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Post by wireman on Sept 16, 2020 12:22:32 GMT
Today we will discuss Lamb To The Slaughter by Roald Dahl
docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=d29vZHdhcmQuZWR1fGVuZ2xpc2g4dC1iYW5kcm93c2tpfGd4OjQ4Y2Y3ZmNhNTA0MTExOWM
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Post by neesy on Sept 16, 2020 15:11:52 GMT
Today we will discuss Lamb To The Slaughter by Roald Dahl
docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=d29vZHdhcmQuZWR1fGVuZ2xpc2g4dC1iYW5kcm93c2tpfGd4OjQ4Y2Y3ZmNhNTA0MTExOWM
I loved this story - even told Andy about it (sort of gave him a synopsis) - I liked how he described the woman's feelings. The fact she was a cop's wife helped her in the end
It was a neat short story with a good ending.
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Post by wireman on Sept 16, 2020 15:14:30 GMT
Today we will discuss Lamb To The Slaughter by Roald Dahl
docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=d29vZHdhcmQuZWR1fGVuZ2xpc2g4dC1iYW5kcm93c2tpfGd4OjQ4Y2Y3ZmNhNTA0MTExOWM
I loved this story - even told Andy about it (sort of gave him a synopsis) - I liked how he described the woman's feelings. The fact she was a cop's wife helped her in the end
It was a neat short story with a good ending.
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Post by neesy on Sept 16, 2020 15:20:21 GMT
I loved this story - even told Andy about it (sort of gave him a synopsis) - I liked how he described the woman's feelings. The fact she was a cop's wife helped her in the end
It was a neat short story with a good ending.
That's good! (rofl) (I never thought of that)
When I described the weapon he was nodding his head, as if he could imagine that being used 
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Post by Wicked Esther on Sept 16, 2020 15:24:53 GMT
I don't even like lamb, but this story makes me want to keep a leg of lamb in the freezer.
Just in case.
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Post by wireman on Sept 16, 2020 15:24:57 GMT
It was so great to have the police eat the murder weapon.
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Post by Wicked Esther on Sept 16, 2020 15:29:36 GMT
It was so great to have the police eat the murder weapon.
It was the perfect crime. She got away with it so easily that when I finished reading it, I wondered if the lady could have done it again and again. Who knows how many guys she might have married and then smashed in the head with a leg of lamb. |
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Post by Wicked Esther on Sept 16, 2020 17:02:13 GMT
I hope this video works. It's the full episode of Lamb to the Slaughter from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Post by spideyman on Sept 16, 2020 22:34:07 GMT
Awesome story-- perfect crime--perfect murder weapon. May never look at a leg of lamb the same!
The devoted wife murders her husband with the perfect weapon, and the evidence is no more..... Loved it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2020 6:18:57 GMT
I really liked this story. Especially the little giggle at the end while her husbands friends were eating the murder weapon. Thats the way to do it!!!
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Post by cat on Sept 17, 2020 13:25:46 GMT
I enjoyed this story a lot, too. The husband deserved to get smashed in the head with the leg of lamb.
Would you believe this is the first Dahl story for me, ever?!? I am familiar with several of the movies but have never read him before. I did buy a collection of short stories by him a while back on a daily deal, called Switch Bitch. I just looked at it and it has 4 stories in it. I was surprised by the title and a blurb said it was not the Dahl you knew so it intrigued me. I didn't even know he wrote things other than kids books. Might have to move it up on the tbr like after reading the lamb story.
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Post by Wicked Esther on Sept 17, 2020 14:39:16 GMT
I enjoyed this story a lot, too. The husband deserved to get smashed in the head with the leg of lamb. Would you believe this is the first Dahl story for me, ever?!? I am familiar with several of the movies but have never read him before. I did buy a collection of short stories by him a while back on a daily deal, called Switch Bitch. I just looked at it and it has 4 stories in it. I was surprised by the title and a blurb said it was not the Dahl you knew so it intrigued me. I didn't even know he wrote things other than kids books. Might have to move it up on the tbr like after reading the lamb story. Enjoy the book whenever you get to it--I don't think I've ever read a Roald Dahl story that I didn't find entertaining. I'd be up for reading more by him anytime. |
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Post by spideyman on Sept 17, 2020 20:04:35 GMT
Do we return to the next story in EE for the next group read?
In The Deathroom
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Post by neesy on Sept 17, 2020 21:53:54 GMT
Do we return to the next story in EE for the next group read?
In The Deathroom Sounds good to me!
By the way - I found this site that can calculate how fast you read i.e. how many WPM
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Post by wireman on Sept 18, 2020 12:18:10 GMT
Do we return to the next story in EE for the next group read?
In The Deathroom Next Wednesday we will discuss In The Deathroom by Stephen King from Everything's Eventual
We will have a lot of laughs in the deathroom next week.
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Post by wireman on Sept 18, 2020 17:41:41 GMT
I stumbled across this and thought it might be useful. This is a list of the anthologies Road Dahl has appeared in. I remembered correctly that he was in many of the Alfred Hitchcock anthologies. If you click the book, you can see what story he contributed.
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Post by wireman on Sept 22, 2020 12:47:52 GMT
We will discuss In The Deathroom by Stephen King tomorrow (Wed 9-23)
The story can be found in Everything's Eventual
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Post by edwardjohn on Sept 22, 2020 20:19:16 GMT
Question. Are we going to do the Peter Straub collection after EE, it doesn't bother me if you decide not to, its so that I know weather to order it or not, as I do have several PS collections, but not those stories included in that book.
Thanks.
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Post by wireman on Sept 22, 2020 20:47:29 GMT
Question. Are we going to do the Peter Straub collection after EE, it doesn't bother me if you decide not to, its so that I know weather to order it or not, as I do have several PS collections, but not those stories included in that book.
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Post by edwardjohn on Sept 22, 2020 22:02:59 GMT
Question. Are we going to do the Peter Straub collection after EE, it doesn't bother me if you decide not to, its so that I know weather to order it or not, as I do have several PS collections, but not those stories included in that book.
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