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I have a couple of challenges going on. A Classic Horror Challenge. (5)
1.The Castle of Otranto
2. The Island of Dr. Moreau
3. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
4. The Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
5. Uncle Silas by Sheridan La Fanu
50 Toughest Books Challenge
1. The Painted Bird by Jerry Kosinski
2. The Castle by Franz Kafka
3. The Underworld by Don Delillo
4. The Demon by Hubert Selby
5. Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
That toughest books challenge list looks a bit daunting.
Kate wrote: "I thought I would make a thread for anyone who wants to do their own challenges."On your second list, omg, omg omg! I've read books or stories by everyone on there except for Allan Leverone. Those are all great authors. For your Laird Barron read, may I humbly recommend The Light is the Darkness? And for Thomas Tryon, Harvest Home or The Other?
I'd like to read both The Light is the Darkness and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.I have Harvest Home so that will definitely be my Tryon read. :)
Let me ask you this...when you get close to reading The Beautiful Thing, would you let me know? I have that one and want to read it as well. I think we might enjoy doing a buddy read of it together.And YAY! re: HH :)
Charlene wrote: "Let me ask you this...when you get close to reading The Beautiful Thing, would you let me know? I have that one and want to read it as well. I think we might enjoy doing a buddy read of it together..."Absolutely! :D
Kate: For what it's worth, The Other by Tryon is one of my all time favorites. I hope you enjoy when it reaches the top of your TBR list. Something Wicked... by Bradbury is a classic too.
Thanks Anthony, at the moment I only have Harvest Home but am hoping for a price drop for The Other so I can grab that as well.
Harvest Home was a great read. It is definitely one of the creepiest books that I have ever read. Let me know what you think about it.
Ahhh i doing my own personal challange :-) first i read all the Robert A Heinlein books in my unread pile. Now my 2nd challange is to read the sword and sorcery books i have. Hopefully later on in the year i give myself a horror challange ;-)
Charlene wrote: "I have a couple of challenges going on. A Classic Horror Challenge. (5)
1.The Castle of Otranto
2. The Island of Dr. Moreau
3. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
4. The Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blac..."
the castle is really good but it would have been better with 100 pages cut from the end. The Painted bird is very very good.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy (other topics)Crawl (other topics)
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My personal challenges for this year are:
Must Read 2014
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Dead Sea(Read 6/1/14)2.
Summer of Night(Read 6/8/14)3. Murder as a Fine Art
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Every Dead Thing(Read 3/8/14)5. The Children's Hour
6. That Which Should Not Be
7. Naomi's Room
8. Carved in Bone
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes
10. Swan Song
Authors I've Never Read
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Dan Simmons Summer of Night2. Laird Barron
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James Newman The Wicked4. Ray Bradbury (I hang my head in shame for not having read him already)
5. Thomas Tryon
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Allan Leverone Mr. Midnight7. Brett J. Talley
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Edward Lorn Crawl9. Douglas Clegg
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Brian HodgeWhom the Gods Would DestroyExtreme Horror
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Damnation 101(21/1/14)2.
The Bighead(27/2/14)3.
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