Oud Dhul Q

#23
I am honored to post to you, Ensar! And I mean what I said: anyone in your company can have my book for the asking. You have given your craft loving care, and I would love to share mine with you. Do be advised that I write horror, though...
 

RobertOne

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#25
I have Dhul Q. And I couldn't be happier.

I am in Arizona, and this is the land of mesquite, sage and creosote. Not the stuff you put on your deck, the plant, which has an entirely different aroma than the stain. These plants, when it rains, produce an aroma, something I can't adequately describe. And if you are someplace where the mesquite is growing more heavily than the other plants, it takes on something dark and wonderful.

That's what I am getting just a tiny whiff of on drydown. As it first goes on, mesquite then, too, but it's actual 'desert campfire' smoke, mixed with the strong pipe tobacco of a friend, and the aroma of my leather jacket. I don't get the fruit so much as a sort of dry styrax/copal kind of thing when it's good and dry.

Pardon me. I have some on my thumb. I'll be over here sniffing my thumb, smiling, dreaming and making everyone think I've lost my mind. :)

If you are in PA four-ish months from now or I am in AZ I will let you try some Aroha Kyaku.

It's the firstborn of that family and something very special.
 

Ensar Oud

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#27
I am honored to post to you, Ensar! And I mean what I said: anyone in your company can have my book for the asking. You have given your craft loving care, and I would love to share mine with you. Do be advised that I write horror, though...
It's a pleasure having you here, @Steel Hyaena :)

Kruger told me about the book and it sounds very interesting. Show me another protagonist that wears – and honors – oud. Awesome! Although I have yet to read my first horror novel, I'll keep your book in my private collection of rarities and souvenirs, being from someone I have had the pleasure to know personally. :cool:
 

RobertOne

Well-Known Member
#28
Ahhh firstborn. Man how do you come up with these words, paragraphs, and quotes? AK is very special though!
Well, unlike you rebellious and traitorous colonials I do indeed possess an absolute command of english.

:p

In all seriousness, I used to enjoy writing a little fiction and poetry but life as it so ofen does, got in the way.

Whenever I come here I am usually under the influence of Oud and as we all know, it's magical.

Thumb goes to screen and it just flows, hardly any effort at all. Ouds are my muses so I feel I should hardly take any credit.

In addition, my formal high school education was so poor that I hung out in libraries a lot and even in my last year of high school played truant frequently in order to attend a college for the sciences.
 

RobertOne

Well-Known Member
#30
It's a pleasure having you here, @Steel Hyaena :)

Kruger told me about the book and it sounds very interesting. Show me another protagonist that wears – and honors – oud. Awesome! Although I have yet to read my first horror novel, I'll keep your book in my private collection of rarities and souvenirs, being from someone I have had the pleasure to know personally. :cool:
I have a rather firm recommendation for that.

I'm hardly a fan of the horror genre, it's so utterly an example and then some of the 95% rule.

Only once in my life have I been lost in the pages of a horror story and an anthology at that, Night Visions IV.

A simple premise, the unknown authors were paid a peppercorn stipend but they had total free rein with content, style and even length as they were not paid by the word.

In the busy Edinburgh central library on a hot summer's day, I looked up, blood chilled and heart like a lump of lead.

The story was and is, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker.

Ignore the movies! That unholy mess will spoil the book for everyone who watches it first.
 

RobertOne

Well-Known Member
#31
One thing I've noticed about this forum is that it's got a lot of well-read articulate posters!
Maybe we can get some discussion about reading going?!
Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Read for survival back in the zeros while riding to suicidal hours in the kitchen on the overpacked and dirty tube each day.

I would read just a few pages two inches from my face, pressed up against the side of the carriage and be lost among the spray of the deep oceans and the unctuousness of another treasured oil, spermaceti.

Book report due in two weeks. ;)
 
#32
If you are in PA four-ish months from now or I am in AZ I will let you try some Aroha Kyaku.

It's the firstborn of that family and something very special.
Oh my gosh! I would so take you up on that! I am wearing DQ right now and feel like crawling under a blanket and kind of huffing myself, LOL!
 
#33
It's a pleasure having you here, @Steel Hyaena :)

Kruger told me about the book and it sounds very interesting. Show me another protagonist that wears – and honors – oud. Awesome! Although I have yet to read my first horror novel, I'll keep your book in my private collection of rarities and souvenirs, being from someone I have had the pleasure to know personally. :cool:
If you have an e-mail address with an Amazon account attached, PM me and I will gift you the book right now in e-book form! The paperback comes out probably at the end of this month. That's a hefty beast, though! This is a long novel, 700 pages as a trade paperback. May I have permission to link it? I would never do that without asking.
 

Ensar Oud

Well-Known Member
#34
If you have an e-mail address with an Amazon account attached, PM me and I will gift you the book right now in e-book form! The paperback comes out probably at the end of this month. That's a hefty beast, though! This is a long novel, 700 pages as a trade paperback. May I have permission to link it? I would never do that without asking.
Now that you're part of the family, the question is more like, do you have permission NOT to link it.... :D

I think @kesiro might officially warn you if you keep us hanging any further! (@bhanny will probably try and cajole you instead by sending a bunch of expensive samples) o_O
 
#35
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A further word of caution on this novel. it is very violent. It is also very relevant, considering the political situation currently in the US. This book may not be a comfortable read for some people.