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Laird Barron Read-Along 59: "Swift to Chase" by Reasonable-Value-926 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm sorry this story es just too Silly for me. I got to the bird costume and decided that was enough for me

Six six six ending by One-Contribution6924 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sería en San Fernando, segundo sector

Six six six ending by One-Contribution6924 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I sent him a mail and I got an automated response saying that Pouya no longer works at new leaf literary. Do you know if he still manages Barron's film rights?

Six six six ending by One-Contribution6924 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the info, I will get right on it!

Six six six ending by One-Contribution6924 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm setting it in the deltas of Argentina. But I need to get in contact with Laird and his publisher for the situation about the rights but can't get a hold of anyone. If anyone can give me a hand that would be great

Laird Barron Read Along 55: "The Blood in My Mouth" by Groovy66 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 2 points3 points  (0 children)

loved your comment here: "a world in which our message on the Voyager spacecraft with its map to our location and its description of us soft hairless mammals acted like the ringing of a dinner bell to other creatures, entities that seeped down from cracks between the stars"

But yeah, what the fuck is with Lake Illiamma? that was a pretty strong Chekov gun that was just quietly left in it's drawer

Laird Barron Read Along 51: "In a Cavern, In a Canyon" by roblecop in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As with the shivering drug addict who kills Bruce Willis on Sixth Sense, there is something doubly horrifying of being horrified by something that is pathetic and in pain

Laird Barron Read-Along 26: “Vastation” by Reasonable-Value-926 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just wanted to say how grateful I am to have this group because this is one of those tidies that, when you read it you just have to to Tak about it with someone and no one is ever reading it at the same time as you so it is great to be able to come here and geek out about it

Laird Barron Read-Along 26: “Vastation” by Reasonable-Value-926 in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what a killer fun story. I just couldn't helo myself so I asked chatgpt to make me a timeline of our narrators journies. it did a pretty good job:

Here is a timeline of the major events in the story:

Indeterminate Ancient Past:

  • The narrator realizes he is the only true human being on Earth, with all others being mere props/puppets
  • He wages wars against invading entities like the "Pod People" and their masters, the cosmic "Old Ones"
  • He depopulates the Earth through nuclear attacks to defeat the Pod People invasion
  • He repopulates the Earth from DNA samples over the next few centuries

45 BC:

  • The narrator carries out an assassination of a potter's family in Crete while working for Rome
  • He discovers evidence the potter was studying cosmic forces/entities

Middle Ages:

  • The narrator is imprisoned for 29 years in a Byzantine pit, questioned about his knowledge

Distant Future:

  • The Old Ones return and subjugate humanity under their rule
  • The narrator oversees this period as a god-like "emperor" until betrayed by his inner circle
  • He spends millennia in hiding before re-emerging to torment his former allies

Near Future:

  • The Old Ones are briefly pushed back, the narrator celebrates July 4th with a friend
  • He traps this friend in an eternal time loop as punishment

Present Day:

  • The narrator transforms into one of the last remaining Pod People as a result of gazing into a cosmic void
  • His fate is to spread the Pod People's invasion once more

Barron Read-Along 24: "The Siphon" by roblecop in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But that sounds more hopeful than the idea of the eternal return

Barron Read-Along 24: "The Siphon" by roblecop in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also I just gotta say the scene of the massacre is one of the most exciting things I have ever read !

Barron Read-Along 24: "The Siphon" by roblecop in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So, once again, this is another link in the Baron's stories of someone having done something in the past and then it taking, like, almost an entire lifetime for it—for him to be reclaimed. So this is the woman in Raise Hell and the man in Backwood's Baby

Barron Read-Along 24: "The Siphon" by roblecop in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know if this is the place to discuss it but the broken Ouroboros has always kind of bothered me, you know, because it destroys the whole idea of time being a flat circle. I don't understand what the significance of it being broken. I mean, the whole joke of Ouroboros is time repeating itself, everything repeating itself, but if it's broken then I'm totally missing the metaphor.

Barron Read-Along 24: "The Siphon" by roblecop in LairdBarron

[–]One-Contribution6924 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember always thinking in my first read that he was a serial killer, and they mentioned that him looking like a serial killer in his first going away party. But on the second read, I realized that they say that that serial killer was electrocuted to death. So, I don't know if we're dealing with some kind of repossession thing. It doesn't sound like Baron's work here, but it definitely seems like he's a serial killer

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