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Ok I read this book at least 15 years or so in cheap paperback form so it's probsbly st least 20 years old. It's a suspense/horror book where a man is always ignored by the world for some reason. People just don't pay attention to him and he eventually learns there isn't whole underworld or large group of people like him. They have the ability to not be noticed by normal people and use it for their own agenda. I remember the initiation into the group was the man had to kill his boss. I keep thinking the title has something like funhouse or carnival or circus to it but I can't find it. It'll probsbly turn out to be some Dean Koontz job. Thanks for the help.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:There's a Bentley Little book called The Ignored that's kinda like that. That's exactly it. It's the same carousel cover I remembered. Thanks.
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May 29, 2016 04:40
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AnonSpore posted:Trying to remember a children's book series about a kid adventuring with a crew of tiny aliens. At one point he was shrunk to their size too. Captain of the aliens was pretty belligerent in the drill sergeant sort of way, but he had a slot in his neck where you could swap in a personality module disc and make him less ornery. I don't remember if that was a major story point or just a one off thing. Is it the Aliens ate my homework series by Bruce Colville?
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Jul 28, 2016 18:11
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I know of at least 12 Japanese mangas it could be
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Nov 26, 2016 03:59
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Are you sure it's a comic and not MY LIFE?
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Jun 20, 2017 18:21
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Enfys posted:I'm trying to remember a book, or a short story, or possibly a story within a book, involving giant hostile whales. That is actually my Dishonored fanfic
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Oct 11, 2017 22:30
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Fear Street?
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Jan 12, 2018 16:44
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My Lovely Horse posted:That reminds me of one I read in a similar anthology, probably more mid-late 90s though, about a guy who makes his living kidnapping kids and delivering them to child pornographers. I mostly remember the ending, where he gets into a car accident, wakes up in hospital with an amputated leg, then realizes actually some gangster boss (whose kid I think he had nabbed by mistake?) grabbed him after the accident. It ends right as they explain to him that child porn is big business, but hospital amputee porn makes good money as well, and bring in a porn actor while they turn him onto his stomach. filmcynic posted:Can't remember the title of the anthology, but that description does ring some bells. (Horrible, horrible bells.) Pretty sure Edward Lee was the writer. This was in 999 by al sarrantonio and it’s called ICU
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Jul 29, 2018 08:32
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NinjaDebugger posted:Had a friend come to me with a request that I have no idea on. I want to say that I have read this story and been trying to find it and it’s driving me crazy
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Jun 23, 2019 22:26
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Elevation
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Aug 29, 2019 17:37
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I’d guess 1984
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Apr 15, 2020 15:04
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Have you tried googling “boy gets pumped by parents”?
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Jun 2, 2020 04:16
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That sounds like “the descent” or maybe “deeper” by Jeff long
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Jan 16, 2021 06:06
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StrixNebulosa posted:Crown of Stars isn't connected to Jaran at all, IIRC. Good series though, if you like REALLY long fantasy. I love long fantasy. How long we talking?
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Apr 3, 2021 03:31
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Ornamented Death posted:Seven books, well over 5000 pages. No, that’s too long
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Apr 3, 2021 03:48
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Random Integer posted:There was a book I read as a kid and everything about it except for a vague outline of the plot completely escapes me now. This sounds like a Clive Barker book to me.
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May 6, 2021 23:50
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Mystery novel where an android is a private eye. Sort of a 50s noir feel to it. Cover had the androids face on it in shadow kind of. I think it had the word robot or android in the title. Thanks.
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Feb 6, 2022 02:58
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I found the exact words google needed to identify it and it is
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Feb 6, 2022 03:32
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Short story where the neighbors on a street are driven to paranoia of each other by a man just doing little things/starting rumors. I feel like it’s a matheson story but didn’t find it.
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Mar 25, 2023 05:56
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That seems like it’s probably it. Maybe I read a novelization of it because I could swear I read it, not watched it.
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Mar 25, 2023 06:14
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Runcible Cat posted:Sounds like Matheson's The Distributor: https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?72804 I’m pretty sure this is it. Thanks.
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Mar 28, 2023 06:26
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I would niven have guessed it
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Story where a man who is not native to the country he’s in has a boss who pays him in coins but gives him physically larger coins saying they’re worth more even though they’re not. The character knows he’s being cheated but allows it, at least for the time being.
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