Thanks to my Litsy readers 🙏

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What I like about Stephen King books is that they are more about people and less about the monsters.
No masterpiece, but entertaining. A stocking filler, no more.

I'm a big King fan, 30 years now, but an immense character list doesn't always mean good. It could mean too many characters to really care what happens to them. It could mean the reader never really gets to know the characters. And it could even mean that a single plot from various perspectives is stretched too thin.
It could mean all these things. Bailed.

I delve into this book every now and again. What a beautiful tragedy. I hear you, Kafka.

Hi Littens
Just running a little survey.
Do many of you read serialized fiction? Perhaps a novel broken down into weekly chapters/episodes. Seems to be coming back into fashion. Or is this a new wave of teen readers reading off a phone screen?
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Yes!

Yes, I'm a big fan of the HP books & films. 5* all the way.

However, there's a whole pile of wrong with this 'book'. Too many wrongs to mention here.

Talk about watering down HP to the point of drowning the poor wizard. I would've loved to have seen a real 8th instalment instead of this poor substitute. A real pity and a lost opportunity :(

Littens,

Feel free to grab my free ebooks @ Amazon today only!

Keyword: free.

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Predictable + clichéd + dull writing (possibly the English translation) = Boring.

Conclusion: Life is too short.

Action: Move on.

I am currently prostituting myself @ Amazon - just my FREE ebooks for now. YES. The rumours are true, I am running a FREE EBOOKS PROMOTION TODAY!

Tell your loved ones if you love my books, and tell your enemies if you hate my books.

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Dearest children,

I will be running a FREE EBOOK PROMOTION from tomorrow 10th June, Saturday, to Monday 12th.

Please, tell your friends, family, neighbours, pets, and any resident rodents you might have cos they're really clever.

Jon

Ooh! Ah!

To those who matter,

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Pass on this succinct message, puh-lease.

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Happy Saint Patrick's day to all Littens :)

Started out promising but was an anticlimax for me. The story is more about the characters than the haunted house which is secondary. I was hoping for more 'haunting' and to understand more about the house's ghosts. Also the Eleanor character annoyed me. This book is very influential in the horror genre as it broke conventions but I found the ending to be formulaic. Worth a read but a let down IMO.

Never thought I'd see myself standing next to Virginia Woolf ;)
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#lighthouses

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I've reconsidered this from a 'so-so' to a parachute bail.

Less is more in my book, pun intended. Started out promisingly creepy but winded itself and became too Hollywood for my liking.

Who can recommend a terrifying supernatural horror/thriller? Stephen King/Straub/Koontz etc are more of a funfair ghost train read. I'm looking for a book that will make me wish that scraping is only a branch at my window. Recently read The Exorcist. Wow.

Love how this keeps building and building...

Littens,
My ebooks @ '99c right now if you're looking for a cheap, but by no means, poor read.
Pass it on 😉✌

Thank you for this Litsy review of Balloon Animals ✌🎈

http://litsy.com/p/clJkV2JhV055

This lulled me into a false sense of security. There was me thinking that it was slow, but what a twist!
This book creeps up to a ten on the creepy factor of the Richter scale in the last 1/3 of the book.

1/3 way in and nothing has happened. I like slowburners, but I can tolerate only so many quenched matches.
I've just finished 'The Exorcist' and I fear everything pales in comparison.

I love graveyards...as long as I'm not in one permanently. This photo is from a graveyard near my home in Ireland. This tree has grown around a gravestone and will eventually swallow it.
It's real-life scene from a Gothic novel.

This was such a pleasant surprise. A really solid read and creepy as f***. This is what a real horror book is IMO. It doesn't have that same level of gimmicky as the film, but told in an honest and matter of fact way👹💀

Surprised to hear that the writer wrote comedy before The Exorcist.

👹 And there was me thinking that this book was merely chewing gum for the darker rooms of one's soul. So well written, rich and terrifying. This novel gives me genuine chills whereas Stephen King has always been entertainment (and I'm a BIG King fan) 💀

Maybe the original female Vampire romance, the novella Carmilla by Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu which predates Dracula (by another Irish Gothic horror writer Bram Stoker and can't be beaten IMO) is worth a read. It's a short novella but full of atmospheric dark romantism 👹

Bleak horror... Dystopia...post-Apocalyptic. This is one of those books that will stay with you and it is a scary, lonesome prospect. Nameless characters adds to that reality - this isn't about 'Jim' and 'Bob' but about you or me on that road.

What an ending to a book that is far too short (the good ones always are) and leaves the Will Smith film version in the dust...IMO

Love this Litsy review for Balloon Animals 📚👍

http://litsy.com/p/ZXFXMFR5MDBE

I Am Legend is a book to be read on your own on a stormy night when everyone is gone out - you THINK everyone is gone out.

Litsy Friends,
Please excuse this shameless self-promotion in advance.
I would like to bring your attention to the deal of the century. Deal of the century, I hear you say? This weekend my ebooks are priced at a whopping ,99c! Wow! Yes, wow.
Please excuse this shameless self-promotion in retrospect.
Jon
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Litsy Friends,
Would you like to dedicate your name (or that of a person close to you) to a character in my upcoming novel Rainbow Rebels? Get in touch. If it fits the world of the book I'll give you your own cameo (your name at least).
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An acquired taste, a little scary, and very honest. Some say this book glorifies drugs but I think this book does the opposite. Maybe this was initially published for its shock value (IMO) 💉
It's different and thats why I like it.

William S Burroughs is one of those writers who chooses the dictum: write what you know - just listen to him narrate the audiobook of Junky if you don't believe me.
https://youtu.be/OqlyWfFdDHQ

Not for the faint-hearted and easily offended, but reading this is a trip, um, pardon the pun.

AND my first read that was ever the subject of a court case.

Love this Litsy review.

'...low-budget cult classics...' is quite apt I think.

http://litsy.com/p/Tm5SczhnUnM0

I am that packet of gum at the checkout.

I know you guys like Kindle deals. So I'm giving you a heads up - cue the heads up - to tell you all that my own Kindle titles are .99c right now!

Like I said, I am that packet of gum at the checkout...

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Litsy Friends
I want to borrow your eagle eyes to proofread my next novel 'Rainbow Rebels'. I'm looking for heavy duty readers/proofreaders who know what they are talking about. I cannot pay but you will get an acknowledgement in the book and a free read. This isn't simply a review copy... There is work involved finding typos etc. It will happen in a few months from now. Get in touch.

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Litsy Friends,

I've been reading many of your thoughts and reviews. I'm going to throw my own hat into the ring...Is that the saying? If you like things such as mystical misty Celtic islands, lost love affairs, the end of the world, dancing as if your life depends on it, and wayward dwarves, then I ask you to consider or perhaps pass on this succinct message.

All my books are, in essence, about people living the dream.

Jon

One doesn't have to be a fan of Wes Anderson to enjoy Stefan Zweig. It's true that Zweig found more readers after The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The mark of a great writer is when he/she is able to describe something that will forever be on the tip of your tongue.
He says of an awkward12 year old boy: "The struggle between man and boy seemed only just about to begin."

I could listen to this ten times over and still laugh as hard in all the same places. Maybe I'm a little simple?😊

1 word: hilarious.

The second book by the legend who is Alan Partridge.

Listen on audiobook to get that full Partridge experience.

Firstly, Happy New Year to you and yours 🎉

Secondly, I've been a little remiss recently due to this little forest pixie... Her name is Erin. She's my third daughter...all girls in my house.

She's not a great reader but she loves to write - she's already written a 1000-page black comedy in 19 days, which I'm now trawling for typos (she doesn't have any which is worrying).

Really enjoyed this long meandering novel which seems to dip in and out of various genres.

it reminded me of early Stephen King in places.

Some people were confused but I did not find it confusing at all. Maybe I'm missing something :-)

Anyone read this?

I'm thinking about reading it but the reviews are very hit-and-miss

I tried...

I like the premise...I love the premise. But I feel snails and sloths may gravitate towards this.

Maybe I'll try again in the future when the world is in slow-mo and the book catches up with it.

Love this book. Listening on audio. I do tend to switch off for Gaiman's narration parts - his voice and tone are not compatible with my ear.
But a great story and an easy read...if a little bizarre at times.

I've started this and enjoying it. Perhaps a tad verbose but I feel it comes with the territory.

Seems fewer people finish it.

Couldn't help myself.

If you had a daemon, which animal would it be?

A reliable source has told me that mine is an owl ^(0v0)^

PS a daemon seems to be an extension of the self, your soul, and possibly represents your personality.