or maybe it started out that way.
Oh, wow, he had a ton of pseudonyms, geez. Shattered was written under one, which explains why it sucked hard. House of Thunder wasn't too bad, though.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2004 7:53:26 pm PDT #871 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JenP - Jun 26, 2004 7:56:48 pm PDT #872 of 10001
It did.
I've been watching a lot of Farscape lately -- the second cover? Guy in the back looks like Scorpius to me. And now I've just gotten so far offa the thread road, I'm just going to stop for the night.
Allyson - Jun 26, 2004 8:05:27 pm PDT #873 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I adored The Talisman when I was young. There was a second book that took place when Jack Sawyer grew up that made me sad, it was a character better left in my head, where he's eternallly twelve years old.
SailAweigh - Jun 26, 2004 8:23:24 pm PDT #874 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
a book initiated me into all-nighters
The Exorcist. Stayed up almost 2 days to finish that bugger. Not so much because it was so spellbinding. I was just too damn scared to go to sleep.
arby - Jun 26, 2004 8:43:14 pm PDT #875 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
I adored The Talisman when I was young.
Yeah, The Talisman also rocked. Even the part that grossed me out beyond belief, in the end, with the worms coming out of his face.
There was a second book that took place when Jack Sawyer grew up that made me sad, it was a character better left in my head, where he's eternallly twelve years old.
Black House. I liked it OK, not as good as the first one though. There were some elements I liked a lot, others were just silly.
ETA I love how the Dark Tower series is expanding to include all these books, like The Talisman, that weren't originally intended to be part of it. The world creep, very cool.
I was just too damn scared to go to sleep.
Dude, this is the same reason I pulled the allnighter after reading Salem's Lot. I kept seeing vampires outside my window.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2004 9:17:32 pm PDT #876 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I picked up a King collection a few months ago, and one story scared the beejezus out of me (perhaps because it concerned a haunted hotel room, and resonated with my own recent experience with such?). This is not an easy thing to do, as I've been gleefully reading Clive Barker and H.P. Lovecraft since I was a teenager. While I think he's become hopeless with the novel form (or in his case, mega-novel), the man can still write amazing short stories.
§ ita § - Jun 26, 2004 9:50:00 pm PDT #877 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think I'll read Black House, since Talisman immediately became one of my favourite books. Grossed me out wrt seagulls, too.
And I agree with Matt on the short stories -- I've liked his long books, but his short stories scare the crap out of me.
d - Jun 27, 2004 5:35:56 am PDT #878 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
You can get pretty interesting mostly clear shower curtains that make the bathroom still look nice and yet prevent you from having the "I know someone is lurking in my shower just waiting to have at me" feelings. Also helps to keep your bathroom from feeling too closed in.
I don't mind Crichton, but I apparently have atrocious taste in fiction. Ok, I didn't like all of his stuff, but I was drawn to Timeline. (Castles! Jousting! Armour! What's not to love?) King novels I'm not so fond of, but his short stories can be quite creepy.
Back to that Tim guy.... I've been rewatching Firefly now that I've taken them back from my BF (who sadly wasn't watching them on his own). I think I enjoy them much more on rewatch than I ever did on tv. Oh sure, I watched faithfully because it was Mutant Enemy, but I don't think I ENJOYED as much as I am now. I think it's also more fun because I can't catch repeats on tv, so when I revisit them now after months of forgetting plot details it feels fresh and new. I was trying to emulate Allyson's brain-marination in Out of Gas. Not sure I accomplished it, but sure did enjoy watching it.
Kristen - Jun 27, 2004 9:37:17 am PDT #879 of 10001
I'm mostly okay with shower curtains. But thanks to The Legacy, I can't deal with shower doors.
Daisy Jane - Jun 27, 2004 10:16:28 am PDT #880 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
From way up
Do either of you eat Twix so that it breaks off just where the little holes are? The ones in the cookie part, I mean. (If you do this, you'll know what I mean -- if you don't, then I seem very insane right now.)
Twix are a whole process. First the bit of chocolate around the edge, then the caramel/chocolate top down to the cookie part, then the cookie part with the chocolate bottom.
Having not read any SF or horror lately, I can't contribute to the current conversation, except to say that I used to have a book of horror stories that had excellent Joyce Carol Oates and Bierce stories along with one by someone I can't remember about Jack the Ripper that I loved.