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I have in my head that there are genres of setting and genres of story. Hartwell's point, as you describe it, seems like a different way to express that idea. Hartwell was an excellent anthologist, as well as a superb critic (not reviewer, critic) and I'm happy to have somehow had a thought...

It's not wildly unusual, in Horror, for the stories to get less interesting when the monsters explicitly show up.

The thing about My Heart Is a Chainsaw is that there are two books that come after it. :LOL: Most of what I've seen from Jones is Horror, except for some of his very early stuff, which is barely readable. Lansdale is awesome, whatever genre he's writing in. I will point out that I enjoyed the...

If you are expecting any minute now to be in a gunfight, why would you have your gun holstered?

I tend to think about how much of J.S. Bach's music got lost, for similar reasons.

I'm not into slasher movies, but I loved the heck out of The Only Good Indians. I wouldn't argue hard with someone saying The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a better novel, though. Since you seem to be on a bit of a Stephen Graham Jones kick, I'm going to suggest that you probably don't want to read I...

Movie costuming has its own limitations, I wasn't snarking super-hard on that; it's the people who take that as what reality was that really deserve the snark, I think.

The idea that anyone would dress every day as though they expected to get into a quickdraw contest that day seems ... just a bit ludicrous, especially given the practicality issues.

Also, I'm pretty sure the game they really weren't good at was "The Air Is Burning Ash."

I sincerely hope that isn't entirely the voice of experience, because that sounds like an experience that--as you say--really, really sucks.

In your household, both too high and too low seems distinctly plausible.

I don't need them to be immiserated, but I need there to be a lot of tension.

Reminds me of what I've said about the novels I like best being like chewing on a live wire.

Working in a context where you hear words pronounced on the regular sometimes gets in the way of communication ... :LOL:

When I was recording audiobooks, we often found errors--some of them were pretty egregious (such as "two-car garbage"). I sometimes notice things in the books I'm reading for pleasure, now, but reading the text aloud is, I think, more likely to find them.

When it became possible to record music, there were professional musicians strongly opposed to it, because they guessed (more or less correctly) that the ability to play back recordings would reduce the number of jobs for musicians performing in public. The record business has always been...

I don't know which specific poster you're talking about (so many options!) but I figure the answer to the question is "no."

People said it about the written word, centuries before Gutenberg. For whatever that's worth (and I don't think it's worth a lot).

The vacation had the days kinda packed full of doing things (and those things were why I was on the vacation). I had a reasonable sense of how much free time I was going to have.

Also this.