Comments for Justin Evans

Comment on I Smell Weird by Susan E Dancy

Susan E Dancy — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:35:53 +0000

Ineresting. I love how you translate your thoughts into the written word. You have such a great descriptive quality.

Comment on Blurb the Third by Krista

Krista — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:54:06 +0000

I read A Simple Plan and thought it was the perfect read. Very cool he gave a good review on your new book. If it’s as good as your first, I am ready! Can’t wait!

Comment on My Favorite (Japanese) Ghost Story by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:10:21 +0000

Dear Justin:

Thanks for posting the link to The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi! I loved the tale, and your question about favorite tales sent me back into my collection of ghost stories, a very enjoyable task! Not sure I can come up with a favorite; almost anything by M. R. James I like. Reread The Mezzotint for the umpteenth time last night among others by James. One I come back to time and again is The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott–it miiiight be my favorite. Another, by Edith Nesbit: “Man-sized in Marble,” which I really enjoy but whose conventions (of an age) make me laugh. I think the antiquarian ones are particularly interesting, apparently! As I was poking around in a collected volume of English ghost stories, I remembered a recent read, not necessarily a ghost story but definitely informed by some of the conventions: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (2009, good stuff). Are there others you recommend? I could read quality ghost stories of many varieties on and on….

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/tapchamb.htm
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/mezztint.htm
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/mansize.htm

Really looking forward to getting The White Devil!

Lisa Broome-Price

Comment on Sexually Ambiguous Movies: Part One by nmnazu

nmnazu — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:24:27 +0000

Sexual ambiguous protagonist is often too heavily questioned and riddled among readers.I for once not even shocked by the fact that people still find it hard to believe that a hero can not be free to express his sexual preferences, not even in a fiction.John Connolly in his fascinating book ‘the book of lost thing’ also portrayed the companion of the story’s hero as someone who is in searched of his best friend who has been questioned ‘to harbor a romantic feeling more than one should to a guy friend’.Honestly it doesn’t matter to me. Love transcending beyond the gender preference.

Your biggest fan,
Grace

Comment on Apparitions and Echoes by kidelo

kidelo — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:50:11 +0000

Splayed out on the bed next to me, pages 42 and 43 facedown and creepy gargoyle-topped schoolboy face up: The White Devil, a galley pulled from a stack a week ago.

I don’t usually look up an author so early into an advanced read. But here I am enjoying this story enough to come tell you.

Comment on Uncle Freddie, Whiskey, and Sex by MEP

MEP — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:45:34 +0000

Nobody gave Uncle Freddie’s daughter whiskey when she was a sick little kid. It was always something truly nasty from the pharmacy.
She predicts that he will sip and read with great pleasure. (Even if he moves fast through Chapters 7, 9, 1, 14, & 17!)

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