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I Am Not a Serial Killer
2016 · Film · 104 min
Directed by Billy O'Brien
In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
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Don't have Netflix so not sure what's available there, and several might not be wife-friendly. Also I enjoy weird, so YMMV.
> I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells was an enjoyable surprise.
I saw the film adaptation¹ in a local cinema without knowing anything about it beforehand and was very pleasantly surprised by this gem of a film. Thanks for the reminder; I must check out the book.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_a_Serial_Killer_(film)
In science fiction:
The Wayfarers books The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit were quite good. Fantastic world building and characters, although the plots seem to meander about with not too much purpose.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/170872-wayfarers
Recently ploughed through The Expanse series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/56399-the-expanse
Dark Matter was a good read if you like parallel universes.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter
The Rho Agenda series was a surprisingly good read.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/61746-the-rho-agenda
Quantum Night was something a bit different from Robert Sawyer.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734179-quantum-night
Farmer in the Sky is one of those books I re-read every few years.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50851.Farmer_in_the_Sky
And Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard would probably have to be rated my favourite for the year.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667916-barsk
Horror:
Not really a horror fan, but stumbled into the I Am Not a Serial Killer series by accident a few years ago and love it. Read the forth and fifth in the series this year. If you’re more a psychological thriller than horror fan, give it a go anyway. (Shame about the awful movie adaptation.)
https://www.goodreads.com/series/49883-john-cleaver
Crime/Thriller:
Fool Me Once upholds Harlan Coben’s usual good quality reads.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26109394-fool-me-once
Memory Man and its sequel were good reads. Must chase up more by this author some time.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/150209-amos-decker
The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29154543-the-wrong-side-of-goodbye
According to my goodreads list I’ve ready sixty books this year (so far). Although looking back through them while compiling this list, some of them were short stories. It will be interesting to see what my page count is when I do my yearly reading stats in a couple of weeks.