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Eggp is 84% done with Pastoral (Quincunx, #1)
Wiki: "It was like those at Medjugorje who had regular appointments with the Virgin: not only absurd but petty, if true."
Sep 06, 2017 03:28PM Add a comment
Pastoral (Quincunx, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 48% done with Pastoral (Quincunx, #1)
Wiki: "It began early with Lowther practicing ‘The Song of the Birds,’ a mournful piece that cast a spell on the day: quiet, as the sun rose in the faded blue sky, no clouds, the morning smelling of a warm rhubarb compote Lowther served at breakfast."


Pau Casals - Song of the Birds/El cant dels ocells
Sep 03, 2017 09:33PM Add a comment
Pastoral (Quincunx, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 10% done with Pastoral (Quincunx, #1)
Wiki: "Mrs. Young, for instance, after she had watched him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery."
Sep 02, 2017 05:37PM Add a comment
Pastoral (Quincunx, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 15% done with Orlando
Wiki: "...a gorse bush put under his pillow..."

Gorse > Bombay phenotype

Aug 30, 2017 10:03AM Add a comment
Orlando

Eggp
Eggp is 52% done with Ring (Ring, #1)
Wiki: "Just go straight on this road, and then when you reach the Outer Gate to the Hachiman Shrine turn left and stop."
Aug 28, 2017 09:22AM Add a comment
Ring (Ring, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 40% done with Ring (Ring, #1)
Wiki: "The two-page spread for Mt Mihara had two aerial shots and one photo taken from a nearby hilltop."

Mount Mihara > Basalt > Pāhoehoe

Aug 27, 2017 12:12PM Add a comment
Ring (Ring, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 19% done with Ring (Ring, #1)
Wiki: "Hanging about thirty centimeters from the ceiling was a fist-sized mask, of a hannya - a female demon."

Aug 26, 2017 05:51PM Add a comment
Ring (Ring, #1)

Eggp
Eggp is 7% done with Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
Wiki: "...and playing several hands of bourre (Sam won five dollars and change) we were all ready to see someone new."
Aug 24, 2017 08:12PM Add a comment
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)

Eggp
Eggp is 56% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
11. The Festival, 3 stars. Taking part in an unknown yuletide festival.
12. He, 3 stars. Wanderer meets an old gent with similar taste in architecture.
13. Cool Air, 3 stars. Doctor with mystery ailments must stay cold.
15. The Colour Out of Space, 3 stars. [2017]
18. The Haunter of the Dark, 3 stars. Curious man explores unholy church.
Aug 23, 2017 07:41PM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 32% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Wiki: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their heads it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind."
Aug 22, 2017 09:04AM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 32% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
06. The Picture in the House, 4 stars. Sheltering from a storm, man stumbles across unusual book.
07. The Outsider, 3 stars. Ugly guy goes to a party.
08. Herbert West - Reanimator, 3 stars. Blonde creep (and pal) experiment with reanimating the dead.
09. The Hound, 3 stars. Silly goth graverobbers get their comeuppance.
10. The Rats in the Walls, 3 stars. Man goes to the motherland to restore ancestral home.
Aug 22, 2017 08:05AM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 29% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Wiki: "We were genuinely perplexed at the presence of rats, and Norrys lent me some traps and Paris green, which I had the servants place in strategic localities when I returned."

Aug 21, 2017 07:42PM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 17% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Wiki: "And then had come the scourge, grinning and lethal, from the nightmare caverns of Tartarus."
Aug 21, 2017 07:46AM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 11% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Wiki: "For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries."

Ptolemais > Crocodilopolis > Sobek > Fayum mummy portraits
Aug 19, 2017 10:47PM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 11% done with The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
01. Dagon, 3 stars. Guy in canoe washes up in goop, sees something praying.
02. The Statement of Randolph Carter, 3 stars. Late night trip to the cemetery doesn't end well.
03. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, 2 stars. Researching family legends reveals unpleasant truths.
04. Celephaïs, 3 stars. Man becomes obsessed with dream city.
05. Nyarlathotep, 3 stars. Egyptian has a disturbing act.
Aug 19, 2017 10:47PM Add a comment
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 67% done with The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
Wiki: "What you have instead are periodic gusts laden with incendiary material – lapilli, tiny bits of volcanic material that are too big to inhale easily but are still burning as they come down."

Lapilli > Tuff

Aug 18, 2017 09:10AM Add a comment
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

Eggp
Eggp is 64% done with The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
Wiki: "In a volcano, what you’re seeing would be called an eruption column, but the Rifting is not just some solitary vent."

Eruption column > Pyrocumulonimbus > Fire tornado > Firestorm
Aug 18, 2017 07:46AM Add a comment
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

Eggp
Eggp is 33% done with The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
Wiki: "The Old Man’s Pucker is a sommian – a caldera inside a caldera."
Aug 15, 2017 10:56PM Add a comment
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

Eggp
Eggp is 24% done with The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
Wiki: "Old local song about a nurse who stopped a sudden eruption and pyroclastic flow by turning it to ice."
Aug 15, 2017 07:37PM Add a comment
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

Eggp
Eggp is 41% done with Kokoro
Wiki: "When General Nogi committed ritual suicide soon after the emperor’s funeral, stating that he was following his lord into death, my father was the first to learn of it from the newspaper."
Aug 13, 2017 07:06PM Add a comment
Kokoro

Eggp
Eggp is 4% done with Kokoro
Wiki: "Next to it stood a stupa with a quotation from the sutras..."
Aug 12, 2017 09:48PM Add a comment
Kokoro

Eggp
Eggp is 48% done with Pale Fire
Word: "...and I have never bothered to lean out of my window and empty my skoramis on some poor hack’s pate."
Aug 11, 2017 08:25AM Add a comment
Pale Fire

Eggp
Eggp is 19% done with Pale Fire
Wiki: "...he’d sit like a king there, and like Marat bleed."



Jean-Paul Marat > The Death of Marat
Aug 10, 2017 10:08AM Add a comment
Pale Fire

Eggp
Eggp is 3% done with Ficciones
Wiki: "Of the historical names, we recognized only one: the impostor-wizard Smerdis, and he was invoked, really, as a metaphor."
Aug 08, 2017 10:26AM Add a comment
Ficciones

Eggp
Eggp is finished with The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: The Father-Thing
01-20. The Philip K. Dick Reader, 4 stars. [2017]
21. Misadjustment, 4 stars. Powerful man panics about routine psychic evaluation.
22. A World of Talent, 3 stars. Psychic politics, unknown talents discovered.
23. Psi-Man Heal My Child!, 3 stars. Leaving the commune to visit a healer.
Aug 07, 2017 10:38PM Add a comment
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: The Father-Thing

Eggp
Eggp is finished with The Philip K. Dick Reader
21. We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, 5 stars. Buried memories and hidden desires are restored. Total Recall.
22. The Minority Report, 3 stars. [2015]
23. Paycheck, 3 stars. Man with erased memories leaves clues for his future self.
24. Second Variety, 4 stars. The remaining warring factions on the ruined earth meet for matters of great urgency.
Aug 05, 2017 06:56PM Add a comment
The Philip K. Dick Reader

Eggp
Eggp is 73% done with The Philip K. Dick Reader
18. Pay for the Printer, 4 stars. Alien race gives us the metaphorical fish, we become (more) useless.
19. War Veteran, 4 stars. Sick old man finally finds someone interested in his old war stories.
20. The Chromium Fence, 4 stars. World politics revolve around whether or not you stink.
Aug 05, 2017 04:19PM Add a comment
The Philip K. Dick Reader

Eggp
Eggp is 57% done with The Philip K. Dick Reader
13. The Crawlers, 4 stars. Radiative glow worm babies!
14. Sales Pitch, 3 stars. Robot advertising gets aggressive.
15. Shell Game, 3 stars. Crash survivors face unseen dangers on a hostile planet.
16. Upon the Dull Earth, 3 stars. Girl & boyfriend try to correct her mistake, backfires spectacularly.
17. Foster, You're Dead, 4 stars. The hot new thing every family needs, civil defense!
Aug 05, 2017 02:16PM Add a comment
The Philip K. Dick Reader

Eggp
Eggp is 48% done with The Philip K. Dick Reader
Wiki: "When I was a child, my mother read to me about St. Bernadette. Remember where her cave was? Near a hospital. They were hovering there and she saw one of them."
Aug 05, 2017 12:42PM Add a comment
The Philip K. Dick Reader

Eggp
Eggp is 70% done with Atonement
Wiki: "The gypsy filled their canteens and brought them each a liter of red wine with the corks half pulled and a saucisson which they stowed in their haversacks."

Aug 03, 2017 10:59PM Add a comment
Atonement

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