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#41 Sermon Bath

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Posted 15 August 2008 - 04:50 AM

I'm about to dive into Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm...uh, under the title The Garden of Fear. :rolleyes:

I've been wanting to read this for a long time, but hadn't found a copy of it 'til now. I hope it stands up to the long wait...


there is an incredible movie based on Liar of the White worm....one of the few horror flicks that really bothered me for awhile afterwards
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Posted 15 August 2008 - 05:06 AM

Give your Heart to the Hawks is what I just started reading today.
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Posted 15 August 2008 - 05:40 PM

I'm about to dive into Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm...uh, under the title The Garden of Fear. :rolleyes:

I've been wanting to read this for a long time, but hadn't found a copy of it 'til now. I hope it stands up to the long wait...


there is an incredible movie based on Liar of the White worm....one of the few horror flicks that really bothered me for awhile afterwards


Are you talking about the one with Amanda Donahoe? Or is there another one I need to seek and see?
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Posted 16 August 2008 - 06:04 PM

I switched. Got the latest ish of The Strand and decided I'd read it.
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Posted 16 August 2008 - 06:55 PM

I got bored with well at the worlds end.. will go back to it latter...

now I'm working on my Old English Vocabulary.. and reading the Anglo Saxon Chronicle at the same time..

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Posted 16 August 2008 - 09:11 PM

THE MASK OF THE SORCERER
by Darrell Schweitzer


SON OF MAN
by Robert Silverberg
A BUCKEYE ABROAD

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while, Then I'll rise and fight with you again


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Posted 17 August 2008 - 02:24 AM

Taking a break from Bob's short story collections to give Elric another try. I had started it several times, but never could really get into it. But I shall endeavor to persevere this time. :D

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 02:32 AM

The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller

and damn is it good. no idea how many times i've read this but i'm still blown away.

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 02:42 AM

Black Vulmea's Vengence.
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Posted 17 August 2008 - 03:10 AM

"Thunder in the Mountains' by Lon Savage.

Re: late nineteenth century wars between West Virginia coal miners and coal company mercenaries. As bloody as it gets.
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Posted 17 August 2008 - 04:34 AM

"Thunder in the Mountains' by Lon Savage.

Re: late nineteenth century wars between West Virginia coal miners and coal company mercenaries. As bloody as it gets.


I think there was a movie based on that novel also...I think it was called MATEWAN...its a very good flick
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Posted 17 August 2008 - 04:44 AM

THE MASK OF THE SORCERER
by Darrell Schweitzer


SON OF MAN
by Robert Silverberg


"Sorcerer" is a very good book. Apparently, Schweitzer took a Conan novel he'd written for Tor (that was rejected) and completely rewrote it. I don't know how good of a Conan novel it would've been, but it's a GREAT Sekhenre novel. :)

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 02:59 AM

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 05:27 AM

Reading this at the time...

http://www.amazon.co...u...3391&sr=8-1


Definitely a worthy read, I learned a lot even though I have a solid European history culture. I recommend it for the sake of a decent read and plenty of information about why Europe is the way she is now.

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 09:40 AM

THE MASK OF THE SORCERER
by Darrell Schweitzer


SON OF MAN
by Robert Silverberg


"Sorcerer" is a very good book. Apparently, Schweitzer took a Conan novel he'd written for Tor (that was rejected) and completely rewrote it. I don't know how good of a Conan novel it would've been, but it's a GREAT Sekhenre novel. :)



That's interesting!Conan novel though.
I CAN imagine it being a novel set in REH's Stygia though!!
Mask is told in 1st person point of view by the young Sekenre are he becomes a Sorcerer.
The culture is a tiny bit like Egyptwith (IMHO) a smidgen of old Russia.

I've also started Schweitzer's "We are all Legends"!
This is also a fantastic read.
I'm a huge fan of Stephen Fabian since the middle 1970's.
So the Fabian illustrations in Legends are a huge treat for me.
These are also the very first Schweitzer stories I've read since I read some early stories in "Swords against Darkness" oh so many many years ago

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 03:47 PM

Right now I am rereading The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, the first book of the Wheel of Time. I'm impressed with not only the depth of his worldbuilding, but the precision of his foreshadowing. Despite the slowness of some of the later books, much of what he sets up pays off in some fashion or another.
"It is more than a mortal sea. Your hands are red with blood and you follow a red sea-path, yet the fault is not wholly with you. Almighty God, when will the reign of blood cease?"

Turlogh shook his head. "Not so long as the race lasts."

--- The Dark Man, by Robert E. Howard

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 04:19 PM

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Posted 18 August 2008 - 08:58 PM

Back to Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm...uh, The Garden of Fear. :rolleyes:
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Posted 19 August 2008 - 01:42 AM

Conan the Relentless by Roland Green (down to about half a dozen of the last 24 of the Tor pastiches) and I just bought the first eight of Andre Norton's 'Witchworld' series and am still early on in the first book, Witchworld

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Posted 20 August 2008 - 01:42 AM

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