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Blurredman wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: |
One of my favourites. I kind of wish he'd quit with the spooky stuff though... |
I myself quite like his 80's to mid 90's period spooky stuff. It is my opinion that I enjoy this time more than when his other books came out. When his writing got sleaker, and he was become so very popular and indeed with the publicity of being outted he himself became popular and prolific from that.
As someone who has read his early and very long 1000 page books. I can say with certainty that I think his style has got better, and that his ideas, whilst maybe not original are at least not as obvious that he had influence from other books/people. |
I just think that the genre is not what I enjoy most about S.K.'s writing. I don't read horror from any other authors, particularly. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 15:41 - 23 Apr 2020 Post subject: |
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I'd recommend any of Edward Rutherford's books (Sarum, London, Russka, New York, etc.)
He sets each novel about a place at the beginning of its history. For example London starts with Ceasers invasion in 54BC, and works its way all the way up to the Blitz and the present day. The characters are from the same families through the generations, and they are intertwined with major historical events.
New York starts with New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way.. |
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I have just read a book called Marked For Death by Tony Kent - at last, an author who doesn't feel he needs to round it off with a mushy / cheesy / Americanised finish.
I now need the charity shops to re-open so I can find his first book, since this was the second. ____________________ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss |
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Clanger wrote: | - at last, an author who doesn't feel he needs to round it off with a mushy / cheesy / Americanised finish. |
I did that once, I wrote a full novel, back before I lost my writing mojo ... it was a bit soppy, I was very young and overly romanticised it ... but I've lost it now - it was on a 3.5 floppy ... it ended with the (apparent) hero of the piece (an undercover cop) being murdered, shot mafia-stylee in front of his new bride.
Luckily there was a conveniently handsome and stylish anti-hero to hold the heroine's hand as she wept over her dead husband.
I gave it to a friend to read, and she came back and handed it to me with a sad little face, and said "Oh Jenny, what an awful ending, you need to change that."
But I've lost the draft now *sigh*
I wrote most of it on my kitchen table, accompanied to the Rolling Stones Greatest Hits. Every time I hear Gimme Shelter, it reminds me of that novel. Bloody wish I could find it again ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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I've just got down "The Prince" (Niccolo Machiavelli) to read; it's been sat up there for WAY TOO LONG and because it is reasonably short, I figured I could do it justice in what's left of the lockdown - seeing as how I have achieved fuck all else
I have a long list of classics I haven't yet crossed off ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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I have just finished The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson - an international best seller by all accounts.
This started off as a really good adventure and great read, but it started getting bogged down in too much irrelevant detail...and then didn't finish where it should have finished. So I stopped reading it at the point I felt the story ended.
The sad thing about this book is, that the initial pages started falling out, each time I got further through the book more pages fell out. Which was rather distracting too. They need gluing back in, which I cannot d o. ____________________ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind - Dr. Seuss |
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Been back to mostly military history stuff lately, currently close to finishing one on fast jets in Vietnam.
But my mind has also been on mountains again lately. I think I'm trying to figure out a way to go and die on one - since if I try anything ambitious, that is undoubtedly what I will do
So, browsing t'net I stumbled on a blog site by one Mark Horrell. I've read a few of his his free E books and enjoyed them. Here's a mountain man after my own heart! For him I think it has always been more about enjoying his time among such spectacular regions of the Earth, rather than climbing, or anything so dodgy
A taster from his website:
https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2020/why-im-not-a-big-fan-of-rock-climbing/
Are you taking note, ThunderGuts & mentalboy?
And then I saw he had a book up that I hadn't read, so sacrificed a couple of kilos of rice for the month, and will be launching into it shortly:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014RGVXAS/?tag=markhorr-21 ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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The Keep - F. Paul Wilson
Watched the film several times- really enjoying the book! ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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thx1138 wrote: | Blurredman wrote: | The Keep - F. Paul Wilson
Watched the film several times- really enjoying the book! |
lucky you.
I read the book as a teen, loved it.
Then saw the film as an adult, it sucked.
Well, it sucked in comparison to the book.
Enjoy. |
I have seen the film 3 times. I kinda like it.. I enjoyed the book- I really thought the interactions between the Professor and the 'Evil one' were so engrosing.
As for the book I am reading now, 'A Brother's Tale'. Apparently once a mini -tv series int he 80's featuring Trevor Eve, but I can't find any info about it anywhere. ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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panrider_uk wrote: | The MArtian - the book of the film with Matt Damon in it. |
I thought the movie was pretty good. Some people panned it for various reasons, but what were they expecting, someone to actually go to Mars and film a documentary? There's a reason it's called science fiction ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Yeah, that bit was pretty daft. But hey, it's Hollywood, not NASA. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 208 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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