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The Shrinking Man
The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson
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rwmg
rwmg
The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson
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Panpan

Scott Carey is shrinking by 1/7 inch per day. As he is now only an inch tall he only has a week left before he disappears altogether.

Curiosity about what would happen when he lost the final 1/7 of an inch kept me going. Although I liked some of the later flashbacks the continuous “woe is me“ in the earlier ones got on my nerves and the main story of his battles with the spider and struggles to move about didn't hold my interest at all.

RamsFan1963 I think it's one of those rare occasions when the movie is better, especially his fight with the spider. That scene freaked me out as a kid. 2y
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rwmg
rwmg
The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson
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#coffeeandabook

Bookwomble I was talking to @vivastory about this book earlier in the week 😊 I found it a thoughtful and bleak story. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts when you've finished it. 2y
vivastory I'm looking forward to reading it @Bookwomble I read a Matheson story yesterday that is one of the most disturbing things I've read in awhile 2y
rwmg @Bookwomble @Vivastory Sorry to say that apart from being intrigued by the premise and wanting to know what would happen in the end, I wasn't that taken with it. OTOH, I loved “I Am Legend“, the only other one of his I've read as far as I remember.
[tagged book]I Am Legend
2y
vivastory I have read, & loved, I Am Legend. I am greatly enjoying the short stories that I have read from the tagged collection
[tagged book]The Best of Richard Matheson
2y
Bookwomble @rwmg @vivastory Sorry you didn't quite fall for it. You might like "Stir of Echoes", which the Kevin Bacon film was an adaptation of. And although it has mixed reviews, I really enjoyed the tagged, which is his homage to those classic Hitchcock movies like North by Northwest. Matheson was such a versatile writer ?
[tagged book]7 Steps to Midnight
2y
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DavidDiamond
DavidDiamond
The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson
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Pickpick

Love Richard Matheson (and if you‘re a fan of Twilight Zone, you know his stories) and this one, while not my favorite, was excellent.
Some parts were problematic (ogling a 16 year old girl) and some of the physical descriptions of our main character traversing his new giant sized landscape were, for me, difficult to envision.
That aside, a thrilling and exciting story told by one of the greats.
Now to watch the movie!….
#scarathalon

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