Sponsor |  marginalprophet | May 12, 2004 9:28pm | The Abyss by Jere Cunningham. This book has nothing to do with the Ed Harris movie, which I categorize as sci-fi. First of all, the blurb is by Stephen King: "I loved this book ... very close to being great." How much does it cost to get one of those?
It's about a newly re-opened coal mine in Tennessee. Of course, long ago it closed down for some mysterious reason. Now they're digging deeper, deeper, what's that stench I smell deeper. Eeek, they've let loose the creatures from Hell!
So far Jere has a nice natural style, and the characterization is good. He also wrote The Visitor, which I haven't read.
An excerpt: "Crystal in the Outhouse"
"It's proper clean," Mrs. Heinz said proudly, her beak-sharp nose sprouting white hair, "not like that town's getting to be."
With her legs aching in the late afternoon light, Crystal sat in the pine-smelling shed; on the seat board she watched a grasshopper sensing her with delicate antennae while it chewed like a miner, thoughtfully; it seemed to have bluish eyes, eyes becoming human, her father's eyes...
Mentally she fought it; the grasshopper jumped, whirred away on glassy wings though she hadn't moved her hands.
Sitting over the hole, Crystal felt the cooler darkness beneath her exposed insides; with closed eyes she shivered, urinating, listening to the distant metallic tinkle of her waste as if exposed, naked, inviting some nameless penetration. She was up almost before she was finished, pulling up the protective white starched cloth of her uniform. |
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|  bullwinkle | May 31, 2004 9:46am | | The abyss was good-the movie could have been better, like alien the book was good but I though the movie could have been done better. |
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Sponsor | | LightChaser | Jun 7, 2004 4:51pm | | The drawing of the three-Stephen King. |
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Sponsor | | LightChaser | Aug 15, 2004 10:36am | | I read gunslinger BTW liked it. |
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Sponsor | | marginalprophet | Sep 20, 2004 7:55pm | I just finished The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson. It's not about Egypt. It's about India, but takes place in Manhattan. Pretty good, but I liked The Keep a little better.
I had to get The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (see Bestsellers USA).
The Devil is H.H. Holmes, and the White City is the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Chicago World's Fair. Holmes built his "castle" of death at 63rd and Wallace in Englewood, complete with secret vault and crematorium. The story shifts between Holmes and the architects of the Fair headed by Daniel Burnham (both men blue-eyed and handsome). I must say the architect's story drags a bit, as one is anxious to see what Holmes is going to do next.
Two years after the fair Holmes couldn't charm his way out of the hangman's noose. None of his friends mourned him, basically because he had killed them all!
The late Janet Leigh wrote several books, I found out, but the most apt for our group is her memoir about the making of Psycho. Perhaps her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis will write about the making of Halloween.
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| | | Benway69 | Mar 5, 2006 8:10pm | | The Sentry by Paul Jenkins (vol 2) from Marvel comics.... WAIT! COME BACK! It's about a tights wearing superhero who is a paranoid schizophrenic and amnesiac. Seemingly with the power to subconsciously alter reality. Which given his state of mind is really bad news. It starts as a parody but descends into very dark places. Psychological metaphysical horror ala David Lynch's Lost Highway meets Fight Club. |
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Sponsor | | strangerbox | Mar 21, 2006 1:48am | | The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari. It's crime, not horror, but highly creepy nonetheless. |
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| | eljaytee | Sep 22, 2006 5:05pm | | Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale - pretty good so far. |
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Sponsor | | marginalprophet | Jan 5, 2007 9:51am | | Just finished The Touch by F. Paul Wilson. I've also read The Keep and The Tomb. The Keep is the best one, although the movie supposedly sucks. |
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