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Randolph "Dilda" Carter

A rant about books, horror, and the weird. I sometimes take on my love/hate relationship with goodreads and Amazon.

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Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, William Shatner

Progress: 140/336 pages

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Keith Roberts

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Life and Fate - Robert Chandler, Vasily Grossman

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco, William Weaver

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Ordeal by Hunger: the Story of the Donner Party - George R. Stewart

The End of the End of Everything: Stories - Dale Bailey

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currently reading

Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, William Shatner

Pavane

Keith Roberts

October 2015

reviewed: Horror Story

True life horror story of the Donner Party emigrants that end up stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1846. Originally ...

text: Twilight Zone

23 of Beaumont's best, foreword by Bradbury, afterword by Shatner. I'm thinking 5 stars already.

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Pavane Keith Roberts

started reading:

Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, William Shatner

October 2015

finished reading:

Ordeal by Hunger: the Story of the Donner Party George R. Stewart

October 2015

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Arts Unknown: The Life & Art of Lee Brown Coye - Luis Ortiz

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Arts Unknown: The Life & Art of Lee Brown Coye Luis Ortiz

October 2015

reviewed: Intellect Injection

Another book that is impossible to review or paraphrase as a whole. Every single story and poem, and there are a bundle here,...

Dadaoism - John Cairns, Jimmy Grist, Katherine Khorey, Megan Lee Beals, Julie Sokolow, Ralph Doege, Jesse Kennedy, Joe Simpson Walker, Yarrow Paisley, Justin Isis, Colin Insole, Daniel Mills, Kristine Ong Muslim, Nick Jackson, Paul Jessup, Quentin S. Crisp, Nina Allan, Sonia Ori

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October 2015

reviewed: Bordering on the Mundane

Average sci-fi entertainment that is marred by a particularly weak "it was all a dream" type ending. We don't even get to she...

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Dadaoism John Cairns, Jimmy Grist, Katherine Khorey, Megan Lee Beals, Julie Sokolow, Ralph Doege, Jesse Kennedy, Joe Simpson Walker, Yarrow Paisley, Justin Isis, Colin Insole, Daniel Mills, Kristine Ong Muslim, Nick Jackson, Paul Jessup, Quentin S. Crisp, Nina Allan, Sonia Ori

October 2015

finished reading:

The Border Robert R. McCammon

September 2015

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Bettie's Books - A Touch of Frost Last Night

Octoberby Robert FrostO hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,Should...

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Bettie's Books - This New Noise: The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC by Charlotte Higgins

bookshelves: autumn-2015, nonfiction, published-2015, dip-in-now-and-again, cult-yah, history, microhistory, e-book, upbeat ...

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Libromancer's Apprentice - The Hobbit : An Expected Journey - Chapter 5

"When Bilbo opened his eyes, he wondered if he had; for it was just as dark with them shut. No one was anywhere near him. J...

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Lornographic Material - October TBR List

Pictured below is what I'm reading next month. What about you? Do you have some spooky reads on your October TBR? Lemme know ...

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing

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