I agree about Cell, so much of it seemed to be lifted from The Stand, just not as well-done. But King's Joyland was a great coming-of-age with a paranormal mystery.
And if you're getting into Westerns, True Grit is as good as it gets.
I'm going to try amd read the stand at some point, I hated it when I had the audiobook and couldn't finish it. But I'll be doing the dark tower series and that's part of the extended universe
🤣🤣🤣 I've seen the adaptation of cell a few years ago and I will never ever consider picking that book up!! Absolutely terrible 😆
However...
I just finished reading Revival a couple of hours ago and it is superb 👌🏻 the character work is as good as I've ever read, the story was compelling and it is a subtle Lovecraftian story.
It was so good that things can only go downhill from here 🙈😆
I’m so flattered to have been mentioned by name in your post! Thank you so much. You have been busy indeed! I’m looking forward to more of your reflections on your readings in gothic literature going forward. By the way, what was your opinion of “Nosferatu”. Against my expectations, I enjoyed it. But the things I didn’t like about it were: the length, the over-the-top precious dialogue, the female leads inept body spasms that looked like she was about to break dance, and the fact that there was no such place as “Germany” in 1838.
Overall, I liked Nosferatu. I liked the vampire, and the set looked good, and it was well shot. It was Eggers' best work so far! But, it was a bit too long. I thought the scene with the female lead and her husband where she turns on him and says she's unclean was too weird. Have you announced when your book is out?
That’s so kind of you to have brought up my book. I’ve been in talks with the publisher about holding off on the first volume until the last novel is finished, which I hope to have done by next year. In the meantime, I may have a collection of short stories out.
I too thought the movie was too long by about 20 minutes. Also, I don’t know why they decided to do essentially what was done in the Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and make the Van Helsing character into a rambling weirdo. I like Wilem Dafoe, but between that film and “The Lighthouse” I’m done with him beating his chest and rolling his eyes, while he blurts out pompous monologues in an unplaceable and artificially archaized Old World accent. And that pose that Dafoe makes in his last scene, swinging a lantern and cackling maniacally, was lifted wholesale from the Weimar film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Cagligari” (which I think must have been intentional). Also, unlike the majority of people, I thought Nosferatu’s voice was hilariously cartoonish. To me the film was just a pastiche and sequence of one cliche after another, since I was familiar with the other films and have read Dracula a couple of times. So I was constantly saying to myself: “Oh, he’s hiking in the Balkans. There’s going to be a village or a gypsy camp coming up.” — “Oh, there’s the Renfield character eating rats and talking about ‘the master’ coming, so that means he’s going to escape from the asylum soon and end up in Carfax Abbey, or whatever the equivalent in this alternate version of 1830 Bremen is.”
Well it’s already being released, it is inspired by Dracula but is a Fantasy-Horror. So think of it as the Hobbit/LOTR meets Dracula, so it is told from the 1st person via journal entries but is set in my world of Pangaea.
Well, I can see why there were just a couple of king books left!
I’ve just started revival too.
On the western front, I love no country for old men and I think the brothers sisters. Have you read them?
I ended up getting those king book yesterday 😆
Finished revival a couple of days ago and it is amazing!!
Haven't read those Westerns but I've seen the no country for old men adaptation which was great
I agree about Cell, so much of it seemed to be lifted from The Stand, just not as well-done. But King's Joyland was a great coming-of-age with a paranormal mystery.
And if you're getting into Westerns, True Grit is as good as it gets.
I'm going to try amd read the stand at some point, I hated it when I had the audiobook and couldn't finish it. But I'll be doing the dark tower series and that's part of the extended universe
I would probably find an audio of The Stand really difficult to follow. There must be a 100 characters, big and small, in that book!
I've read some King, but the last one was so terrible (Cell) that I gave up on him. He drove me to cozy mysteries.
🤣🤣🤣 I've seen the adaptation of cell a few years ago and I will never ever consider picking that book up!! Absolutely terrible 😆
However...
I just finished reading Revival a couple of hours ago and it is superb 👌🏻 the character work is as good as I've ever read, the story was compelling and it is a subtle Lovecraftian story.
It was so good that things can only go downhill from here 🙈😆
I’m so flattered to have been mentioned by name in your post! Thank you so much. You have been busy indeed! I’m looking forward to more of your reflections on your readings in gothic literature going forward. By the way, what was your opinion of “Nosferatu”. Against my expectations, I enjoyed it. But the things I didn’t like about it were: the length, the over-the-top precious dialogue, the female leads inept body spasms that looked like she was about to break dance, and the fact that there was no such place as “Germany” in 1838.
Overall, I liked Nosferatu. I liked the vampire, and the set looked good, and it was well shot. It was Eggers' best work so far! But, it was a bit too long. I thought the scene with the female lead and her husband where she turns on him and says she's unclean was too weird. Have you announced when your book is out?
That’s so kind of you to have brought up my book. I’ve been in talks with the publisher about holding off on the first volume until the last novel is finished, which I hope to have done by next year. In the meantime, I may have a collection of short stories out.
I'll keep my eyes open for that!
I too thought the movie was too long by about 20 minutes. Also, I don’t know why they decided to do essentially what was done in the Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and make the Van Helsing character into a rambling weirdo. I like Wilem Dafoe, but between that film and “The Lighthouse” I’m done with him beating his chest and rolling his eyes, while he blurts out pompous monologues in an unplaceable and artificially archaized Old World accent. And that pose that Dafoe makes in his last scene, swinging a lantern and cackling maniacally, was lifted wholesale from the Weimar film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Cagligari” (which I think must have been intentional). Also, unlike the majority of people, I thought Nosferatu’s voice was hilariously cartoonish. To me the film was just a pastiche and sequence of one cliche after another, since I was familiar with the other films and have read Dracula a couple of times. So I was constantly saying to myself: “Oh, he’s hiking in the Balkans. There’s going to be a village or a gypsy camp coming up.” — “Oh, there’s the Renfield character eating rats and talking about ‘the master’ coming, so that means he’s going to escape from the asylum soon and end up in Carfax Abbey, or whatever the equivalent in this alternate version of 1830 Bremen is.”
Oh I didn't like that cackling scene either - I don't know how he didn't light himself on fire throwing the fuel everywhere while holding the torch!
Glad you like those essays, we're also writing our own Dracula styled Vampire novel.
I bet you'll smash it out of the park! Is it set at that point in time as well?
Well it’s already being released, it is inspired by Dracula but is a Fantasy-Horror. So think of it as the Hobbit/LOTR meets Dracula, so it is told from the 1st person via journal entries but is set in my world of Pangaea.
https://canadianculturecorner.substack.com/p/varcola-table-of-contents