Books

[Eoin McLove]

The Dare was good. I read it a few years ago.

It might have been your recommendation that put me onto it, it was someone in this thread anyway. Reminded me of Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha a bit, but was much better.

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha was deadly, but I read it a long time ago. Don't know how well it stood the test of time.

[Carnage]

I didn't think much of it TBH. Can't remember much about it other than the format/tone (adult events seen from a child's perspective), I was on a Doyle binge at the time and found it lacking compared to the other ones I'd read.

[Thorn]

Been pretty much reading nothing but nonfiction/ History this year.

Paxton - Anatomy of Fascism

Evans - Coming of the Third Reich (1st in a trilogy)

Ellsberg - Doomsday Machine

Lindqvist - Exterminate all the brutes

Got around to Hedges - The Greatest Evil is War


All very much recommended 

Ah, here it is, Stephen King's 'The Shining'.

[Pat Twisted Wrath]

Been pretty much reading nothing but nonfiction/ History this year.

Paxton - Anatomy of Fascism

Evans - Coming of the Third Reich (1st in a trilogy)

Ellsberg - Doomsday Machine

Lindqvist - Exterminate all the brutes

Got around to Hedges - The Greatest Evil is War


All very much recommended 

Ah, here it is, Stephen King's 'The Shining'.

Nearly had an aneurism trying to remember where this reference was from 

Outstanding stuff!

[open face surgery]

  Quality.

[Don Gately]

The tin drum by Gunther Grass

[Maggot Colony]

The tin drum by Gunther Grass

I read that years ago. A strange, but very good book.

Almost finished reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Not as good as Rebecca, or Jamaica Inn, but still very gripping and well-written.

[Don Gately]

The tin drum by Gunther Grass

I read that years ago. A strange, but very good book.

Almost finished reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Not as good as Rebecca, or Jamaica Inn, but still very gripping and well-written.

Haha I just finished my cousin Rachel, a bit saggy in the middle but good nonetheless

[Mooncat]

Been enjoying a re-read of Salem's Lot this week. He really has a way of sucking you into his world, and also a way of pushing certain nostalgia buttons that really speak to you. The "look at me" scene and the Danny Glick in the coffin scenes were both fantastic! Proper horror.

Now I'm in the zone and a King-a-thon is the last thing I need with the 20 other books on my nightstand 

[Sworntothecans]

Yeah I ended up getting about 30 King books out of SVP last year for nowt. He's fucking great.

[Don Gately]

Yeah spent mist of my youth reading King, loved the Bachman books, the Shining and Misery

[astfgyl]

This is in answer to the post in the non metal thread:

I read The Mist not too long ago as well and the film is every bit as good as the book. Both endings are bleak but in different ways and in a way the film actually offers a bit more hope although that's pushing it a fair bit tbf

[Thorn]

I see they're making The Stand into a movie. Or is that old news?

[astfgyl]

Think I heard something about that. I vaguely remember the old two part one starring the slow lad from Coach

[Carnage]

That was a big thing at the time, it hasn't held up well. Lieutanant Dan, Max Headroom and Molly Ringwald were in it too, if memory serves. There was a more recent remake a few years ago that was apparently awful.