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Greg Meritt Sorry I took so long to respond, but I didn't see this until now! Gues I should check, huh? Now, on to the question at hand. It wasn't "The Stand", ne…moreSorry I took so long to respond, but I didn't see this until now! Gues I should check, huh? Now, on to the question at hand. It wasn't "The Stand", necessarily, that took me down the path of weirdness, pain and suffering, but an already embedded (at an early age) love of scares and thrills. Where that came from? I don't really know...however, this twisted part of me is tempered with the sense of right and wrong and always rooting for the good guy (or gal) to win. Good versus Evil and all that stuff. I also love comedy and anything that has "heart." Oh, btw, I'm reading your book now and I am enjoying it immensely. Will post a review for you soon!(less)
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“Hon, most people are afraid of what they don’t understand, so they think if they can discount it in some way, make the world believe it’s a joke – a hoax – then they won’t have to acknowledge it, won’t have to deal with what frightens them most.”
Greg Meritt, The Adoption

“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”
Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
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“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
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message 6: by Greg

Greg Meritt ♥♥Mari♥♥ wrote: "Hi, Greg! Thanks for the friend request! It's nice to meet you!! : )"

And very nice to meet you, Mari!!


 ♥♥Mari♥♥ Hi, Greg! Thanks for the friend request! It's nice to meet you!! : )


Raymond Elmo Greg wrote: So what do you like to read? ..."

I am an escapist wimp; admitted so discussing 'Adoption'. I like happy fantasy, maybe where the hero has a life-changing adventure by meeting a talking cat; or at least some quest where the swords shine the brighter for the dark hosts ahead.

Pretty much what I like to write.

Modern fantasy is 'grim-dark'; I'm twenty years past the 'best used by' date.


Raymond Elmo I come not to bury Greg, but praise him. His bones, sinews, the hairs on his head and the damned fine and kindly words that echo forth across the white fog of the internet to provide comfort to the literary traveler by night.
The evil that men do gets posted on the internet; but too often the good is buried as some comment or review slipped into quiet oblivion.
Let then this be said to gods and men: Greg's really, really owed a 'thanks'.

See it be so.


message 2: by Greg

Greg Meritt I've always loved Hitchcock. That man knew how to build suspense. I haven't read C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, but now I'm intrigued. I will add it to my list.

So what do you like to read? What genre? I'm really enjoying your writing style, Raymond. Do I call you Raymond? Or Mr. Elmo (reminds me of Sesame Street lol) Or something altogether different?


Raymond Elmo (continuation of discussion of The Stand)

As a kid I loved Alfred Hitchcock's short-story collections. Lots of great writers contributed; Roald Dahl wrote some REALLY creepy stories.

But the book that most reminds me of The Stand (original, not the extended) is C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength.

It is a mess plot-wise, and I don't buy the theology; but it depicts a background struggle of Good and Evil equal to Flagg vs the Old Lady.


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