What do you like moviewise then? Bergman? Kurosawa? Tarkovskij? Godard?You were right about me--I don't care for Kubrick at all.Or Spielberg. Or Tarantino. And I DESPISE Woody Allen. (all in reference to their movies--I don't care much about famous people's private lives--lol).
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I like Inarritu, Scorsese (even in his excesses, he's interesting), Nolan, Wes Anderson, Del Toro, Nolan, Haneke, Cronenberg, Holst, Boyle... so many. Books are only slightly ahead of movies and music in my mind. It's a good thing I like to walk/hike or I'd grow into my couch--lol.
Y'all have intrigued me--the only thing I've read by him is Candles Burning, and that because Mrs. King finished it. I think I have a new (to me) author to look up
I highly recommend his Blackwater series. That'll be $1, please.
You can't judge him by the Candles Burning book. I think I could pin-point exactly where Tabby took over the writing to finish the tale. It's not a true 'McDowell' novel.That is what you would recommend for a McDowell virgin? In order or does that not matter?
I highly recommend his Blackwater series. That'll be $1, please.
Just checked and our library has his Blackwater series in 2 volumesI highly recommend his Blackwater series. That'll be $1, please.
No others, but it will be a start. Wow, but his books are spendy at Amazon! I'll be keeping an eye out at secondhand stores from now on. Thanks again, KRF
The order matters a lot! They are numbered 1-6. You MUST read them in that order. Enjoy!
Edit: Please remember this is not literary fiction by far! It's just really good gothic/horror/camp, but a cut above the likes of John Saul, Dean Koontz, et al. In my opinion at least.
Yes there was. I was there, saw the whole thing.
But seriously, 'stealing' may be too harsh a word, yet you can't deny that, without Byron's fragment, Polly Dolly wouldn't have come up the idea for The Vampire. Independent thought was not one of the doctor's strong suits. And naming the villain of his piece 'Lord Ruthven', after Caroline Lamb's take on Byron, could hardly be called a homage--more like a jab at the poet. He'd have good reason to do so, considering Byron's foul treatment of Polidori.
True. I only meant that Byrons fragment is totally renounce on vampires. so he had to do the work himself. And the thing that differs, and did have a big influence later on is to make the vampire as a noble which was an idea that stuck. In byrons fragment he was an an elderly wealthy man. No mention of a noble man with a title. Like Lord or Count. But it is absolutely correct to say that Polidori wasn't great in the idea department. I haven't read it and from what i've read about it it isn't very good but very influential since it was a source for Le Fanu, Varney, the Vampire and in the end Stoker.
I'm a little under halfway through 'Salem's Lot. Work has been crazy this week so I haven't had much time for reading. Hoping to finish it this weekend, though.
Indeed, sir. You say true, I say thankee.
Now, as for Frankenstein, Mary stole THAT idea from my great, great, great Uncle Silas Worthington Muskrat--then she kicked him in the pills. Not cricket.
She must have been a forceful lady. It is all acording to the socialdarwinistic bastardization of Darwins ideas "The Strongest will Survive!".
But i'm sorry for Uncle Silas.
As CYB said, the Blackwater books are a series and must be read in order. There are 6 original volumes, but the bookclub editions come in two volumes with vol. 1 containing books 1-3 and vol. 2 containing books 4-6. If you're referring to his other novels, then you don't need to read them in order of publication.
If you enjoy the Blackwater books (which I'm sure you will), then look on thriftbooks.com for others. Orders over $10 come with free shipping! And, if you really like his writing, I have a list of non-de-plumes he used.Just checked and our library has his Blackwater series in 2 volumes
YAY! I'll definitely take you up on that if I like what I read
They do have his whole Blackwater series on Kindle for $9.99, but I'm not a huge fan of e-books--my attention starts to wander after a very few pages, and they look like books that have some world-building that I need to note.
Yeah, I've got a write a book review for it for my Western Civilization class at college. Also, my favorite directors are, in no particular order:
David Lynch
David Cronenberg
Alfred Hitchcock
Fritz Lang
Sam Peckinpah
John Hughes
John Woo
Brian De Palma
Martin Scorcese
John Frankenheimer
David Fincher
Nicholas Winding Refn
Quentin Tarantino
Paul Verhoeven
Francis Ford Coppola
Stanley Kubrick
Guillermo Del Toro
Christopher Nolan
Kinji Fukasaku
Takeshi Kitano
Michael Mann
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
You were right about me--I don't care for Kubrick at all.
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