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Thunder
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11/13/04 02:24 AM
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I think any lit horror forum should have a thread like this up and running.
I'm currently into the fourth and latest book in Christopher Golden's "Shadow Saga" titled THE GATHERING DARK. I think Golden has proven himself to be one of the best contemporary dark fantasists around today. I'm only talking out of my own limied experience, of course, but this guy's imagination is running overtime. In THE GATHERING DARK you have the world slowly being taken over by hell, with demons slipping through the cracks in reality for wholesale massacres and entire cities disappearing from the map of the earth into alternative dimensions of hell. You have all manner of hideous creatures and ghastly gore going on. It's up to a handful of powerful magicians and good-guy vampires to save the day. This is a really cool book that is a riot to read if you can go for this stuff.
Can be read on its own but if you are keen on dropping into this universe where magic and the supernatural co-exist with our political reality you should start with the first in the series, OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS. Highly recommended.
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Right now, I'm reading one of Stephen King's short story collections, Four Past Midnight which has The Landgoliers, Secret Window; Secret Garden, The Library Policeman, and The Sun Dog.
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11/16/04 06:18 AM
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I don't read much, but there is one book which I read from
every day, you can see it as my bible. It the "Book of the
Black Earth", the "Book of the Dead", alias "The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
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Right now I am reading Major Tales and Poems by Poe. It is really good because it has poe's best work and alot of his veary best poems, but the book you are reading sounds good.
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Warlord
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11/17/04 12:33 PM
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I don't read much, but there is one book which I read from
every day, you can see it as my bible. It the "Book of the
Black Earth", the "Book of the Dead", alias "The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
I have trouble reading Lovecraft. Right now, i'm reading Cujo by Stephen King. I might read some more Robert E. Howard later on.
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Im reading "Confessions of a Yakuza" forgot the author, but he is a doctor who would visit is patient every week and talk to him, the author writes the stories he is told. I guess its true too. So far so good.
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reading battle royale.
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Fenril
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11/19/04 10:17 PM
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"The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
Both The Necronomicon and its writer, Abdul, are literary inventions from Lovecraft, including the essay were he reveals the story of the Necronomicon (he's writing a fictional essasy, in the vein of Borges and other fantasy writers). All books claiming to be the Necronomicon were written after Lovecraft's dead, trough it's not clear who wrote most of them (the writers from Lovecraft's circle, perhaps?)
I'm currently reading Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh, and Paradise Lost, by John Milton. The latter concerns the adventures of Satan before the creation of mankind and Eve's discovery of reason (which then leads to damnation). Very good... Trainspotting is also good, but somehow not as fun (or as funny) as the movie.
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Fenril
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11/19/04 10:23 PM
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Of the books you have mentioned:
- Four past midnight --very good nouvelles, here. Not as good as "Different Seasons" IMHO, but worth checking out. I especially liked "The library policeman" --very disturbing in places.
- Cujo. The first King novel I ever read... very fast-paced (has no chapters at all!) and a lot more character-driven that you'd expect from what is supposedly a "killer dog" story. Appropiately nasty ending, too.
- Battle Royale. Quite good, trough the english translation is a bit hard to follow. I'm reading it in paralell to the manga version that Tokyopop is getting out, so right now I'm up to the beggining of part III [The part that opens with Sugimura vs. Mitsuko.] Very nasty, yet very human.
I haven't read any of the others... "Confessions of a Yakuza" sounds quite interesting. The tile alone makes me interested.
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Thunder
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11/20/04 12:34 AM
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CUJO is the only early King novel that I've yet to read. The book has been sitting in my shelf for many years now. Looking forward to getting into this one sometime.
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JNewman
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11/23/04 01:35 PM
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Currently reading:
- SIMS, by F. Paul Wilson (more sci-fi than his usually thriller/crime/horror stuff, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it . . . anything by Wilson is a treat)
- THE DEVIL IN GREY, by Graham Masterton (God, I love this guy's stuff . . . he's quickly moving toward the very top of my "Favorite Authors" list)
- LONG HORN, BIG SHAGGY by Steve Vernon (think "RE-ANIMATOR in the Old West" to get a feel for this whacky novella . . . not quite what I expected, but I'm diggin' it for the most part)
Will probably be starting SPIRAL in a day or two (by the author of the original RINGU novel) . . . looking forward to that one!
James
http://www.james-newman.com
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Carrie would have to be my fav King novel.
I am currently reading The Drawing of The Three by SK.
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Warlord
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11/28/04 04:28 PM
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Thanks for the Lovecraft Explaination.
Anyway, I've finished Cujo, depressing really. I'm not reading Lord of the Isle by David Drake. Not horror, but It'll do.
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sadly i've depleated all the king novels i hadn't read except for, his book on writeing, and danse macbre.(BLAST!) so i've recently started reading konntzs ,who i had never been able to get into before. now after reading the bad place i'm hooked on him,(go figure) i just finished servents of the twilight(excallent!) and am about to start strangers. if you are like me and could never gat into him before, give the bad place a try.it's a gret read and might help turn you on to koontzs.
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Fenril
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12/10/04 04:37 PM
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Yeah, that's exactly what I liked about it.
Just finished "Julia", by Peter Straub... not quite as good as most of his latter work, but a Damn Spooky novel in its own right. Talk about your twisted developments...
As for Koontz... I have never got into him and have never read "The bad place". I have, however, read "Servants of twilight"... I found it far too naive for my tastes. I dunno, I have read a couple of his novels and one or two of his short stories, and he just doesn't seem my kind of writer. He strikes me as the Steven Spielberg of horror literature: skilled but too childish for his own good.
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Yes! I never post in on this forum topic. But right now im reading the "Battle Royale" novel, and it is awesome!
Read it before you see the movie is what I recommend because when I read the book I keep picturing he movie.
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MrShades
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01/04/05 09:39 AM
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just reading Clive barker's Books of Blood I-III.
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Thunder
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01/09/05 06:05 AM
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Are you reading THE BOOKS OF BLOOD for the first time? If so I envy you. I think it is the best horror fiction ever! Or at least when I first read them it was.
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Knifey
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01/10/05 08:17 PM
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I just dove into Stephen Kings IT, having read much of his work over the years, but somehow I never got to this gem. I'm about half through, and , as is usually the case, it is MUCH, much better than the movie.
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Thunder
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01/19/05 12:14 PM
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Reading THE SILMARILLION by Tolkien. I like this one even better than THE LORD OF THE RINGS, but I think because I read "Rings" I appreciate this tale of the first age of Middle Earth even more.
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Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes. So far very interesting.
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On Basilisk Station by David Webber, it's military sci-fi. It's okay, but having trouble really getting into it. I'd call it a cross between Space: Above and Beyond and Star Trek: Voyager as the book focuses on the female captain of a warship.
Also currently reading Ultimate X-Men graphic novel #6. The Ultimate X-Men comics I've read have been pretty good so far, some of my favorite stuff from Marvel in the last several years.
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2001 Space oddessy. nevxt up, i am readin Judge Dredd
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Cool, I've read all of Clarke's Space Odyssey novels. I mostly read 2001 so I could get a clearer understanding of the last part of the movie. Excellent book, excellent series. I wasn't crazy about the direction he went with 3001, the last book. Thought he took what was a brilliant concept and made it somewhat uninspired and negative. Didn't really fit in with the vibe or the message of the first three novels.
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ReAnimator
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06/13/05 08:52 PM
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"The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice....brilliant 
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Fenril
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06/14/05 06:59 PM
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Currently reading "Houses without doors", by Peter Straub, a pseudo collection of short stories (I say pseudo because of the way he arranged them)... Very disturbing, as is the case with Straub's best work, but some of the stories seem a bit too drawn out.
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I'm just starting to re-read 'The White Hotel'... and I know there must be some D. M. Thomas fans around here! Let's see a show of hands now! 
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Yeah, D.M. Thomas!
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Where Serpents Lie
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UNDERBOSS by Peter Maas. It's a bio of Sammy The Bull Gravano who eventually testified against godfather John Gotti. That evidence finally put Gotti away after years of unsuccessful attempts by the FBI to imprison him.
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The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
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One of my favorite horror lit threads, lets resurrect it.
Currently reading WOLVES OF THE CALLA, DARK TOWER V.
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Fenril
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05/08/07 11:32 AM
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Recently read ENDLESS NIGHT, by Richard Laymon... frankly, this is the first time Laymon dissapointed me, but that may have been because of the book's reputation (often heralded as one of Laymon's best). It wasn't bad at all, it's just that it was far more dark comedy than horror per se (even through it has a cult of serial killers and a very nasty ending).
Currently reading MUSEUM OF TERRORS, a series of short stories by Jinwo Ito (UZUMAKI, GYO), mostly about "Tomie", a girl who remains young and beutiful throughout years. Unfortunately for her, her admirers invariably wind up killing her. And unfortunately for them, Tomie always comes back with gory revenge in her mind...
Very good, definitely recommended for fans of japanese horror.
P. S. Nice hearing from you again, EdgarAllen, we haven't heard from you in ages... Hope your books are going allright.
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Scorpio
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08/21/07 11:19 PM
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I've been keeping a list this year of everything I've read and am currently reading. I thought it would be cool to look back at the end of the year and feel a bit of accomplishment. I really started to read like a madman this year. In order:
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (re-read)
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
England, England - Julian Barnes
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton (re-read)
The Anna Strong Chronicles: The Becoming (Book 1) - Jeanne Stein
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway (re-read)
Stardust - Neil Gaiman (re-read)
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Anna Strong Chronicles: Blood Drive (Book 2) - Jeanne Stein
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
I am Legend (and other shorts) - Richard Matheson
American Gods - Neil Gaiman (re-reading)
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Brandon
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09/04/07 10:07 PM
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I'm currently reading Caleb Carr's The Alienist. I'm only about 200 pages in, but I love the tone. Very dark and atmospheric. It reads almost like a classic.
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Tales of Imagination and Mystery by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Poe is excellent. If you have not done so, take some time to study the man, he has quite an interesting history. As you can imagine he is often defined as a tragic figure and opium addict. Opinions vary on his addictions. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to see Jonathan Frid (of Dark Shadows/Barnabas Collins fame) in a one-man stage performance portraying Poe. Apologizes for not remembering the play's title 
Anyway, I don't quite know how this has happened, but I'm stuck in the middle of two books right at the moment, WOLVES OF THE CALLA and WORLD WAR Z. So far both have been excellent.
In the meantime, I have finished THE ASSAULT ON REASON by Al Gore and THE DaVINCI CODE by Dan Brown. Not horror, but both were excellent books. Most folks here are probably somewhat familiar with THE DaVINCI CODE. I have not seen the movie, but I'm told the book is far more satisfying. If you like stories concerning the evolution and history of religion or DaVinci conspiries this will be up your alley.
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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. One of the best zombie stories ever PERIOD!
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Knifey
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09/22/07 06:33 AM
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Just finished The Revolt of the Masses by Ortega Gasset. He was a 20th century philosopher from Spain who had much to say about society, most notably its decline and its growing decedence in the Western world. It was written in the 30's but what is eerie is that his observations seem to ring even truer today than when this was written. Good stuff.
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I just finished Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne, which i read in about 6-7 hours. It just blew my mind, i haven't been into a book like that in years. I'm also reading The Serial Killer Club, and Dexter in the Dark.
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I'm about half way through Stephen King's From A Buick 8 at the moment, I hope it gets better...
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The New Atlantis by Ursula K. Le Guin. This was my first Le Guin read, who is best known for her fantasy work. This particular short piece is a *utopia gone wrong* story in the vein of Orwell's 1984 or V for Vendetta. The narrative flip-flops between the main character's reality in which she guides the reader through her bleak existence and a fantasy narrative which is hard to follow dreamy vision of an unrestrained, better way of life. What I found interesting about the story is how relative it is to today's environmental and social issues. Though the book was written circa 1975 global warming (which is mentioned by name), food shortages and rationing, and an energy crisis are all written about in a way that will make you think your reading today's newspaper. If you enjoyed either of the stories above I would highly recommend this one.
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I'm about half way through Stephen King's From A Buick 8 at the moment, I hope it gets better...
I finished it a while back. It's an absolutely terrible book. If this is the best Stephen King can do these days then he needs to hang it up...
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I'm about half way through Stephen King's From A Buick 8 at the moment, I hope it gets better...
I finished it a while back. It's an absolutely terrible book. If this is the best Stephen King can do these days then he needs to hang it up...
Sorry to hear that. I have not gotten around to this one. I'm a little hit and miss on some of King's more recent stuff as well. Tobe Hooper is tagged to do a movie version of BUICK 8. I know his newer stuff hasn't been too popular either, but he's made some of my favorite films an I keep hoping he'll soon give us something more akin to his early works.
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They Thirst by Robert R. McCammon.
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I'm about half way through Stephen King's From A Buick 8 at the moment, I hope it gets better...
I finished it a while back. It's an absolutely terrible book. If this is the best Stephen King can do these days then he needs to hang it up...
Sorry to hear that. I have not gotten around to this one. I'm a little hit and miss on some of King's more recent stuff as well. Tobe Hooper is tagged to do a movie version of BUICK 8. I know his newer stuff hasn't been too popular either, but he's made some of my favorite films an I keep hoping he'll soon give us something more akin to his early works.
I'm a huge fan of King's books, and I love several of the the films based on them. His newer work is definitely lackluster, but doesn't detract from my love of his older stories. I'll probably pass on the film version of Buick 8. The story just isn't that good IMO...
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They Thirst by Robert R. McCammon.
I'm a McCammon fan and They Thirst was cool. Big cast, lots of action, crazy ending. Particularly thought the main character's family origin at the beginning was a nice touch.
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I've been picking my way through several short stories this past week:
The Exiles by Ray Bradbury
The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Manned Missiles by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A Tree of Night by Truman Capote
Where the Girls Were Different by Erskine Caldwell
Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
Will probably do a more detailed post on a couple of these some other time (especially The Exiles), when I can keep my eyes open. Short fiction is a great medium, and it's a great way to introduce yourself to authors who you may not be familiar with or are trying to decide if it's worth your time to read one of their longer works.
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Wow, some classics there. 
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I really like The Lottery. It is the one with the stoning isn't it? I haven't thought of that story since high school...
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While I'm battling my latest bout of insomnia and sleep seems like a million light years away I'd like to touch on The Walking Dead. Something of major importance and extreme violence has happened in the series over the last 3 or 4 issues "#46 - #49". If you're a fan you need to read it soon.
Here's a little heads up for collectors. There is a 1 in 25 or 50 "can't remember which" variant for The Walking Dead #50. It will be a major turning point in the story if not the ending of the series. It's probably a good idea to reserve a copy now because it's going to get extremely expensive very quickly...
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When I want to read but can't decide quite what I'm in the mood for, I often pick up my old, decrepit copy of Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. I studied from some other Norton anthologies in college, but not this one. I picked this up at a yard sale or something for a buck. The cover is half off of it, it's dog-eared to death and at least three former pupils have made margin notes. But somehow it's a very comforting book. The feel and sound of the pages, the way the spine bends perfectly even though it's 1500 pages, the awesome story selections, the neato discussion questions at the end... it's just a cool friggin book, it often inspires me to read after a dry spell.
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If you're into the debate between science vs. religion then The Star by Arthur C. Clarke is something you should check out. Published in 1955, this short tale chronicles a deep-space discovery made by a astrophysicist and devout Catholic that could seemingly disprove the existence of God as described in the bible. What I took away from the story was Clarke asking if taking away hope from the faithful is for the greater good, even if it's false hope.Quote:
I really like The Lottery. It is the one with the stoning isn't it?
Yeah, that's it.
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I really like The Lottery. It is the one with the stoning isn't it?
Yeah, that's it.
Awesome! Apparently my memory isn't as shitty as I thought...
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Awesome! Apparently my memory isn't as shitty as I thought...
This is actually my 2nd or 3rd read thru of The Lottery. I enjoy the story a great deal, but something about it has always nagged at me and I finally realized that the origin of the ritual is never really explained. It's hinted that at one time in the past resources were maybe so scarce it was necessary to *thin the heard,* but it's very much concealed. It's also hinted at that whatever the reason for the ritual, it is no longer a necessary function so much as a tradition like Valentine's or Memorial Day, they just keep doing it for nostalgia or something.
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Awesome! Apparently my memory isn't as shitty as I thought...
This is actually my 2nd or 3rd read thru of The Lottery. I enjoy the story a great deal, but something about it has always nagged at me and I finally realized that the origin of the ritual is never really explained. It's hinted that at one time in the past resources were maybe so scarce it was necessary to *thin the heard,* but it's very much concealed. It's also hinted at that whatever the reason for the ritual, it is no longer a necessary function so much as a tradition like Valentine's or Memorial Day, they just keep doing it for nostalgia or something.
I actually prefer a story that isn't 100% explained. It just seems cooler when they leave a little something to the imagination. Maybe that's why I like Romero's dead films so much. There's something a bit vague about them, and that appeals to me for some reason. More often than not "especially in the horror genre" explaining every little thing seems to cheapen the story for me. I like filling in some gaps with my imagination...
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I actually prefer a story that isn't 100% explained. It just seems cooler when they leave a little something to the imagination. Maybe that's why I like Romero's dead films so much. There's something a bit vague about them, and that appeals to me for some reason. More often than not "especially in the horror genre" explaining every little thing seems to cheapen the story for me. I like filling in some gaps with my imagination...
Actually, that's a very good point. But sometimes it's like an itch you can't scratch though.
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A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Not horror, but Sherlock Holmes is always a good time. I'm not sure how many of these I have read over the years, but it would have to be at least half. Everyone should at least read Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle does a pretty good job of conveying some creepiness in this one, especially when out on the moors.
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The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Movie is coming out soon, want to get this one under my belt before seeing it.
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Have fun with it EA. The Watchmen is awesome...
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Books of Blood I by Clive Barker.
I thought Midnight Meat Train was going to be slasher type story. It definitely did not go the way I was expecting by the end.
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Barker's Books of Blood rank very, very highly in my list of fav reads of all time.
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I want to read The Books Of Blood series myself.
I'm not a huge Clive Barker fan, but I've heard nothing but good things about Books Of Blood since hearing about them here at horrorspeak.
What did you think about The Watchmen Edgar Allen?
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I want to read The Books Of Blood series myself.
I'm not a huge Clive Barker fan, but I've heard nothing but good things about Books Of Blood since hearing about them here at horrorspeak.
What did you think about The Watchmen Edgar Allen?
I'm taking my time on The Watchmen, only a couple of chapters into it so far, reading it on my computer. I've only got a half story left to finish the first Book of Blood. Cool stuff.
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Books of Blood trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLXQ5I2zRc
Wait, that is Book of Blood, not Books... you'll know it when you see the trailer.
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Books of Blood II by Clive Barker.
The first set was awesome. Some stories got quite philosophical (in the same way that Hellraiser does) and there's alot of symbolism used as well, especially In the Hills, the Cities. I started questioning how original Thomas Harris' Hannibal novel was after reading Barker's Pig Blood Blues.
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