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Post by misfitboy on Dec 27, 2010 16:55:05 GMT -5
Castaways By Brian Keene
Wow! picture survivor meets Cannibal Holocaust! this book is sick! gameshow contestants find out that a small group of cannibals inhabit cave deep in the jungle. after a cyclone rips across the island one by one the men are eaten alive and the women are used as breeding tools. a must read for all fans of horror. some of the book is hard to get through due to rape, but the book itself is amazing! 10 out of 10!!
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maarow
Ghost in the Graveyard
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Post by maarow on Dec 31, 2010 3:49:37 GMT -5
Zeppelins West by Joe R. Lansdale - What a crazy book. Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, and Annie Oakley infiltrate 19th century Japan in the guise of their Traveling Wild West Show to rescue the Frankenstein monster, whose body parts are being ground into an aphrodisiac for a feudal warlord. Upon escaping, they are transported to the island of Dr. Moreau (here called Dr. Momo) by Captain Nemo, who has been rendered Momo's slave via a light bulb plugged into his brain that negates his free will. Dr. Momo is a sadist with a penchant for torture whose experiments include turning a cat into a human sex slave and grafting a horse penis in place of his own. Oh, and did I mention that the Frankenstein monster falls in love with the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz and that Buffalo Bill is just a head kept alive in a jar of pig urine?
Like I said, it's a crazy book. Fun, though. Steampunk, alternate history, and literary mash-up, all bound together in a darkly comic adventure yarn with just a touch of pathos.
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dogme
Creeping Corpse
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Post by dogme on Dec 31, 2010 17:24:39 GMT -5
Probably the same thing the people of Pompei were thinking  |
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ilnino
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Post by ilnino on Jan 3, 2011 16:39:53 GMT -5
Ive made a start on The girl with the dragon tattoo, need to see if it lives up to the hype.
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maarow
Ghost in the Graveyard
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Post by maarow on Jan 8, 2011 1:43:44 GMT -5
Halloween Horrors, a collection of 13 (what else?) stories centered around All Hallows Eve edited by Alan Ryan. It's pretty standard stuff; even the great Robert Bloch offers a forgettable entry. The best story by far is "He'll Come Knocking" by Robert McCammon, about a town the citizens of which leave peculiar offerings on the doorstep for Satan in return for a year's worth of good luck. The new family on the block refuses to buy into the strange superstition, but as you might expect there is indeed Hell to pay. Mwa ha etc.
The rest ranges from well-written but formulaic to poorly written but formulaic. As a whole it's not really worth a look.
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Post by witchhazel on Jan 8, 2011 4:02:08 GMT -5
Zeppelins West by Joe R. Lansdale - What a crazy book. Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, and Annie Oakley infiltrate 19th century Japan in the guise of their Traveling Wild West Show to rescue the Frankenstein monster, whose body parts are being ground into an aphrodisiac for a feudal warlord. Upon escaping, they are transported to the island of Dr. Moreau (here called Dr. Momo) by Captain Nemo, who has been rendered Momo's slave via a light bulb plugged into his brain that negates his free will. Dr. Momo is a sadist with a penchant for torture whose experiments include turning a cat into a human sex slave and grafting a horse penis in place of his own. Oh, and did I mention that the Frankenstein monster falls in love with the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz and that Buffalo Bill is just a head kept alive in a jar of pig urine? Like I said, it's a crazy book. Fun, though. Steampunk, alternate history, and literary mash-up, all bound together in a darkly comic adventure yarn with just a touch of pathos. This sounds like the best book ever written. What a great little review! |
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misterd
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Post by misterd on Jan 9, 2011 1:03:57 GMT -5
A question for those of you who read Stephen King's IT. I thought of this the other day when Tony and Ted were discussing Stephen King novels. Was there a part of the book when the 5 teenagers were lost in sewers after their first encounter with Pennywise and the girl had sex with them all so they could find their way out? There's no way I'm remembering that correctly because it makes no sense. Yes there was, but it was towards the end of the book. With the giant turtle and spider. And no, it made no sense. |
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Post by therottoenone on Jan 9, 2011 6:16:18 GMT -5
The book of Omni located in the Book Of Mormon. YEs I know how does that fit in right? LOL I just had to put that in because I just finished reading it.
Note: Please no comments back on the choice but you can laugh. LOL
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Post by Stuart on Jan 10, 2011 3:24:37 GMT -5
Koontz: Seize the Night. Probably unwise to jump into the second book of a series but I pretty much got the idea. Abandoned govt lab, secret experiments that threaten mankind (yawn), smart cats and dogs, time travel. All v. hokey.
Koontz: House of Thunder. Woman wakes up in hospital, apparently having been in a coma following a car crash. Starts seeing bad people from her past that ought to be dead. Interesting concept, but you soon realise all isn’t what it seems and Koontz eventually unfurls the government conspiracies again. The denouement takes it in an unexpected but utterly absurd new direction.
I need a break from Koontz...
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ilnino
Disembodied Voice
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Post by ilnino on Jan 10, 2011 18:15:32 GMT -5
Was Lightening by Koontz? I remember reading it a long time ago and enjoying it a lot.
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Post by Stuart on Jan 11, 2011 3:09:25 GMT -5
Yeah, there is a Koontz book called Lightning. Not read it yet. Maybe after my current choice – Monstrum by Donald James. I made a mistake when I picked this up; the blurb describes Russia at the end of a civil war in the 21st century and I mis-read that for 20th century, thinking it would have some interesting historical content. Instead it’s kind of a contemporary alternative history thing. Must get new glasses...
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ilnino
Disembodied Voice
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Post by ilnino on Jan 11, 2011 14:07:55 GMT -5
I highly recommend it from memory, It really stuck with me for a long time though I was probably in my mid teens when I read it...
Might have a look back at it some day myself.
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maarow
Ghost in the Graveyard
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Post by maarow on Jan 12, 2011 23:07:20 GMT -5
The Croquet Player by H.G. Wells - Odd sort of a book. The first half reads like Wells' attempt to write an M.R. James ghost story, but the second half turns into an odd Darwinian prequel to The Crazies. Copyright date is 1937; perhaps it's the first attempt at "infection" horror?
It's only about 100 pages, a very easy read and well worth checking out.
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Post by voodoo79 on Jan 14, 2011 1:51:06 GMT -5
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 10/10
The Girl Who Played with Fire 10/10
The Girl Who Kicked The Horents Nest 10/10
Star Wars Death Troopers 10/10 Zombies and Star wars what more can u ask for !!
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Panda
Creeping Corpse
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Post by Panda on Jan 14, 2011 21:19:53 GMT -5
Lightening was a good book. Just finished "breathless" and am going to put this out there. Is it just me or does there seem to be a God theme running through 90% of his books from... say the past ten yrs or so? BTW, his frankenstein series is great. Odd though, the first book was a colaboration, but the second printing dropped his co-authors name.
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