DeltaSigChi4
Howling Windigo
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Post by DeltaSigChi4 on Aug 29, 2011 21:12:33 GMT -8
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Aug 29, 2011 21:27:26 GMT -8
Those sure are books. You're almost there buddy!
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Post by Horned Gramma on Oct 2, 2011 17:22:42 GMT -8
Having finished The Dark Tower about two weeks ago (HOLD OFF ON DISCUSSION! STORMY IS STILL ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED PAGES FROM THE END!) and then after having punished myself most brutally by reading IT, I now am reading the third volume of Clive Barker's Abarat. It's been a full seven years since the last book so it's pretty exciting. Shit is downright apocalyptic in singular Barker style. As I've said before, I consider Clive Barker's to be the most unique and expansive imagination currently telling stories. The first Abarat book is the one that introduced me to his hundreds of worlds, so although I'm deeply concerned that the man will die before he manages to finish any of the massive stories he has established during his career, it's downright fucking delightful to have the next chapter in one of his best.  |
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 2, 2011 17:28:49 GMT -8
Hg, tell me you've read Insomnia...
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Post by Horned Gramma on Oct 2, 2011 17:45:21 GMT -8
Oh totally. Although after the Dark Tower I intend to read it again.
I loved that book.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 2, 2011 20:41:54 GMT -8
Totally my favorite standalone of his. Followed closely by It.
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Post by interstateeight on Oct 2, 2011 20:50:32 GMT -8
Holy shit JWW is back.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 2, 2011 21:07:22 GMT -8
I promise I'm not here to make your job harder.
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Post by Drew on Oct 2, 2011 21:12:57 GMT -8
Sadly it looks like that Dark Tower movie project (or movie/tv series project) isn't going to get off the ground anytime soon.
I'm trying to listen to the books with my girlfriend but she can't get past how boring the Gunslinger is. It is a little boring, but not when you understand how important everything is.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Oct 3, 2011 7:01:15 GMT -8
It took me like two hours to read The Gunslinger. I didn't think it was boring at all, but even if I had I would have been able to remind myself that two hundred pages worth of exposition is probably pretty necessary for a seven thousand page story.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Oct 3, 2011 8:19:07 GMT -8
I actually loved the Gunslinger. I know it was all exposition, but I was still really gripped by it. When I was done I was chomping at the bit for more. Once you get past that setup things really start moving.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 3, 2011 9:58:23 GMT -8
I also found The Gunslinger to be really gripping. Wolves of the Calla is my favorite though, i think.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Oct 3, 2011 9:59:50 GMT -8
I think The Wastelands was my favorite, but I also really enjoyed Wizard and Glass quite a lot.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 3, 2011 10:02:22 GMT -8
On my recent readthrough, I basically skipped almost all of Wizard and Glass because I had just finished reading the graphic novels.
But I could never skip the beginning, because
Blaine is a Pain
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Post by StormyPinkness on Oct 3, 2011 12:38:23 GMT -8
This is the truth.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 3, 2011 12:40:06 GMT -8
It is known.
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Post by J-Dawg on Oct 3, 2011 17:27:55 GMT -8
Re: Insomnia, that was an excellent novel. I think my favorites of his are (in no particular order): Misery, Kujo, and It.
In particular I thought Misery was very well done. Novel-length horror is an extremely difficult thing to get right (witness Dean Koontz' string of near (and not so near) misses). Misery managed to be utterly horrifying all the way through, without needless graphic violence that turned the tone comedic and with just the right pacing to not go too far, too fast. Brilliant.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Oct 3, 2011 18:19:50 GMT -8
I'd seen the TV movie of IT so many times I was convinced that the novel wouldn't hold many surprises for me. Ho dams was I wrong about that. Turns out the only thing about that movie that worked at all was Tim Curry as Pennywise. They used only the barest elements of the plot.
The book was one of the few times in my life where I've been actually pretty frightened by a book. For as long as it was, it was so terribly aggressive on almost every page. I really, really loved it.
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Post by J. Walter Weatherman on Oct 3, 2011 18:42:42 GMT -8
I read that shit in sixth grade and I remember being terrified the whole time. I think that IT was the reason I didn't like dreamcatcher, because I liked the whole kids/adult thing and I thought it wasn't done as well.plus SPOILERS: pennywise was a way cooler et than "ister gay"
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Post by Horned Gramma on Oct 3, 2011 18:46:53 GMT -8
Dreamcatcher was bullshit. Just really bad. It's like he just piled all of his lame affectations into a big mess and left any story that might come of it to chance.
However at the beginning of the summer I read The Regulators and Desperation and that was quite a ride. I'm glad I read them before The Dark Tower and IT because it wouldn't have looked as good in comparison, but I thought the idea and the execution of that pair of books was pretty cool. Desperation in particular was pretty rad.
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