Leslie
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"If you have nothing nice to say then come sit next to me... :)"
Female
35 years old
Arkansas
United States
Last Login:
8/23/2007
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| General | I love music, books, renting the scariest DVD's I can find and hiding under the covers while I watch them, going out with my hubby for dinner and drinks. I like to surf Napster and Bearshare. I love spending time outdoors. I am a shopping JUNKY! I ♥ADORE♥ my husband and my children, they are my life and I am so thankful for my family. I would also like to mention my friend Tom who is a dear and without whom I would be running in circles.
| | Music | ♥Favorite Bands In No Particular Order...♥
Three days Grace
Sick Puppies
3 Doors Down
Fuel
Stone Sour
Breaking Benjamin
Breaking Point
BuckCherry
Disturbed
Drowning Pool
Green Day
Hinder
McQueen
Muff
Nickelback
Papa Roach
Puddle Of Mudd
Red
Finger Eleven
Sum 41
Soulidium
Soil
Kill Hannah
Plain White T's
Today I'm Listening to
♥McQueen♥
Break The Silence
| | Movies | Horror! I love scary, gory, feel guilty just watching it kind of movies.. I can't wait to see Hostel 2 and The Girl Next Door
| | Television | I don't really watch alot of TV. When I do I like garbage, crap, and totally pointless TV... :)
| | Books | ♥Favorite Authors In No Particular Order....♥
Jack Ketchum
Stephen King
J.K. Rowling
Jonathan Maberry
Dean Koontz
Simon Clark
Douglas Clegg
Ray Garten
Brian Keene
Richard Laymon
Tim Lebbon
Edward Lee
I'm always on the lookout for new horror writers, if you know one I have missed let me know.
I also LOVE a GOOD Gothic Romance and Gothic Ghost Story.
Right now I'm reading The Ruins by Scott Smith.
Stephen King wrote: When I heard that Scott Smith was publishing a new novel this summer, I felt the way I did when my kids came in an hour or two late from their weekend dates: a combination of welcoming relief (thank God you're back) mingled with exasperation and anger (where the hell have you been?). Well, it's only a book, you say, and maybe that's true, but Scott Smith is a singularly gifted writer, and it seems to me that the twelve years between his debut--the cult smash A Simple Plan--and his return this summer with The Ruins is cause for exasperation, if not outright anger. Certainly Smith, who has been invisible save for his Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film version of A Simple Plan, will have some 'splainin to do about how he spent his summer vacation. Make that his last twelve summer vacations.
But enough. The new book is here, and the question devotees of A Simple Plan will want answered is whether or not this book generates anything like Plan's harrowing suspense. The answer is yes. The Ruins is going to be America's literary shock-show this summer, doing for vacations in Mexico what Jaws did for beach weekends on Long Island. Is it as successful and fulfilling as a novel? The answer is not quite, but I can live with that, because it's riskier. There will be reviews of this book by critics who have little liking or understanding for popular fiction who'll dismiss it as nothing but a short story that has been bloated to novel length (I'm thinking of Michiko Kakutani, for instance, who microwaved Smith's first book). These critics, who steadfastly grant pop fiction no virtue but raw plot, will miss the dazzle of Smith's technique; The Ruins is the equivalent of a triple axel that just misses perfection because something's wrong with the final spin.
It's hard to say much about the book without giving away everything, because the thing is as simple and deadly as a leg-hold trap concealed in a drift of leaves…or, in this case, a mass of vines. You've got four young American tourists--Eric, Jeff, Amy, and Stacy--in Cancun. They make friends with a German named Mathias whose brother has gone off into the jungle with some archeologists. These five, plus a cheerful Greek with no English (but a plentiful supply of tequila), head up a jungle trail to find Mathias's brother…the archaeologists…and the ruins.
Well, two out of three ain't bad, according to the old saying, and in this case; what's waiting in the jungle isn't just bad, it's horrible. Most of The Ruins's 300-plus pages is one long, screaming close-up of that horror. There's no let-up, not so much as a chapter-break where you can catch your breath. I felt that The Ruins did draw on a trifle, but I found Scott Smith's refusal to look away heroic, just as I did in A Simple Plan. It's the trappings of horror and suspense that will make the book a best seller, but its claim to literature lies in its unflinching naturalism. It's no Heart of Darkness, but at its suffocating, terrifying, claustrophobic best, it made me think of Frank Norris. Not a bad comparison, at that.
One only hopes Mr. Smith won't stay away so long next time.--Stephen King
I just started it so I'll let ya know!
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Leslie's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Greenbrier | | Body type: | 5' 5" / More to love! | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Some college | | Occupation: | House Mouse | |
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Leslie is PREGNANT! how did that happen?!? ;>
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About me:
♥It's ALL about me♥
I am a 35 year old (almost 36 but I sure don't feel that "old") mother of 2. My daughter is 9 and my son is 6. I have been with my husband Chuck almost 19 years.
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I'm having another baby!♥ That's right I'm preggers and due in April. A total surprise, but a nice one... :)
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> Me being bitchy
I am not interested in buying anything from you OR having my page used as a billboard for you because you are too lazy to get a real job. If I don't know you or have NOTHING in common with you, you have zero chance of getting on my friend list. Go spam somewhere else loser!
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♥Life Update ♥
Hi Indiana friends! As you all know Chuck and I were going to move back now that daddy is gone, but with the new baby coming we've decided to stay put for another year or so. I miss you! We are coming up in October for a week, can't wait to see you all!
Oh and speaking of the baby... :) I am thinking of a homebirth with this one. I am going to start contacting midwives next week. :) Call me!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Beautiful homebirth video
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