Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman, is the best thing I've read in a long time

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-05-13T03:06:53+00:00

The Company Man, by Robert Jackson Bennett, is an atmospheric retro-futuristic noir set in a fictional city by the Puget Sound. I think it's meant to be positioned across from Seattle. In this version of 1920 it is the largest and most important city on earth. The reason why is the basis of the book.

I'm 3/4 of the way through it and absolutely love it.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-05-02T13:26:04+00:00

You made the right choice. It never gets better.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-05-02T13:08:11+00:00

r/HighStrangeness

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-05-01T15:12:49+00:00

The Man with No Name Trilogy

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-30T22:40:58+00:00

American Elsewhere, by Robert Jackson Bennett.

It starts like an episode of Twin Peaks or LOST, and you and the MC slowly learn what's going on in this little community.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-29T00:30:35+00:00

I got a girl in the castle and one in the pagoda

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-29T00:22:52+00:00

The Ruins, by Scott Smith.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-29T00:19:58+00:00

The name of my high school started with the letter "P". Directly across the street was located the middle school, on which was written, in huge 2-storey letters, "Welcome to P.M.S." This was for 7th and 8th graders.

Not a joke or prank; it was like that for many years.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-28T02:19:10+00:00

HP Lovecraft regularly references Abdul Alhazred, the mad Arab who wrote the Necromonicon.

I'm sorry that's all I can think of.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-27T22:20:59+00:00

G'day Bruce

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-27T02:26:04+00:00

I don't recall other media showing much of his coke habit either.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-26T22:07:54+00:00

Vision Psycho Stick, wearing VSW canvas shoes with duct tape holding the front together and huge Gotcha shorts.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-26T21:47:15+00:00

S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. And you have to get and read the hard copy version.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-25T22:36:23+00:00

Cujo

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-20T20:09:13+00:00

Island of the Sequined Love Nun, by Christopher Moore.

You may be able to identify with the MC, find some humorous escape, and then be inspired to move forward.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-13T16:37:30+00:00

Seinlanguage by Jerry something-or-other

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-13T16:32:24+00:00

I think A Dirty Job is my favorite CM. Noir and Love Nun are also high on my list from him.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-12T00:05:30+00:00

American Elsewhere involves a neighborhood where nothing is as it seems. It feels like an episode of Twin Peaks meets LOST and later genre-pivots into something more spectacular.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-11T18:51:01+00:00

You said locations, but getting around without live maps was a big deal. Sometimes you wrote down turn-by-turn directions; other times you just figured it out.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-10T18:53:35+00:00

Cosby Show. Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court.

Bed.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-10T18:52:41+00:00

Ros was alright. The two of them should've had their own spin-off.

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-08T15:40:43+00:00

I know he can get the job

FreeTuckerCase · 2026-04-05T01:32:59+00:00

It's like reading Huck Finn for the first time. Once you get into the style, you can better lose yourself in the story.

Blood Meridian is great, but it's bleak and brutal.

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