Blue Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Blue Smith

@thaddeusbooks The Shining... i don't consider the movie to be anything like a faithful adaptation; it's simply "based on" a Stephen King book. Reason: The Shining was an escalation of the "haunted house" story as an extension of Hawthorne/Poe thru to Shirley Jackson to Richard Matheson; with

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@Jenjuxtapose try The Miracles of the Namiya General Store it's a mystery, kind of. the author, Keigo Higashino, is likely the best living mystery writer in the world. every book he plays a different game with the audience.. this one isn't a murder mystery, it's an emotional mystery

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@lokikilledtanyx i was just rereading The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe.. and Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea series in the beautiful illustrated edition.. looking forward to more translated Japanese detective fiction later this year from Keigo Higashino, Soji Shimada, and Seishi Yokomizu

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@tapir_worf The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami The Gift by Patrick O'Leary the Avery Cates series by Jeff Somers Birdman by Mo Hayder 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse

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@dst6n01 They should experience cathartic moments to understand the value of perseverance; experience challenged beliefs to learn about personal growth; experience stories that show doing the right thing isn't always easy; experience stories that take them entirely into the unknown.

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@Authoralexp at the extreme end you also have John Kennedy O'Toole who rewrote A Confederacy of Dunces for over a decade only to have the original version be published and win the Pulitzer Prize after his death

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@tapir_worf The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami The Gift by Patrick O'Leary the Avery Cates series by Jeff Somers Birdman by Mo Hayder 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse

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@VideoArchives as Spaghetti Westerns are usually noir stories set in the West and I'm a noir-ish person, i went with SW.. and if people wonder where that pedigree comes from, remember the original SWs were remakes of Kurosawa films that were adaptations of Dashiell Hammett books

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@tapir_worf The Long Price Quartet by Daniel Abraham Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami The Gift by Patrick O'Leary the Avery Cates series by Jeff Somers Birdman by Mo Hayder 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse

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@wiltonscott4 House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a different kind of horror book; has been known to cause panic attacks in people with both agoraphobia and claustrophobia due to the psychological use of space in the story combined with type-setting that emphasizes said use of space