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Post by Tim on Mar 18, 2023 9:49:55 GMT
Imaginary Friend - Stephen Chbosky
2019 Not my normal type of book, but this kept popping up in lists of peoples favourite books of 2019. Very Stephen King like, so if you enjoy his novels this should appeal. I think it's very good. Be warned though, it's not a light read at over 700 pages, 
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Post by Slinger on Mar 18, 2023 14:02:09 GMT
Imaginary Friend - Stephen Chbosky
2019 Not my normal type of book, but this kept popping up in lists of peoples favourite books of 2019. Very Stephen King like, so if you enjoy his novels this should appeal. I think it's very good. Be warned though, it's not a light read at over 700 pages, £2.99 for the Kindle edition, on Amazon, which I've just purchased. Heavem alone knows when I'll get around to reading it, but it looks to be my sort of thing. |
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Post by Tim on Mar 18, 2023 18:06:23 GMT
Mines a Kindle edition too, can't be arsed holding a big 700 page book these days - puts me off reading!
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Post by Slinger on Mar 18, 2023 19:54:52 GMT
I sill buy biographies/autobiographies/non-fiction as hardbacks, it just feels right somehow, but the fiction I buy is 99% Kindle format these days.
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Post by Tim on Mar 18, 2023 20:12:42 GMT
I sill buy biographies/autobiographies/non-fiction as hardbacks, it just feels right somehow, but the fiction I buy is 99% Kindle format these days. Snap, especially music related biographies, gotta be a hardback, but a fiction book . . . pretty much always an ebook. |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 18, 2023 21:00:39 GMT
I buy all my fiction as paperbacks, my favourite format for bedtime reading.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 28, 2023 9:06:33 GMT
I've not ordered it yet, but Paul McGowan of PS Audio has written a series of SF novels, just published. When I chatted with him at an exhibition some years ago, I found him to be charming and quite insightful. He may yet prove to be a rather good author, who knows?  |
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 1, 2023 12:53:40 GMT
Have the day off from work and will be 92 degrees out today so will stay home and continue reading 'The Mothman Prophecies'.
About 20 pages in and I gotta say the movie was excellent far better than the book so far.
If that proves to be a dud I'll go back to 'Covenant With Death'. A fiction based on WW1 that sets the scene in London weeks before the war began. The characters and their lives and social groups are so well fleshed out that it will be actually tough to lose these guys when the battles start.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 1, 2023 13:12:00 GMT
will stay home and continue reading 'The Mothman Prophecies'. About 20 pages in and I gotta say the movie was excellent far better than the book so far. Is that a case of the book being written after the film? |
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Post by Slinger on Jun 1, 2023 13:19:47 GMT
will stay home and continue reading 'The Mothman Prophecies'. About 20 pages in and I gotta say the movie was excellent far better than the book so far. Is that a case of the book being written after the film? The film was based on the book by John Keel, written 27 years before the film was released. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 1, 2023 14:04:08 GMT
Guys I would recommend the film btw with Richard Gere and Will Patton. There's something a bit chilling about that film.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 1, 2023 14:06:08 GMT
I remember enjoying the film too.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 1, 2023 14:35:01 GMT
Man I'd love to post a scene here. Two of them in fact. But, I'll refrain in case anybody wants to see the film.
Will Patton is excellent in this.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 1, 2023 14:57:44 GMT
I shouldn't worry, most trailers seem to either big up a completely poor and dull film (by using the only interesting scenes from them), or totally misrepresent a compelling film (by making a cerebral film look like an action clunker).
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 1, 2023 20:08:34 GMT
Ahhh too bad. The most chilling scene is taken off of youtube. I used to rewatch just that scene regularly and always tried to get the score from it as an individual audio file.
Here's the film trailer though. Superb imo.
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Post by Tim on Jun 1, 2023 20:51:22 GMT
Last train to Memphisby Peter Guralnick 1994
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Post by Slinger on Jun 1, 2023 21:01:11 GMT
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Post by rfan8312 on Jun 12, 2023 5:56:15 GMT
Tried HP Lovecraft and was hoping to feel horror unfold within me but I can't get past the wording of everything. I find it quite tedious. Here's an example of the writing. I just snapped a picture of the book in my hand with my phone and it extracted the text from the photo and pasted it here.
"Shaken with such a mental revolution as I had never before known, I now resolved to visit Mate Johansen in Oslo. Sailing for London, I reëmbarked at once for the Norwegian capital; and one autumn day landed at the trim wharves in the shadow of the Egeberg, Johansen's address, I discovered, lay in the Old Town of King Harold Haardrada, which kept alive the name of Oslo during all of the centuries that the greater city masqueraded as Christiana. I made the brief trip by taxicab and knocked with palpitating heart at the door of a near and ancient building with plastered front."
I have to read each paragraph 3 or 4 times with great concentration to try to picture what is happening. And even then I'm not sure I have it.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 12, 2023 8:50:50 GMT
It's written in an older style of English, but the flow judging from that piece is not easy to read.
If you compare him with another American author, John Updike, who wrote during the same period, his prose is wonderful to read.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 12, 2023 13:28:39 GMT
I devoured Lovecraft when I was much younger, and I keep promising myself to read him again, as I have his entire collected works. I've never yet seen a decent film of any of his novels, sadly. Color Out of Space was the latest attempt, but the things Lovecraft describes in his books do not translate to film as easily as they do to the fevered mind of the reader. I would have loved Peter Jackson to have taken on the Cthulhu Mythos, in the same way as he did Tolkein.
The style is Gothic, and yes, it's difficult. I persevered, and considered myself rewarded though.
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