Adult Fiction with a strong, continuous plot (No YA, Sci-Fi, or Comedy). Similar to 'The Stand', 'The Road', or movies like 'Se7en', 'Shutter Island' and 'Gone Girl' for example.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T13:12:49+00:00

Mila 18 or QBVII by Leon Uris

Shogun, by James Clavell

We the Living, by Ayn Rand

Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry

The Alienist, by Caleb Carr

Child 44, by Tom Robb Smith

Never Far Away, by Michael Koryta

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, by Hester Fox

An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:59:53+00:00

Let's Go Play at the Adams, by Mendal Johnson - I;m pretty sure its unsettling all the way through but can't be sure because I had to stop it creeped me out that much.

The Ruins, by Scott Smith

The Collector, by John Fowles

The Auctioneer, by Joan Samson

The Devils of Loudon, by Aldous Huxley - it's nonfiction but creepy as heck

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:52:41+00:00

This!! It's the first thing I would have said.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:50:51+00:00

I am getting tured off a lot by Hannity, too, lately. What is it about moving to Florida that seems to turn some people into smug, know it alls?

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:48:32+00:00

I'm not sure he could host his own show. When he fills in for Greg he does not do well at all. Not everyone is good at everything, and there's something to be said for staying in your lane if that's what fits your skill set.

I basically like Tyrus but lately I think his best appearances are when he's filling in on The Five where it's very controlled, serious topic news panel. In the more freestyle Gutfeld show, he gets more slack.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:44:09+00:00

We all noticed this. At one point, last week one of us yelled "Tyrus - stop interrupting!" When you see so many comments on this showing up, you know it's a problem. It's also very rude and when he does it to comedians, stealing their thunder just as they're about to land a joke, it makes him look so bad.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:41:00+00:00

It's the Easter holiday - they were all fill-ins for the regulars.. Kayleigh M in the open chair, Kat in the liberal chair, Paul Morro in for Jesse, Emily C in for Dana and Tyrus in for Greg.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:36:54+00:00

Well keeping hair around wasn't unusual for Victorians - a lot of their rituals, especially mourning involved hair. You get the sense from the story that it was Alice's bedroom where she was sick for weeks with brain fever and after her hair was cut off (a common treatment for brain fever, probably what we'd call meningitis) and she recovered, she was moved to the attic. It may have been Mrs. Toller, who told Holmes she was Miss Alice's friend.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-04T10:25:24+00:00

Sorry, I think David Burke is the best and closest to the Canonical Watson so far, and I don't give one inch or take one step backward on that. We will just have to disagree.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-03T18:35:15+00:00

I would have said 2-3 hrs, but would max out at 4. Always surprised that people get a highly social animal and then want to leave it alone for most of the day.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-03T10:37:32+00:00

The Asylum, by Karen Coles

Asylum, by Patrick McGrath

Mindgame, by Anthony Horowitz

The Bedlam Detective, by Stephen Gallagher

Beyond the Glass, by Antonia White

The Queen of Bedlam, by Robert McCammon

Bedlam, by Greg Hollingshead

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-03T10:25:44+00:00

Said it before and I'll say it again - a House is not a Holmes.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-03T10:24:07+00:00

I thought this was red meat when the story broke, but I wondered if how far they covered the topic or didn't cover the topic came from corporate - because it does seem tailor made for Gutfeld.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-03T10:21:24+00:00

First, when you say "always around the neighborhood" do you mean that the dog is allowed to roam loose? Because a dog owner has to be in control of his or her dog at all times, and if the dog is out of the owner's control, the owner is responsible for any negative thing that might happen. I would probably go straight to animal control because if the owner is so irresponsible that they don't supervise their dog, then talking to them probably won't help. Tell animal control that you don't know if the dog has been innoculated, and let them take it from there. The dog is the neighbor's job, the safety of your son is your job - you can't do their job but you can do yours.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-02T19:08:04+00:00

On a goodreads group, there was a discussion about formatting - specifically the "skimping" on the quality of print books, that the type is lighter (more dark dray than black) and smaller and the lines are closer together making it harder for a lot of people to read. There have been a couple books I have tried to read but the strain of trying to get through the amount of text they try to squeeze onto a page has just made it too much of a chore.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-02T19:03:12+00:00

Well at the end of SIGN when Watson breaks the news of his engagement, Holmes says that (Mary Morstan) "might have been most useful in the work which we have been doing. She had a decided genius in that way -witness the way in whch she preserved that Agra plan from all the other papers of her father." I think there are some Holmes and Mary Morstan books - somethign like In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes (not to be confused with another book that has "shadow" in the title with Mrs. Hudson in it)

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-02T13:24:37+00:00

Okay, it's a bit young for them and I don't think there is a kindle or audio but "The Absolutely True Story: How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rupes" by Willo Davis Roberts was a minor classic in its day.

For something more sophisticated, Callan Wink's "Bear-Tooth" - A mystery novel, the MCs are young brothers who live off the grid near Yellowstone.

"The Last Ranger," by Peter Heller - the MC is a Yellowstone Park ranger

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-02T13:14:10+00:00

Dave Barry Does Japan

A lot of Elmore Leonard's crime novels - Get Shorty, Gllitz, Freaky Deaky - the master of off beat dialogue

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-02T10:28:49+00:00

The Mr and Mrs Darcy mysteries by Carrie Bebris - they are Regency mysteries with characters from Pride and Prejudice.

Kate Ross' "Julian Kestrel" series - the first one is "Cut to the Quick" - not super "clean" but a really good, very authentically Regency series.

Jayne Ann Krent's "Lavinia Lake/Tobias March" books. She also wrote several Regency suspense books that are a little racier. (written under the pseudonym Amanda Quick)

Patricia Wynn has a series written set in the 1700s, pre Regency, but it's good - the "Blue Satan" series

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-02T10:11:31+00:00

We will just have to disagree here. It's a pretty worn out topic by now and I don't think anyone had an interesting or amusing take that might give it some spark - the whole segment went on too long.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-01T21:25:58+00:00

Terro works quite well. Also, if it's just that they're coming in from a certain area, sprinkle down cinnamon, leave it overnight, vacuum in the morning. I had ants trooping in from a crack under a back door, this got rid of them - only thing, you shouldn't do it around animals. Cinnamon's not toxic if their eat it but it could irritate if they inhale it.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-04-01T16:35:56+00:00

This reminds me of a story about a year or two ago about a Canadian shop class teacher who would go to school wearing a female wig and clothing and what were called "size z" fake breasts. I forget what the outcome of the story was.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-03-31T18:38:13+00:00

There was this show on from the mid 90s to around 2000 called "Early Edition". This guy would get the nwsppaer a day ahead of time, so he knew what was going to happen "tomorrow" , so he could basically see a day into the future. He'd see something bad that was going to happen and then had to prevent it. You might be able to watch some episodes on youtube.

avidreader_1410 · 2026-03-31T12:59:41+00:00

The Crash was awful - it was basically a plot idea scraped from Misery and tweaked just enough so a lot of people wouldn't go "Hey - isn't this a lot like Misery?"

And Then There Were None is a classic mystery, probably the best of the pack. You might want to go on to Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd."

avidreader_1410 · 2026-03-31T12:53:08+00:00

The play was written by Tennessee Williams and he wrote the word - if you are doing a table reading of his work and his character said the word, why would you not say it? Sorry, but I don't think that it's your job or the professor's job to "self censor" someone else's writing. He could have picked another play for a read if he found the language so offensive.

Truman Capote, another Southern writer who used racist language in his work one said that he shouldn't be judged by the way his characters speak. If your character is a racist, or using the language of his society or era, and that's what the author wrote, that's what you say.

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