October Reading Thread

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HareBrain said:
I'm about 13% through The Count of Monte Cristo, by Dumas. Actually once you take away the introduction, I've probably only read 10% of the story, but I'm already at what I would have thought to be about the one-third point in the plot (from my vague memory of the film). So I'm guessing the revenge is going to be really long and complicated.
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One line, from the last chapter, that always stuck with me, goes something like this... "Until the day when God deigns to reveal his plan to mankind, the whole of human wisdom can be summed up in these two words.... Wait and Hope."
 
I've been revisiting Stephen King. So far through October I've read:

Strawberry Spring
Stud City
The Revenge of Lard Ass Hogan
The Body
Grey Matter
The Mangler
Cain Rose Up
Brooklyn August
It Grows on You
I've Got to Get Away!
Nona
Before the Play
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Suffer the Little Children
Morning Deliveries
The Dark Man
The Cat from Hell
Weeds
Never Look Behind You
Here There Be Tygers
Morality
The New Lieutenant's Rap
The Cursed Expedition
The Other Side of the Fog
The Stranger
The Thing at the Bottom of the Well
The Night of the Tiger
The Glass Floor
Harrison State Park '68
The Reaper's Image
Donovan's Brain
Silence
Slade
The Blue Air Compressor
The Hardcase Speaks
Battleground
The Boogeyman
Trucks
Sometimes They Come Back
The Lawnmower Man
I Know What You Need
One for the Road
The Fifth Quarter
Survivor Type
The Man Who Loved Flowers
The King Family and the Wicked Witch
Quitters Inc.
The Last Rung on the Ladder
The Woman in the Room
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game
The Crate
Children of the Corn
The Gunslinger
The Way Station
The Oracle and the Mountains
The Slow Mutants
The Gunslinger and the Dark Man
The Bird and the Album
Crouch End
The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson
Head Down
Autopsy Room Four
The Breathing Method
1922
The Bone Church
L.T.'s Theory of Pets
Harvey's Dream
Dolan's Cadillac
The Langoliers

Revisiting The Library Policeman now, then moving on to Rat.
 
Dave said:
Is this the story found in an old newspaper by a researcher in an Irish library that had been completely forgotten?
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Except from the anthology:
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Okay, that's something different. The story that has been found was called "Gibbet Hill"

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Forgotten ghost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker rediscovered in Dublin library

A short ghost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker, lost for over 130 years, has been discovered in an 1890 supplement of the Dublin Daily Express.
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Amateur Sleuth Discovers Long-Lost Bram Stoker Story

Brian Cleary was spending time in the National Library of Ireland when he came across a forgotten Bram Stoker short story.
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Long-lost Bram Stoker story to be unveiled at Dublin festival

The forgotten short story was recently discovered and will be read to the public for the first time this weekend at the Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival.
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www.theguardian.com

Reader stumbles on Dracula’s ancestors in a Dublin library

The unknown Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill, published soon before the author began working on Dracula, has eerie echoes of his vampire classic
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I heartily agree with the many positive reviews from when it first came out in 2006.
A light touch. Humor, action and a hugely amusing take on everything from government to genetics. It is a romp with appealing characters (several) Even the bad guys and nasty aliens have style. Reviews describe it as "Silly." but meant it as a compliment. It is hard to go into detail as Mr. Scalzi piles one unlikely absurdity on another - but makes them seem logically connected.

After I finished, I realized that this is the third Scalzi that I have read in the past year where a light humorous touch, combined with increasing absurdity makes them outstanding.
The previous, Kaiju Preservation Society and Starter Villain, are each examples of humorous SFF. But they and Android are grounded in seeming reality rather than obvious humor, drawing you into his worlds. They are romps, Without your noticing where he is taking you are compulsively turning pages with a smile on your face. Scalzi is a master of tone and action. He has become perhaps the best SF humorist who carries you along with (as I said before) tone and absurdity.
 
Dave said:
Okay, that's something different. The story that has been found was called "Gibbet Hill"

irishheritagenews.ie

Forgotten ghost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker rediscovered in Dublin library

A short ghost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker, lost for over 130 years, has been discovered in an 1890 supplement of the Dublin Daily Express.
irishheritagenews.ie irishheritagenews.ie
news.artnet.com

Amateur Sleuth Discovers Long-Lost Bram Stoker Story

Brian Cleary was spending time in the National Library of Ireland when he came across a forgotten Bram Stoker short story.
news.artnet.com news.artnet.com
www.euronews.com

Long-lost Bram Stoker story to be unveiled at Dublin festival

The forgotten short story was recently discovered and will be read to the public for the first time this weekend at the Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival.
www.euronews.com www.euronews.com
www.theguardian.com

Reader stumbles on Dracula’s ancestors in a Dublin library

The unknown Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill, published soon before the author began working on Dracula, has eerie echoes of his vampire classic
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I just saw Gibbet Hill on fantastic fiction, interesting.
Meanwhile this is a short piece about the "story" I posted about above, and which I just read.:
"It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story"

Lord knows Dracula is wordy enough as it is!
 
Hard Contact: Star Wars Republican Commando by Karen Traviss

Second or third time reading this book and I still enjoy it. I'm not a diehard Star Wars fan but I appreciate Karen delving into the troopers' backstory and the human connection. There's not a lot of action in the first book, but it kept me engaged. It gets overlooked because it's not the typical Star Wars book, and purist military sci-fi fans might overlook it because it is Star Wars. Worth a read though.
 
Anyone know what arbites are? The book I'm reading (Lifeboat) about a spaceship crew who must board a lifeboat when their ship blows up, mentions arbites aboard.
 
Finished A Maze for the Minotaur by Reggie Oliver. Oliver is a throwback of sorts, a Brit with a theater background and, apparently, a classical education, like an E. F. Benson or an L. P. Hartley, who writes sentences that flow seamlessly one to the next and devotes his erudition to the classic ghost story. The stories in this collection are all entertaining, and the collection ends with a Lovecraftian confection located partly on Broadway, mixed with appearances by J. Edgar Hoover and his right-hand man, Clyde Tolson, wrapped in a Dashiell Hammett plot and liberally spiced with Damon Runyon dialog.

After finishing the Oliver, I read a few stories from The Monster Maker and Other Stories by W. C. Morrow and have since moved on to some stories from Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell.
 
YOU ARE A COMEDY SPECIAL. Maria
Bamford.

MEDICAL MYSTERIES ACROSS HISTORY.
Roy Benaroch,MD. 2020.

Audio.
 
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