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Blast Thickneck

05-04-2009, 08:02 PM

Chuck Palahniuk's new book 'Pygmy' comes out tomorrow, going to get my copy after my last final. Pretty excited, it's written in broken English, so it could be really weird. Last book I read like that was 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' and I hated it, so hopefully I can get past it.

I listened to the audiobook for Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (originally titled 'ten little niggers', what the hell nineteen thirties British? what the hell??) whilst driving to New York for Easter, loved it. Truly terrifying story, and I like her books more when the murderer gets away with it.

Cuclean

05-04-2009, 08:09 PM

Blast Thickneck

05-04-2009, 08:13 PM

There was a movie made on it called that, and the book was later published with that name after it became a bit too socially unacceptable.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/And_Then_There_Were_None_First_Edition_Cover_1939. jpg

Blast Thickneck

05-05-2009, 06:30 PM

Kernal2306

05-06-2009, 12:10 AM

20 pages into Pygmy and there's already been one incredibly graphic forced sodomy scene. The blue of a clenched anus, the white of thighs, and the red of streaming blood, makes for quite the metaphor of American society. Apparently.

Dollars to donuts says this chapter gets read at the reading I'm going to on Friday.

The first 3 chapters of Pygmy are available online but I want to wait until I get the book before I start it.

I am reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk right now.

I totally agree that will probably be the chapter that gets read. In the Afterward on Haunted it talks about people passing out when he was reading the chapter called guts.

Blast Thickneck

05-06-2009, 12:42 AM

Cheney

05-08-2009, 12:54 AM

Survivor and Choke are my favorite books of his. I'm going to get both of them signed Friday :D.

I'm a good bit in to Pygmy, and it's definitely better than his last few efforts. I was not too impressed with Snuff, and Rant was a bit too far out of his comfort zone. The writing style is difficult to get used to at first, it's written in broken English, so it's a bit like reading comments on Youtube.

You might want to get 'Stranger Than Fiction' by him too. It's just a bunch of short little side notes/novels in a matter of 40 pages or less/per chapter, and they're not all that horrible. I was with my dad at Border's trying to get his girlfriend something and he saw the book and read the very first chapter. Not the best chapter, for someone who is newly founded to Chuck Palahniuk, to read.

Blast Thickneck

05-08-2009, 05:04 PM

Yeah I've read it. The only thing of his I have yet to read is his guide to Portland, and as I live on the east coast, I probably won't be picking that one up too soon.

ZBarclay

05-08-2009, 07:30 PM

No no. There's only one trade, "The Long Road Home". The next one, "Treachery" is due out soon.

Seems I was mistaken. I did a little diggin'. There are actually THREE trades out now. Gunslinger Born, The Long Road Home, and Treachery. There. Now I've fixed it. My fuck up.

Spacemeat

05-09-2009, 02:45 AM

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Recently finished "Our Gods Wear Spandex". Nice 'n' easy read. It explores the mythological origins of superheroes. Great if you've got even a passing interest in comics or secret societies. However, if you're not that interested in the latter, you might find that the author's personal beliefs that permeate the book a midge irritating. Luckly for me, I find it fascinating. :)

By-tor

05-09-2009, 09:23 AM

Who you tryin' to fool, ye twat? You can't read.

Spacemeat

05-09-2009, 02:01 PM

Oh By-tor, I can read you like a book. A sexy book. With sexy results. ;)

And Friend

05-12-2009, 02:50 AM

LeFanu's Carmilla and reread some of the Bell Jar agian.

Weesyboy

05-12-2009, 10:20 AM

currently reading john dies at the end, i haven't picked it up in ages though really need to finished in time for the second one.

ZBarclay

05-12-2009, 12:59 PM

currently reading john dies at the end, i haven't picked it up in ages though really need to finished in time for the second one.

DUDE! SPOILERS!

HA! :D

Weesyboy

05-13-2009, 06:58 AM

DUDE! SPOILERS!

HA! :D

when i saw it i thought the twist was gonna be that john doesn't die.

By-tor

05-13-2009, 12:56 PM

Finished Wastelands. On to...
http://www.scificincinnati.com/images/wizard_cover.jpg
Just finished, and can't find my copy of Calla. Shit!!!:mad:

Canadian Ryan

05-14-2009, 12:38 AM

I've been on a Neil Gaiman binge of late. Read Coraline and Anasi Boys. Right Now I'm reading American Gods and have The Graveyard Book waiting for me on the shelf. Still slowly going through Blackwater as well.

phit_demon

05-14-2009, 11:15 AM

Spacemeat

05-14-2009, 11:29 PM

American Gods
That's on my "to read" list.

phit_demon

05-15-2009, 11:13 AM

That's on my "to read" list.

Good, good. It's a cracking read.

Doctor Mowinckel

05-22-2009, 12:59 PM

Finished up Pattern Recognition by William Gibson last week, I really enjoyed it. It was more of a thriller than a sci-fi novel, but it was a lot of fun. Have Spook Country by William Gibson in the mail, that should get here shortly.

phit_demon

05-23-2009, 02:24 AM

I started reading Catch-22 yesterday. It's not at all what I was expecting. It's quite similar to Flann O'Brien's stuff.

Does anyone know if the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/) is worth watching after I finish the book, or is it shit?

Threadkiller

05-23-2009, 09:52 AM

Does anyone know if the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/) is worth watching after I finish the book, or is it shit?

Shit. Save yourself the trouble and watch episodes of MASH instead. Maybe if I'd seen it before reading the book I'd have liked it a bit. I love the book. Orr is my hero.

phit_demon

05-23-2009, 10:26 AM

Shit. Save yourself the trouble and watch episodes of MASH instead. Maybe if I'd seen it before reading the book I'd have liked it a bit. I love the book. Orr is my hero.

Wow, fair enough. That's a shame.

Threadkiller

05-23-2009, 05:38 PM

Wow, fair enough. That's a shame.Eh, maybe I'm a bit too harsh. It just didn't live up to what it should have been. Victim of high expectations. Hope you enjoy the book though.

Blast Thickneck

05-24-2009, 02:16 AM

Plowed through Kingdom Come in two hours, not as good as I remember it being in eighth grade, but I also thought Korn was the shit in eighth grade. Still the painting is absolutely amazing, and Ross' work on the Spiderman credits were the only good thing about those movies (oh no I didn't!). Really makes me look forward to the lantern war series this summer.

phit_demon

05-24-2009, 02:44 AM

...Ross' work on the Spiderman credits were the only good thing about those movies (oh no I didn't!).

Oh yes you did!

Those movies make me think I am insane, because there is no way that the people who love them are seeing the same movies I am seeing. It's my own personal Emperor's New Clothes dilemma.

Blast Thickneck

05-24-2009, 02:46 AM

phit_demon

05-24-2009, 02:51 AM

Seriously. When I saw 3 it was a packed theatre, and when emo spidey punched Snaggletooth I lost my shit laughing, but I was the only one in the theatre doing so. I don't get it. Worth the price of admission for the outstanding portrait of Defoe though.

I don't find 3 to be any more culpable than the first two. They're all as shit as each other. I actually had to listen to someone tell me that 2 was better than Dark Knight recently. Just baffling!

Oh, and, huh-huh..."Snaggletooth". I call her Mr. Burns. :D

JasterIsFett

05-24-2009, 05:42 AM

I don't find 3 to be any more culpable than the first two. They're all as shit as each other. I actually had to listen to someone tell me that 2 was better than Dark Knight recently. Just baffling!

Oh, and, huh-huh..."Snaggletooth". I call her Mr. Burns. :D

now be fair, one and two, while not near what you would call masterpeices weren't complete shit. They did a fair job with Spider-Man.

Three was utter bollocks.

BTW...snaggletooth's brother is the most evil looking creature that I've ever seen.

phit_demon

05-24-2009, 06:13 AM

now be fair, one and two, while not near what you would call masterpeices weren't complete shit.

I would disagree. I think they are complete shit.

JasterIsFett

05-24-2009, 06:19 AM

http://hotbeans.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/mustache-_0002_ron-burgandy.jpg

Agree to Disagree...

neon vomit

05-25-2009, 01:47 AM

Just finished The Gunslinger. I probably won't be able to get Drawing for a few days. Damn damn damn.

phit_demon

05-25-2009, 06:20 PM

Just finished The Gunslinger. I probably won't be able to get Drawing for a few days. Damn damn damn.

Lucky you. I wish I could wipe my memory of the whole series so I could read it afresh.

beckpoppins

05-25-2009, 08:05 PM

i have been re-reading Hunter s. Thompson's work like whoa.

oh "rum diaries"... sigh.

Blast Thickneck

05-26-2009, 02:10 AM

i have been re-reading Hunter s. Thompson's work like whoa.

What is your favorite?

I love the Rum Diary, but to me when I read it, it doesn't feel like his other books, which I'm guessing is because he wrote it so young. Even though it's about some grizzled characters, it feels like it was written by a more hopeful and optimistic Thompson. It almost feels like I'm reading a solider's diary before he goes off to war, then all his other books are the memoirs thereafter. If Johnny Depp hadn't insisted on making so many shit movies with Tim Burton that movie could have been done six years ago.

I came home for a wedding this weekend for the first time in a while and it was the first time my family had seen my HST tattoo, everyone thought it was a black power fist. Explaining it was quite difficult.
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9772/tattoou.jpg

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I finished Pygmy yesterday (got sidetracked). Better than Snuff and Rant, imo, but not on the level of his works pre 2007. Shockingly there was no shocking twist, I was waiting for it up until the last sentence. It was the most linear book he has written by far, which I guess doesn't suit him terribly well, but I still enjoyed it. It was certainly the most biting satire on American culture and education I have ever read. Would love to see this one try and get made into a movie.

beckpoppins

05-26-2009, 02:53 AM

i love the rum diaries, it has a sexy-gritty the others are missing. I am pretending the depp diaries arn't happening because he is to old for the part. I want someone younger and filthier.

but i am a die-hard fan, i did "Better Than Sex" for a junior English project where we had to do a 30 minute presentation, i dressed up like him (well, due to my anatomy, i guess i looked more "hunter gathers") and crawled on top of the podium and shouted long passages of the book at other students and gesticulated with a cigarette. I even threw shoe at my teacher.

i got an A.

another kid that year did "fear and loathing in los Vegas" as a puppet show... it blew my mind.

JasterIsFett

05-26-2009, 04:08 AM

(well, due to my anatomy, i guess i looked more "hunter gathers")

HA!

phit_demon

05-26-2009, 11:06 AM

...well, due to my anatomy, i guess i looked more "hunter gathers"...

That settles it - you're awesomesauce™.

beckpoppins

05-26-2009, 06:16 PM

That settles it - you're awesomesauce™.

*blush blush blush*

aw shucks.

neon vomit

05-27-2009, 01:06 AM

That settles it - you're awesomesauce™.

Seconded.

I got The Drawing Of The Three. I want to read it right now but I'm so tired. :(

ZBarclay

05-27-2009, 01:35 AM

Seconded.

I got The Drawing Of The Three. I want to read it right now but I'm so tired. :(

Read it. Now.

Jason Shiffy

05-28-2009, 11:16 AM

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manmiles

05-28-2009, 03:27 PM

Admittidly, it took me two readings of the Rum Diary to really get the book. Of course, those two readings were spaced by several years of personal growth, loss, pain, depression and alcohol. It's a great, great piece of work and while not the Great American Novel, it's a twisted piece of work.

I'm currently reading 'The Manchurian Candidate'

By-tor

05-28-2009, 08:05 PM

Lucky you. I wish I could wipe my memory of the whole series so I could read it afresh.
I had started doing just that, as I mentioned, but can't find my Wolves Of Calla, so now I'm half-way thru this for about the 5th time...
http://www.jackharper.org/images/BOOKFORUM/TheStand.jpg
Loving it, yet again.

manmiles

05-28-2009, 08:09 PM

ZBarclay

05-28-2009, 09:29 PM

can't find my Wolves Of Calla

Wanna borrow mine? :)

phit_demon

05-28-2009, 09:54 PM

...can't find my Wolves Of Calla...

That sucks. I've been toying with reading the saga again, but I don't normally reread books.

Cheney

05-29-2009, 12:21 AM

http://www.paperback-books.com/image/The%20Idiot-Dostoyevsky%20FC.jpg

beckpoppins

05-29-2009, 02:29 AM

i just finished this and jimminy willickers i was impressed

http://www.mannythemovieguy.com/images/breathers_diablo_cody.jpg

much better then i could hope for a zombie book....

... but in all honesty, i just want to keep talking about HST.

"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. "

plus i found this old picture of me working on my impression ...

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1999/n51002446512241289.jpg

ZBarclay

05-29-2009, 11:17 AM

That sucks. I've been toying with reading the saga again, but I don't normally reread books.

The only books that I have reread to date are: Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and The Stand. And I'll do it again I tell ya...AGAIN!

05-29-2009, 11:29 AM

I reread a lot of books- I've read all three of the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit every year since I was eight. And the Gap Series (http://www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/gap.shtml) by Stephen Donaldson- I've gone through that about four times. I think I've read The Eyes of the Dragon a dozen times, same with 1984 and everything I can find by H.P. Lovecraft. I've mowed through Chaucer three or four times and I have no idea how many times I've read everything else by King, Clive Barker, F. Paul Wilson, and Dean Koontz. I treat my books almost like they're friends.

By-tor

05-29-2009, 12:30 PM

I go thru books so fast I run out of new stuff quick and am too lazy to go to the book store. :rolleyes: I just got thru re-reading...
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n1793.jpg
for the 3rd or 4th time. It, and this...
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are awesome back-to-back reads. :cool:

RobinHoodDaffy

05-29-2009, 02:08 PM

By-tor

05-29-2009, 03:34 PM

Ya got those backward, chief. Secret Show is before Everville.Shit, son, I know that!!! I just don't have my copy of Show anymore. And, I didn't say anything about which one was first, I just posted them that way. Fuckin' duck. :p

Cuclean

05-29-2009, 11:00 PM

I had started doing just that, as I mentioned, but can't find my Wolves Of Calla, so now I'm half-way thru this for about the 5th time...
http://www.jackharper.org/images/BOOKFORUM/TheStand.jpg
Loving it, yet again.

I dipped about two pages into The Stand about a month ago and yelped away like a broken dog at the length. Then again, it may have been because I had just read The Shining, Misery and Carrie pretty much back to back.

I'm about to finish. . . Jingo.

http://www.maxerboy.net/krysna/discworld/images/jingo.jpg

And I'm loving it. I've read two of the guards books before. I love the hell out of the characters in them.

ZBarclay

05-29-2009, 11:42 PM

I dipped about two pages into The Stand about a month ago and yelped away like a broken dog at the length.

Tell me that you were preparing to REread it...right? RIGHT?

Jeremy Beadle

05-30-2009, 02:10 PM

And I'm loving it. I've read two of the guards books before. I love the hell out of the characters in them.

By my powers of divination, I'm guessing you missed out Feet of Clay, number three in the series. Concerns vampires. A good read.

Cuclean

05-30-2009, 02:46 PM

By my powers of divination, I'm guessing you missed out Feet of Clay, number three in the series. Concerns vampires. A good read.

You would be correct. I may have to rummage around to get a copy.

Tell me that you were preparing to REread it...right? RIGHT?

Sadly, no.

05-30-2009, 03:11 PM

Tell me that you were preparing to REread it...right? RIGHT?

Sadly, no.

Sissy. ;)

ZBarclay

05-30-2009, 06:12 PM

Sadly, no.

You sir...have forgotten the face of your father.
Pick up that book...open the cover...and commence digesting the wonder that is Captain Trips...

Lotism

05-31-2009, 02:25 AM

Finished Bram Stokers Dracula. This book is excellent. I don't think there is a better Vampire story than this one.

Cuclean

05-31-2009, 03:48 AM

You sir...have forgotten the face of your father.

Damn it you know how to get me. Ka. It makes it so.

Antonio_Bay

05-31-2009, 12:10 PM

Sometimes They Come Back.

Yeah, it's just a short, but I enjoyed it very much. I'd like to see the film again.

wanderingquesadila

06-01-2009, 10:42 PM

Sweet_Adeline

06-01-2009, 11:14 PM

I'm currently reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I saw it in a used books shop and decided to give it a read. I'm not finished, but so far I like it.

beckpoppins

06-01-2009, 11:15 PM

I'm currently reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I saw it in a used books shop and decided to give it a read. I'm not finished, but so far I like it.

classic, it's one of those books that like it or not makes you smarter.

Blast Thickneck

06-02-2009, 12:37 AM

Fear and Loathing in America has been my bathroom reader of late. Gonna take many a trip to get through it, that's for certain. Very interesting stuff though, especially having read many of the works it references.

JasterIsFett

06-02-2009, 01:52 AM

I just finished reading Naked Lunch. Good read, not exactly entertaining, but maybe enlightening is a better word for it.

I can think of at least two things wrong with the title though...

manmiles

06-02-2009, 04:19 AM

I just finished reading Naked Lunch. Good read, not exactly entertaining, but maybe enlightening is a better word for it.

I can think of at least two things wrong with the title though...

I'd avoid the kinda 'sequels' such as 'The Soft Machine' 'The Ticket that Exploded' and 'Nova Express'... they're just on the wrong side of incomprehensible.

Jeremy Beadle

06-04-2009, 04:19 PM

I'm finishing up Stephen King's Just After Sunset. I gotta say, I'm not nearly as impressed as I was with Everything's Eventual or Skeleton Crew. For some reason, these stories don't really resonate with me.

Everything's Eventual is probably his best collection, Riding the Bullet's blunt ending in particular. Skeleton Crew had The Mist, which was worth reading to see what a botch-job that sodding film turned into.:mad:

By-tor

06-04-2009, 04:24 PM

Skeleton Crew had The Mist, which was worth reading to see what a botch-job that sodding film turned into.:mad:
A-fuckin'-men.

manmiles

06-04-2009, 04:47 PM

By my powers of divination, I'm guessing you missed out Feet of Clay, number three in the series. Concerns vampires. A good read.

Feet of Clay concerned Golems. Carpe Jugulem is about Vampires.

phit_demon

06-05-2009, 04:55 AM

Skeleton Crew had The Mist, which was worth reading to see what a botch-job that sodding film turned into.:mad:

A-fuckin'-men.

I liked the movie a lot.

Cuclean

06-05-2009, 06:07 AM

By my powers of divination, I'm guessing you missed out Feet of Clay, number three in the series. Concerns vampires. A good read.

Luckily my flat mate has a copy of it. :D

Jeremy Beadle

06-05-2009, 05:31 PM

Feet of Clay concerned Golems. Carpe Jugulem is about Vampires.

Aieeee!

*evaporates*

Schoolboy error. It's been a while. Feet of Clay is the third one, then Jingo, then 5th Elephant.

Then onto the best one, Nightwatch!

I liked the movie a lot.

Read it. Love it.
Watch it. Hate it.

(fruit of the loom)

By-tor

06-05-2009, 05:39 PM

I liked the movie a lot.Oh, I absoutely loved it until they totally fucked up the end. C'mon brother, that ending reeked of desperation. I would probably been alright with it if I had not read the story. But that ending left me smooth pissed off and :confused::confused::confused:.

phit_demon

06-05-2009, 08:27 PM

Read it. Love it.
Watch it. Hate it.

(fruit of the loom)

Oh, I absoutely loved it until they totally fucked up the end. C'mon brother, that ending reeked of desperation. I would probably been alright with it if I had not read the story. But that ending left me smooth pissed off and :confused::confused::confused:.

I'm a big fan of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, and I saw the ending as similar to something the latter would have pulled off during its 90s run (see episodes "Trial By Fire" or "Straight And Narrow"), which is why I liked it. Yes it's a downer, and yes it pulled the rug out, but it was for that very reason I liked it so much.

Trout_Mask_Replica

06-06-2009, 01:06 PM

I liked the movie a lot.

I liked it a lot, too. The best way to watch it is the black and white version that was included on the DVD, it completely feels like a Cold War-era style of horror movie.

I also like the ending. If they'd ended it the same way as they did in the novella, it probably would have been even more poorly received then it was.

Jeremy Beadle

06-06-2009, 04:42 PM

I don't agree with that. The novella's ending makes a lot more sense, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with ambiguity if you do it right. I thought the story's ending was nicely done and in no way a cop-out.

People didn't go to see The Mist because they might have heard it had a twist ending (in fact, people didn't really go to see The Mist much at all, it made it's budget back in a fortnight then only made about another $6m in 3 months)- people went to see it because there wasn't much horror competition at the time and they heard it was a Shawshank guy film.

Darabont also stated that he gave it that ending because he wouldn't always be the happy-ending guy. Sorry Fwank, that's a shit reason. Why set up the logic of the film (use your head-you'll be ok) only to twist it around at the end and reward the daft crew-cut woman at the start? Nobody who went into the mist survived yet she miraculously made it all the way home. Sorry, that's laying it on with a spade.

The cinema I watched it in; they were hooked. Hooked! Then the ending broke the spell, and people were laughing at it. They could not take it seriously.

Trout_Mask_Replica

06-06-2009, 06:03 PM

I don't agree with that. The novella's ending makes a lot more sense, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with ambiguity if you do it right. I thought the story's ending was nicely done and in no way a cop-out.

I agree. The ambiguity of the novella worked much better, but I think the movie was trying to do something different. It was just a good, cheesy horror picture with a little downer twist on the end. I would have enjoyed seeing it end the same as it did in the book, but considering how much people disliked The Mist, I think the general theatregoer would have felt cheated without a conclusion.

By-tor

06-06-2009, 08:35 PM

I agree. The ambiguity of the novella worked much better, but I think the movie was trying to do something different. It was just a good, cheesy horror picture with a little downer twist on the end. I would have enjoyed seeing it end the same as it did in the book, but considering how much people disliked The Mist, I think the general theatregoer would have felt cheated without a conclusion.
Little downer? For the love of Odin, that's like calling Star Wars a small-time franchise. I left the theater in TOTAL shock and somewhat despaired. :mad:

ZBarclay

06-06-2009, 09:25 PM

Nobody who went into the mist survived yet she miraculously made it all the way home. Sorry, that's laying it on with a spade.

Sometimes people live who shouldn't. Sometimes people die who shouldn't. Two people facing the same exact scenario may come out of it completely differently. It made it more real for me, as did the desperation of the ending.

Trout_Mask_Replica

06-06-2009, 09:59 PM

Little downer? For the love of Odin, that's like calling Star Wars a small-time franchise. I left the theater in TOTAL shock and somewhat despaired. :mad:

I might have understated the amount of a downer it was. It was awful what happened. I still stand by what I said.

Jeremy Beadle

06-07-2009, 12:15 AM

Sometimes people live who shouldn't. Sometimes people die who shouldn't. Two people facing the same exact scenario may come out of it completely differently. It made it more real for me, as did the desperation of the ending.

Yes, it is more real that chance would get her home safely. Pure, blind chance. Fair enough. But the movie seemed to set up the 'rule' that to go into the mist meant death. No questions asked. The woman went out blindly and didn't use her head. Our heroes only went into the mist when staying in the mall was worse. They kept their heads at all times, which seemed to be the movie's mantra, and they barely made it to the car. So far, within the logic of the film.

I felt the reappearance of the woman torpedoed that. By all rights being out in the mist was completely lethal. EVERYONE up until that point had died going out. But she turns up at that point, to prove what exactly? It could be done? That someone should have (morally) escorted her? Or just to twist the knife a bit more on the audience, and the guy who's covered in his friends' blood?

I think it's the latter, and a cheap trick that counters the movie's earlier logic. Twists are FINE. But against the suspension of disbelief= Bollocks.

ZBarclay

06-07-2009, 12:38 PM

I think it's the latter, and a cheap trick that counters the movie's earlier logic. Twists are FINE. But against the suspension of disbelief= Bollocks.

The idea that everything in the mist is a perfect killing machine incapable of being evaded takes any reality out of the equation, therefore making things less scary. Also, the simple idea that the woman made it out on her own, is just enough of a mind fuck to keep me uncomfortable...and I LIKE that in a horror movie. Which is also why I like the movie's ending. It's the turn it takes. Totally believable, raw, real, uncomfortable.

Jeremy Beadle

06-07-2009, 04:24 PM

I understand what you're saying but a movie creates its own reality. Films don't become unbelievable when something otherworldly happens; (otherwise we wouldn't get past the Mist itself) they establish their own rules and we take our suspension of disbelief from that. If we're shown a world where cars fly or people can teleport, that's our reality for 90 mins.

It's harder of course if the film is set in the real world, with unreal elements, like The Mist. Then the film is always treading a fine line, trying to be strange but at the same time believable. The Mist set up the dangers and seemed to say 'follow these rules, use your head'. This woman did neither and was, maybe the wrong word, rewarded. The main characters followed the rules, used their heads for as long as possible, then the film deviated from the book and they were all punished severely.

That's the only way I can read the ending. Especially when you get the shot of the woman glowering down at him, almost as if to condemn him for his lack of faith when she was 'justified'. To me the film was saying 'silly bastard should have held out and not given up faith. That'll learn him'.

Which was a teensy bit unfair, and was in opposition to what had gone on for the rest of the film.

Oh, there's also the appearance of the massive monster that incites them into giving up hope. Why show a thing like that, if not to imply that all IS hopeless? In the book this was a very important moment, but in the film it becomes a gimmick, because this insanely big creature is going to, what, stroll into the distance when the mist fades? Get bazooka'd by the reservists? The creature should say- if something this big is around, the world is fucked. In the book this was clearer because the creature was about the size of a small town. What about the soldiers hanging themselves earlier on too? They knew about the experiment, and what all this mist would signify.

All this stuff pointing towards doom. For the film's purpose it served only extra fuel for the rug-pull ending. Which I thought went against the clever balancing of the book.

Sorry if I'm laying it on thick. Just found the ending unnaturally offensive. :(

ZBarclay

06-07-2009, 09:32 PM

I just didn't take any of that from it. I recognized that stupid people often get rewarded where rational, sane people get punished. It's more of a reflection of life than some kind of grand scheme to "pull one over" on the viewer.

Aaron

06-08-2009, 11:24 AM

I need to buy a new book today.
I want a fun (or funny) book and one that isn't written by Stephen King.

Suggestions?

Cuclean

06-08-2009, 11:44 AM

A Discworld novel?

Aaron

06-08-2009, 11:49 AM

A Discworld novel?

Just finished one. Looking for an author I haven't tried before.

By-tor

06-08-2009, 12:15 PM

Just finished one. Looking for an author I haven't tried before.I know you're not much of a "dog person" due to allergies, but this is a great fun read...
http://a3.vox.com/6a00b8ea0738f31bc000c2251cdb33604a-500pi
and you can always imagine...
http://www.rumorficial.com/wp-content/uploads//2008/09/jennifer_aniston-5410.jpg
as the wife. She was in the flick. Yumminess.

ZBarclay

06-08-2009, 12:30 PM

http://www.rumorficial.com/wp-content/uploads//2008/09/jennifer_aniston-5410.jpg
as the wife. She was in the flick. Yumminess.

Hubba...hubba

NomenNescio

06-08-2009, 05:27 PM

I need to buy a new book today.
I want a fun (or funny) book and one that isn't written by Stephen King.

Suggestions?

Christopher Moore's books are all hilarious reads. I'd recommend The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.

Aaron

06-08-2009, 05:31 PM

Christopher Moore's books are all hilarious reads. I'd recommend The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.

Bing!
I will try and buy one tomorrow
I know nothing, but I'll give one a shot!

phit_demon

06-08-2009, 08:53 PM

I need to buy a new book today.
I want a fun (or funny) book and one that isn't written by Stephen King.

Suggestions?

Might I suggest something by Neil Gaiman? American Gods or Anansi Boys perhaps?

By-tor

06-09-2009, 12:13 AM

Finished The Stand, again. Someone asked earlier which version. It is the first. What kind of extras are added? Got tired of looking for my copy of Wolves of the Calla, and went and bought it Sunday. Back on the journey to The Dark Tower.

Aaron

06-09-2009, 08:08 AM

Might I suggest something by Neil Gaiman? American Gods or Anansi Boys perhaps?

No

:D

TheHangingBrain

06-09-2009, 12:47 PM

I finally finished Preacher after years of only having read the first 5 trades. A truly epic comic. Also finished Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, if you have ever worked in a restaurant or want to know about the debauchery that happens therein, definitely read this book. Also just finished off William Gibson's Count Zero, also quite good.

TheHangingBrain

06-09-2009, 12:50 PM

I need to buy a new book today.
I want a fun (or funny) book and one that isn't written by Stephen King.

Suggestions?

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, an awesome book and much better than the film. A great series of books and I highly recommend them to all.

TheHangingBrain

06-09-2009, 12:54 PM

Might I suggest something by Neil Gaiman? American Gods or Anansi Boys perhaps?

I call your recommendation, and raise you Stardust and Neverwhere.

Aaron

06-09-2009, 12:58 PM

For those wondering, I skipped Gaiman, couldnt find any Christopher Moore books and ended up with this

http://server40136.uk2net.com/~wpower/images/product_images/9780141035703.jpg

As I liked the blurb on the back the most

06-09-2009, 01:03 PM

For those wondering, I skipped Gaiman, couldnt find any Christopher Moore books and ended up with this

http://server40136.uk2net.com/%7Ewpower/images/product_images/9780141035703.jpg

As I liked the blurb on the back the most

What's up with the stains on the cover? Is it that good? :p

TheHangingBrain

06-09-2009, 01:04 PM

Aaron

06-09-2009, 01:55 PM

What's up with the stains on the cover? Is it that good? :p
It's so that no-one cares when you leave coffee ring stains on it

Let us know if it's worth checking out.
I will do, but don't hold your breath. I'm notorious for taking a long time to finish books

BallsMonkey

06-09-2009, 01:58 PM

I trade paperback count, I just read Teen Titans: The Judas Contract. Awesome.

If not, I just re-read The Ask a Ninja: Ninja Handbook. Hilarious read.

Cheney

06-09-2009, 04:09 PM

Christopher Moore

The one that wrote The Gosspel According to Biff (Christ's Childhood friend), and You Suck?

Cheney

06-09-2009, 04:11 PM

http://www.infinitas.com.au/ProductImages/9781400049622.jpg

Hell yeah :cool:

TheHangingBrain

06-09-2009, 04:29 PM

http://www.infinitas.com.au/ProductImages/9781400049622.jpg

Hell yeah :cool:

I'm dead set on reading that soon so that I can start World War Z.

JasterIsFett

06-09-2009, 05:37 PM

I'm dead set on reading that soon so that I can start World War Z.

Its not necessary. I actually found that the ZSG dragged on while WWZ was endlessly entertaining. Its still an interesting and slightly humorous read, that will help you understand the terminology and a bit of the specifics in WWZ, but I recommend reading it afterwords.

BallsMonkey

06-09-2009, 10:36 PM

Its not necessary. I actually found that the ZSG dragged on while WWZ was endlessly entertaining. Its still an interesting and slightly humorous read, that will help you understand the terminology and a bit of the specifics in WWZ, but I recommend reading it afterwords.

I read it a few months ago. It was a good read but your right, it did kind of drag on a little too long.

Still, I loved the chapter dealing with weapons. Though I can't believe they left out the best zombie killing weapon...

The Trench-Knife
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4190%2BzQNaIL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

EDIT: Oh wait, never mind, they do mention it.

Jeremy Beadle

06-10-2009, 09:42 PM

I don't go anywhere without my survival guide.

In case, y'know, shit goes down.

WWZ is an awesome read. Should've won a Hugo to be honest.

Blast Thickneck

06-10-2009, 11:05 PM

I actually found that the ZSG dragged on while WWZ was endlessly entertaining.

Interesting, I found the exact opposite. Though I read ZSG a year prior to WWZ, maybe had I gone the other way I would have felt differently.

I started reading Tucker Max' book, because my LFC book is in the car and I keep forgetting to get it out, and it's okay. Some of it just comes off as boisterous, I don't give a shit about your hero vagina stories. But the stuff that I find funny is killer.

Scottbob75

06-13-2009, 10:45 AM

I just bought this:
http://www.phawville.com/blog/wp-content/images/Geeks%20guide%20to%20world%20domination.jpg
If you want to know anything about being a geek, it will tell you how

Aaron

06-13-2009, 12:38 PM

If you want to know anything about being a geek, it will tell you how

Do you really think any of us need to be told how?

Scottbob75

06-13-2009, 01:01 PM

well, this book told me how to have sex in Second Life and in elfish!

06-13-2009, 01:15 PM

I'm still a geek but I don't need to know how to get laid in cyberspace when I have this at home...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2894582055_7c66758553.jpg

06-13-2009, 02:03 PM

Can you guess what I was doing fifteen minutes ago? :D

By-tor

06-13-2009, 02:28 PM

Can you guess what I was doing fifteen minutes ago? :D
What, or who? ;)

phit_demon

06-13-2009, 02:43 PM

I'm still a geek but I don't need to know how to get laid in cyberspace when I have this at home...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2894582055_7c66758553.jpg
"Aren't you a little hot for a stormtrooper?"

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3/phitdemon/princess-leia.jpg

06-13-2009, 04:09 PM

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2894582055_7c66758553.jpg

"Aren't you a little hot for a stormtrooper?"

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3/phitdemon/princess-leia.jpg

I feel funny... in my pants...

What, or who? ;)

http://www.pobladores.com/data/pobladores.com/ca/ya/cayako/channels/wwen_castellano/images/2836039funaki_l.jpg

neon vomit

06-14-2009, 02:36 PM

Drawing of the Three took a backseat to job hunting. I'm back to reading it. :)

JasterIsFett

06-14-2009, 06:29 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594482225.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

Now starting on the second one in the series.

06-14-2009, 07:30 PM

I am still reading Atlas Shrugged... loooong ass book. Good, though. That John Galt speech... 56 pages... yowza...

Cuclean

06-16-2009, 01:06 AM

Just Finished Feet of Clay.

http://www.e-steve.co.uk/Jo/Discworld/Images/Feet%20of%20Clay.jpg

Another good Guards book. The characters just get better and better. I love Vimes. The little moments that Pratchett spends with him when he's alone are golden nuggets.

And.... Huzzah! The next book of the guards is also in the house. (Taking into account I read Jingo already)

http://www.e-steve.co.uk/Jo/Discworld/Images/The%20Fifth%20Elephant.jpg

Trout_Mask_Replica

06-16-2009, 04:55 PM

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n9/n49708.jpg

Just started Shutter Island. I thought I should check it out after seeing the awesome trailer for the movie. Anybody read it?

neon vomit

06-16-2009, 06:00 PM

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n9/n49708.jpg

Just started Shutter Island. I thought I should check it out after seeing the awesome trailer for the movie. Anybody read it?

I have it reserved at the library. That trailer is very awesome. Jesse Rivers liked the book. That's the only thing I've heard about it.

By-tor

06-16-2009, 06:28 PM

Great read. The end is a nice little trip. Enjoy!! :cool:

manmiles

06-19-2009, 11:40 AM

I've just finished reading 'The Puppet Masters' by Robert Heinlein today. It pre-dated 'The Body Snatchers' which is better known as a little collection of films called 'The Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (or some variation on the title) and never really captured the widespread pop-culture infamy of it's successor.

Admittidly, I think this book has dated badly and not in its favour. This is my big problem with Heinlein, he is one of those writers who a lot of his stuff just to me doesn't age well and seems to evoke a very dated B-Movie feel of charecterisation, although I have to admit- Stranger in a Strange Land is brilliant stuff, but he's really a 'take it or leave it' author for me.

Cheney

06-19-2009, 11:42 AM

Rereading "My boring ass life." and "Watchmen." I never can get tired of either.

NomenNescio

06-19-2009, 05:02 PM

Just started

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a209/Aleister_Crow/Burrough-PublicEnemiescover.jpg

Interesting stuff.

06-20-2009, 11:21 AM

Just started this about three days ago...

http://thearcanist.net/niceguys/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/atlasshruggedbk.jpg

Who is John Galt?

Started reading this on my birthday, March 4th. Just finished this morning at 10 am. Except for work and taking a brief break from it to burn through The Watchmen, I'd have finished weeks ago.

Now I know who John Galt is.

neon vomit

06-20-2009, 04:01 PM

Just finished
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/bodomsknight/drawingof3.jpg?t=1245524939
Awesome.

JasterIsFett

06-20-2009, 04:06 PM

I just this book, great little science fiction read.

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/blindsight.jpg

EDIT: Also, does anyone have any good science fiction series that they recommend. I've read quite a bit, but I'm always looking for more.

Just finished
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/bodomsknight/drawingof3.jpg?t=1245524939
Awesome.

Woot! I just bought a hardcover set of 1-7 at an estate sale. :D:D

06-21-2009, 12:00 AM

Just bought this today:

http://www.aynrandaudiobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/the-fountainhead2.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead)

The movie was pretty good (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041386/)...

Cuclean

06-21-2009, 12:38 AM

Just finished
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/bodomsknight/drawingof3.jpg?t=1245524939
Awesome.

Good....Now get the next one. :cool:

By-tor

06-21-2009, 01:27 PM

Good....Now get the next one. :cool:

http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/pictures/funaki.jpg

Finished Calla last week. Halfway through...
http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/P10168021.jpg
and then on to the last wheel of ka. Again. ;)

JasterIsFett

06-22-2009, 01:34 AM

Just got this...after reading a few chapters I love it. Its an ok zombie book but its wonderful for the novelty and balls that it took to write it.

http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies.jpg

Mari

06-23-2009, 07:18 PM

Have just finished Dracula again and am about to start The Stand after hearing so much about it and having my english prof. include it in a recommendations list for me. Also on the list were:

The Collector - John Fowles
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
The Death of Grass - John Cristopher
Plague Year - Jeff Calson
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban

So these will keep me going for a while, I'll check back in after I've read them, if anyone else has read any of them then it would be cool to hear your views and opinions :).

JasterIsFett

06-23-2009, 08:18 PM

ratm1966

06-23-2009, 11:40 PM

I just picked up the following:

Comrade Chikatilo: The Psychopathology of Russia's Notorious Serial Killer

It goes along with the book "The Killer Department" which is about the same serial killer; Chikayilo. The HBO Original Movie "Citizen X" was based off of "The Killer Department".

Kernal2306

06-24-2009, 01:37 AM

I am slightly ashamed that I waited this long to actually read it, but I had other stuff to do so...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YhrLAYLQ8So/SaYu0Hv3YDI/AAAAAAAAIMQ/5cZq1PpZ1S4/s400/Star+Wars+-+Outcast.jpg

I love anything related to Star Wars, so any review I give would not be fair. :D

I haven't read any of the New Jedi Order but I am thinking about starting the series even though I have already heard some of the spoilers. I have read a lot of the older books up until the twins were like 11 years old.

JasterIsFett

06-24-2009, 02:35 AM

I haven't read any of the New Jedi Order but I am thinking about starting the series even though I have already heard some of the spoilers. I have read a lot of the older books up until the twins were like 11 years old.

Yeah, I had read everything through to the second Zahn series. It was the newer "Young" Thrawn book "Outbound Flight" that re-sparked my interest in the books. I was a few years behind but the NJO and Legacy are both really good series. I really like the new direction for the Expanded Universe because of the cooperative story arc and the extensive involvement from Lucas Books in maintaining continuity and organizing major events that will occur throughout the series'. Its kinda sad that the authors don't have all the creative free will, but I'm glad that they wont introduce pointless characters that you'll probably never see again and you can be sure that there is gonna be at least a few more books to tell the complete story arc...

By-tor

06-24-2009, 10:27 AM

And, the end begins...
http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/images/book_covers/the_dark_tower/the_dark_tower.jpg
...again. ;)

Cuclean

06-24-2009, 09:30 PM

And, the end begins...
http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/images/book_covers/the_dark_tower/the_dark_tower.jpg
...again. ;)

I really want to reread them.

I'm currently half way through The Fifth Elephant.

http://www.e-steve.co.uk/Jo/Discworld/Images/The%20Fifth%20Elephant.jpg

I'm in love with the Guards books.

phit_demon

06-25-2009, 05:28 PM

Finished Calla last week. Halfway through...
[IMG]http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/P10168021.jpg
and then on to the last wheel of ka. Again. ;)

And, the end begins...
http://www.stephenking.com/darktower/images/book_covers/the_dark_tower/the_dark_tower.jpg
...again. ;)

All this talk is tempting me to return to the saga...

Miguel Sanchez

06-25-2009, 05:36 PM

Finished reading The Most Beautiful Woman in Town - A collection of Bukowski's short stories.

Reading a couple books at the moment. One is for general reading and the other is a general toilet book

General:
http://blondierocket.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/n17132.jpg

Toilet
http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/onix-images/thumbs/655_jpg_280x450_q85.jpg

By-tor

06-25-2009, 05:45 PM

All this talk is tempting me to return to the saga...I'm loving it, brother. Just sad, again, I'm on the last journey. :(

phit_demon

06-25-2009, 05:45 PM

http://blondierocket.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/n17132.jpg

My favourite book of his, and one my favourites ever, is Travels With Charley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_with_Charley).

beckpoppins

06-25-2009, 05:54 PM

rereading:

http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/images/GoodOmens_MassMarketPaperback_1185845373.jpg

i always forget how much i like this book...

Kernal2306

06-25-2009, 07:21 PM

Its kinda sad that the authors don't have all the creative free will, but I'm glad that they wont introduce pointless characters that you'll probably never see again and you can be sure that there is gonna be at least a few more books to tell the complete story arc...

Totally true after all who would have guess that Mara Jade and Luke would have ended up together after she was so hell bent on killing him in the Thrawn series. I think my favorite so far has been the Jedi Academy series. After I see the results of tonight's voting I am heading down to Barnes and Nobles and grabbing Vector Prime and starting the NJO series.

Erasmus Cunk

06-25-2009, 09:40 PM

I'm currently half way through The Fifth Elephant.

http://www.e-steve.co.uk/Jo/Discworld/Images/The%20Fifth%20Elephant.jpg

I'm in love with the Guards books.

Good stuff, man. The guards books are my favourite of the discworld novels; Night Watch is probably my favourite one.

Toilet
http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/onix-images/thumbs/655_jpg_280x450_q85.jpg

Awesome. I love Brooker.

As for myself, I've just finished an H P Lovecraft anthology. The last short story, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, was fascinating because it was much longer than the previous stories, and drew in various characters and monsters that were in other, seemingly unconnected ones previously. Much like the Dark Tower sequence. It must have been one of Stephen King's inspirations.

Jeremy Beadle

06-26-2009, 10:43 PM

Nightwatch is the one that actually comes closest to beating Guards!Guards! If Iain thinks there's some well-written stuff in the other books, Nightwatch will go right off the chart. It also has the best villain.

Good stuff, man. The guards books are my favourite of the discworld novels; Night Watch is probably my favourite one.

As for myself, I've just finished an H P Lovecraft anthology. The last short story, Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, Much like the Dark Tower sequence. It must have been one of Stephen King's inspirations.

HP was a big influence for King, and he cites him occasionally during On Writing. For my money Lovecraft sometimes topped him, especially in the short stories. Shadow Over Innsmouth would be my favourite although it's staggering that I'm running out of Lovecraft to read and I've never finished Dream Quest:(

Ashton Clark Smith is another guy to check out for old style horror shorts. Amazingly contemporary stuff for someone writing way back when. Much more modern feel than Lovecrafty. So probably easier to get into.

Cuclean

06-27-2009, 12:16 AM

Jeremy Beadle

06-27-2009, 12:21 AM

Cos its Sco'ish. ;)

Cuclean

06-27-2009, 12:25 AM

Ga'an yer beek ya dose chunt!

Jeremy Beadle

06-27-2009, 12:28 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD8DjzGp6iM

It's bright outside, I'm off to bed.

Cuclean

06-27-2009, 12:31 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD8DjzGp6iM

It's bright outside, I'm off to bed.

You

Are

A

Fucking

Cunt.
;)

phit_demon

06-27-2009, 03:14 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD8DjzGp6iM

It's bright outside, I'm off to bed.
Oh Limmy, you delightful bastard! That just broke me a little. :D

06-27-2009, 07:58 AM

I'm afraid to click on it...

Shäne has forever ruined it for me :p

phit_demon

06-27-2009, 10:15 AM

I'm afraid to click on it...

Shäne has forever ruined it for me :p

It's safe. It might be a bit baffling unless you've explored the guys work though. This (http://www.limmy.com/) might help.

06-27-2009, 10:25 AM

I just got this computer and I didn't want to get Rick Rolled...

phit_demon

06-27-2009, 10:37 AM

I just got this computer and I didn't want to get Rick Rolled...

Totally understandable.

mitch_the_conquistador

06-27-2009, 12:44 PM

I'm reading L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth:The Invaders Plan. It's vol 1 in a 10 volume epic, and so far it is very very good. This is what Hubbard should be famous for.

Cheney

06-27-2009, 01:34 PM

Just picked up Pygmy, and Mein Kamp. As soon as my dad saw it he flipped a nut and thought I was a neo nazi. I just want to be able to see what was going on in hitler's head.

Jeremy Beadle

06-29-2009, 10:21 PM

My mom had a similar reaction when I rented the movie Suicide Kings. I just started laughing but her annoyed expression refused to budge. Had to explain it was referring to the fact that kidnapping a mob boss for ransom was akin to committing suicide.

Eventually she calmed down when I told her Walken was in it.

Cheney

07-02-2009, 02:24 PM

http://s2.thisnext.com/media/230x230/I-Lick-My-Cheese_5175A5C6.jpg

Good so far. Some of the notes are a pain in the ass to read but I got over it. Basically if you've ever had a roomate you'll understand and most likely will like this book.

Cuclean

07-02-2009, 08:30 PM

JasterIsFett

07-02-2009, 08:34 PM

I'm hesitant about most of his stuff because its very hit or miss.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iq2vQY1Jeaw/SGlOLmk5paI/AAAAAAAAFjI/o9uA5bfLLHE/s400/black2.jpg

This, is a hit. :P

BallsMonkey

07-07-2009, 01:55 AM

I've finally gotten my hands on World War Z.

ZBarclay

07-07-2009, 02:16 AM

I've finally gotten my hands on World War Z.

And? AND? Is it good? Is it good?

BallsMonkey

07-07-2009, 02:45 AM

And? AND? Is it good? Is it good?

83 pages in, yes quite good. I really loved the part where he talks with Sharon. Really disturbing. I was kind of confused though

Did Mrs. Cormode, according to her story, kill the little girl or not?

Cheney

07-07-2009, 09:40 PM

Reading 'A Million Little Pieces' by Liar McLiarpants, due to so many recommendations by friends. 150 some pages in, good so far but have that nagging *cough LIED cough* in the back of my head.

ManGuy

07-10-2009, 02:47 AM

I've finally gotten my hands on World War Z.

World War Z Is incredible. After your done with that you should check out Max Brook's Zombie Survival Guide.

I am currently reading The Myserious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco.
Its incredible, guy loses memory but only personal experience and not actual knowledge of things and uses books and music and stuff to try and find himself. Beautifully written and it has pictures in it too!!

I am leaving on Vacation at the end of the month for a week and I already have 2 books waiting for me but am looking for a really awesome sci/fi, fiction, but really any genre, audio book to start. Preferably I'd like a series but really any will do.

I'm interested in some suggestions. Please I wanna get some input!

I have a reading problem.....:(

BallsMonkey

07-10-2009, 03:41 AM

World War Z Is incredible. After your done with that you should check out Max Brook's Zombie Survival Guide.

Already read

Discomfort

07-10-2009, 10:22 PM

I have been reading Some Of The Dharma - Jack Kerouac and The Crisis Of Psychoanalysis - Erich Fromm.

Both are very interesting. Some Of The Dharama is kinda hard to follow because it is bits and pieces of Kerouac's ideas and some of the exerts are literally photocopied pieces of a napkin or photocopy of his note book that the preceding page was missing for some reason, most likly beacuse Kerouac didn't like what he wrote and had finished his thought else where or not at all

I also think it would help if I knew more about Buddhism, non the less still very interesting and enlightening.

I dated a chick for a few years that had gradated with a psychology degree so it's fun for me to read The Crisis of Psychoanalysis because my ex was always trying to analyze me and she would always say, this is what I learned and can tell you about your self. Boy was she ever wrong and I guess that is part of why see is an ex

Alexsad

07-11-2009, 12:25 AM

I'm trying to get my hands on some classic 'choose your own adventure' books.

neon vomit

07-11-2009, 12:27 AM

I'm trying to get my hands on some classic 'choose your own adventure' books.

I have Master of Kung Fu by Richard Brightfield.

RobinHoodDaffy

07-11-2009, 12:43 AM

I'm trying to get my hands on some classic 'choose your own adventure' books.

Here you go, best bookstore in the world. (http://www.powells.com/s?header=Search+Form&kw=choose+your+own+adventure)

So, what put those books in your head?

Alexsad

07-12-2009, 01:09 PM

So, what put those books in your head?

Found a book at the cottage from a long time ago and inspired me to get my hands on others.

ManGuy

07-12-2009, 02:56 PM

I remember reading two of those books over and over again, They were so good. One was about the roman empire and being a gladiator, the other was being a knight. I think it was part of a Time Warp series. Wish I had more information to give you to help you find some.

Alexsad

07-12-2009, 07:25 PM

I pre-ordered "Petrified World" By Piotr Brnyczka.
It was recommend to me by an employee of Edwards Tree (Bookstore in Canada).
I took her advice because she was smokin' hot, and because the author is first generation Polish-Canadian, like me. :)

The moon

07-14-2009, 03:03 AM

I've been reading lots of plays recently. I just read Is He Dead? A farce by mark twain adapted by david ives, very funny, very vaudevillian and overly melodramatic, I also read waiting for godot for the first time, and about twelve times after that, and I'm still trying to figure it out.

ManGuy

07-18-2009, 12:03 PM

I also read waiting for godot for the first time, and about twelve times after that, and I'm still trying to figure it out.

Yeah there's a reason why they call it that. Godot is another word for purpose...Its there but you have to wait for it to happen. Depending on what your looking for you should check out Steve martin plays. Despite popular belief they are hilarious and nicely done. I love them and have worked on them before and they are such great fun.
How About Shakespeare?

Discomfort

07-20-2009, 05:26 PM

I started reading an awesome book about my home town called Totem Tales of Old Seattle by Gordan Newell and Don Sherwood

By-tor

07-21-2009, 09:41 PM

Finished the the long road home for the second time a few weeks back...
http://www.emdashery.com/photos/uncategorized/the_dark_tower.jpg
Then re-read...
http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/bagofbones450x6001.jpg
...and now, just started an oldie, but goodie...
http://bfar.us/eBay/2009/FirestarterPBFC.JPG

Sharp-O

07-21-2009, 10:05 PM

I finished World War Z recently and found it quite good. What's the opposite to heart-warming? Ball-shrinking? Anyway, that's what I felt when I read about some of the things people did to survive and what some stupid people did to capatalize on it. It's a very human book despite the obvious inclination to the undead

Jeremy Beadle

07-22-2009, 12:08 PM

Should have bagged itself a 'Hugo'. It was that good.

Dunno if there's much competition but someone would be doing very well to write a more human book as you say in just about any field, let alone zombies.

Thoroughly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Cheney

07-22-2009, 02:56 PM

I have a fever and it requires more of
http://www.thewordslinger.com/media/images/Talisman.jpg
Sorry, but for some reason I really really need to re-read this. It's just too good.

By-tor

07-22-2009, 03:24 PM

I have a fever and it requires more of
http://www.thewordslinger.com/media/images/Talisman.jpg
Sorry, but for some reason I really really need to re-read this. It's just too good.Oh, hell, it's one of my favorites. WOLF!!! And, the follow-up is all good, too...
http://www.horrorstew.com/images/BlackHouse3.jpg

Oh, and check this out (http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/8887)

Cheney

07-22-2009, 03:35 PM

You just made my day sir :D . I had no idea there was a follow up, off to the local book store!

By-tor

07-22-2009, 03:37 PM

Enjoy, brother!!!

By-tor

07-22-2009, 03:43 PM

Oh, and check this out (http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/8887)Jebus!! Disregard. That was written in '01. :o:mad:

Cuclean

07-23-2009, 01:51 AM

http://bfar.us/eBay/2009/FirestarterPBFC.JPG

I own it, but haven't read it . . . yet.

I am currently in the middle of what could be my favourite book. It's my first time reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and I can't say enough about it. Every chapter I read just leaves me more and more in awe of the book. I'm lucky enough not to know it's outcome is but at this stage I don't think there's a chance I'll be disappointed by any word of it.

Shäne

07-23-2009, 02:24 AM

I am currently in the middle of what could be my favourite book. It's my first time reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and I can't say enough about it. Every chapter I read just leaves me more and more in awe of the book. I'm lucky enough not to know it's outcome is but at this stage I don't think there's a chance I'll be disappointed by any word of it.

I absolutely fell in love with that book when I read it.

OhNoBuffalo

07-23-2009, 03:55 AM

I'm fighting the urge to read Guards! Guards!.......again........

By-tor

07-23-2009, 09:16 AM

I own it, but haven't read it . . . yet.
You have forgotten the face of your father.

Jeremy Beadle

07-23-2009, 11:05 AM

I think he's just lost count.

Your move Iain. :D

I'm fighting the urge to read Guards! Guards!.......again........

Give in!

Cuclean

07-26-2009, 02:40 PM

Your move Iain. :D

Oh you mother fucking son of a scotch egg!

I finished Nineteen Eighty-Four yesterday in work. It was absolutely fantastic. I spent the last section of the book turning away every few pages in shock. Afterwards, I was floored for some time.

By-tor

08-05-2009, 10:13 AM

Finished Firestarter, re-read Cujo, and now re-reading...
http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/stephen-king-it.jpg
I've got to get to the bookstore after this one. I've re-read just about everything in my library. :rolleyes:

ZBarclay

08-05-2009, 02:22 PM

NomenNescio

08-05-2009, 08:06 PM

Just picked this up today:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a209/Aleister_Crow/ft_pynchon.jpg

Pynchon's my absolute favorite author. The man hasn't written a single thing I haven't enjoyed enormously, so I'm really looking forward to this.

Jeremy Beadle

08-05-2009, 08:46 PM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41dnB5ANyiL.jpg

Strange but brilliant. Very poetic and philosophical, but kinda nasty in places too. It's a good mixture. I'm on book 3 and still can't work out if I like any of the characters.

That sort of book.:confused:

JasterIsFett

08-06-2009, 10:28 AM

Not all are good, but it was a great collection of interesting Steampunk stories, if you're into that sort of thing.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRCpuochDNQ/Sc5ozDKXrfI/AAAAAAAAAWI/8qA-tfSTEXg/s400/book_steampunk.jpg

Cuclean

08-08-2009, 09:58 PM

I just finished The Road.

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/15/road_narrowweb__300x485,0.jpg

It's a fantastic book. I loved the story and got goosebumps many a time.

Maybe now I can get this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA-OgIe2DMU) out of my head. Although, it's not a bad one to have stuck in there. :cool:

[EDIT] I just watched the trailer for the film. ***SPOILERS ish***

I don't know if this is going to be good. While reading the book, the lines felt un-emotive to me for the most, which is why I loved it. It seemed to me to be things that had to be said were said to keep holding the fire and being human. It made the parts of the book where emotion was shown, such as when they encounter someone or when the boy cries, to be even more powerful.

Every time I read the boy say 'I'm scared', I read it as this was just what he had to say without excess feeing to let the man know that he didn't want to go along with what was happening. 'Okay, Okay' to me was their sign off.

Also, there seemed to be definitely far too much flashback in the trailer, like they were trying to fill things in. I thought half of this film would be in silence.

I really hope this won't be another 'I Am Legend'.

cypher

08-09-2009, 04:23 AM

I finally got around to reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsey...It was pretty good; but this is one of those rare instances where I actually prefer the adapted version that is the TV show...still a good read though...

Threadkiller

08-09-2009, 05:56 AM

I'm reading this. Can't actually say I'd recommend it to anyone I know just because nobody I know reads this kind of stuff. It's kind of a dark fantasy I guess? There are no heroes and it can be hard to tell who the 'good guys' are. Still, I finished the first three books in the series and now I'm kind of hooked.

http://driftlessareareview.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/thejudgingeye-thumb-300x459.jpg

Sami_Kat

08-10-2009, 10:33 AM

I tend to read a lot, so here are some of the books I read last week.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YhrLAYLQ8So/SZCqjXR2bTI/AAAAAAAAH-M/LxIzw7Aoziw/s400/Patient+Zero.jpg
For anyone who diggs zombie fiction, this one's an interesting take on terrorism and bioweaponry.

http://a4.vox.com/6a00e398a61e0f0005011016425c84860c-500pi
Just started re-reading this series again. Forgot how awesome it was.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n9/n49456.jpg
An ok series, I just finished up the first four of them. They're small, easy and quick to read and good for anyone who likes dresden.

Jeremy Beadle

08-11-2009, 10:05 AM

Every time I read the boy say 'I'm scared', I read it as this was just what he had to say without excess feeing to let the man know that he didn't want to go along with what was happening. 'Okay, Okay' to me was their sign off.

Also, there seemed to be definitely far too much flashback in the trailer, like they were trying to fill things in. I thought half of this film would be in silence.

I really hope this won't be another 'I Am Legend'.

Excellent points Iain. The film has to sell to us the basic premise that the man and the boy have been doing this for a long time. It's all ritual and routine. All dull monotony broken by sudden interludes of fear and violence.

Quite the same as the book I Am Legend it works when it is self-contained and the less stuff that happens outside the main storyline, ie flashbacks, the better.

To be honest I don't think anyone had the balls to make the film that should be made. Either studio intervention, or the director himself not trusting the source material and dressing it up. Shame.

Aaron

08-12-2009, 12:40 PM

JasterIsFett

08-12-2009, 04:12 PM

I never read it as a child but was always fascinated by it's world. The Duck convinced me it should be my reading at Dragon*Con so I bought it today for the plane rides.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tun9eb9ZL._SL213.jpg

I'm very much looking forward to it.

(I know Antonio, I know)

Just know that it is entirely evident that drugs were involved in its writing. If you like it, definitely try Through the Looking Glass.

"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went 'snicker-snack'!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."

TheHangingBrain

08-12-2009, 04:34 PM

Just know that it is entirely evident that drugs were involved in its writing. If you like it, definitely try Through the Looking Glass.

"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went 'snicker-snack'!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."

Also, he was a paedophile from what I understand and he used to come up with stories as a way to get close to the kiddies. :eek:

from wiki:

Suggestions of paedophilia
Dodgson's friendships with young girls, together with his perceived lack of interest in romantic attachments to adult women, and psychological readings of his work—especially his photographs of nude or semi-nude girls[35]—have all led to speculation that he was a paedophile. This possibility has underpinned numerous modern interpretations of his life and work, particularly Dennis Potter's play Alice and his screenplay for the motion picture, Dreamchild, and even more importantly Robert Wilson's Alice, and a number of recent biographies, including Michael Bakewell's Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1996), Donald Thomas's Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background (1995) and Morton N. Cohen's Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1995). All of these works more or less unequivocally assume that Dodgson was a paedophile, albeit a repressed and celibate one.

Cohen claims Dodgson's "sexual energies sought unconventional outlets", and further writes:

We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles's preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude. He contended the preference was entirely aesthetic. But given his emotional attachment to children as well as his aesthetic appreciation of their forms, his assertion that his interest was strictly artistic is naive. He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself.[35]

Cohen notes that Dodgson "apparently convinced many of his friends that his attachment to the nude female child form was free of any eroticism", but adds that "later generations look beneath the surface" (p. 229).

Cohen and other biographers argue that Dodgson may have wanted to marry the 11-year old Alice Liddell and that this was the cause of the unexplained "break" with the family in June 1863.[36] But there has never been significant evidence to support the idea, and the 1996 discovery of the "cut pages in diary document" (see above) might imply that the 1863 "break" had less to do with Alice, but was perhaps connected with rumours involving her older sister Lorina, or possibly their governess.

Some writers, e.g., Derek Hudson and Roger Lancelyn Green, stop short of identifying Dodgson as a paedophile but concur that he had a passion for small female children and next to no interest in the adult world.

JasterIsFett

08-12-2009, 05:44 PM

Also, he was a paedophile from what I understand and he used to come up with stories as a way to get close to the kiddies. :eek:

from wiki:

Suggestions of paedophilia
Dodgson's friendships with young girls, together with his perceived lack of interest in romantic attachments to adult women, and psychological readings of his work—especially his photographs of nude or semi-nude girls[35]—have all led to speculation that he was a paedophile. This possibility has underpinned numerous modern interpretations of his life and work, particularly Dennis Potter's play Alice and his screenplay for the motion picture, Dreamchild, and even more importantly Robert Wilson's Alice, and a number of recent biographies, including Michael Bakewell's Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1996), Donald Thomas's Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background (1995) and Morton N. Cohen's Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1995). All of these works more or less unequivocally assume that Dodgson was a paedophile, albeit a repressed and celibate one.

Cohen claims Dodgson's "sexual energies sought unconventional outlets", and further writes:

We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles's preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude. He contended the preference was entirely aesthetic. But given his emotional attachment to children as well as his aesthetic appreciation of their forms, his assertion that his interest was strictly artistic is naive. He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself.[35]

Cohen notes that Dodgson "apparently convinced many of his friends that his attachment to the nude female child form was free of any eroticism", but adds that "later generations look beneath the surface" (p. 229).

Cohen and other biographers argue that Dodgson may have wanted to marry the 11-year old Alice Liddell and that this was the cause of the unexplained "break" with the family in June 1863.[36] But there has never been significant evidence to support the idea, and the 1996 discovery of the "cut pages in diary document" (see above) might imply that the 1863 "break" had less to do with Alice, but was perhaps connected with rumours involving her older sister Lorina, or possibly their governess.

Some writers, e.g., Derek Hudson and Roger Lancelyn Green, stop short of identifying Dodgson as a paedophile but concur that he had a passion for small female children and next to no interest in the adult world.

http://www.eckernet.com/images/MoreYouKnow.jpg

RobinHoodDaffy

08-12-2009, 09:19 PM

See, I was going to shield ol' Aaron from all that, he is a sensitive lil' dude. Now he will be obsessing all the way over to the states.

TheHangingBrain

08-13-2009, 12:39 AM

All I can say is we're standing on the shoulders of freaks... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKEk2aHjow&feature=PlayList&p=B72FBCC0F362C1F3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=38)

Kernal2306

08-13-2009, 12:56 AM

http://nects.net/slogg/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/survivor-book-cover.jpg

This is one of the books I am currently reading.

BlueRoster

08-18-2009, 06:33 PM

cypher

08-18-2009, 08:29 PM

http://nects.net/slogg/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/survivor-book-cover.jpg

This is one of the books I am currently reading.

This and "Diary" are the two books that made me quit reading chuck palahniuk.

His world view and sense of superiority over society really bum me out...they're interesting reads, but at the expense of wanting to drink the Kool Aid...

I've enjoyed all of Palahniuk's books up through Haunted. I haven't read any of his recent works. I see where you're coming from about Chuck's world view being a little bleak and a little elitist. I must be too jaded at this point for it to really have any effect on me.

Have you read any of Douglas Coupland's books? They're kind of in the same vein as Palahniuk's earlier books, but with less of an elitist bent.

BlueRoster

08-19-2009, 10:06 AM

Have you read any of Douglas Coupland's books? They're kind of in the same vein as Palahniuk's earlier books, but with less of an elitist bent.

Haven't heard of him, if I had to read one book by him, what would it be?

cypher

08-19-2009, 10:33 AM

Haven't heard of him, if I had to read one book by him, what would it be?

I would start with Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture) or with Microserfs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs). Those two are my favorites.

BlueRoster

08-19-2009, 11:17 AM

I would start with Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Accelerated_Culture) or with Microserfs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs). Those two are my favorites.

They are both residing on my amazon wish list now. Thanks!

cypher

08-19-2009, 12:18 PM

They are both residing on my amazon wish list now. Thanks!

Any time! Let me know what you think of them.

phit_demon

08-19-2009, 12:41 PM

I'm currently tackling this bad boy:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3/phitdemon/jest.jpg

It's immense, and it's awesome. I love DFW in the face.

Cuclean

08-20-2009, 06:34 PM

I just finished

http://www.horrorstew.com/images/Firestarter7.jpg

It was a really good story. I thought it was going to be another 'sleepy town' story. It started off with a bang and kept the pace up. It wasn't very intense like The Shining or Carrie, but it was an enjoyable one.

Drew Barrymore played Charlie in the film but the whole time I had Dominique Dunne from Poltergeist in my head. :confused:

I watched the first few minutes of the film on youtube after I read it. There was a wavy line segway to a dream sequence. :rolleyes: I also saw the character of Rainbird and by God they got the description wrong. Two eyes? :confused: I'll legally acquire it and give it a chance.

Cheney

08-20-2009, 09:56 PM

This and "Diary" are the two books that made me quit reading chuck palahniuk.

His world view and sense of superiority over society really bum me out...they're interesting reads, but at the expense of wanting to drink the Kool Aid...

*Spoiler?*
I wanted to kill the fucking daughter, my god it's just so twisted that she would turn on her own fucking mother like that. But yes everytime I read palahniuk I too feel bit like 'what's the point of it all then?'

By-tor

08-20-2009, 10:36 PM

I watched the first few minutes of the film on youtube after I read it. There was a wavy line segway to a dream sequence. :rolleyes: I also saw the character of Rainbird and by God they got the description wrong. Two eyes? :confused: I'll legally acquire it and give it a chance.Do. It ain't a great flick(old FX), but not to bad. George C. Scott plays a great Rainbird in the storm sequence. ;)

Cuclean

08-20-2009, 10:45 PM

Do. It ain't a great flick(old FX), but not to bad. George C. Scott plays a great Rainbird in the storm sequence. ;)

I have it legally acquired now. I know the cast is solid but. . . . By-tor. . . Two eyes for Rainbird?!?! :confused: :eek:

I'll give it the chance, maybe it's a glass eye or something. :rolleyes:

By-tor

08-20-2009, 10:48 PM

I have it legally acquired now. I know the cast is solid but. . . . By-tor. . . Two eyes for Rainbird?!?! :confused: :eek:

I'll give it the chance, maybe it's a glass eye or something. :rolleyes:He does have a huge scar running over the eye. I can't remember if they give details. It's probably been 15 years since I've seen it. :rolleyes:

Cuclean

08-20-2009, 10:56 PM

He does have a huge scar running over the eye. I can't remeber if they give details. It's probably be 15 years since I've seen it. :rolleyes:

* FIRESTONE SPOILERS*

You're right, his face is scarred but he's supposed to have a gaping hole where his eye was. I pictured Chief from 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' sans most of his face.

freetoaster

08-21-2009, 02:29 PM

http://a4.vox.com/6a00d41438450f6a47011017ac258c860e-320pi

I'm a little back dated.

NomenNescio

08-27-2009, 08:36 PM

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a209/Aleister_Crow/ft_pynchon.jpg

A pretty straightforward piece by Pynchon standards. Still, I'm liking it so far.

Cuclean

08-28-2009, 11:37 PM

I'm about a third of the way through

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0340640146.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

It's okay so far. Nothing great. The sections with Rosie seem dragged out and filed with very boring characters. The husband's scenes are keeping the interest though. I'm just worried it's going to be dragged out until the last hundred pages.

Threadkiller

08-29-2009, 12:20 AM

I finally got around to reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's very good. I'm not entirely sure why he's so incredibly popular, but it was good.

http://seegreeneyes.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/theroadcoverart.jpg

Scottbob75

08-29-2009, 12:23 AM

http://images.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/books/Zombies%2520A%2520Field%2520Guide%2520to%2520the%2 520Walking%2520Dead.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFkRDlhPMWYTW7Gn8eatWpmS57QRg

Review to come...

Cuclean

08-31-2009, 01:59 AM

Do. It ain't a great flick(old FX), but not to bad. George C. Scott plays a great Rainbird in the storm sequence. ;)

I'm sorry By-tor.

[EDIT] Spoilers.

Drew Barrymore (taking on board that she is a child) is TERRIBLE in this film. God awful atrocious.

I don't know what the hell the director was saying to David Keith, but it was clearly an indication to over act. He was disgraceful ( David. Listen to me. You need to use your power... enact FACEPALM!!!). ;)

They breezed by most of the important scenes to make a quick buck. The closest they came to in any way good acting was during the blackout and even that took place in half light (Not a blackout).

Every time Charlie used her powers, she was supposed to be delighted, grinning. She wasn't meant to have a massive fan bowing her hair to show her powers. I know she had the inner conflict over her power but the crux was supposed to show her enjoying her using her power, not sobbing over it. The film was arse from start to finish, awful acting, terrible direction and a butchering of a KING novel.

The last shot of the movie.:confused:

I was correct. Rainbird with two eyes is no Rainbird! :cool:

Discomfort

09-04-2009, 08:21 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0340640146.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

.

So Cuclean with you and By-Tor being Stephen King fans thought you guys might be interested that I am getting married at The Thornwood Castle, the same castle that Stephen King used in his miniseries Rose Red

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/453/1011229130rosel.jpg

This is what the castle looks like with out special effects

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/79/2042093961a9e391acc8.jpg

Cheney

09-08-2009, 09:47 PM

By-tor

09-09-2009, 07:26 PM

Discomfort

09-09-2009, 11:15 PM

I am getting married there, the castle is amazing, the owner is super nice. We aren't just getting married there we are also staying the night, we are stoked.

Thank you for the well wishes

Cuclean

09-10-2009, 11:40 AM

So Cuclean with you and By-Tor being Stephen King fans thought you guys might be interested that I am getting married at The Thornwood Castle, the same castle that Stephen King used in his miniseries Rose Red

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/453/1011229130rosel.jpg

This is what the castle looks like with out special effects

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/79/2042093961a9e391acc8.jpg

That's very cool. Congrats! Maybe Mr. King will drop by to deliver a pizza after the ceremony. :p

On a side note, I finished Rose Madder. There's about 120-150 pages that should have been trimmed, but once it got into it I enjoyed it.

*SPOILERS*

It was nice to see him get all Dark Tower up in this shit. Even if it was just minor references.

Antonio_Bay

09-13-2009, 05:58 PM

Fancied something different so I've just ordered;

http://www.suzs-space.com/images%5CSeries%20of%20Unfortunate%20Events.jpg

Shäne

09-17-2009, 09:14 PM

http://www.usd116.org/uhs/library/images/neverwhere.gif
Just finished it today. First real book I've read in a while. :o Really enjoyed it and want to pick up some more Gaiman soon. :cool:

JasterIsFett

09-17-2009, 10:11 PM

Shäne

09-17-2009, 10:46 PM

I recommend American Gods. If you can't get than than pretty much anything else by him is great. Get Sandman if you can as well.

American Gods was the one that looked most interesting. I have Sandman on my hard drive in .cbr files but have never gotten around to it.

TheHangingBrain

09-17-2009, 11:36 PM

I recommend American Gods. If you can't get than than pretty much anything else by him is great. Get Sandman if you can as well.

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phit_demon

09-18-2009, 09:04 AM

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Just finished it today. First real book I've read in a while. :o Really enjoyed it and want to pick up some more Gaiman soon. :cool:

Aaaargh, I left my copy in a friend's house a few weeks back, so I'm left hanging as to what the eff happens. I was at the part where Richard & Co. have arrived at the monastary thingy, and he just started his task where he goes a little mad in the tube station. So...yeah...I should really call to his house and get that back.

American Gods is an awesome read, but I liked Anansi Boys even better. Either will entertain the hell out of you.