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It’s not in any of his short story collections but a few years ago I found online somewhere the original “The Crate” that got turned into one of the shorts in Creepshow. It was by far one of those most fucked up things he ever wrote. You really felt like this thing could not exist in our universe and King was able to channel the feeling of the victims losing their mind directly into your brain while reading the story.














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one slightly funny part was in the story the only part of the wife that isn’t eaten by the creature is her face while in the movie that’s the first thing it eats
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I gotta track that down. I really have a soft spot in my heart for his short stories, especially from that era. Skeleton Crew and Night Shift were both so fucking entertaining as a young lad <3
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I've barely touched anything SK has put out in the past 20 years... maybe four books total. I keep meaning to pick up one of those detective stories he put out but I never quite find myself doing it.
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The Babysitter - Robert Coover
The Pilgrim Hawk - Glenway Wescott
Nog - Rudolph Wurlitzer
The Resurrectionist - James “Wrath” White
Elena Knows - Claudia Pinerio
Through The Arc Of The Rainforest- Karen Tei Yamashita
JR - William Gaddis
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The Iliac Crest - Cristina Rivera Garza
Shambleau and Others - C.L. Moore
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Light in August - 7.5/10

First foray into Faulkner and was pleasantly surprised, especially with the way his segued into character povs and delved into compelling backstories.
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Howl and other poems - Ginsberg
The End Of Alice - A.M. Homes
Readers Block - David Markson
Assisted Living - Gary Lutz
I Had Raised Dust - Daniil Kharms
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Finally finished second pass of Book of the New Sun

Gonna read Urth of the New Sun this time around I think
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Cains Jawbone - Edward P. Mathers
Sum - David Eagleman
Locos - Felipe Alfua
Sickening [nonfiction] - medical DOCTOR John Abramson

I started Gene Wolfes “Peace”
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i don't feel like reading book 5
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featherboa wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:32 pm Finally finished second pass of Book of the New Sun

Gonna read Urth of the New Sun this time around I think
Do the Soldier Series if you haven’t already.
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electronichamz wrote: Mon May 11, 2015 10:01 pm The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing Book 3) - R Scott Bakker. 9/10

This whole series was great. Bakker is a damn fine writer. Of all the fantasy I have read, I have never been sucked into a world like I have in this series. Definitely going for the next series.
On book one of this right now and totally in love with it.
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Finnegan’s Wake - Joyce
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Eyes - William H Gass
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
A Door Behind A Door - Yelena Moskovich
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reading houellebecq and dont really love it that much. map and territory

i probably need a break from this type of guy in general
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Honky Kong 64 wrote: Sat Sep 17, 2022 10:34 pm
electronichamz wrote: Mon May 11, 2015 10:01 pm The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing Book 3) - R Scott Bakker. 9/10

This whole series was great. Bakker is a damn fine writer. Of all the fantasy I have read, I have never been sucked into a world like I have in this series. Definitely going for the next series.
On book one of this right now and totally in love with it.
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Any Man- Amber Tamblyn

Started “the feral detective” my first Johnathan Lethem book, even though everyone says you should read “motherless Brooklyn”

“The Passenger” release date is 10-25-22
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down to The Cannibals/Danse Macabre.

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XX - Rian Hughes
Unclean Jobs For Women And Girls - Alissa Nutting
Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/ Worstward Ho/Stirrings Still/ [others] - Samuel Beckett
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Elatsoe - 8

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Notice - Heather Lewis ( I can’t say I wasn’t forewarned this was rock bottom depressing. Worse knowing the author committed suicide.)
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