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Post by Johnlprobert on Mar 1, 2009 10:50:28 GMT
Says the man who has made it into more mass market anthologies aimed at a bookshop-visiting mainstream audience than I probably ever will. There's nothing pretentious or pseudo-intelllectual about you or your stuff, Mr S!. In fact I've never read a word of yours I haven't thought worth reading, and therefore considered it time well spent. I very much suspect David's comment was aimed at a very different beast altogether than someone like yourself who is helping to keep the British end up where quality horror is concerned.
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 1, 2009 11:06:16 GMT
Mark's name never occured to me in that context. In fact, I've enjoyed - thoroughly - everything of his I've ever read.
Never confuse good writing with pseudo-intellectualism. I hope all of us here, including Lord P, are guilty of the former but never, never of the latter.
David
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 1, 2009 12:34:45 GMT
'as long as somebody gets eaten and there's at least a hint of necrophilia, I don't object at all to a spot of soul-searching or pondering the human condition.'Is it just me. I found that so refreshing. I think the problem is that writers can go beyond their limitations. It takes a remarkable author to write something both literate and entertaining. It's also a mood thing like music. Sometimes you want to hear Chopin's etudes and then you're drunk and must dance to that old Bay City roller LP. What I dislike is the halfway house
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 1, 2009 12:48:14 GMT
I forgot to add: Mark Samuels - uses big words, writes great stories. I think you can safely put your coat back on the hanger Mark: tremendous author
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Post by marksamuels on Mar 1, 2009 17:58:21 GMT
Ohhhhhhhhhhh! I've got a warm feeling inside now. Thanks gents. I can't wait to get back to England. I love Mexico, but I've never been this homesick. I'm flying back tomorrow. Mark S.
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