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Have either of you read Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates? I know it's not really about zombies, but...
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Have either of you read Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates? I know it's not really about zombies, but...
I think it is rather scary. It is not about zombies. She got the idea from the life of Jeffrey dahmer, one notorious serial killer. Since she is the great writer she is she manages to creep inside the brain of her main character, Quentin, before, during, and after his acts. Good book. But i'm rather partial to Oates and i have found that for some people she is an aqquired taste. But to me she is the US best living author in the main field. Also, Zombie won the Bram Stoker Award.
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Anderson. He's really onto something with the premise that America was founded on fantasy and how that got us to where we are today.
Sure wish they would make a sequel to the movie. Brad Pitt's character could make a cameo and they could continue the story with a different character's viewpoint from the book.
Interesting... I thought the movie was bad. Far from, not even trying to, capture the book. Pitt was the star and practically in every scene. That means in my mind, they just stole the name of a good book to draw crowds and and then made an ordinary zombie movie. Actually its not Pitts fault but the scriptwriters.
If I remember correctly Pitt's character didn't have a very big storyline in the book so, yes, they padded it to make it one man's attempt to save his family from the invasion and then come up with the antidote to save the world (what was left of it anyway). But there are a lot of different stories in that book that could be made into a sequel.
Started Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. It's the true story of a father coping with his son's Meth addiction. His son Nic actually first wrote his own book called Tweak, which was a bestseller. David's book has been made into a major motion picture starring Steve Carrell and Timothee Chalamet. I'm predicting another Oscar nomination for Timothee.
have started an anthology, a zombie anthology. Read Sex, Death And Starshine by Clive Barker, Rising Generation by Ramsey Campbell and The Song Of The Slaves by Manly Wade Wellman. Barkers story is the best one so far..
I agree. I had looked forward to seeing the movie after reading the book, but as you say, they effectively just took the title. I know it wouldn't have been the easiest book to film, given the way it was structured, but in that case why not simply leave it alone? There are hundreds of books out there that should become films, but don't because they are considered problematic to the point of being "unfilmable".
Currently on my way to the dark tower (Roland & Susan have just got it on in Wizard & Glass) but I've taken a couple detours along the way with two novellas from Different Seasons... The Breathing Method was one of those, Rita & the shawshank the other, both great novellas, but could somebody help me with the supposed connection between The Breathing Method & the dark tower??
Ive been told there is a clear one but I can't see it, also... why is the statue of Harriet referred to as "his father's first wife" and also "his grandfathers first wife" ??
I'm being a pleb no doubt but some help would be appreciated.
Ive been told there is a clear one but I can't see it, also... why is the statue of Harriet referred to as "his father's first wife" and also "his grandfathers first wife" ??
I'm being a pleb no doubt but some help would be appreciated.
.....maybe this will help....
"... and when the wind rose in another wild whoop, I felt momentarily sure that the front door would blow open, revealing not 35th Street but an insane Clark Ashton Smith landscape where the bitter shapes of twisted trees stood silhouetted on a sterile horizon below which double suns were setting in a gruesome red glare. [...] I opened my mouth. And the question that came out was: 'Are there many more rooms upstairs?' 'Oh, yes, sir,' he said, his eyes never leaving mine. 'A great many. A man could become lost. In fact, men have become lost. Sometimes it seems to me that they go on for miles. Rooms and corridors.' 'And entrances and exits?' His eyebrows went up slightly. 'Oh yes. Entrances and exits.'"
A clear link that the building which inherits The Club is on one level of the Dark Tower where many doors lead to "other worlds than these".
Oh right, so the mystery pregnant woman could've been Susan Delgado??!!
But what about her adopted child, the man with hazel eyes who wasn't yet 45??
But what about her adopted child, the man with hazel eyes who wasn't yet 45??
...no, don't "over-read" here....the woman is as named, and the child/man is simply a poignant closure to the tale.......it's the geography of the land and the layout of the rooms in this mysterious club.....think of it as a portal, maybe even to Todash space.....
Ok. Thanks for responding. That's a shame, I was hoping it was allured to be her! Then her son appears as the doctor somewhere on the journey to the dark tower, that would've been good but it still leaves the query about the statue outside the hospital. Was Harriet his father's or his grandfathers first wife??
going on with my zombie anthology. Now i read TheGhouls by R Chetwind-Hayes, The Facts in The Case Of Mr. Valdemar by Poe, Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner and Quietly Now by Charles L. Grant.. Next i will be coming to M.R. James, H.P.Lovecraft and Brian Lumley.
I'm reading A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay.
Finished "Devil Bones" by Kathy Reichs
The Series "Bones" is based on her Books.
And now i'm reading Perry Rhodan
The Series "Bones" is based on her Books.
And now i'm reading Perry Rhodan
Over the weekend I read The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. It was a bit of a slow start but I got into it quickly. Been seeing trailers for the movie and it made me remember I had the book. I liked it and am looking forward to seeing the movie more now.