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GNTLGNT

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Think I might start Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil tonight. I feel like a hot steamy type of book.......
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Kurben

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Well, I finished the latest in the Lisbeth Slander series, The Girl In The Spider's Web the night before last. I have to say that I did enjoy reading more about Lisbeth and Blomquist. I didn't like the one or two word sentences of dialogue that run throughout the book. I don't believe the original author had any of those in the previous three books. I could be wrong. It was jarring to me though. I just read yesterday that the green light is on for another American film featuring the two main characters and that 'they' are skipping right over the second and third books and going right into the 'Spider's Web' novel. Don't think it makes much sense as Lisbeth's sister is featured in TGITSW and I don't think she's even mentioned in the first film. Crazy!
It was not as good as it should have been. Personally i dont consider it to be a worthy successor. Lisbeth was much more dull than earlier which is disastrous since her character drove the other three books. Many inconsistencies too.
 

grin willard

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Have you seen Prophecy (late 1970's movie)? Not the one with Christopher Walken. This one is a horror tale about what happens when the backwoods of Maine have the wrong kind of pollution in them......

No sir, I have not! Somehow I've missed it. Why?!! My only knowledge of it is from 'Danse Macabre'. :) If I'm remembering right it had Talia Shire in it --?! And Robert Foxworth, from Falcon Crest? This is all from memory, stg! Talia Shire can't be right. Man, I like Talia Shire. What stuck with me though, was King's comment about how beautifully mounted this piece of schlock was. He said it was like putting a "dead rat in a lucite block". And he mentioned close-ups of guys sweating, tire chains -- the kind of stark realism he apparently responds to. Like Spielberg's 'Duel', for example. (No bees, ants, or germs there!)

And according to that poster you uploaded, John Frankenheimer made it! A huge A-list director in the 60's/70's. He directed "Seconds" for crying out loud. Which I consider a thought-provoking masterpiece of the first order, and the only good film Rock Hudson ever made. And yes, I'm including 'Giant' in that remark! Man, I have to see this. kingricefan, you have helped me rediscovering the giddy heights, and yes, the tormenting lows, of eco-horror! Damn! I'm gonna watch 'Food of the G-ds' again! Have you got it in your heads to stop me? I'm teeing it up as I speak, you'll never get here in time.

 
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GNTLGNT

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No sir, I have not! Somehow I've missed it. Why?!! My only knowledge of it is from 'Danse Macabre'. :) If I'm remembering right it had Talia Shire in it --?! And Robert Foxworth, from Falcon Crest? This is all from memory, stg! Talia Shire can't be right. Man, I like Talia Shire. What stuck with me though, was King's comment about how beautifully mounted this piece of schlock was. He said it was like putting a "dead rat in a lucite block". And he mentioned close-ups of guys sweating, tire chains -- the kind of stark realism he apparently responds to. Like Spielberg's 'Duel', for example. (No bees, ants, or germs there!)

And according to that poster you uploaded, John Frankenheimer made it! A huge A-list director in the 60's/70's. He directed "Seconds" for crying out loud. Which I consider a thought-provoking masterpiece of the first order, and the only good film Rock Hudson ever made. And yes, I'm including 'Giant' in that remark! Man, I have to see this. kingricefan, you have helped me rediscovering the giddy heights, and yes, the tormenting lows, of eco-horror! Damn! I'm gonna watch 'Food of the G-ds' again! Have you got it in your heads to stop me? I'm teeing it up as I speak, you'll never get here in time.

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grin willard

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The giant rats in 'Food of the G-d's', scare me beyond compression! That's tough to watch. The giant rosters just make me apprehensive. Apprehensive like when I was at the fair as a kid and a chicken beat me at tic-tac-toe over & over. After each win the gloating leghorn ate his earned feed. As well as my male prepubescent masculinity!

 

GNTLGNT

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The giant rats in 'Food of the G-d's', scare me beyond compression! That's tough to watch. The giant rosters just make me apprehensive. Apprehensive like when I was at the fair as a kid and a chicken beat me at tic-tac-toe over & over. After each win the gloating leghorn ate his earned feed. As well as my male prepubescent masculinity!

...the Giants "roster" terrifies me every baseball season...:D
 

grin willard

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Think I might start Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil tonight. I feel like a hot steamy type of book.......

I listened to this on cd during a period when I was moving. Stressful! It's a really a beautifully done "book on cd" though. Would it have been better on paper? I'll never know! I've read parts of the book, but really I like the cd better. But if I'd read it first, who knows? I LOVE the story. I actually saw the movie first. Which didn't effect the cd or book at all. It was fine, and Eastwood's daughter was pretty good! And it was nice to see people (I now know) who were real characters in the story. I'm glad it was made, but it was no threat to the source material. Like say "To Kill a Mockingbird", or "Gone with the Wind". Since I opted for cd, I can't call it "a damn good read", but it was a damn good listen. And steamy! Like you said. Unless you watch the movie 'Body Heat' (1981), it don't get much steamier. It made me really want to visit Savannah. The other book I listened to during the move was Russell Johnson's "Here on Gilligan's Isle"! Oh bite me, I enjoyed it! Not steamy, but it was interesting. He was a good guy.

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