The Friday 56 is hosted by Storytime with Tonya and Friends
RULES
- Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
- Turn to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).
- Post a link with your post to Storytime (and here on Bryan’s Book Blog).
Robert Bloch’s Psycho is the closet book to hand here, and I want to say that if you haven’t read it yet, then you really need to. It is a simply amazing book: suspenseful, scary and absolutely terrifying. And the end, oh the end … it’s one of the best endings in literature … so understated and so chilling. So, without further ado, here is my Friday 56:
Psychoby Robert Block
-Psycho Series, Book One-
(New York: Bantam Books, 1969)
Paperback, 137 Pages, Fiction
ISBN: N/A, US$0.60
My 56: “I was playing one hunch—that she’d stick to the highway because she was coming here” (56).
1 comments:
"(Major General George) Pickett was regarding him (Brigadier General Lewis Armistead)with curiosity." (56) from "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara.
I tried "Money" by Martin Amis, but was too short, so here's a little more: "You already owe me money. What's it for? A drug deal? Gambling debt?" (56-58)
Actually, the best was: "Serge ordered his "usual": steak, bacon, toast, hash browns, grits, southern biscuits and sausage gravy, sliced grapefruit, pancakes, whipped butter, orange juice, tomato juice, coffee and three eggs, sunny-side up, which he seasoned with heavy salt, heavy pepper, heavy Tabasco sauce." (56) from Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey.
I will have to check out "Psycho" -- I read some Bloch in short story collections, but never his novels. I've been thinking of compiling a good Halloween-season reading list with Lovecraft-themed writers.
I like your posts. I write reviews of new books that I recommend and need suggestions for new material to review. I review all genres. If you have a new book that you can really recommend, I'd love to hear it. I am reviewing, "Same River Twice", a thriller by Ted Mooney. Really entertaining. Anyway, sorry for the long comment. Keep posting!
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