| Author | Message | ||
     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.68 |
Believe it or not for a longtime reader of the landlord's work, this one of the few books I've yet to read. So, without spoiling anything, where does this fit in with the rest of Ramsey's work. I'm very excited about the fact that I'm about to climb into bed and start reading it. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Alphabetically somewhere between ghosts and Grisly things and Incarnate. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
Smart arse. What's the matter, you not arrested anyone yet? (; | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
"you not arrested anyone yet?" ????? me confused | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.97 |
I thought you were joining the police force? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
You're getting me mixed with someone. I did fill in an application form for an admin role with the police last year. (I was offered an interview as well but turned it down because I'd been offered my current job the day before.) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
THE HOUSE ON NAZARETH HILL is a very dark, low-key ghost story that is also an account of mental breakdown and a crisis in a family relationship. It's an effective counter to the misogyny that runs through much of the modern horror genre whereby women and, especially, teenage girls are seen as natural couriers for demonic evil. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.99 |
Joel - I'm a quarter of the way through. Already there have been some stand-out terrifying moments. Metcalf the photographer developing some shots of the house in his lab, and finding a face staring out his bedroom window. Classic stuff. Weber - sorry, mate. Thought you were a copper (Frank reaches for the bong safe in the knowledge he's not come a cropper...or is that copper). So, mate, what do you do now, if I'm not being too bold to ask? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I make graphs from data that other people extract. I sometimes colour them in in pretty colours. I get bored and log on here. that pretty much covers my working day. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.99 |
Can you make me a graph of the following: the number of intelligent people who watch Big Brother, as juxtaposed with the number of intelligent people who believe British newspapers actually report anything of worth (: | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
The only positive correlation that is negative. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.99 |
Somebody pass Prof the bong, he's mumbling again. (Yes, Prof, I get it).  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.98 |
I make graphs from data that other people extract. I sometimes colour them in in pretty colours. This is what they tell him over in the east ward. He has a wide array of colorful crayons, and all the nice nurses think everything Weber's done is quite "lovely," and tell him they're going to go post them on the community refrigerator. They actually take the drawings back to the revolving team of full-time psychiatrists assigned to Mr. Gregston, who are ever more amazed at the deteriorating level of wit and intelligence they display. They then go on to prescribe various experimental psychotic medications based upon these drawings, which Weber later receives through a sippy-cup. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.99 |
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| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.122.166 |
The House On Nazareth Hill is an occasionally overlooked, but quite superb 'Campbell. gcw | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
One of my favourites...and utterly chilling. So intense in places that it's difficult to keep reading. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.101 |
Great stuff. I'm off to bed in a moment, got a long day ahead of me tomorrow. Actually, that's not true. Just looking forward to reading the landlord at play. Nothing like a great book at bedtime. Except great sex and a book, at the same time. And a cup of hot chocolate. And a Twilight Zone rerun. I'm a man of many talents. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I've got this horrible vision of you trying to do all those things at once now, Frank.  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.101 |
Caroline - not yet, but almost there...just gotta squeeze those handcuffs off the headboard...ah, done...and now lets see if I can balance the hot chocolate against the TV set... Puerile. I know. If my girlfriend could see what I was wasting my time writing about she'd wonder if I hadn't been writing all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy all day long. At least I managed 2145 words of work today. Have a good evening, Caroline. Tomorrow I shall return to normality. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.75 |
I read House on Nazareth Hill many years ago, but there's a certain scene that is still shockingly vivid and detailed in my head. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.179.241 |
I need to read this one again, along with several others. I remember liking the bit near the beginning with the daughter reading Mad Hepzibah - one of several creepy children's books to appear in Ramsey's work. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.254.173.35 |
NAZARETH's one of my favourites, and certainly one that gave me the shivers. Bit of an overlooked classic, really. The hardcover was printed by Headline in the UK, on paper that looked moth-eaten and brown before it left the bookstore . . . Tossers. >>I did fill in an application form for an admin role with the police last year. So you could genuinely say you were helping them with their enquiries?! |