Categorie: american writers
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Pretty Girls
Review: Twenty years ago Julia disappeared, leaving behind her two younger sisters Claire and Lydia. Lydia found her escape in drugs and abuse while Claire married Paul Scott with whom she has a happy life. But to that life comes an end when, after a night out to celebrate Claire’s release from an electronic ankle…
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The Library Trilogy book one: The Book that wouldn’t burn
https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-book-that-wouldnt-burn-the-library-trilogy-book-1-mark-lawrence?variant=40284037709902 Review: This book was read in a buddy read with Paramowgli (Instagram) and is a bit out of my comfort zone, as it is a Fantasy novel. I do like to read one on occasion so it certainly isn’t a punishment but it always needs some ‘getting into’ the story before it takes off…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Salem’s Lot (1979)
Plot: (from IMDB) The successful writer Benjamin “Ben” Mears returns to his hometown Salem’s Lot, Maine, expecting to write a new novel about the Marsten House. Ben believes that the manor is an evil house that attracts evil men since the place has many tragic stories and Ben saw a ghostly creature inside the house…
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Robert Hunter 5. Eén voor één
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402713671/een-voor-een/ Review: Dutch Robert Hunter en Carlos Garcia zijn terug en krijgen misschien wel hun gevaarlijkste en meest meedogenloze tegenstander ooit! Als Hunter een anoniem telefoontje krijgt waarin hem gevraagd wordt om een website te bezoeken, die enkel hij kan zien, waar een man vastgebonden zit. Hunter krijgt de keuze op welke manier de man…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Carrie (1976)
Review: So I decided to do a Stephen King Movie Marathon in 2024. It’ll probably take me a lot of months and I might not be able to see/find all the movies/miniseries but I’ll do my best… and where better to start than at the beginning: with Carrie! Carrie was King’s first novel, he almost…
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Full Throttle
Review: This is a collection of thirteen stories, two of them completely new for the collection, all the others have been published somewhere else before. A few of these stories will get a separate review (such as Throttle and In the Tall Grass, both co-written with Stephen King). The review for Throttle is already online:…
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Weg des Doods
https://www.boekerij.nl/producten/weg-des-doods-9789402321401 Review: Twee documentairemakers, Jack Prentiss en Felix ‘Teig’ Teigland zijn naar Siberië gekomen om een documentaire te schieten langs de Kolymasnelweg, beter gekend als de ‘Weg des Doods’ omdat daar honderden Goelag gevangen onder begraven liggen. Als ze hun gids oppikken rijden de heren richting Achoest, een dorpje waar de mensen (over)leven in barre…
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Full Throttle: Throttle
Review: This is Hill & King’s own take on a road trip gone bad with a truck and a few bikers! Joe Hill was asked to write a story for a Richard Matheson tribute collection. Immediately he knew what to write, a tribute to Matheson’s Duel (later adapted into a movie, the debut film of…
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Creature Feature Collection: Big Bad
Review: I have to be completely honest, this was not my favourite story from the six Amazon originals. The first half of the story was slow and just couldn’t get my attention. It’s a wonder I made it to half the story (of it would have been a book of 200 or 300 pages I’d…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Dreams in the Witch House (2022)
Synopsis: Years after his twin sister’s death, a researcher ventures Into a dark, mysterious realm with the aid of a special drug, determined to bring her back. Review: Definitely not the best episode (not the worst either) in this show! It started out great but couldn’t hold the tension and my attention enough… When, at…
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