Comments on: The sacrifice is chosen…

By: vea

vea — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:55:00 +0000

me too…it looked wrong…disturbing…and lil’ creepy..

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:11:56 +0000

WOW that looks disturbing

By: froofrou

froofrou — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:21:35 +0000

I COMPLETELY agree with you on ‘Gerald’s Game!! He should have stopped while he was ahead. I loved ‘Christine’, ‘The Tommyknockers’, and basically everything he has written. I felt he phoned in ‘From a Buick 7′, and I loved his collection of short stories that came out a couple of years ago. Drawing a blank on the name.
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*eyes balloon, runs screaming into the night*

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:58:19 +0000

Sorry, J.R. Ward is dead to me as well.

By: herb

herb — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:53:30 +0000

“Shawshank” isn’t a novel unto itself; I should have mentioned his pwndom of novellas. “Apt Pupil” is far, far better than the pabulum Bryan Singer put out.

To be honest, I haven’t read anything more recent than “Gerald’s Game”, which I felt had a great ending 150 pages before it actually ended.

To each is/her own.

*offers froofrou a ballon from within a sewer grate*

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:23:58 +0000

Exactly. I’m anything BUT anti-sex. But a plot is still a necessity!

By: i_tego_arcana_dei

i_tego_arcana_dei — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:48:29 +0000

Jane! Click my name for a link to watch True Blood for free! Warning: they tend to stick to book one pretty well at first, but they do spin it off into thier own territory. They should technically rename the show SEX: or Several Excuses to Show Jason Stackhouses’ Rear End. NOT that I’m complaining, it’s a nice rear end.

I’m not one for a literal book-movie/show translation. I tend to view them as sperate entities. Expecially with Alan Ball doing this show, he is creative enough to make it his own, but hold the spirit of the novels in play.

By: i_tego_arcana_dei

i_tego_arcana_dei — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:43:09 +0000

SCORE! thank you for saying that. i totally agree.

By: meep

meep — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:48:26 +0000

if you hate twilight you should read “til twilight tears away” at http://zerosoul.deviantart.com/art/til-twilight-tears-away-101154953. The grammar kinda sucks but its better than Twilight.

FYI: its a twilight parody.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:27:32 +0000

I love Stoker’s “Dracula.” Did you ever read his “The jewel of seven stars?” I still don’t get the ending….

By: erica

erica — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:52:10 +0000

MWAHAHAHAHAAA Shot hot coffee out mai nose

By: ryun

ryun — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:17:52 +0000

Nice, true blood reference there.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:53:59 +0000

Bachman is an interesting part of Stephen King’s psyche. If you compare ‘The Regulators’ to ‘Desperation’, the Bachman version of the same story comes off as more cruel and less hopeful overall. I just wonder about King that he has that inside of him

By: Catnip-M

Catnip-M — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:49:19 +0000

*Cough*
How the hell did the reply get this long? O.o
I happen to love the Twilight series, so stop snuffing it, jerks.

By: CarmenT

CarmenT — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:09 +0000

That was a planet, not a star. Feel better now?
OTOH, if it is sign, that’s a great big W00Terrific sign!

By: kthnxbai

kthnxbai — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:54:39 +0000

The little girl is like
“NOOOOOOOOOO! DO NOT WANT CRYPTKEEPER!!!!!!!”

By: kthnxbai

kthnxbai — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:52:36 +0000

LOL me too!!!!!! This is just too f***ing funny!!!!!

By: Monkey

Monkey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:28:22 +0000

So the dark lord Voldemort has returned to our world …

By: brinnann

brinnann — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:18:42 +0000

I also recommend the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward.

By: brinnann

brinnann — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:16:51 +0000

My Merry Gentry pre-order of the latest book just shipped from Amazon today. I can’t wait to read it!

By: Seriously?!?

Seriously?!? — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:04:53 +0000

Bachman*

By: Seriously?!?

Seriously?!? — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:04:13 +0000

Must not forget the Bachmen books as well. The Long Walk and Te Running Man both classics that stand out more than the others. Also Rage was excellent.

By: Seriously?!?

Seriously?!? — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:00:44 +0000

Hear, hear. The Anita Blake serious kicked ass until the sex went from part of the plot to the entire thing, book after book. Basically the series went to crap after obsidian butterfly.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:12:36 +0000

“Look to the stars, young man. That’s where your future lies” Of course that’s from NASA and not Nostradamus.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:44:24 +0000

I disagree. ‘Rita Heyworth and the Shawshank Redemption’ is and always will be one of my favorites. And if I could get through ‘It’ *SHUDDER* again, I would proclaim it to be one of the scariest, best written stories of all time. Of course, I can’t get past the ‘clowns eat people’ aspect of it long enough to enjoy it OH CRAP HERE THEY COME AGAIN!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! *runs away*

By: PiMan

PiMan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:36:18 +0000

I was reading that just then and thought, “this cannot be relevant for the election tomorrow”.

By: herb

herb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:06:52 +0000

King absolutely rules the short story genre. His longer stuff, not so good.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:01:46 +0000

I’ve actually never read ‘Dracula’. I’m simply quoting from a Yahoo article I saw the other day Also, I got started on vampires with the Anne Rice stuff, moved on to the Van Helsing mytholgy movies like ‘Underworld’, slipped into some other, slightly non-mainstream stories (that were mostly fan-fic type stuff), and finished up with the Laurell K. Hamilton ‘Vampire Hunter’ novels. I’m an equal opportunity mythilogical creature story reader, so I really don’t care who writes it as long as it’s a good read. There is some Stephen King stuff out there that’s pretty good too, although it’s in short story format.

By: herb

herb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:56:32 +0000

Froo~ ‘Though I respect Stoker, “Carmilla” is a little more endearing… No, that’s not the right word. “Titillating”? I dunno at this hour. LeFauneau’s tale predates “Dracula” by a about twelve years and deals with lesbian vampires. Kinky stuff.

Elliott~ Bad me: I don’t watch television. Rots the brain and corrodes the attention span.

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:07:02 +0000

As I walked out tonight, I saw the crescent moon with the star close to it (as in the flag symbol for Muslims) and thought ” This cannot be a good sign for the election tomorrow!”

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:06:45 +0000

W.E.B. Griffen
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Totally unrelated to this discussion. We now return you to our version of Shaun of the Dead..

By: AtlasShrugged

AtlasShrugged — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:05:02 +0000

casca?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:01:49 +0000

I still like Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, for vampire books. Although the last few have started to sacrifice plot for more extreme erotica scenes.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:27:05 +0000

I actually started with the Merideth Gentry novels, but after I lost interest in Anita (surprisingly it was the horrible whiny characters, not the sex, that ruined it for me) I sort of lost interest in those too. Now I just can’t pick them up because I have smote Laurell K. from my authors list and she is dead to me.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:22:11 +0000

I had to read Twilight to understand all of the bumper stickers on Facebook. And she totally phoned in the last book……the others were extremely simple, mildly enjoyable, the last one sucked such major a$$ that I think I might kill myself so I don’t have to think about it.

By: CHUCK NORRIS

CHUCK NORRIS — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:20:54 +0000

I THINK I SHIT MY PANTS FROM LAUGHING.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:17:18 +0000

If you read the original ‘Dracula’, you’ll see that he was seen in daylight frequently, and was even hit by direct sunlight at least once.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:14:08 +0000

Yeah…that was actually a quote from last week’s episode of True Blood.. So sorry, you both fail.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:12:53 +0000

I have an ex-wife so I’ve had about as much bloodsucking as one person should have to endure. I’ll stick with war novels, much tamer thanks..

By: froofrou

froofrou — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:06:19 +0000

Nug uh I love the Merideth Gentry novels!!!!

By: kaylee

kaylee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:06:01 +0000

Dude. That kid is scared to death. “Get me away from this creepy, smelly old man!”

By: herb

herb — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:03:08 +0000

There are some species that are unaffected by daylight (cf. “Carmilla” by Sheridan LeFaneau), and even some allergic to moonlight.

Still, nothing beats the vampire pumpkin of Romanian folklore. They weren’t terribly dangerous; they mostly just rolled around and growled.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:04:22 +0000

I think my favorite vamp books would have to be Tonya Harding’s Blood series (ok, not original title, there).
I used to like Laurell Hamilton’s vamps. Until she went off the deep end into ‘Anita Blake’s magic…um…girl parts…saved the day.’ There CAN be too much sex in a book, after all!

By: Darcy

Darcy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:46:23 +0000

Look, if you were being held by a complete and utter idiot whose only love was the “hot” librarian he chose as his VP, wouldn’t you cry? For our country’s future if not for yourself?

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:44:46 +0000

Foolish. They can withstand for short periods of time. The halflings go even longer.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:28:34 +0000

I didn’t really like Interview either, Louis was a whiny b*tch. So I guess what I’m saying is I really only liked Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned. Overall I don’t think her writing was all that impressive. I, like you, also like the Sookie Stackhouse series, but I don’t get HBO so I haven’t seen the show.

By: i_tego_arcana_dei

i_tego_arcana_dei — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:28:28 +0000

ever read anything by Rice’s son? Christopher Rice. They all have gay protagonists, except for the 4th one, but the sex isn’t graphic so I think you might be able to read them without being like “ugh, penis together”. The first, “A Density of Souls” is about a group of friends who grow apart in high school and the aftermath of a tragedy they are all involved in. The second, “The Snow Garden”, is about these college students f*cked-up sex-capades and mental issues wrapped around a professor suspected of murdering his wife. the third, “Light Before Day” is about an alchoholic journalist investigating a missing ex-boyfriend who gets drawn into the nasty underworld of child pornography and meth production/smuggling in California (this one is VERY well researched and my absolute favorite). His fourth and latest one, “Blind Fall”, is about this striaght Marine who goes to visit the commanding officer who saved his life to find him mrdered in his bed. The Marine discovers that this guy was gay, and whoever killed him is after his boyfriend, so the Marine takes the Bf under his wing. Its good one different levels from “Light Before Day”, it’s more about truth and consequences and the adverse effect of hidden sexualities in the military, and homophobia and it’s root causes. I definately reccomend them to anyone, ths guy can write circles around his mom.

By: pdq

pdq — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:21:24 +0000

No, no, no – the child’s response is entirely appropriate!! The kid should kick HIM in the *&^$ for pretending to be amused!!

By: i_tego_arcana_dei

i_tego_arcana_dei — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:19:51 +0000

i read “Interview”, i felt it went downhill from chapter one….

but to each thier own.

By: pdq

pdq — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:17:45 +0000

Dang. Lawns are to be walked on. OK, so my kids are the ones who like to pretend to be arcaeologists and dig, but still…