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     Mark_samuels (Mark_samuels) Username: Mark_samuels Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 86.142.169.99 |
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 |
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| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.69 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Cat & The Canary Coloured Book? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.140.73 |
Wheras pugnacious and dogmatic can still go together. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.140.73 |
Whereas.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
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 |
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 |
Tired today. I dreamt too much last night. Mark S. |