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Post by Beatende on Oct 30, 2009 6:29:56 GMT -5
Cabal by Clive Barker. I get very little time to read so this is going veeeeeeery sloooooowly
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Post by ad on Oct 30, 2009 12:48:06 GMT -5
Cabal by Clive Barker. I get very little time to read so this is going veeeeeeery sloooooowly I read that recently, its not bad. Not familiar with his other stuff, apart from Hellbound Heart. |
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Post by Beatende on Oct 31, 2009 6:44:22 GMT -5
Cabal by Clive Barker. I get very little time to read so this is going veeeeeeery sloooooowly I read that recently, its not bad. Not familiar with his other stuff, apart from Hellbound Heart. It should be pretty obvious stuff really. A bit like reading a Stephen King book or something. The beginners guide to horror and that. Clive Barker is pretty much one of the first calling points for anyone checking horror fiction out, I'd have thought. ...and yet it's still taken me this bloody long to get round to reading what is probably his best known book, unless Hellraiser was a novel before the movie. (I can't be bothered to check that) |
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Post by Nickyboi on Oct 31, 2009 9:48:42 GMT -5
Hellraiser was based on Cabal, I think.
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Post by ad on Oct 31, 2009 19:02:16 GMT -5
Hellraiser was based on The Hellbound Heart, the film follows it exactly more or less. Cabal is where all the Midian stuff comes from.
I don't read much 'modern' horror fiction, I find it pretty dull on the whole. Cabal was a good yarn for what it is, nothing to jizz your pants over.
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Post by Beatende on Nov 1, 2009 5:40:53 GMT -5
Hellraiser was based on The Hellbound Heart, the film follows it exactly more or less. Cabal is where all the Midian stuff comes from. I don't read much 'modern' horror fiction, I find it pretty dull on the whole. Cabal was a good yarn for what it is, nothing to jizz your pants over. Unless You're Clive himself, who seems to manage to factor quite a lot of homo-erotic stuff into his novels. The big ex-closet gayer. |
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Post by ad on Nov 1, 2009 6:38:41 GMT -5
Thats one thing I don't get about modern horror fiction. There seem to be a lot of random 'erotic' scenes which have no place at all, they just look stupid. There's one in Cabal, although with Clive it is just because he's hungry for cock, you're right.
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Post by Beatende on Nov 1, 2009 17:40:23 GMT -5
Thats one thing I don't get about modern horror fiction. There seem to be a lot of random 'erotic' scenes which have no place at all, they just look stupid. There's one in Cabal, although with Clive it is just because he's hungry for cock, you're right. Clive Barker also made it known in one of his interviews that the way he managed to get some of his most grotesque and sick work published uncut was to make sure that before he sent the work to the publishers/editor etc. He would include one or two segments of the book that were unnecessary to keep, and made them so unsuitably sick and nasty that they would guaranteed get objected to. After arguing he would then relent and agree to publish minus the offending pieces, content that anything he was truly bothered about making the final cut would have gone unnoticed. I'm pretty sure this is a standard government tactic when to trying to push unpopular bills through parliament too. Tack on a couple of wacko proposals that'll get rejected etc... |
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Post by Nickyboi on Nov 2, 2009 4:02:01 GMT -5
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Only read about 17 pages so far but it's patently obvious that this book is cover-to-cover genius. All 1,000+ pages of it.
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Post by Billy on Nov 4, 2009 0:41:18 GMT -5
Michio Kaku - Hyperspace
Read about the first quarter of the book, and feel like I understand the universe much more thoroughly already.
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Post by povey on Nov 4, 2009 5:14:10 GMT -5
The last couple of chapters of that book are really interesting its all about warp holes, parallel universes and how to build a time machine (well in theory)
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Post by Billy on Nov 5, 2009 0:37:57 GMT -5
Did you read it all? Seems very interesting, but quite complex to understand in parts, no matter how much his writing style helps.
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Post by povey on Nov 5, 2009 6:52:08 GMT -5
Did you read it all? Seems very interesting, but quite complex to understand in parts, no matter how much his writing style helps. Yeah my A Level physics teacher recommended it. At the time I was thinking of doing a degree in Physics it was definetley an intresting read mainly because it focuses on multiple dimensions so it appeals to math nerds and sci-fi goons who enjoy Stargate  Mind boggling is a understatement tho. Like I said before I dont know how far you are in but the latter chapters are a really good read ie harnessing hyperspace for universal colonization. |
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Post by Nickyboi on Nov 5, 2009 7:03:58 GMT -5
You guys are geeks. Reading is for pussies.
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Post by povey on Nov 5, 2009 7:55:51 GMT -5
You guys are geeks. Reading is for pussies. Only so much porn I can surf a day whilst being unemployed dude. |
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