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Ok, still planning on coming, can you pm me a mobile number or something, I can probably get there around 5ish.

Damn I thought Katie Holmes was a real girl

I watched Oblivion last night, and you have many good points in your spoiler, however I must say I really enjoyed it. Not a fan Tom Cruise but he failed to annoy me too much, thought the whole film looked fantastic despite the improbable and impossible physics of it all. Also Andrea Riseborough is great, I imagine seeing a lot more of her, in fact I might go and do that now.

I'd suggest you have a look at Against A Dark Background, then: no hint of the culture anywhere, and for me it's a toss up between that, Complicity and The Bridge as his best novel.

(The worst thing about the "M" business is the shift from incorporating SF into his other work to farming it all out separately. He never did anything else like Walking On Glass or The Bridge once he started in on that one. The same mix is on display in a couple of stories in The State Of The Art as well, come to that...)

Transition was a non "M" book and was very Sci Fi. Personally I'd recommend reading the sci fi in the order they were written just as there is the very rare backward reference and they're all good anyway.

I'm deeply saddened by the news of his illness, I've read everything he's written and loved them all with the exception of Song of Stone. I always thought I'd be reading his books well into my old age.

I'm still finding it the best thing that's been on tv ever. I haven't read the books either, as I steer clear of any book series that's not finished due to my terrible memory.

Gemma was regressed far worse than that. She wasn't like that, even as a child. Ennis created a pretty believable pubescent aged female character. There was nothing wrong with her.

Yes, I think the important aspect was that she was a teenager at the time she first appeared, while now, it's been about twenty years.

 

Delano created Gemma. She was under ten when she first appeared. This surely proves your Delano-worship is a pale shadow of mine.

He's getting old, his memory is going. Happy Birthday Christian

Best walker death (re-death - whatever!) so far?

Spoilered for gore content

I watched a movie with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt in which Pitt played an IRA guy staying with Ford (his politics unbeknownst to Ford until the climax). but Pitt's love interest could easily be Kitt. That's all I thought of whenever she was onscreen. "That's Kitt!"

 

Does anyone know the movie I'm talking about? I don't have a guide and my cable was messed up and won't show the history of what I watched.

The Devils Own.

Afterage is more an aftermath story than a description of the breakdown, so that one might not be as much to your taste.

Sounds quite good, the only problem is do I buy the hardback for £21.99 or the Kindle edition for £1.92 !

Just bought your book too while I was on Amazon.

I just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin yesterday, and was going to post my thoughts, seeing as it's not the sort of book I'd normally pick up.

 

But a quick search of the book thread found this:

 

I've just started The Passage by Justin Cronin. A sort of Post-Apocalyptic vampire story. I've just gotten done with the big apocalypse part of the story, and it's jumped about 90 years into the future. It's super good so far, i hope it holds up.

 

I'd be curious to hear what you think about it. I didn't really enjoy the future stuff. I loved it until the bit where you are now. But the book got so much praise that I'm thinking maybe I missed something.

 

 

Well, i finished the book last night. It was very good, but it suffers from a screeching momentum halt when the story leaps into the future. What we've basically got is 2 novels in one, the story of the end of the world which is over 200 pages then the seperate story of a group of survivors. This second story suffers because Cronin has to spend a hundred or so pages world building, which if this was a standalone book wouldn't matter as much, but because it's coming after the rocking near future of the previous chapters really seems super slow.

 

After it gets going again, i really enjoyed it. It obviously left enough plot strings to fashion a marionette army, but i'm sure the sequels will deal with them. Hopefully now that the world is built those books won't suffer from the same problems. I did like the various devices he used to move the plot forward; the "artifacts" and journal entries being presented to some even farther future academics.

So yeah. B+/A-

 

....and I thought Dave summed up my thoughts on it almost exactly. So, saved me the bother.

The second book -The Twelve is nowhere near as good, so much so I might not even bother with the last book when it comes out. The 'before' section of the book is quite good, but the second half is like a couple of chapters of The passage dragged out over 600 pages.

This brings me to another question. How exactly does one become the leader of the Werewolf clan? We know that they aren't immortal.. So age has nothing to do with it.. But I do wonder what the qualifiers are for such a title.

I'm sure your forum name will help if your thinking of applying for the role.

I quite enjoyed the latest JLD, does this make me a bad person?

The final double sized issue of Sweet Tooth was a lovely epilogue to the series, almost shed a manly tear, but I think I may have used them all up watching The Impossible yesterday.

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She was an actress called Masako Natsume, she played Tripitaka (a buddhist monk) in Monkey THE 70's tv series based on Wu Cheng-ens book.

If you've never seen Monkey not only are you missing out on one of the greatest series ever, you're also missing out on the greatest opening credits.

The men who do do the majority of the violence, a tiny subset of us humans, do a lot of it. And I got a weeks wages says that every single one of them has seen The Wire.

 

Off the top of my head I present to you Fred West, and I'll take that week's wages thankyouverymuch. Is Paypal ok.....? :icon_wink:

 

You should have learned by now to never ever talk in absolutes on this site.

Fred West was in The Wire - hang on am I getting confused.

Never really knew if She was a man or not. Just found out whilst looking for this picture that she died aged 27.

Didn't the crazy tramp bite Rick ?

Just rewatched that bit, looks like he may have bitten his hand when Rick was trying to silence him, but it was very quick and not very clear so I doubt that will play a part.

I wonder if that bite mark will come back to haunt Rick in the very near future ?

 

 

What bite mark are you talking about? I think I must have missed something.

That's the Coney Island Cyclone, I believe.

You believe wrong sir, it's the Star Jet roller coaster formally on the casino Pier, (now on the casino underwater support platform.) at Seaside Heights, which is a pretty ironic name now!

It's in the sea now, think it's in New Jersey a casualty of Sandy.

That rollercoaster would be fun if it would still worked.

I voted London and May. I know I don't really post much but I visit every day and have done for many many years, I feel like I know you lot, so it would be nice to actually meet some of you. I'm probably more sociable in real life than on the internet.

I don't know if you've mentioned it and I didn't find it, but I am interested if anyone here is playing/has played DCUO? Have been playing nearly a year now,my first MMO, and although it has huge issues, it's fun and is the last vestige of OldDCU. If there's someone on the EU servers, speak up, so we can hook up in-game.

I played it from when it launched up until it went free to play, got a bit too samey after a while, enjoyed it a lot for a year though.

Seems like I'm on my own here, but I'm very sad to hear this news. I picked up Hellblazer 1 on my first visit to a proper comic shop and it's been the only constant in my comic buying life since 1988, I feel like I'll be loosing a friend, (albeit a friend who I sometimes wonder why I even see them anymore). I will buy the new book, even if it's rubbish just for my OCD with all things John Constantine.