above, two familiar faces resurface: Betty Banner and Doc Samson! What will their returns mean for the Immortal Hulk?