If you read a lot (or did in the past), please help me
 

This has been driving me nuts for like fifteen years. I once read a book that centered around a family with a youngish son who turns out to be an evil little bastard. He gets kicks from torturing things, holds bizarre sex rituals and generally terrorizes his family and the world at large. He also, at some point in the book, develops powers which allow him to control sand. He makes super-strong sand monsters to do his evil bidding.

I am pretty sure the above is accurate and I am pretty sure the boy's name was "Paul". I _thought_ the book was called "Sandman" or something like that. I've also tried searching for "Bad Seed" and various other things I remember from the book but I CANNOT FIND THE DAMN THING.

So, it's a book wherein an evil little boy, who may have been the direct spawn of Satan or a demon, come to think of it, grows gradually more powerful and does worse and worse things, which include creating sand monsters that tear people apart with their bare sand hands.

Can anyone tell me what book that was?

Thanks,
SpaceAce

The only book I can think of having the similar plot is "The regulators" by S.King... but the story is a little bit different if I remember well :)

I have that book. The one I am looking for is much, much older and I don't believe it was by King or Koontz (not 100% sure on that).

SpaceAce

I thought it may have been King too

I know exactly what book it is. I doubt many people have read it, surprised anyone here has. It is a rare book in that it was never mainstream or a bestseller by any stretch of the imagination.

SpaceAce, I'll tell you what book it is exactly, including title, author, and where you can buy it, as soon as you give a complete update on the "lost love of your life" drama thread... imho one of the best gfy threads of all time.

No, I'm not fucking around either, i know EXACTLY what book it is.

Dude, that is cold, cold, cold. I know you're curious but I don't like the feeling of being blackmailed. If you had just posted the answer then asked for an update in return, I would have at least sent you a private message but I don't want to start a thread about it now and end up looking like I can be manipulated by answers to trivial questions about obscure books.

SpaceAce

Haha :)

I would have, of course, told you anyways, was just hoping for an update, as were about 1,000 other gfy'ers lol.

Post the name of the book already.

I don't want to start this up again, so here's a minimalist synopsis.

Things got much worse. We had a bizarrre on-again/off-again start-and stop thing going and she continued to fuck up my heart and life until she moved out. Apparently living away form me was a moderately rude awakening and after quite some time, she came back sad and apologetic. I kept her at arms length for a long time until it seemed she might actually be telling the truth then we slowly started trying to patch things up. She moved back in, things are mostly pretty good right now. It's been a long time since anything bad happened but I still haven't regained the trust I lost over the course of the incidents. Things are looking better but the healing is nowhere near done and nothing is certain.

That's the short version, the details would cause another 200-page thread and I have no intention of letting them out any time soon.

SpaceAce

bump for finding the right book

I like that idea.

While you're at it, post the name of the story/novelette that depicted a society where everyone gets euthanised at age 30, and at age 15 ("Half Life"), they go out and hunt for people who are over 30 and living outisde of the law. The person who hunts down the oldest outlaw gets to live to be 31 (I think). The main character finds an old dude but the old dude teaches him to play piano so he doesn't want to chop off the old dude's hand to get his extra year.

The story might have been called "Half Life" and may or may not have been an excerpt from Logan's Run. I asked before, but I don't think the issue was ever settled. Does that soundlike Logan's Run to you?

SpaceAce

Thanks, man :thumbsup Imagine spending fifteen years trying to remember the name of a song or an actor that's juuuust outside your conscious thought.

SpaceAce

aint that book Logans run?

ow you mentioned that ;)

hahaha

post the title, sounds like a good story

Pffft, watch a movie you hippie.

I want to find it and read it again to see if it really was a good story. I remember it being creepy and a good read but that was a long time ago. I used to like Spaghetti-Os, too, but they taste like crap to me now.

SpaceAce

wtfffff :1orglaugh

well, I haven't read it but seriously it sounds like a shitty book, probably the reason not so many read it.
From what you told its almost like a cartoon subject.

good luck with your search, I will ask my mom later if I remember, she might know!

Oh shit, sorry forgot to post it last night. I really wasn't trying to yank your chain SpaceAce, just screwing around but really did want an update to one of the best human stories ever on GFY.

Anyways, here is the book:

http://ofearna.us/books/johnstone/sandman.jpg

The Sandman by William W. Johnstone

Paul Kelly was a small boy with a big temper. And when he started to grow tired of smashing his toys and abusing stray animals, Paul began looking for new forms of entertainment. Who could have ever imagined that killing would turn out to be much more fun than playing?

Its a somewhat rare book and harder to find because many more popular books are also named "The Sandman".

Here's a place you can buy it.

Hope you enjoy reading it again.

:)

I'll be damned, that's the one! Thank you! It is called Sandman, too, hah! I've searched on that title soooo many times and not come across the right book.

Wow, a mystery solved. Thanks.

SpaceAce