Tyler’s Comments (group member since Nov 18, 2018)

Tyler’s comments from the Creatures, Creatures Everywhere! group.

I read it last year. I loved it but i'd rather read something else by him next since I have a couple other books by him that I haven't read yet and it's the only one of his i've read so far. I hope those that join in this group read enjoy it though! I gave it 5 stars when I read it.

They Rise by Hunter Shea has won July's group read! This is the thread to discuss They Rise in July. Please use spoiler tags and chapter/page numbers when talking about the book.

I'll +1 Island by Richard Laymon

I've read They Rise by Hunter Shea and really enjoyed it! I still need to read more by him.

I shall +1 Paradise club, it's on my want to read as well.

And i'll nominate Bigfoot Beach by Kristopher Rufty and Blood Island by Tim Waggoner.

Marie wrote: "I saw this theme and one book popped in my head! lol I read this book last summer and it was so good! I would definitely reread it again with you all if it gets picked!

Castaways[bo..."

I read it May of last year and really enjoyed it! If it gets picked i'd consider rereading it. :)

July's theme will be Beach Horror!

Nominate some beach horror books to read in July!

After this thread has been up for a bit and has some nominations a poll will be held with the nominations to decide July's group read.

Books with seconds, thirds etc. are more likely to make it to the poll if there are a lot of nominations.

list of group reads here.

I finished it and I loved the ending! I'm really glad I read this. I think I did need it in a way.

Sorry it didn't work out for you Snazzy.

I'm at 65% and am liking it so far. I was a little bored for a little bit there but I am liking it.

I'm liking it. I'm at 60%.

I am now at 31%. I am enjoying this.

Sorry about your real life horror and loss too Warren.

Character-driven books. Books with a lot of feeling and humanity. Stuff like that always ends up being my favorite. I can enjoy a good just for fun creature feature or something, but my favorites always hit my heart somehow. So far i've finished the first 2 chapters.

In chapter 2 when he says "You can imagine how much someone in Dan's position might envy me, might hate me for having what I had more fiercely than he might someone whose wife was happily alive." and I understand that better than i'd like to admit.

Old people who've been married decades and then lose their spouse...I feel envy and what I know is irrational hatred, where I don't really feel that much for those with living spouses. It's like my brain thinks "How dare you have your loved one, your partner, so much longer, and then feel sad" or something, it's hard to put in words and I KNOW it isn't fair or right. But grief and feelings don't play fair. I hadn't said anything because I know it's not right, but damn if this book didn't say it after all.

And there's so much I can't say. It's just...

I think this book might prove a heart-wrenching favorite. I'm only in chapter 2.

I've just started it and i'm already surprised because I was thinking "well the 2 widowers must be old, most people don't become a widower at a young age like me" but I was wrong. He isn't old and they didn't have long.

I turned 32 Feb 10th, lost my husband to an infection left too long thanks to no health insurance and him insisting he was fine until it was too late on Feb 16th. Feb 27th would have been our 7 year marriage anniversary. He was 41. We were together a few years before we got married. We had been together since late summer 2010, married Feb 27th, 2014.

Some here already knew that as i'd discussed it in the off topic section. And it's definitely giving me feelings. I haven't even finished the first chapter yet though.

Warren wrote: "Oh my, Tyler! I am so sorry! I agree with Michelle that this one may be a bit too rough at this time. This is not just a creature feature. Have you ever read Stephen King's "Revival"? It's kind of ..."

It may be what I need. I'm still going to try it. No, I haven't read "revival".

Warren wrote: "I do recommend the audio version for those of you having a hard time getting through the first part. The narrator sounds like I expected the main protagonist to speak, and it brings an emotional de..."

Grief...I just lost lost my husband in February (right after we just moved into our own home late January) so it sounds like it'll hit me deep then. If I can even manage it.

Life got in my way of reading Moby-Dick which is SO LONG and while I am enjoying it i'm going to have to read other books alongside it if i'm to get them finished. I might not start The Fisherman until next week but I do plan on getting to it!

I think I might be a weirdo who actually likes Moby-Dick. I'll see if that holds true or not. Regardless I hope to start The Fisherman within a week or so.

It does! I don't know if i'll finish Moby-Dick before I start The Fisherman or not, it just depends, but I look forward to getting to it this month. :)

Frances wrote: "I'm already a good 30 percent into this one and loving it so far. as for Moby Dick . . . it was all I could do to finish it. Melville has some sublime moments... and then several hundred odd pages ..."

I've only read one chapter so far of Moby-Dick. My edition has annotations to help me understand.

Glad you're loving The Fisherman so far :)

I am hoping to read this and Moby-Dick this month and was deciding which to start with, and I opened The Fisherman and before the story starts there is a Moby-Dick quote, so i'm wondering if that's telling me to start with Moby-Dick first lol!