D.S. Quinton
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I've monitored this board for a while but now have a question that has probably been answered. (I just can't find it.) I'm in a writers group an ...more " |
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Dialect / Slang - How much is too much? I'm working on a horror novel based in New Orleans and besides the regional dialect (Creole), I have a ...more " |
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Just finished reading this for the first time. Loved the book, as I do most of King's novels, but it wasn't terrifying in any real sense. I did enjoy the expository writing at the end, which deftly points out that this phenomenon is much older than t ...more | |
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Just finished 'Salem's Lot for the first time. Loved the book, but there wasn't as much gore as I thought there would be. Very little actually.
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Enjoyable read but not terribly scary. I was pointed to this book as an example of good 'atmospheric horror' (low gore/body count) and I'd have to say that I agree with the label. To start, the writing was excellent and I was just as interested in the ...more |
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I gave up at 49%. Once I start skimming chapters, I know the end is near. I think there is promise for the overall premise, but I could care less about how the people darn their socks, or think of their corn, or passed a yoga studio, or gaze at an ic ...more | |
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This definitely was not horror. It really wasn't scary at all. It had a few creepy parts and some of the writing was interesting, but the rest of the writing was incomprehensible. The twenty to thirty year old characters talked like they were young t ...more | |
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Although I've known this story as long as I can remember, I'd never read the book. It's very short and not what I expected in terms of horror, but it was still a great read. I'm giving it a three on horror, because it wasn't overly scary compared to w ...more |
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