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Beliveau

Beliveau

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If it can be read, post it here. I'm an old dinosaur who still reads paper books. Carry on my wayward son!


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I read a couple horror trades called "Something is killing the children". I've been reading illustrated books since 1969, and I used to write about them. This book is as good as anything I've read in the last quarter century, but I'm trying to avoid horror. It's a dilemma.
 
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An American ex pat writer friend of mine who publishes books in Slovenia sent me a package that arrived just today of books that an Australian ex pat writer friend of his living in Prague Louis Armand who also publishes books gave to him to send around to whoever wherever. They include Armand's own Vampyr: A chronicle of revenge and Glitchhead + Ansgar Allen's Plague Theatre, the German surrealist Melchior Vischer's Second Through Brain and Johnny Pulp's (? obviously a pseudonym) Palomares/Bomb Grrls. The Vampyr Armand is a very very large trade paperback full to the brim with photos and graphics some 700 pages long. Anyway Armand publishes as Equus and my Slovenian friend is Corona Samizdat.
 
haohmaru said:
I have a ton of Marvel Omnibus' and DC Absolutes and the full run of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword Omnibuses. Love them.
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I stupidly gave all of my early Marvels to my nephew and have regretted it ever since he told me he had no idea where they were (nor did he seem to care).
 
majordomo said:
Vampry sounds absolutely fascinating!!!!!
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I was thinking of buying it before but when you look Vampyr up on Abebooks it's like $52. That's pricey and was enough to stop me. It's a big book and all but......I'm glad to get it for nothing. I've read a bit of Armand before. He can be very literary but not without some humor and suspense. The Combinations is his best known book. It's set in Prague during the Cold War and atmospherically it's cold and kind of forbidding--dark and industrial---a little gothic and there are ghostly presences here and there though it's not horror really. Some of it is set in an orphanage kind of mental asylum. It's a real long one too. I liked it though. I've read a crime novel of his and a poetry collection as well.....something else I'm pretty sure.
 
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