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[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

I just found kindle editions of BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE and VIRUS HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD. Couldn't pass them up.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

I just found kindle editions of BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE and VIRUS HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD. Couldn't pass them up.

Ah good, someone taking one for the team on that Virus book!

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

Picked up a few movie tie-in editions, starting on Joel Delaney as interested in seeing how close the film is to the original novel:

The Possession of Joel Delaney
House of Dark Shadows
The Seven-Ups

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

VIRUS: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD was much better than I expected. While there are some scenes from the movie in it, most of it is a new and different take. There are a lot of scenes set in America and also a supernatural/religious angle thrown in as well. The mercs are not nearly as off putting or stupid as they are in the film. YMMV but I had a good time with it and the kindle wasn't expensive.

Now I'm eyeing the MANIAC novel based on the 1980's flick.

[agent999 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close agent999]

Now I'm eyeing the MANIAC novel based on the 1980's flick.

It's about a 90 minute read! Mostly just a blow by blow adaptation of the screenplay with a few original chapters that contain some early backstory. Also, in the final chapter when the cops show up, it says something along the lines of nobody knows why they did, when it's blindingly obvious from the film that Caroline Munro's character sent them there after the attack in the graveyard. Odd.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

It's about a 90 minute read! Mostly just a blow by blow adaptation of the screenplay with a few original chapters that contain some early backstory. Also, in the final chapter when the cops show up, it says something along the lines of nobody knows why they did, when it's blindingly obvious from the film that Caroline Munro's character sent them there after the attack in the graveyard. Odd.

I may pass on it then.

[Alison Jane Girl Boss Jane Find all posts View Profile Close Alison Jane]

I'm not a reader at all. But I recently bought Animal Farm and 1984 because I always hear they're good. We'll see if I actually read either.

[Cody Layne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Cody Layne]

Voices from Krypton: I've been reading this massive book (just a little over 700 pages) about the history of Superman for what feels like a month or so. I've read some of this author, Edward Gross', other books, like Nobody Does It Better: The Unofficial, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond and Secrets of the Force: The Unofficial, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Wars, so I knew I was going to get something in depth and well researched, and he didn't disappoint. This has to be the definitive book about the history of the Superman character, covering absolutely everything, from the original comics and Jerry Siegel and Joel Shuster's legal battles with DC, to the radio show, Fleischer cartoons, the George Reeves TV show, the movies with Christopher Reeve, shows like Superboy, Lois & Clark, Smallville, and so many others. It may have taken a while, but I really enjoyed this read, and not being a comic person, I actually learned some things.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

I've been doing a Jim Thompson read through, I'm 10 books into the 25 I have, last one I finished was Savage Night, which was great, and a read through of Chester Himes' Coffin Ed and Grave Digger books, I just started the 4th book, The Big Gold Dream. I actually started both of those projects last year and hope I can finished both projects this year, but I've been mixing them with other things (Valancourt's Paperbacks from Hell reprints, my massive stack of unread Hard Case Crime books, various other things that catch my fancy) to keep from becoming bored with either project, so it probably isn't going to happen. Though, I should be able to finish the Coffin and Grave Digger books this year.

The Ring by Koji Suzuki was the last book I finished, and I liked it enough to pick up the other two book in the trilogy and the follow up short story collection.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

Finished The Big Gold Dream and took a break to read some of the Blu-ray booklets I've let pile up (the one in Radiance's Underworld Beauty was so bad that I'm now going to give essays two paragraphs to hook me, if they don't they are going back into their cases unfinished, life is too short to waste on bad essays) Now I'm moving on to the next Himes book, All Shot Up