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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 195.59.153.201
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 07:12 pm:   

For everybody here not too proud to be reading "young adult" fiction, I really cannot recommend too highly Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough. I read a proof copy of this, recommended to me by a couple of colleagues at work, and I admit I didn't have great expectations; the last Young Adult novel I read on the recommendation of almost everyone was, in fact, a big load of shite. But I tell you, this is far too frightening to be a children's book. The level of horror and creeping dread in this novel is the equal of almost anything else I have read. I loved it and it's a genuinely effective, scary and well-written book, for teenagers or not.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 07:47 pm:   

"Not too proud"...what does that mean? I've been reading young adult fiction since before the term YA was even invented. Alan Garner, anyone?

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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.23.74.137
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 07:59 pm:   

Fear not, the great literary master that is John Barrowman has just written one.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.145.216.65
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 08:05 pm:   

And graham joyce has a few ya books out too. The couple that i've read are very good. Carl hiaasen does them too. They tend to be just like his adult books but minus the sex and on screen violence
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.177.115.204
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 08:08 pm:   

Yep, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, John Gordon... Although in fairness Garner said that he didn't write for children; rather his tales had children as the main characters.
I shall look up 'Long Lankin'.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 82.29.252.215
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 11:12 pm:   

Clive Barker.
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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.22.28.28
Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 11:31 pm:   

The setting for John Barrowman's book is supposed to be a fictionalised version of the island just across the water from where I live. I'm almost tempted to give it a read just for that.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.17.193
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 11:54 am:   

...Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones...
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 12:02 pm:   

Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 06:02 pm:   

Roald Dahl.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.177.115.204
Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 12:45 am:   

Ordered 'Long Lankin' - thanks for the recommendation, Patrick.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.24.153
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 12:30 pm:   

And so have I! Thanks, Patrick!
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.177.115.204
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 01:06 pm:   

I finished this last week - it's a truly wonderful book.
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Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker)
Username: Patrick_walker

Registered: 01-2010
Posted From: 91.125.52.4
Posted on Friday, October 05, 2012 - 02:14 pm:   

Other than Mick, did anyone here ever read this novel in the end? I'm eager to know what you thought about it. As I said above, I found the level of horror and creeping dread in this novel to be the equal of almost anything else I have read. It's a wonderful, genuinely frightening book and I loved it.
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.27.247
Posted on Friday, October 05, 2012 - 02:24 pm:   

I rather liked it - certainly thought it had moments of real eeriness.

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