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09-08-2009, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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I just read "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells and really enjoyed it.
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09-08-2009, 11:05 AM
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#2352
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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^^war of the worlds was good.
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09-09-2009, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Still reading Nightmares And Dreamscapes, but I just have to vent after reading The Chattery Teeth.
Killer Chattery Teeth? Really? Like...wow. Stephen King has a lot of mediocre work, but this was just...crap. He REALLY didn't try at all with that one and its worse than a lamp monster. I hope it was a joke.
That said...I'd totally go see it if it ever gets a movie deal.
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09-09-2009, 04:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
Still reading Nightmares And Dreamscapes, but I just have to vent after reading The Chattery Teeth.
Killer Chattery Teeth? Really? Like...wow. Stephen King has a lot of mediocre work, but this was just...crap. He REALLY didn't try at all with that one and its worse than a lamp monster. I hope it was a joke.
That said...I'd totally go see it if it ever gets a movie deal.
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Before anyone mentions it, I checked Wikipedia and they made a tv short film for Chattery Teeth.
I just don't know what to think any more.
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09-09-2009, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
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Aah that's what that was. I saw that on TV quite a long time ago and had no idea what the hell I was watching. The other story on it features people's hands having their own will and wishing for freedom.
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09-10-2009, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raptor
Aah that's what that was. I saw that on TV quite a long time ago and had no idea what the hell I was watching. The other story on it features people's hands having their own will and wishing for freedom.
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Yeah, Quicksilver Highway, the other story was Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Body Politic by Clive Barker, according to wiki Barker even makes a cameo. I never read it but thanks, now I know what I'm in for ^_^
It just doesn't sound as stupid as killer chattery teeth. Its like...a bad Are You Afraid Of The Dark episode.
I'm reading the story The Moving Finger, where a guy find a finger moving around in his sink.
You're killing me, Mr. King.
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09-10-2009, 07:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
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Well, King either strikes gold or he just fucks around helplessly. Sometimes he gets it so right you can hardly bear it; other times...well, I've read those unsalvageably lame stories you're reading. Just - just no.
I'm re-reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I like this particular edition because it shows both the original text and the changes she made years later, plus photos of her handwritten notes. It's more interesting to follow her train of thought, her self-criticism, and her evolving perspective than it really is to read the story once again. Also, this has PB Shelley's "A Fragment" (which looked as though it had had a promising start) and Polidori's "Vampyre" as extras.
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09-10-2009, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
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I'm reading "The Neuromancer" by William Gibson.
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09-12-2009, 06:06 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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A little fed up with Stephen King's bullshit, reading Crime And Punishment instead.
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09-12-2009, 07:48 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hell Hall
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
A little fed up with Stephen King's bullshit.
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how can you say that.
why if i may ask?
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09-13-2009, 08:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Just finished rereading the Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, now trying to decide between The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer or The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
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09-13-2009, 08:23 AM
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#2362
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: In a desert place
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I found an online copy of Brave New World, which is my favorite book, so I've been reading that.
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09-13-2009, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: California
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
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09-13-2009, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
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Oh, I love that book. Have you read it before? I don't want to go on about my favourite parts if it will spoil something for you.
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09-13-2009, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: California
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ophelia's Snorkel
Oh, I love that book. Have you read it before? I don't want to go on about my favourite parts if it will spoil something for you.
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Me? No, I haven't read it before and I'm not done yet. I'm right at the part where Solando tells Teddy [in code] that she thinks patient 67 is whatisname. But shhh!  I can't wait to see how it ends.
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09-13-2009, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
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I can hardly wait until you finish it! You'll have to post when you do.
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09-13-2009, 08:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
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Look back in anger.
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09-14-2009, 04:35 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hell Hall
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki sixx
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09-14-2009, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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I'm reading The Alphabet of Manliness by Maddox.
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09-15-2009, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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Absolute Sandman. Now all I need is Volume 1!!!!! =D
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09-15-2009, 06:45 PM
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#2371
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
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Reading (or rather listening, since it's an audio book) to "At the Earth's Core" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Unfortunately I listened to the 1st 5 chapters of the sequel before discovering the preceding book.
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09-15-2009, 09:56 PM
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#2372
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
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Almost finished Memoirs of a Geisha, about to start on George Orwell's 1984.
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09-15-2009, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
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Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress was good, and I'm about to start The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Heard it was realllllly good.
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09-16-2009, 11:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: You wish you knew
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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09-18-2009, 10:34 AM
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#2375
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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Neil Gaiman - American God's, it's great!! ^_^
That guy has fantastic imagination!
Next up is either - Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z Brite, or some book I found on Cults for £2, bargain!!
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