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Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels
Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 04:46 pm: | |
Further down the page on this this link: http://www.speculativefictionjunkie.com/ Which is nice. Mark S. |
Craig (Craig) Username: Craig
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.20
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 04:47 pm: | |
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Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer)
Username: Matthew_fryer
Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.69
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 07:32 pm: | |
Cool cat. I like it that it looks protective of the book too. "Touch it, and I'll turn you to stone with my gaze of evil..." |
Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels
Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 07:39 pm: | |
It's wonderful. I put the photo on my blog too. It quite made my day. Mark S. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.139.167
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 09:18 pm: | |
The book and the cat might easily be confused, were it not for one difference: the book has pauses at the ends of its clauses, whereas (that's enough – ed.) |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 09:23 pm: | |
The Cat & The Canary Coloured Book? |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.140.73
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 09:33 pm: | |
Wheras pugnacious and dogmatic can still go together. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.140.73
| Posted on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 - 09:34 pm: | |
Whereas.... |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 02:15 pm: | |
Moving on... I'm really enjoying The Man Who Collected Machen. I like the concentration and poise of the writing, the sense of a writer in control even though the theme is how reality constantly slips out of control. Mark Samuels is trying "to learn a style from a despair" (in William Empson's phrase), and succeeding better than ought, according to his own theoretical perspective, to be possible. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210
| Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 02:17 pm: | |
I started reading this last night, and I'm really enjoying it too. The opening tale is wonderful - reminded me of Mark's story in the latest Best New Horror but taken further. This promises to be Mark's best, and certainly most assured, collection yet (and that's saying a lot). |
Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels
Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99
| Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 02:28 pm: | |
Tired today. I dreamt too much last night. Mark S. |