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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Oh Jesus....I've just remembered the most awful pile of drivel I ever had the misfortune of reading. I was going through a James Herbert/Stephen King phase and decided to pick up a book in Waterstones called Grin of the Dark (my brain seems to have blocked out the author's name) as the premise sounded genuinely interesting.
It wasn't. The 'twist' at the end that the author spent 400 pages building up to was evident from about page 15. It leaps from one cliched situation to another with little regard for plot, characters, atmosphere or the slightest form of cohesion.
Seriously, the Da Vinci Code is a masterpiece compared with this utter waste of trees.
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Sculpture of Man Putting a banging donk on it since, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 23:54,
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UnfortunatelyI think I own that book,the one where he's researching the clown? glad to see I didn't miss anything by losing interest and not carrying on reading.
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That's the oneIm almost tempted to re-read it to see if it's as terrible as I remember (it definately is).
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Sculpture of Man Putting a banging donk on it since, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 0:06,
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I vote"researching the clown" for most confusing euphemism of the week.
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Infidel , shit and wrong, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 3:37,
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