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Post by ian on Jun 26, 2010 9:31:38 GMT
As Shaun Hutson wrote the majority of his horror books in this decade, I thought we should get a poll going to see which ones you enjoyed the most.
You may vote for two of his books in this one.
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Post by danielirussell on Jun 26, 2010 9:43:10 GMT
Looks like we agree here. Victims and Shadows are better written than most of his and are also some of the grisliest. Doesn't someone saw up a baby in Shadows?
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Post by ian on Jun 26, 2010 9:44:44 GMT
I do admit, I enjoyed the Shadows as I didn't see the ending coming.
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Post by stuartneild on Jun 26, 2010 9:47:12 GMT
Assasin and Breeding Ground are my two faves.
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Post by simonmaginn on Jun 26, 2010 11:16:06 GMT
I don’t think I’ve ever read any book more cretinous than the one book I read by Shaun Hutson (can’t bear to even try to remember its cretinous name). It was howlingly funny, for all the wrong reasons. The man is quite obviously subnormal. I find it almost impossible to believe that any real person actually likes any of them. To say the characterisations are cardboard is an insult to cardboard. Plots are predictable, incidents derivative, you can see everything coming from ten miles away and so you’re just vaguely annoyed when it does. Dull, repetitive, shoddy, badly made, stupid, predictable, interminable, cretinous crap. Did I mention boring? Boring too. That’s my vote.
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Post by ian on Jun 26, 2010 11:39:12 GMT
Simon gets a karma for making me laugh out loud.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 26, 2010 12:21:14 GMT
Assassin is one that I finished, and I thought it much better than the rest, so I gave one vote for that.
I also finished Slugs (rip-off) and Erebus (boring). Read some others but can't now for the life of me remember their names or what they were about.
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Post by dawtrina on Jun 26, 2010 18:22:24 GMT
It's been a long, long time since I've read Hutson, but from the early work I'm remembering Relics as my favourite and The Skull as being highly underrated. It was the one he wrote for Hamlyn and promptly disowned but it seemed better written than the other batch I read at the time, even though it was hardly original. If memory serves, Spawn was the most outrageous.
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 26, 2010 21:01:48 GMT
Simon gets a karma for agreeing with me. And I thought I was alone...
I must be honest, I've never been a massive fan of Hutson, but I quite enjoyed Erebus and Relics (they got my votes), but I never shared Funkdooby's hatred of him until I read Assassin.
That was nasty, cheap and exploitative, and I'm sure a Guy Ritchie film adaptation won't be far behind...
I keep meaning to read Lucy's Child, though - that actually got quite a good write up from a woman's mag, so it'll be interesting to see what it was that appealed to them.
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Post by danielirussell on Jun 26, 2010 23:14:20 GMT
Spawn - top 10 worst books I ever read. A felled pylon brings buried, aborted fetuses to life. Did I mention they were physic? Yeah...physic. Awesome!
(or not as it proved to be)
Deathday has a great...cover.
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Post by danielirussell on Jun 26, 2010 23:15:32 GMT
Last one I read was White Ghost, which is a bit like an ugly James Bond wannabe takes on the IRA and the Triads. A bit silly and not horror. At least it was only $2,
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Post by steppedonwolf on Jun 27, 2010 0:07:17 GMT
[quote author=danielirussell board=polls thread=688 post=6700 time=1277594060 Deathday has a great...cover. [/quote]
Yep, nice gold-embossed medallion hanging over a gravestone with a skeletal hand reaching up for it.
Tagline: 'A powerful novel of unimaginable evil.' Ahem.
Read Vaughn's review of this...
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Post by danielirussell on Jun 27, 2010 7:33:01 GMT
A powerful, unimaginable novel. Evil.
I think I did read the review. It was better written than the book! At least Hutson basically apologizes for how bad it is, as the novel was a mishmash of later ideas and I think he wrote it when he was 19, but shouldn't the publisher have said no?
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Post by ian on Jun 27, 2010 8:14:30 GMT
Hutson was a big hit in the 80's, the horror fans bought anything the publishers released.
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Post by funkdooby on Aug 1, 2010 9:41:02 GMT
Assassin I quite enjoyed in its own right, mostly because of its ridiculously exploitative nature Spawn I've read three or four times, simply because I'm fascinated by how such an appalling and badly written novel could ever manage to see publication lol I've said it before - Hutson wrote books for people who didn't usually read. He appealed to the lowest common denominator. What annoyed me was that he would have a pop at other writers (GNS in particular, but I've also seen him slate Herbert, Straub and King), despite very little talent for anything but putting into words as much gratuitous violence, horror and vulgarity as he could think up.
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