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Spicy Ramen
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I've been reading these two novels Gates of Fire and Tides of War by Steven Pressfield. They are both incredibly great books to read. Gates of Firedeals with the ancient Greeks and Spartans and there battle with an invading Pericles. I am still halfway into reading Tides of War and still I can't seem to put it down. From what I know, Gates of Fire was considered to turn into a movie with Micheal Mann directing(Insider, Ali) and George Clooney starring in it. Do not pass these books up. Never been this stuck to a book since Dune .(Spicy Ramen wonders if anyone in the board has read a book in the last 3 months)
posted 02-27-2002 10:23 AM PT (US) Timmer
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I'm always reading books Spicey
Currantly on the last hundred pages of AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman!
....You'd never guess I read so much considering my at times atrocious speeling
posted 02-27-2002 10:58 AM PT (US) John Zimmer
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I read all the time. Right now I'm in the middle of The Two Towers (This movie is gonna' be good
)Jz
NP: American Journey (John Williams)
posted 02-27-2002 01:24 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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quote:
Originally posted by Timmer:
I'm always reading books SpiceyI'm always reading books, too. Problem is, I'm a slow reader. Plus I'm a huge Tolkien fan. So I'm mostly reading the same books.
quote:
Currantly on the last hundred pages of AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman!But after reading several Terry Pratchetts Douglas Adamses, I should read something by Gaiman, too. Don't know anything about him, but he's worked with both, so...
posted 02-27-2002 05:01 PM PT (US) Spicy Ramen
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I worked at Barnes and Nobles and I was suprised how many people brought books as gifts and not for themselves. And those who did buy for themseleves usually picked the recent bestsellers. *Sigh*, If only they knew that so many great books exist out of the bestseller section of the bookstore.(Spicy Ramen calls for the banishment of the Oprah Book Club, it is corrupting the reader's minds people!
) posted 02-27-2002 05:42 PM PT (US) Timmer
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Anyone here read Clive Barker's WEAVEWORLD?I'm really stuck up and opinionated when it comes to books, I've read thousands and know what's good and what's shite from classic authors to pulp to fantasy sci-fi, thrillers to 'serious' books!
WEAVEWORLD is fantasmagorical, brilliantly written with an imagination second to none, Stephen King said at the time that Barker left him and everyone else in that genre standing...He wasn't joking! Unfortunately Liverpool born Barker has failed abysmally to live up to this greatness and has subsequently, since debunking to L.A., become very Americanised and his books have suffered a lingering death ever since.
Like King and Staub's TALISMAN, Weaveworld is probably unfilmable!
posted 02-28-2002 04:47 PM PT (US) Spicy Ramen
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quote:
Originally posted by Timmer:
Anyone here read Clive Barker's WEAVEWORLD?I'm really stuck up and opinionated when it comes to books, I've read thousands and know what's good and what's shite from classic authors to pulp to fantasy sci-fi, thrillers to 'serious' books!
WEAVEWORLD is fantasmagorical, brilliantly written with an imagination second to none, Stephen King said at the time that Barker left him and everyone else in that genre standing...He wasn't joking! Unfortunately Liverpool born Barker has failed abysmally to live up to this greatness and has subsequently, since debunking to L.A., become very Americanised and his books have suffered a lingering death ever since.
Like King and Staub's TALISMAN, Weaveworld is probably unfilmable!
One more book I want to recommend is Richard Matheson's I am Legend This is the guy whom Stephen King said "inspired me to write horror". The book is truly one of the great horror classics. The twighlight zone movie with the "terror at 30,000 feet" was based on one of his short stories.
posted 02-28-2002 05:30 PM PT (US) James
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Spicey-I work at Waldenbooks and I feel the same way you do. Oprah should quit her book club - NOW. It's amazing the number of people who come in to tell us how much they keep disliking her selections, yet they keep coming back and buying everything that shows up.
I'm in heaven running the Literature, Poetry, and Sci-fi/Fantasy sections. At least, I will be after inventory in March when I can once again order all the books that we're not supposed to have in the store because they "don't sell."
It gets really frustrating in Sci-fi/Fantasy when a portion of a number of books in a series is on the "not selling" list, but others are not. We currently stock Clarke's 2001, 2010, and 3001... the higher-ups won't let us order 2061. It's even worse when the list is obviously wrong. In poetry, Louis Ferlinghetti's coney Island of the Mind has been on the "not selling" list for ages, but every time I've ordered it into the store it has sold within three weeks of its arrival.
I have also never been able to keep any book on film scores in the store because of this policy. It amazes me that no one seems to be able to understand that the books aren't going to sell if you don't put them in the store!
Sorry for wasting space. I just needed to vent a little, I guess.
Kirk
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