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fishonjazz said:
I loved tommyknockers.
Movie was horrible though
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Sadly most King movies have been horrible. Ever since he was big enough to take creative control his movies went downhill fast. Carrie was good, so was the Shining and Dead Zone, but most after have been crap. Pet Sematary desperately needs a good reboot to erase the crap that it was originally.
 
E.J. Wells said:
I read The Tommyknockers. I wish I hadn't.


Aliens just don't, and probably never will, make a good story. Ever.
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Read the Puppet Masters by Heinlein. That will change your mind about this topic.
 
Read "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. It was a hard and slow read but I liked it.

Going to read "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Henry Melville, author of "Moby Dick". Then I am off to read "A Song of Ice and Fire"
 
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The Diamond in Your Pocket - Gangaji. I almost put it down after a couple pages when I found out Gangaji was a blonde haired white woman from Mississippi masquerading as an Indian name and not an actual Indian sage, but I'm glad I didn't. Pretty insightful book.
 
As I get further into Dr. Sleep I am finding it a very good sequel to the shining. It doesn't have the same weight the original did, but in many ways it is a better story. But then again, not much of King's post-drug-days books have the same moody and horrifying aura that his drug-fueled psycho stuff did anyway.
 
A couple of enthusiastic reviews here:

I just finished John McPhee's tome on geology titled "Annals of the Former World." He took over twenty years to write this material, over which time he worked with a handful of leading geologists, doing multiple field trips with them, etc. McPhee was a writer for the New Yorker (I think), and wrote on a wide range of topics. He was formally trained in English Literature or something like that, and in this book he's as concerned about the geologist with whom he is working as he is the geology. Through this book, you can see how scientific senses of things meet with the comportment/faculties of the geologist with his "nose on the crop." Fantastic descriptions throughout.

Otherwise, I've been reading as much W.G. Sebald as possible. I've never read anything like this guy; most people have a hard time putting him in a category. It's a melange of well-researched history, speculative fiction, and memoir. He has these long paragraphs that drift from one sense to another, at surprisingly different scales and intensities, across the literary equivalent of an alluvial fan. It's hard to describe. He's definitely committed to an open-ended psychology, and the necessity of movement (bodies are always moving and feeling... feeling as they move...). He opens up himself in every piece he writes, and you get a clear sense of how the act of writing itself has changed his sense of himself, and thus, his psychology. I'd suggest THE EMIGRANTS and THE RINGS OF SATURN, in particular.
 
LogGrad98 said:
As I get further into Dr. Sleep I am finding it a very good sequel to the shining. It doesn't have the same weight the original did, but in many ways it is a better story. But then again, not much of King's post-drug-days books have the same moody and horrifying aura that his drug-fueled psycho stuff did anyway.
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Please give a review of your thought on Dr Sleep when you finish.

I cant decide if i will buy it or not.
 
One of my favorite stories is the wayward pines story. Books one and two were incredible.
Book 3 comes out on july 15th and i cant wait!

Fox is airing a tv series called wayward pines soon starring matt dillon, juliette lewis, terrance howard, and shannyn sossaman.
Produced by m knight shamalan.


The books (and the show) get compared to the tv show Twin Peaks alot.... so if anyone liked that show then you should take a look at thia series.
 
fishonjazz said:
One of my favorite stories is the wayward pines story. Books one and two were incredible.
Book 3 comes out on july 15th and i cant wait!

Fox is airing a tv series called wayward pines soon starring matt dillon, juliette lewis, terrance howard, and shannyn sossaman.
Produced by m knight shamalan.


The books (and the show) get compared to the tv show Twin Peaks alot.... so if anyone liked that show then you should take a look at thia series.
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You started to lose me at "Matt Dillon" and then DOA'd with "M. Knight Shalabungholio".
 
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