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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:22 pm
by -deathboy-
mickey brown-eye wrote:How are those? I have the 'comic book' versions of the first 2 books that were released in the early 90s all painted artwork and everything. They were really cool and I always wondered about the books
they're more vile and sci fi than rice's vampires or that twilight bullshit. he has an interesting take on the vampire mythos, as you prolly gathered from the comics. i like the whole symbiotic parasitic relationship between vampire and host thingymabobber. he has a kick ass prose to his writing also. the only downfall is some of the plot "saves" that he throws in you can see comin from a mile away. other than that i am really diggin this series. anything to wash the taste of fucking twilight out of my brain.

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 2:33 am
by Evil Red
Did any of you see the Stephen King / Family Guy episode? :D

http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=familyguy

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:18 am
by mickey brown-eye
Evil Red wrote:When Hodge and I saw him give his lecture in Seattle, he said they were actually working on a third book! I can't wait!!! :cheers:

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WHAT!!? That kind of sucks. I liked how they ended Black House. Jack Sawyer deserves a rest for God's sake. Let him hang in the territories with his woman happily ever after and shit...

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:19 am
by mickey brown-eye
-deathboy- wrote:they're more vile and sci fi than rice's vampires or that twilight bullshit. he has an interesting take on the vampire mythos, as you prolly gathered from the comics. i like the whole symbiotic parasitic relationship between vampire and host thingymabobber. he has a kick ass prose to his writing also. the only downfall is some of the plot "saves" that he throws in you can see comin from a mile away. other than that i am really diggin this series. anything to wash the taste of fucking twilight out of my brain.
LOL! No Vampire Baseball games in Necroscope?

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:21 am
by mickey brown-eye
just finished Black House yesterday. Great story. Had to pick up the Dark Tower again. I have been inspired

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:46 pm
by Jonathan
-deathboy- wrote:they're more vile and sci fi than rice's vampires or that twilight bullshit. he has an interesting take on the vampire mythos, as you prolly gathered from the comics. i like the whole symbiotic parasitic relationship between vampire and host thingymabobber. he has a kick ass prose to his writing also. the only downfall is some of the plot "saves" that he throws in you can see comin from a mile away. other than that i am really diggin this series. anything to wash the taste of fucking twilight out of my brain.
I first started reading the Necroscope series when I randomly picked up the book "The Last Aerie" in the earlyish 90s. Which, sorta comes after that series, but is a continuation of it. It's Harry's sons. I was a little lost because in that subseries it was #2 book. And in the whole series it was #7.

I strongly recommend buying ALL the books and going from Necroscope series (all five) to every following series (vampire world), (lost years), (e-branch).

Easily my favorite books in genres of horror, sci-fi.

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:49 pm
by Evil Red
mickey brown-eye wrote:WHAT!!? That kind of sucks. I liked how they ended Black House. Jack Sawyer deserves a rest for God's sake. Let him hang in the territories with his woman happily ever after and shit...
More Talisman 3

Posted: May 6, 2009, 22:58:15 | Section: Book » The Talisman 3
In an upcoming interview in Cemetery Dance #61 (shipping this summer) Peter Straub talks about the third Talisman book.

Cemetery Dance: Are you going to do a third book with Stephen King?

Peter Straub: We plan to. We were going to start right about now, but King got sidetracked by a Broadway musical that he was writing with John Mellencamp. So that's been taking shape. And I think they were having out-of-town tryouts this autumn. Then we'll see what happens. But at some point we'll get back to it, because we have to. It's like two-thirds of a long, long story, and the other part really should be done.


And there goes The Worlds' as we know it... :(

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16074

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:00 am
by mickey brown-eye
Evil Red wrote:More Talisman 3

Posted: May 6, 2009, 22:58:15 | Section: Book » The Talisman 3
In an upcoming interview in Cemetery Dance #61 (shipping this summer) Peter Straub talks about the third Talisman book.

Cemetery Dance: Are you going to do a third book with Stephen King?

Peter Straub: We plan to. We were going to start right about now, but King got sidetracked by a Broadway musical that he was writing with John Mellencamp. So that's been taking shape. And I think they were having out-of-town tryouts this autumn. Then we'll see what happens. But at some point we'll get back to it, because we have to. It's like two-thirds of a long, long story, and the other part really should be done.


And there goes The Worlds' as we know it... :(

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16074
They better throw poor ol Travelin Jack a few bones in the 3rd one.
Maybe he will be king of the territories with Sophia (I think that was her name)
though the way Parkus described what Jack would have to do to flip now (trying to stay vague to avoid spoilers:)) , could make a really, really cool story.

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:46 pm
by Evil Red
Evil Red wrote:And there goes The Worlds' as we know it... :(

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16074
Wow! Am I the only one alarmed at the imminent celluloid blasphemy of all 3,812 pages? (according to books 1-7 on my shelf)

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 7:51 am
by mickey brown-eye
Evil Red wrote:Wow! Am I the only one alarmed at the imminent celluloid blasphemy of all 3,812 pages? (according to books 1-7 on my shelf)
We will see if he even gets to it within the next 10 years. I checked Abrams' IMDB page and he has quite a bit on his plate with Dark Tower fairly far out
J.J. Abrams
IMO, if he does it right he will develop it as a producer and have other differant directors do each film like the original Star Wars movies or Harry Potter.
Stephan King also said in an interview that he usually doesn't give a shit what Hollywood does to his books, but he would be far more involved with a Dark Tower movie adaptation.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:49 am
by Evil Red
It isn't the 'who' that bothers me, just the 'at all' if King isn't doing the screenplay himself.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:33 pm
by mickey brown-eye
Evil Red wrote:It isn't the 'who' that bothers me, just the 'at all' if King isn't doing the screenplay himself.
He should! That would be awesome!!

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:21 pm
by Evil Red
There's a ginormous (and pretty fucking uninspired) thread over on King's site about this topic. I've skimmed through about the first 10 pages and someone suggested Bruce Campbell as Roland and I just laughed my ass off. I HIGHLY disagree, but it struck me as funny anyhow.

http://www.stephenking.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3774

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:12 pm
by hodgy
Evil Red wrote:It isn't the 'who' that bothers me, just the 'at all' if King isn't doing the screenplay himself.
He's a little hit and miss on writing screenplays. Mostly miss. I say hand it over to someone else and keep final approval.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:53 pm
by mickey brown-eye
hodgy wrote:He's a little hit and miss on writing screenplays. Mostly miss. I say hand it over to someone else and keep final approval.
That sounds like a good idea

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:55 pm
by mickey brown-eye
Evil Red wrote:There's a ginormous (and pretty fucking uninspired) thread over on King's site about this topic. I've skimmed through about the first 10 pages and someone suggested Bruce Campbell as Roland and I just laughed my ass off. I HIGHLY disagree, but it struck me as funny anyhow.

http://www.stephenking.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3774
It would be interesting to see if he could pull off a serious character like that, but it does seem a little ridiculous

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:59 pm
by mickey brown-eye
Evil Red wrote:There's a ginormous (and pretty fucking uninspired) thread over on King's site about this topic. I've skimmed through about the first 10 pages and someone suggested Bruce Campbell as Roland and I just laughed my ass off. I HIGHLY disagree, but it struck me as funny anyhow.

http://www.stephenking.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3774
You know, now that I think about it, the world is missing all of the Lee Van Cleefs and Clint Eastwood-esqe grizzled, wind burnt cowboy type actors these days.
Who would be good to play Roland?
Some pink oily skinned LA good boy with a little dirt painted on my face by the make-up department? They better cast real good for this film

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 7:06 pm
by Evil Red
hodgy wrote:He's a little hit and miss on writing screenplays. Mostly miss. I say hand it over to someone else and keep final approval.
You already know my thoughts on these things better than most anyone, but again, Sai King will ALWAYS be my top pick. Period.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:02 pm
by AchimbaProphet
Evil Red wrote:Did any of you see the Stephen King / Family Guy episode? :D

http://www.fox.com/fod/play.php?sh=familyguy
Yes, this was brilliant!

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 4:24 pm
by Angie Decay
Started reading " Swan Song " by Robert McCammon. Third time reading this book. Awesome story about Nuclear War.

Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 5:49 pm
by Evil Red
Angie Decay wrote:Started reading " Swan Song " by Robert McCammon. Third time reading this book. Awesome story about Nuclear War.
I've heard that's really good although I can't remember if Hodge told me that or my brother-in-law. (I'm on day 8 of a 9 day week and I haven't slept worth shit. My brain isn't even remotely functioning properly.)

I finally started The Widows of Eastwick last night though. :)

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:34 pm
by Angie Decay
Evil Red wrote:I've heard that's really good although I can't remember if Hodge told me that or my brother-in-law. (I'm on day 8 of a 9 day week and I haven't slept worth shit. My brain isn't even remotely functioning properly.)

I finally started The Widows of Eastwick last night though. :)
If you ever get the chance to read Swan Song, I would definately recommend it to you. Pretty all of McCammon's stuff is awesome. I like his short story book called "Blue World", which is great. He puts so much detail in his work that it makes u feel like your really in the story. I love it..

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:32 pm
by Rainbow Brite
I have had swan song on my book shelf for years and years and never even picked it up but to move it.

I hate to admit this, I read twilight in one sitting less than 6 hours.
I enjoyed it for candy cane and gumdrop vampire romance.

I even bought the second book.

Shit.

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:58 am
by -deathboy-
don't make me come over there and kick you in the nuts.

Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:18 pm
by Evil Red
The Widows of Eastwick was good and I just busted into Jacqueline Susann's old-school Valley of The Dolls that I've been meaning to check out forever. Has anyone else read this one?

The cashier at Borders told me she read it in highschool. :D