Well, I assumed the TV miniseries was based upon something, then again, I'm always off on things like this. For example, I didn't realize that there was a comic book series that was actually an adaptation of The Terminator until someone on this forum pointed it out to me.
I'm trying to read Darren Shan's Procession Of The Dead again. I started it last year and ended up dropping it in favour of something else. It's not a bad book, just starts a bit too slowly.
[quote=William50;340506]I have a copy of his stories only (no poems) from the late 1800s or early 1900s. It has some different titles and minor textual differences from our modern editions. I paid $1.00 for it.Originally Posted by Heather19
I actually got a copy of his complete collection for christmas. I was going to start going thru it in between other books. It's been so long since I've read his stuff.QUOTE]Im going to read me sooome E.A. Poe!!!
That is exactly what I do. After I finish a novel, I spend a few nights reading Poe stories.
Nice find there Brice!
I've actually got an old copy of this book called Handy Volume Classics, that's 13 tales from him. I'm not sure the date it was published, but there's an inscription in the front that's dated from Dec 25, 1910. So I'm assuming it was a christmas present to someone. I've also got an old copy of Murders in the Rue Morgue, but have no idea how old this one might be. I haven't gone thru either one, especially the first because it's about to fall apart, but now you've got me curious.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Raining and cold here today, so I stopped by my favorite bookstore and picked up Ghoul by Brian Keene.
Life is a garden...dig it!
I'm fully immersed in "Lion in the Valley" by Elizabeth Peters.
I LOVE the Amelia Peabody mysteries!
The Stand - SK
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
NICE SIG!!
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
have finished Coraline
triple meh
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, bummer! I really like it.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I finished The Stand... and now I think I might just read some Poe.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
Man, you're such a fast reader. I wish I could do that.
And you can never go wrong with Poe. After reading a couple of stories, it was hard to tear myself away to go finish my other book.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I do read quite quickly.
I've been reading alot of Poe's poetry over the past few weeks. I'm starting to like it more and more.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife last night. Excellent book! (Thanks Tempus Frangit)
Now reading All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print which is a collection of articles and reviews of the VU compiled and edited by Clinton Heylin.
::surprised bear::
why???????????
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why? It's a dark children's story - what's not to love?
I thought it was well written and interesting.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I see. I am afraid I didn't find it well written - I mean, everything mentioned there, any category used, any idea developed or action taken (door; the other mother; kid saving her parents; abandoned theater; souls kept captive, etc etc etc) has been used before, by other writers, and most of those other books were endlessly better written than that one. (The only thing I can say about Coraline herself, besides the fact that every time I saw that name I wanted to bearmaul the writer, is that soon she won't fit through any door, given her food preferences. The rest is a generic "good girl", a little adapted for modern tastes.) The text itself reads as a transcript of a movie, not as a book where text should have any value besides its descriptive ability; thus, on the bright side, I can say it should make a watchable movie (which it seems it did).
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't seen the movie yet, so I can't say. I thought it was a fun read, but yeah, I definitely wouldn't put it on the list of great pieces of fiction.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I liked Coraline, and I think I would have liked it alot more at 8 years old, as is the intended audience.
Sloth Love Chunk
Just finished a reread of Gerald's Game and am now reading We're All in this Together by Owen King.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
As for me I'm currently reading Time and Again by Jack Finney, because I have to write a paper on it for history class, though I'm finding the book very enjoyable! (Reading a sci-fi book as a school requirement is a dream come true for me!)
I'm also reading Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard, which has been absolutely mind blowing! It will change your life, I promise you that!
Oh my, I hope that last part is sarcasm.
Don't knock it till' you've tried it!Oh my, I hope that last part is sarcasm.
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