What are we reading?

Barthheart · July 19, 2016, 09:24:52 PM

Salem's Lot is a really good one.

Sir Slash · July 19, 2016, 09:43:54 PM

And just in time to make the studio re-make list is..... Ben Hur. Due next month I believe. Soon to be followed by a trans-gender version, Been Her-But A Him Now.

OJsDad · July 19, 2016, 09:53:57 PM

Finished One Year After. Good short read. Now waiting for January for the next book in the series, The Final Day.

Did start Pillar in the Sky.

BanzaiCat · July 20, 2016, 06:32:23 AM

I'm only 30% through the Honor Harrington book, On Basilisk Station. It's a great read. I wish I had more time to get through it.

Gusington · July 20, 2016, 09:00:22 AM

OJ was One Year as good as the first book in the series?

mirth · July 20, 2016, 09:26:48 AM

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 20, 2016, 06:32:23 AM
I'm only 30% through the Honor Harrington book, On Basilisk Station. It's a great read. I wish I had more time to get through it.

That is a great book. I need to read more in the series.

OJsDad · July 20, 2016, 08:58:56 PM

Quote from: Gusington on July 20, 2016, 09:00:22 AM
OJ was One Year as good as the first book in the series?

Yes, I think it is. It starts one year after the end of One Second After. The period covered is only 45 days. We find the Black Mountain is very much on it's own still. In fact, most of the country still seems to be very much on it's own. I don't want to give any more away, but would encourage you to give it a read.

Gusington · July 21, 2016, 07:22:05 AM

Thanks man

Gusington · July 22, 2016, 09:47:11 PM

King of Kings was superb. Got the third book in the series on its way, Lion of the Sun.

In the meantime I am about to start Shadows in the Desert - Ancient Persia at War by Dr. Kaveh Farrokh.

Greybriar · July 23, 2016, 11:34:03 PM

I finished reading The Shining this afternoon and watched Kubrick's movie of the same name this evening.

Quote from: JasonPratt on July 19, 2016, 05:38:27 AM
Much better than the Kubrick film -- it has its moments as its own film, but they changed way too much to make Jack an obvious bad threat instead of a good father with some serious problems.

I agree. The movie didn't hold a candle to the book; I've watched B movies from the 50s that were better than it.

Gusington · July 24, 2016, 11:04:30 AM

Watch the movie on its own.

Greybriar · July 24, 2016, 02:52:37 PM

Quote from: Gusington on July 24, 2016, 11:04:30 AM
Watch the movie on its own.

Sorry, Gus. I just don't believe the movie is as good as many other horror flcks I've watched in the past. Or are the newer horror movies not meant to scare the bejesus out of you like the ones in the old days?

Gusington · July 24, 2016, 08:35:58 PM

Are you watching the Shining from 1980 or some lame TV movie version? Kubrick's, while absolutely different from the book, is widely cited as one of the most frightening movies of all time. There are still scenes in it, at 42 years old, that are almost impossible for me to watch...like the Old Woman in the Bathtub Scene(tm).

Greybriar · July 25, 2016, 12:37:11 AM

Kubrick's. It rated a 61 Metascore from Metacritic, so apparently some reviewers were about as impressed with it as I was.

JasonPratt · July 25, 2016, 07:52:18 AM

I'm generally unimpressed with Kubrick's pretensiousness anyway. (Unimpressed enough to not even double-check how to spell that word! ::) :P )

No doubt he had talent. Artistically daring? Sure. But the Shining is the only film of his I've ever watched all the way through more than once (yes, including 2001), and that's maybe only 3 times. After each time of which I'd say to myself, "Man I'll never waste my time watching this thing again, ugh!" Eventually, 20 years ago or so, that stuck. >:D