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1) (song taken from a novel) "A mother's love is a blessing, no matter where you roam..Keep her while you have her, you'll miss her when she's gone"
2) "There was something in that lake that was not of this world...A color, indescribable, outside the spectrum, impressed itself upon the eyes and minds of all who approached"
3) "This is a nervous little decade we're playing with" ('60s novel)
4) "I could hear everything, together with the hum of the hotel neon...I never felt sadder in my life....L.A. is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities"
5) "It was a good ward this time, one of the best he and Dunbar had ever enjoyed" (answered)
6) "Gnossos cruising meanwhile in the back of a charcoal gray four-passenger Aston Martin,
wedged between two freshman football heroes with android heads..mouths mumbling in taut athletic fashion as if they had unopened Brazil nuts packing their cheeks" (answered)
7) "We spent the next six hours in a tiny concrete cell with about twenty Puerto Ricans.
We couldn't sit down because they had pissed all over the floor, so we stood in the
middle of the room, giving out cigarettes like representatives of the Red Cross"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)wryter2000
(46,016 posts)The Color out of Space. My favorite Lovecraft.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Not Lovecraft, but VERY similar title.
I really thought I had it.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)He died about 4 years ago.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Since you were so close, I'll give you another clue...his first name is Michael.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)The author's work "overlaps the science fiction and fantasy genres, e.g. thematic use of demons and aliens that act as endoparasites."
Glorfindel
(9,706 posts)#2 reminds me of "The Fall of the House of Usher," but that's a short story, not a novel.
#7 sounds as if it could have come from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)But different novel
lastlib
(22,978 posts)"Now he was master of the world, but he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something."
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and #2. I thought at first it was War of the Worlds...but if the author died four years ago, it couldn't have been H.G. Wells. (I don't think.) Dunno the novel...but is J.G. Ballard the author...?
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)The author of # 2 was a colorful guy, born in L.A.,..then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and had a variety of occupations before becoming successful as a writer.
His jobs included:
- Language Instructor
- Construction laborer
- Night clerk in a Mission District flophouse
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)Manny says that.
Wolf
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and incidentally--Mike lives...
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red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)This is from memory..I may have omitted a word or two.
Very famous novel.
Mendocino
(7,430 posts)with airplanes?
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Shrek
(3,970 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Shrek
(3,970 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)And a hundred pages later, "four legs good, two legs better!"
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Mendocino
(7,430 posts)I seen you with him that day at Bridges. And I never forget a face. Specially a face like yours. There was you and him and that young gal with the voice that carries so good and that big bald-headed man with the salt-black beard"
Mendocino
(7,430 posts)the answer is "Seldom Seen"
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)TlalocW
(15,358 posts)The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
TlalocW
Mister Ed
(5,895 posts)and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time...
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)by Jack Kerouac.
Have Always loved that novel.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)On the Road is a truly great novel.
Mister Ed
(5,895 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)of my ass"
Homer Wells
(1,576 posts)Is from "Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me" by Richard Farina.
Brings back memories from my younger days.
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)that's something else."
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)could stand him."
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)to attack us."
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Mendocino
(7,430 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)red dog 1
(27,647 posts)exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble."
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)prove it."
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)who put Coca-Cola in his bourbon."