Bought today at Borders as a birthday present for myself.

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In the afterword, Chuck Palahniuk describes how reading one of the stories in this book at book signings almost guarantees that some of his audience will faint (73 people so far), and that wasn't even the most disturbing of the stories in this book. It's certainly not a book to read if you're of a delicate disposition.

It's a surprisingly compelling book, though. It shouldn't be: the characters are uniformly unsympathetic, the overarching plot is contrived; the stories are mostly predictable (and considering they're all supposed to be written by different people, are in a disappointingly uniform voice); and in a way the horror is of the maximum shock value kind told around camp-fires. But somehow I found these unpromising elements added up to a book I just couldn't put down - possibly because the real horror doesn't consist of the scary things that happen, but in the way that people react to them, which builds up to a sense of horror much greater than any mere ghost story could achieve...

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Put on the book table at our Friday night dinner at the Queenstown Bookcrossing Unconvention.

Happy bookcrossing to the finder!

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P.S. If you live in the Christchurch area, you might like to join us at our monthly bookcrossing meetups. For details, see the BCNZ Yahoo Group.

Picked up at the Queenstown Bookcrossing Unconvention.

Oh My!

2014 convention

for my Bookcrossing friends ;-)

Für eine Katzen und Krimifreundin.

seems to be too brutal stuff for me
a book for the OBCZ in our "Wissensturm"

werd ich im OBCZ-Regal im Wissensturm freilassen

Liebe Finderin, lieber Finder,

herzlichen Glückwunsch, Du hast ein reisendes Buch gefunden!
Ich hoffe, es gefällt Dir.

Du hast nicht nur ein Buch, sondern eine ganze Gemeinschaft von Leserinnen und Lesern gefunden, die Bücher lieben. Schau Dir die Bookcrossing-Seite mal an! Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn Du Dir die Zeit nimmst, einen Journal-Eintrag zu machen und mich so wissen zu lassen, wo das Buch gerade ist und was Du damit vor hast.
Wenn Dir die Idee von Bookcrossing gefällt, kannst Du Dich bei Bookcrossing registrieren, das ist kostenlos und anonym und weil Du auch mit anderen Bücherfreunden in Kontakt treten kannst macht es zusätzlich Spaß!
Infos auch auf http://www.bookcrossers.at/
bzw http://www.bookcrossers.de/

In Österreich gibt es auch ein eigenes Bookcrossing-Forum auf: http://bcat.a-z.in/forum/
dort gibt es Hilfe bei Fragen und Infos zu Bookcrossing und auch der Spaß kommt nicht zu kurz.



Hello! Bookcrossing is an online community of book lovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. We are curious to see how far and wide this book will travel and how its readers like it. Kindly make a journal entry to let us know it's found a new reader.
Feel free to read and keep this book, pass it on to a friend, leave it back or somewhere else for the next reader. If you journal this book as a member, then you will be able to follow the book as it travels around. Happy reading!

Picked up this book in the Wissensturm and as it is not my type, I will pass it on to a South African friend who lives here. Leona