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Post by mode09 on Jun 20, 2010 17:00:07 GMT -5
Horns by Joe Hill. One of the best stories I ever read!!!
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Post by saucefox on Jun 20, 2010 21:07:11 GMT -5
bought charlaine harris' first sookie stackhouse novel. dammit. i can't help it. True Blood is totally making me happy right now (i just finished the first season...yes, i'm late hopping on the bandwagon. i hate bandwagons, but sometimes one just has to hop). so anyway, yeah, very excited to read it. now, sookie stackhouse....fuck. how can i be all OMG SOOKIE 4-EVA? but alas, she's got me. so we'll see if i find the novels as skillfully constructed as i find the series. it's all gonna depend on the voice, man. i want sookie to sound like jane fucking eyre. that may be asking too much. we'll see. alas, the show is a billion times more crafted and evocative. the dude who adapted the novels for HBO is a goddamn genius. dude, NO setting descriptions. nothing lush or crafted about the language -- poppy z brite she freaking ain't!
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Post by saucefox on Jun 21, 2010 11:45:31 GMT -5
bought charlaine harris' first sookie stackhouse novel. dammit. i can't help it. True Blood is totally making me happy right now (i just finished the first season...yes, i'm late hopping on the bandwagon. i hate bandwagons, but sometimes one just has to hop). so anyway, yeah, very excited to read it. now, sookie stackhouse....fuck. how can i be all OMG SOOKIE 4-EVA? but alas, she's got me. so we'll see if i find the novels as skillfully constructed as i find the series. it's all gonna depend on the voice, man. i want sookie to sound like jane fucking eyre. that may be asking too much. we'll see. alas, the show is a billion times more crafted and evocative. the dude who adapted the novels for HBO is a goddamn genius. dude, NO setting descriptions. nothing lush or crafted about the language -- poppy z brite she freaking ain't! & dammit now that i'm 2/3 through season two, i'm so fucking irritated. i'm so soooooooo out on sookie right now.
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Post by chukrok on Jul 20, 2010 8:46:47 GMT -5
Currently reading The Living Dead, a collection of short stories featuring Clive Barker, Laurell K Hamilton, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King and Poppy Z. Brite (to name a few). It's pretty good so far Personally, I didn't really care for this collection overall. There were a couple of stories that I liked, but as anthologies go, I preferred Book of the Dead. (Skipp & Spector, ed.) Just finished World War Z, however and I loved it.
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