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06-22-2007, 01:28 PM
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Has anyone read I Am Legend by Richard Mattheson? Apparently it's one of the top vampire horror stories of all time, and Will Smith is making a movie of it to be released in Dec.
Never heard of it.
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06-22-2007, 01:34 PM
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Come on, cat.
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Mayflower - Nathanial Philbrick
Because he did such a great job with In the Heart of the Sea (Moby Dick).
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06-22-2007, 02:14 PM
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Two prior movie versions ... Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price and the much better known Omega Man starring Charlton Heston.
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06-22-2007, 02:16 PM
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Well I'm impressed at your knowledge Wolf. As a lifelong SF reader, I think this one just slipped by me. Certainly it will be re-issued to tie in with the movie.
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06-22-2007, 05:16 PM
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I read I am Legend in very grim circumstances
As grim as a sunny morning in a beautiful, huge, warehouse-style apartment can be anyway (booty call with ex, he got a call from another woman he "had" to take and was on phone for 90 mins - all I had was the book and my own furious seething). So for me it recalls sunlight, the smell of cooked breakfast and heartache. Any WAY. Interesting. But didn't live up to me ridiculously high expectations. The film won;t address the tension and emotions, it will be a blind actioner. Ow. Currently reading The Mermaid & The Drunks by Ben Richards (hence me sig). Lovely, lovely. Teaching me how you can miss out huge chunks of timw without losing your readers.
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06-22-2007, 08:12 PM
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still says videotape
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip Dick
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06-24-2007, 01:35 AM
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Something Happened - Joseph Heller.
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06-24-2007, 02:33 PM
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Old Man's War by John Scalzi. This guy might be the next Heinlein.
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06-27-2007, 03:23 PM
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Just finished rereading the last 2 Potter books.
Just started John M. Barry's The Great Influenza. |
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07-07-2007, 03:07 PM
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We went north for my vacation and my son's grandmother gave me a book to read. It's called "Dark Woods" It's a big foot novel.
It's not anything like I would normally read inspite of my silly primate thread. I've very 'into it' |
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07-13-2007, 06:23 PM
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Franklin Pierce
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Slaughterhouse-5
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07-13-2007, 06:35 PM
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I just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
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07-13-2007, 07:35 PM
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Finished Influenza, it was amazing.
I cannot recommend it highly enough, seriously. (There is a spot, where he is setting-up the framework of the institutions and the "players" where I could see those who are not into history books getting a bit bogged-down. But, if you marshal through these two little dry chapters the pay-off is spectacular) Starting Irving's Until I Find You tomorrow. I've read a few of his, therefore, I'm looking forward to this. |
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07-13-2007, 07:39 PM
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Someone stole mine and I have been wanting to re-read it for years. I am very trustworthy and will mail it back. Will not trust my wife, she lost a gift I was supposed to send a dweller here, the pooping reindeer, you know who you are. I am VERY sorry. |
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07-14-2007, 10:56 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Let me know how Irving's book is, rage. I've read quite a few of his, they're usually an interesting read.
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