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Post by Vaughan on Nov 20, 2009 18:59:57 GMT
Yeah, tis interesting, it's not the first time you and have strongly disagreed on a novel or movie.
Different tastes mate..... that's all.
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Post by shaun on Nov 21, 2009 9:18:16 GMT
Different tastes mate..... that's all. Yes, it would be a boring world if we all liked the same things
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Post by steppedonwolf on May 14, 2010 12:07:22 GMT
I've only read one - Ancient Images. It's basically about a woman driving and driving and driving and driving. She gets out of her car, talks to someone, then gets back in her car and drives and drives and drives. We got long passages describing the road, the lorries on the road, and the landscape outside the car windows as she drives and drives and drives. He also throws in an old (fictional and missing) Lugosi and Karloff movie, a sadly undeveloped and cursory plot device. Mix in some Wicker Man-esq mumblings and you have the makings of.......... a novel that should have been at least 50 pages shorter. Wasn't terrible though. Thinking of the missing Karloff-Lugosi movie plot device, I've just read a book by Greek writer Abraham Kawa called Screaming Silver. The film in this question is James Whale's (missing and fictional) version of 'Dracula's Daughter', and he uses the device to initiate a theme of Baron Samedi spreading his evil around Britain, lots of walking dead etc. A bit long-winded at times, but still a great read. The version I read was an ARC that Jemma Press kindly gave me when I pitched to them at WHC. Sadly, their website's still under construction and I don't know when this book will be available to the reading world. And with the financial chaos in Greece at the moment, it's touch and go as to whether a small press over there can survive or not. I hope they do, because this book deserves to be better known.
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Post by uath on May 14, 2010 15:09:04 GMT
I'm a huge fan of Campbell's short fiction. May I strongly recommend Alone With The Horrors. I think anyone who reads those stories will have a totally diofferent opinion of Ramsey Campbell. I liked Ancient Images and The Darkest Part Of The Woods, but some of his novels are a bit tedious. Overall, his work has a sense of "strangeness" that lingers with the reader long after he finishes. One of his short stories, "Root Cause," has become an all-time favorite.
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