Dead Sea series buddy read

[[deleted user]]

LOL, Nope, been dealing with a seismic survey vessel all day that is inside the rigs 500m zone - no sleep tonight with the boom...boom...boom. Guess I'll get a bit of reading done instead.

[Mehmet]

You working on a Rig D.M ?

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, been working on the rigs for 15 years. Just do north sea drillings

[Mehmet]

Wow, you have a interesting job D.M does it leave much time for reading ?

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, not at lot to do after shift so I usually get a couple of hours reading most nights, unless we are having a film night, which happens 2 or 3 times a week (I don't go to the extenders club lol) :)

[Mehmet]

I read most nights myself, sometimes I bring a book to work ( I run a small off licence with my parents) the problem is as soon as the book gets interesting then a customer walks in !!!

[Jeff]

Mehmet wrote: "Me too I only started one chapter. Did you get any peace and quiet to start reading D.M ? Going to read a bit more tonight. Think Brian Keene was going for a cliché buster here for his main charact..."

If I remember correctly, he started writing Dead Sea shortly after there was a big kerfuffle in the speculative fiction community after a black, female sci-fi writer came out with a blog about how there wasn't enough diversity in characters featured in horror/fantasy/sci-fi books.

[Mehmet]

That is interesting Jeff, the author does often talk about diversity in the horror show podcast. How he does not like to be typecast and liked to create variety of different characters.

[Mehmet]

(view spoiler)[nice little line up Mitch, Lamar, Tasha and Malik, like them all (hide spoiler)]

[[deleted user]]

Mehmet wrote: "I read most nights myself, sometimes I bring a book to work ( I run a small off licence with my parents) the problem is as soon as the book gets interesting then a customer walks in !!!"

LOL I know that feeling :) I'll post my comments later today regarding the story, just want to get to the end of this chapter first :)

[Jonathan]

Only up to chapter two myself.

I am too tired after work to read last night.

[Mehmet]

Some ways this reminds me of The Rising although there are some differences regarding the Zombies !!!!

[[deleted user]]

(view spoiler)[ always worried when kids come into Zombie stories. Hoping their characters will not go OTT, I don't mind tough little cookies, without becoming superhero's, its when you they become the hulk that p's me off LOL. Love the pied piper of Hamelin reference for the rats(y) (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[[deleted user]]

Is that not tempting working in an off-license ;-)

Mehmet wrote: "I read most nights myself, sometimes I bring a book to work ( I run a small off licence with my parents) the problem is as soon as the book gets interesting then a customer walks in !!!"

[Mehmet]

(view spoiler)[there is links to his The Rising series through the zoo in Baltimore and Tony who is in Clickers I think? (hide spoiler)]

[Mehmet]

Ahhh for me not so much D.M I am boring and do not drink a lot to be honest ;-)

[[deleted user]]

Me either, I don't touch a drop for 6 months of the year ;) that's when I'm on then rig lol. To be honest I only drink when it's special occasions, or when I go away. :)

[[deleted user]]

(view spoiler)[ love Mitch, and glad the kids act like kids and get scared. That's a big plus for me (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Mehmet]

Yep I usually have a drink Christmas or if me and my wife go on holiday and I am not driving :-)

[Jeff]

Mehmet wrote: "That is interesting Jeff, the author does often talk about diversity in the horror show podcast. How he does not like to be typecast and liked to create variety of different characters."

Yeah, he definitely took her side of things in blogs and comments back then, I just always took Lamar as Keene doubling down on those opinions.

[Jonathan]

I am liking the book a lot so far. I'm only in the middle of chapter three. It's my girlfriend's birthday this weekend, so I probably will fall behind everyone else. Don't let that stop you from finishing the book though. I will catch up eventually.

One of these weekends I plan on taking the whole day to read. So I will chime in with my thoughts again soon.

[Natasa]

Hello everyone :)
Dear Jonathan has remember to invite me to this read as I said I'd love to read this book, so here I am :)
Really looking forward to it...and I hope I'm not too late...

Btw, I'm really interested in this books because I've read Dead Sea by Tim Curran...anyone else maybe?

[Natasa]

Mehmet wrote: "Yeah Jeff I remember Stephen King mentioning Cujo before. Brian Keene in the podcast was not sure of the actual book, just that he compared the conversation to his experience in writing Dead Sea."

Cujo is like epic...to me at least. I've already read loads of S.King's books by then...but Insomnia was my first SK book and I was totally mesmerized by it, I was in high school and telling everyone about it, of course everyone was looking at me like I was a bit daft, not too mention that I was anyway always the only one reading ANY books at all lol

Mehmet wrote: "Cool :-) this should be fun, a bit of useless trivia, Dead Sea was the first book I found when I started looking into reading other horror authors. This was before I found out all about Brian Keene..."

Speaking of Edward Lee and Jack Ketchum, I'm afraid I haven't read either yet and it's been hanging above my head like a need to read asap something for quite a while and never gotten around it...do you guys maybe plan on reading something from these authors or a personal favorite rec would also be awesome...(off the topic sorry!)

[Natasa]

Mallory Heart wrote: "Okay, folks--guess I can't see straight, thought I had Dead Sea--don't have it or Entombed and am still on book-buying hiatus, so will just lurk and occasionally interject:)"

Mallory Heart, let me know if you read ebooks, just PM me and I'll send it to you.

[Natasa]

D.M. wrote: "Yeah, been working on the rigs for 15 years. Just do north sea drillings"

Can I be just a bit off topic for a moment? D.M. you're working at a platform right, where they drill for oil?

If I got that part right, well I have a question...here in Croatia it's like a big bla bla issue, since we are so dependant on tourism...well they plan to dig the Adriatic sea and here in my Dubrovnik town area, supposedly only 6 kilometres from the shore - again supposedly enough not to have any stains??? But I read somewhere that the platform is surrounded by oil in general?

To be honest, my humble opinion since I'm far away from an expert, I think our sea is way too small for this kind of crap, in case something happens we can kiss tourism goodbye and most of the country survives from these 6 months the whole year!

So, maybe I'm away from the topic, but definitely not from the title - this could very quickly become one very Dead Sea.

[Mehmet]

Your are not to late Natasa, welcome to the buddy read :-) I not read Tim curran at all yet, but have seen the title Dead Sea on my search for horror books on my kindle. I join you in a future buddy read of Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee if you like. Well hope you enjoy our buddy read of Dead Sea and entombed by Brian Keene

[Jeff]

Natasa wrote: Cujo is like epic...to me at least. I've already read loads of S.King's books by then...but Insomnia was my first SK book and I was totally mesmerized by it, I was in high school and telling everyone about it, of course everyone was looking at me like I was a bit daft, not too mention that I was anyway always the only one reading ANY books at all lol

My reputation in high school was "that weird Stephen King kid," so I feel your pain. Now I consider all those older SK novels (from Carrie to Needful Things) a nice palate cleanser. Occasionally I reach the point where I'm tired of all the stuff I normally read and nothing I have on the shelf sounds appealing, so I'll just reread an old SK novel and by the time I'm done, I'm ready for something new.

[[deleted user]]

Natasa wrote: "D.M. wrote: "Yeah, been working on the rigs for 15 years. Just do north sea drillings"

Can I be just a bit off topic for a moment? D.M. you're working at a platform right, where they drill for oil..."

Hi Natasa, I work on a kind of rig called a semi-submersible, we move around and drill wells for platforms. I am an environmentalist and a qualified MMO & PSO (Marine mammal & protected species observer), Rigs are not surrounded by oil, unless they in very bad working order, and are not being governed by an authority who cares and takes responsibility for the environment. We have strict rules and you have more chance of pollution / oil spills from passing cargo ships.
The most important thing to do if you are worried is be vigilant, and signs of oil spills or leaks, report it to the media. They love a good story and no oil company wants bad press.

[[deleted user]]

(view spoiler)[ On the subject of oil rigs, bit disappointed Mr Keene says that Jack up are for shallow water, Deep water Jack-up have been around for years. They have ultra-deep water jack ups now. But then again, most of his terminology for the boat is correct (thumbs up for that). Hate Hooper - did not have any sympathy for that character. I'm on page 124 intrigued to find out what this preacher is all about, and if he has done something to Tum (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Mehmet]

(view spoiler)[agree with you 100% D.M although have to admit ignorance regarding oil rigs as you know best there :-) Brian Keene was in navy in his youth I believe I read someone, so he should be good at understanding ships.<\spoiler> (hide spoiler)]

[[deleted user]]

Mehmet wrote: "[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ Oh cool, at least he is a man of the sea, my family have started calling me 'the old sea dog' (hmm, not sure if that's a compliment or not) LOL (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Mehmet]

Sure it is meant as a term of endearment D.M :-)

[[deleted user]]

LOL, they just like taking the mick! Family of funny guys HAHA

[Mehmet]

Should be finishing Dead Sea tomorrow night, should we set a date for the next book or should we continue straight after ?

[[deleted user]]

I'm only at page 150, normally I would have finished by now. How dare life get in the way of my reading!

[Mehmet]

No problem D.M I just wait till everyone is finished and then we all arrange together a start date for the next book :-)

[Jonathan]

I am still on chapter five. :-)

[Mehmet]

Ahhh no worries Jonathan. Know you got lots going on. I rather everyone read at their own pace and I wait till we can all start together :-) one for all and all for one !!!!!

[[deleted user]]

(view spoiler)[ No, he killed Mitch :( not sure about the Zombie fish, lets see how it pans out (y) (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Mehmet]

(view spoiler)[yeah I also got upset when Mitch was infected. I kinda of predicted the virus would get the sea life as he more or less implied in the beginning when it jumped to certain species of animals. I enjoyed that aspect of the story.<\spoiler> (hide spoiler)]

[Jonathan]

Thank you for being so understanding my friend!! :-)

[Mehmet]

It is ok Jonathan :-)

[[deleted user]]

(view spoiler)[ I picked up on that as well, but I kept thinking, surely not, if the ocean is teaming with the virus how can the world recover? We would be doomed, doomed I tell you. Will be interesting to find out how Mr Keene deals with this, maybe there's no cure *shudders at that thought* Damn it, going to have to buy book two now. Just looked it up on Amazon, £5.90 for a 144 page ebook WOW, that's a bit pricey. I'll have to think about that one. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

[Mehmet]

(view spoiler)[do not want to want to spoil ending but your questions will be answered by end of book D.M, it is not my favourite Brian Keene but it is a nice story :-)<\spoiler> (hide spoiler)]

[[deleted user]]

Cool, thanks Mehmet (y)

[Jonathan]

It is definitely one of the better zombie stories I have read this year.

[Mehmet]

It is a solid fun read. :-)

[Mehmet]

Jonathan you got to listen to the horror show episode 14, it has the boss of deadite press Jeff burk, it is great and so funny.

[[deleted user]]

Finished (Y) looking forward to discussions when everyone else has finished as well :)

[Mehmet]

Me too D.M :-) you decided if getting entombed yet ?