(March 27, 2014 at 7:55 am)No_God Wrote: I LOVE humus.

Me, too! My friend's mother makes it homemade.

Yum

Just read a couple of Stephen King novels, and I realize that the man definitely wrote better under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Especially if one is going to compare The Shining with the follow up of the young boy in Doctor Sleep.

The Shining is a pretty shit book, tbh.

I have to shop for home owners insurance today. Bleh.

(March 27, 2014 at 10:21 am)Kitanetos Wrote: Just read a couple of Stephen King novels, and I realize that the man definitely wrote better under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Especially if one is going to compare The Shining with the follow up of the young boy in Doctor Sleep.

I've always wanted to read a Stephen King book - one that was scary, I've read The Green Mile... - but I've never gotten around to it. I used to read kiddy horror books back in the day (I had every Fear Street book) but I graduated to detective novels rather than adult horror. Don't know what happened there.

(March 27, 2014 at 10:53 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I've always wanted to read a Stephen King book - one that was scary

Growing up, I used to see those commercials advertising scary Stephen King novels. When I finally got around to reading his books as a teenager, they were not scary at all. I cannot understand how anyone would consider his books scary. One must have a very low threshold of tolerance for horror if one thinks his books are even remotely scary.

And it is not just him, either. I have read plenty of supposedly scary books that simply were not scary at all.

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(March 27, 2014 at 10:53 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I graduated to detective novels rather than adult horror. Don't know what happened there.

It could be that, like me, you did not find the novels to be truly scary.

I have also basically graduated from horror. I mostly read fantasy and crime novels, and sometimes I will read supernatural fiction that is not so much scary as more on the romance side of genre.

Yes, I am a sucker for a decent romance, especially since I grew up reading Danielle Steel and Johanna Lindsey.

The only two writers I have never gravitated from are Dean Koontz and Anne Rice. I am fans of theirs for life.

My brother's graduation is tonight, and tomorrow the party. I need two dresses. I haven't worn a dress in years! I think. Well, more like a year. Sigh. Ok... shopping day it is.

Notice tonight is the night and I left the shopping for today.

(March 27, 2014 at 11:01 am)Kitanetos Wrote:

(March 27, 2014 at 10:53 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I've always wanted to read a Stephen King book - one that was scary

Growing up, I used to see those commercials advertising scary Stephen King novels. When I finally got around to reading his books as a teenager, they were not scary at all. I cannot understand how anyone would consider his books scary. One must have a very low threshold of tolerance for horror if one thinks his books are even remotely scary.

And it is not just him, either. I have read plenty of supposedly scary books that simply were not scary at all.

I've read two things that I would consider two of the most intense things I've ever read, but I don't know that I would call them scary:

(1) There's a scene in the Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol that REALLY freaked me out when I read it. Granted, it was like 3am and I had gone to bed at 10 with the intention of just reading a couple chapters so I was really into the story and it was dark and I was totally in the frame of mind for it to scare me. But every time I've read it since it has never reached that level of intensity but it's still a very visceral scene to me.

(2) There's a scene in the Dan Wells book Mr. Monster (second in a three-part series that starts with I Am Not A Serial Killer) that was totally not scary, but it was probably the single most disturbing and intense thing I've ever read. I had to take a couple days off reading that book after I got through that scene because I was so upset by it.

With these things said, though, I am definitely the type that lets myself get swept away by a story and I really try and empathize with the main character(s) and let their emotions affect me, so I could see myself really getting scared by a Stephen King book if I'm able to get myself in the right state of mind.

Also... I thought I could find me a new forum home just to try something new. I failed. I like it over there, but I love my AF peeps here!

But Ivy! You don't know us! It's just a forum! Fuck you. I didn't include you, idiot! I love the other AF peeps... the ones that accept the hugs without a fight. *sticks tongue out, in a bad way

Pretty sure this means everything I said about Stephen King is true and no longer have any fucking clue why Shell B got so pissed off at me for saying it.

Oh yeah... For some reason, Shell B likes Stephen King. #DAFUQ

(March 27, 2014 at 11:13 am)Ivy Wrote: Also... I thought I could find me a new forum home just to try something new. I failed. I like it over there, but I love my AF peeps here!

I saw your introduction thread on TTA.

(Kudos or rep, if I have not already give you one, for anyone who can guess my user name over on TTA)

I post there sometimes, but I do prefer AF. I consider this place my online home.