Round And Round She Goes...

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The new story posted today, and you cant vote or post anonymous comments. That's the new policy.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Poor TIO sent me a nasty gram via FEEDBACK. He's unhappy he cant post anonymous comments and cant one-bomb me. hahahahahahaha fuck you TIO

 

[TxRad]

Poor TIO sent me a nasty gram via FEEDBACK. He's unhappy he cant post anonymous comments and cant one-bomb me. hahahahahahaha fuck you TIO

How do you know it was Tio? Did he sign it or use his Lit name, or his own e-mail address?

IMHO, you're blowing smoke as usual about someone who won't back down or off from you. You hate it when they poke the sharp sticks back at you or worse yet poke fun.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

How do you know it was Tio? Did he sign it or use his Lit name, or his own e-mail address?

IMHO, you're blowing smoke as usual about someone who won't back down or off from you. You hate it when they poke the sharp sticks back at you or worse yet poke fun.

Maybe it was you.

 

[TxRad]

Maybe it was you.

Nope. Never even opened one of your stories.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Poor TIO made an alt account just to taunt me with a comment. Its like anonymous01

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm reading both THE MOON IN THE GUTTER and NIGHT SQUAD by David Goodis. NIGHT SQUAD is excellent, extreme grit. Its a corrupt cop tale. The other is about a suicide.

 

[lovecraft68]

Re-read one of my old favs

Wolfen by Whitley Streiber a good werewolf story before they became "sexy" through Twilight and Underword.

pack of werewolves living in NY and feeding off of the homeless make a mistake and kill someone who reported them missing. The game becomes two detectives who have discovered them trying to survive long enough to get someone to believe them.

Some pretty good crime drama involved and a sub story about the female detective and her husband who went corrupt to help pay for his senile fathers nursing home.

Good stuff and sad to say King couldn't buy something that good these days.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Re-read one of my old favs

Wolfen by Whitley Streiber a good werewolf story before they became "sexy" through Twilight and Underword.

pack of werewolves living in NY and feeding off of the homeless make a mistake and kill someone who reported them missing. The game becomes two detectives who have discovered them trying to survive long enough to get someone to believe them.

Some pretty good crime drama involved and a sub story about the female detective and her husband who went corrupt to help pay for his senile fathers nursing home.

Good stuff and sad to say King couldn't buy something that good these days.

Thanks for the tip. I came across a similar book but way too expensive for me; a war vet lives in the sewers of NYC and murders people at night.

King is almost as famous as PILOT.

 

[lovecraft68]

Thanks for the tip. I came across a similar book but way too expensive for me; a war vet lives in the sewers of NYC and murders people at night.

King is almost as famous as PILOT.

Coming up on Halloween I am getting ready for my annual reading of The Exorcist. I think this is my 33rd straight year. I swear I still find something different in it every time.


I still try to lie and delude myself that this is not the same author who wrote the horrible sequel Legion.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Coming up on Halloween I am getting ready for my annual reading of The Exorcist. I think this is my 33rd straight year. I swear I still find something different in it every time.


I still try to lie and delude myself that this is not the same author who wrote the horrible sequel Legion.

I don't get awful sequels.

 

[lovecraft68]

On the subject of horror, I'll give you a must read, something for everyone in this one. Even some dirty perversion

Peter Straub's Floating Dragon

I think you would like Shadowland as well I liked that on so much that's what I named my comic book store after.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

On the subject of horror, I'll give you a must read, something for everyone in this one. Even some dirty perversion

Peter Straub's Floating Dragon

I think you would like Shadowland as well I liked that on so much that's what I named my comic book store after.

Made a note! Thanks

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

So I'm thinking about a story to add to my alt collection. Some historical theme. How about the 2nd Seminole Indian War of 1835-1842? THE SEARCHERS by Alan Le May comes to mind.

Indians/blacks raid a Florida homestead while Pa and John Boy are away trading sacks of cotton for stuff. A militia patrol rides into Mayberry with the news of the raid. Pa and John Boy ride for home. The homestead is a smoking ruin, and Ma & Sis are gone. Prolly captives. They track them 100s of miles to the Everglades and join the Navy hunting the jungle hideouts.

I can of course include lotsa family lore in the tale. Like the military execution of my kinsman Lieutenant William Seymour Ward near Ocala, Florida in February 1836, and the Tallahassee duel that followed in June. My ancestor, Wards brother, shot the officer who killed Willie. Achilles Murat, Napoleons nephew, was my ancestors second in the gunfight.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

So I spent the afternoon thinking about how to end a new LITEROTICA HISTORICAL EPIC that I aint wrote yet. And I hatched a good one. And now I gotta dig out the records to make it roll along.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The story has a good ending no one will like, but its a good ending.

Collected 600 pages of documents online today. Plus I have a shelf of Seminole Indian War memoirs and diaries in my Florida History library.

Then I discovered that one of the last military actions of that war took place near Tallahassee in early 1842, so the story ends almost exactly where it begins after moving from Tallahassee 500 miles to the Everglades and back over 6 years.

That and a convenient natural event occurred at almost the same time around Tallahassee, and that's the ending. Yellow Fever kills everyone, which is what happened IRL.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My patience with MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL is about kaput. Don't get me wrong, the writing is excellent and its interesting but I'm more invested in Savannah than any of the characters.

The two John O'Hara novels I bought bore me, reviewers warned they would.

The two David Goodis books, NIGHT SQUAD and THE MOON IN THE GUTTER are gritty like coarse sandpaper but I prefer it to Eastern elites with petit angst.

Two Lawrence Block books are on the way. Then more David Goodis.

 

[lovecraft68]

See to me if I can't finish a book the writing is neither excellent or interesting. If I can't finish a book it means that, to me, it sucks.

I don't get into hype and reputation, I make up my own mind.

Hype, reputation and "Its good you have to read it," is why 50 shades sold millions of copies to people who ended up not even being able to finish it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

See to me if I can't finish a book the writing is neither excellent or interesting. If I can't finish a book it means that, to me, it sucks.

I don't get into hype and reputation, I make up my own mind.

Hype, reputation and "Its good you have to read it," is why 50 shades sold millions of copies to people who ended up not even being able to finish it.

That's it.

No one advertises goldmines and diamond mines.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Started reading LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane. I like it. The book opens on a boat headed to sea with a mobster held captive by cement shoes. He robbed the wrong speak-easy, and was rude to the mobsters he robbed.

That's a dandy way to open a story. Sitting on the deck of a boat with your feet stuck in concrete.