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Yes, yes and YES!!!I picked it up today after a week or so (I'm also reading four other books - never again!). I was only on about page 30 or so - now I'm on page 75. It started out good, but holy WOW, in the last 45 pages it has become CRAZY good!!! I think the other books will be put on hold until I finish this one (probably over the weekend). Do you think I should read Swan Song, They Thirst, or Mine after this?
I'm guessing the answer is YES!!!You think
You think we should read of all Robert McCammon, Don't you?
You think
You think we should read of all Robert McCammon, Don't you?
Don't make it seem like it's a bad thing. You will all thank me later........I'm guessing the answer is YES!!!
I've not read those but I plan to get around to them . . .
YESI'm guessing the answer is YES!!!
and don't forget his Matthew Corbett series!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the I Walk the Night novellas!!!!!!
Reading me a sweet trade PB reprint compilation of a little known comic strip that appeared in the final issues of DC's old horror mag House Of Mystery called I...Vampire. Early eighties cheese, really, but splendid artwork by Tom Sutton. Real old school stuff, with plenty of panels and words, like comics used to be. Gaudy color, lots of reds, natch. Sutton's work appears, at first, sloppy and sketchy, but done in a style that echoes masters of before, such as Ditko and Kubert. Creates his own mood, his own world, overall a classic piece bubblegum comic book horror.
There's an updated version of I...Vampire in DC's new 52. Haven't seen it yet, not sure if I want to. I remember reading this stuff as a comic obsessed third grader, had bout all of em (bagged and boarded, baby). Great covers by Kaluta and Kubert, which are also included in the trade. (Hell, I...Vampire even meets the Dark Knight himself before it's all over.)
There's an updated version of I...Vampire in DC's new 52. Haven't seen it yet, not sure if I want to. I remember reading this stuff as a comic obsessed third grader, had bout all of em (bagged and boarded, baby). Great covers by Kaluta and Kubert, which are also included in the trade. (Hell, I...Vampire even meets the Dark Knight himself before it's all over.)
Finished They Thirst by McCammon. I liked it. Perhaps the ending was a bit over the top but what the heck. The middle part was best. I have started Wolf's Hour but i do mean started. Are just about 50 pages in.
Muskrat's Dungeon of Four-Color Death: phase one, EISNER; or, and you shall know them by their God.
Got this nifty IPad here, such a piece of wizardly glam I swear to freakin Elvis, with a tap of my clammy fingertip I get all the hits, all the moldy-oldie GOODSTUFF, stuff like they don't make any more, stuff you can't get unless you fork out serious green. Talkin about Comic Books, ladies and germs--what'd yez think I was talkin about? (So if you don't dig comics, you can leave right now.)
Sites like Comic Book Plus, dig me? Thousands of golden-age, early silver-age comics, all there in their gaudy glory--all that gory pre-code stuff I used to only dream about reading. Sure, it's only the lapsed-copyright stuff, you won't get any Marvel or DC, but Christ, who needs em? Gimme the weird, the odd and obscure...
Lately I'm digging ol Will Eisner. If you don't know who he is, shame on you. Heard of The Spirit? (And forget that idiotic movie Frank Miller made) You owe it to yerself to have a gander at his weekly eight-seven page strips, that were circulated as part of a tabloid insert in hundreds of newspapers from around 1940-1953
Got this nifty IPad here, such a piece of wizardly glam I swear to freakin Elvis, with a tap of my clammy fingertip I get all the hits, all the moldy-oldie GOODSTUFF, stuff like they don't make any more, stuff you can't get unless you fork out serious green. Talkin about Comic Books, ladies and germs--what'd yez think I was talkin about? (So if you don't dig comics, you can leave right now.)
Sites like Comic Book Plus, dig me? Thousands of golden-age, early silver-age comics, all there in their gaudy glory--all that gory pre-code stuff I used to only dream about reading. Sure, it's only the lapsed-copyright stuff, you won't get any Marvel or DC, but Christ, who needs em? Gimme the weird, the odd and obscure...
Lately I'm digging ol Will Eisner. If you don't know who he is, shame on you. Heard of The Spirit? (And forget that idiotic movie Frank Miller made) You owe it to yerself to have a gander at his weekly eight-seven page strips, that were circulated as part of a tabloid insert in hundreds of newspapers from around 1940-1953
Uh, as I was saying before another clumsy tap of my clammy fingertip posted my dang post afore I was through (hate thes dang iPads, swear to Elvis), lots of cats got their start in Eisner's shop. Cats like:
Bob Fujitani: Check out MLJ's The Hangman, in his own eight books and most of the early issues of Pep comics. This is an horrific, vigilante hero, much like a certain Dark Knight, who wears a hangman's rope for a belt and taunts his victims with the gallows before dealing cold justice. Bob was doing Madam Satan(also in Pep) before he got the hangman gig, and this is another odd, gory (and rather sexy) strip that could only have spawned from the wartime golden age. Gory stuff, ironic considering Pep comics was the birthplace of that wretched, sterile Archie Andrews.
Jerry Grandinetti: look for his Ghost Gallery of Dr. Drew in the final issues of Fiction House's Ghost Comics (and once you discover Fiction House, cats, you've found Jungle Girl Heaven).
Let us Read.
Bob Fujitani: Check out MLJ's The Hangman, in his own eight books and most of the early issues of Pep comics. This is an horrific, vigilante hero, much like a certain Dark Knight, who wears a hangman's rope for a belt and taunts his victims with the gallows before dealing cold justice. Bob was doing Madam Satan(also in Pep) before he got the hangman gig, and this is another odd, gory (and rather sexy) strip that could only have spawned from the wartime golden age. Gory stuff, ironic considering Pep comics was the birthplace of that wretched, sterile Archie Andrews.
Jerry Grandinetti: look for his Ghost Gallery of Dr. Drew in the final issues of Fiction House's Ghost Comics (and once you discover Fiction House, cats, you've found Jungle Girl Heaven).
Let us Read.
I put Under the Dome aside... realized I cannot do it now Decided to re-read Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, the book is easier and shorter and I really like it, really wanted to read it again.
Decided to re-read Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, the book is easier and shorter and I really like it, really wanted to read it again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I read it in high school but am liking it much more this time around!
I just read a really interesting YA fantasy novel called The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkowski.
I also finally got into the Outlander series, which I know a couple of SKMB members have read! The first book is fantastic, and I just dug into the second novel, Dragonfly in Amber. Gabaldon has compacted so many genres into this series, and I love what she has especially done with the time-travel aspect of the book. Reading the second half of Outlander, the journey turned out to be very unexpected as I was predicting what would happen--I had the same feeling when I read the beginning of the second book.
I also just finished Revival today. Wow. I'm still reeling from it...it's definitely going to stick with me for a while. I'm still just sitting here and thinking about it. The ending...was quite daunting to me. Once I get my thoughts straigtened, I will share them in the Revival thread
I also finally got into the Outlander series, which I know a couple of SKMB members have read!
The first book is fantastic, and I just dug into the second novel, Dragonfly in Amber. Gabaldon has compacted so many genres into this series, and I love what she has especially done with the time-travel aspect of the book. Reading the second half of Outlander, the journey turned out to be very unexpected as I was predicting what would happen--I had the same feeling when I read the beginning of the second book.I also just finished Revival today. Wow. I'm still reeling from it...it's definitely going to stick with me for a while. I'm still just sitting here and thinking about it. The ending...was quite daunting to me. Once I get my thoughts straigtened, I will share them in the Revival thread
Read "The Regulators", by Richard Bachman. I read "Thinner" many years back, but that was the only Bachman book I'd read until this. I liked it, but my, what a sad story. Guess I'm a sucker for little boys in cowboy boots.
Reading this thread inspired me to order They Thirst, got a "very good" copy online for $4.20.
I want to read that one also!
Just finished The Talisman. Now starting Black House.
Kelly
Kelly
Did you enjoy The Talisman?
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