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Hey! My book review is up! (part 6)

post #1 of 14
7/24/00 at 5:49pm
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Okay...so I KNOW that I review some obscure stuff, but this time there has to be a FEW of you out there to have read it.

Whaddya think?
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post #2 of 14
7/24/00 at 6:33pm
Well, I KNOW I want to read it now just like how all your reviews have an uncanny way of instilling that feeling in me.No, its not nausea. Its that feeling of missing out on something good.

Just like you I'm a King man and I've never cared about Koontz. Maybe its the name.I dont know. It felt like cheap reading.

And heres the kicker...I've never read a single book of his before and now, you make me wanna read this. You bastard.

Stay casual was a fine line......like a riff from Jedi..you know, Fly casual.

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post #3 of 14
7/24/00 at 6:57pm
This is the first book that you've reviewed that I actually have in my collection. (An aside: I do intend to remedy that by getting rid of Fear Nothing.)

[This message has been edited by Blofeld (edited 07-24-2000).]
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post #4 of 14
7/24/00 at 6:59pm
Where is it exactly?

Matt
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post #5 of 14
7/25/00 at 2:46am
Wow! First time you've reviewed something I've actually read! Untrue!

I actually picked up this book as a birthday present for my girlfriend and ended up reading it before her...

Definately one of his better attempts, it has to be said that I am a Coke and a Pepsi man, so I quite like reading Koontz and most other horror writers in the simple, mainstream genre.

Only point I'd take you up upon is the film conversion. I don't know why, but every time someone tries to convert Koontz to film it ends up as a worthless piece of crap (Mr Murder anyone?). The best attempt was Watchers and even that was low budget rental fodder at best.

There is something refreshing about reading Koontz, knowing he's definately not writing with a screenplay already being built in his head, I think King and Crichton have submitted to this disease too much lately.

All in all, I second this recommendation, now all I've got to do is track down the other half-dozen odd books that grendel has reviewed and I've never heard of.

[This message has been edited by flint (edited 07-25-2000).]
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post #6 of 14
7/25/00 at 12:13pm
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I apologize for the eclecticity of the books that I review, but what the hell, they're good and my whole intent is to generate interest in them. If I review stuff you've read then what the hell good am I?

That having been said, my feeling on adaptations is that the vast majority of GENRE adaptations are crap, whereas the majority of PERIOD adaptations (Dangerous Liaisons, Age of Innocence, Last of the Mochicos) are done well, as are works of 'serious literature' (the English Patient, the Talented Mr. Bungle). But just because that is what has gone on before I do not believe that it HAS to continue in that vein.

Will it? In all probability yes, but I would like to believe that there is a young director out there who will treat King's 'Desperation' right, and one who could make 'Fear Nothing' magical. (By the way, I caught 'Phantoms' on cable and liked it, in the same way that I liked the 80s remake of 'The Blob' and Gabrielle Anwar's 'Body Snatchers'...kind of guiltily)

Bottom line is this: I don't wanna see ANY book that I review turned into a BAD movie. Bibliophile that I am, if they're gonna be brought to the screen I want it done faithfully, and not to the picture that I have in MY mind for them, but in the spirit of the author's original intent and 'voice' if you will. 'Last of the Mohicans', changed from the book though it was, definitely fell into the category of a faithful retelling, because it still had the feel of Cooper's story and characters. The movie, done with reverence, can now stand in for the book even WITH its altered portions and still call itself by the same name.

Anyhoo. More responses, folks, keep 'em coming, make me fell the love.
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post #7 of 14
7/25/00 at 12:45pm
First you fell one love, next thing you know a whole forrest of love is felled.
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post #8 of 14
7/25/00 at 12:50pm
Oh, By the way, I like the idea that you DO review obscure stuff. I like to read stuff that I may not have come across on my own devices. The land I stay in doesnt really advertise hard to get books. So its pretty great that you are here to shed some light on some of these goodies.

And for that, I shall take a moment to step out of me callused CHUD character and say Thank you, gren man.

Now, was that love or what?


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post #9 of 14
7/25/00 at 2:01pm
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It was love, and I fellt it.
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post #10 of 14
7/26/00 at 5:08am
No need to apologise grendel, it's just that you always appear so hurt when you don't get replies to your book reviews.

I like it when you review new books, I've got three of your recommendations on my current shopping list, problem is I'm such a hideously slow reader that by the time I've finished reading one book you've already reviewed another two!

TIMBER! And there goes some more love!
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post #11 of 14
7/26/00 at 8:06am
And don't you just LOVE us new fangled lumberjacks?
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post #12 of 14
7/26/00 at 1:59pm
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You're OK.
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post #13 of 14
7/26/00 at 4:09pm
Damn!I was going for brilliant.
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post #14 of 14
7/26/00 at 6:18pm
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Okay Eddie...think back. Think back with me to the days of watching Monty Python as a kid and listening to their albums.

Remember....remember through the mists of time that little ditty titled 'The Lumberjack Song'. Remember the WORDS to it.

Then read my resonse again.

Hmmm. Any changes?
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