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Re: Literature Lately
« Reply #75 on: August 18, 2006, 02:05:45 AM »
Most all of the recent Alan Moore adaptations have been crummy.  I think V was alright, but they really pounded the audience over the head unnecces  unnessi … when they didn't need to.  Why else would Moore have requested to be left off the credits?  Because he hated it!  On the good side, Hugo Weaving was superb as V, and the fact that Natalie Portman was down with a head shave for the part gained her mucho karma in my book.

If you enjoy graphic novels, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", "300", all of "Sin City", and any Hellboy issue is awesome.  You might also check out "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac" by Jhonen Vasquez (the brains behind Invader Zim, but don't expect the kiddie stuff here), "The Hobbit" by David Wenzel (adapted by Charles Dixon and Sean Deming), and the early John Constantine Hellblazer issues.  Lastly, Marvel has finally released the full run of the original Age of Apocalypse run from 1995 in chronological order in 4 volumes.  Vol 1-3 are available now, and vol. 4 hits in October.

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Re: Literature Lately
« Reply #76 on: August 18, 2006, 08:15:40 AM »
I've finished the Feist book and have started on rereading the Robert A. Heinlein classic "The Number Of The Beast", which I haven't read in a while.  It has always been one of my favourite novels, and now that I'm better-read on Lazarus Long, perhaps the ending will make better sense now.  :)
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Re: Literature Lately
« Reply #77 on: August 21, 2006, 12:45:43 PM »
I can attest to the incredible awesomeness of Johnny the Homocidal Maniac, as I'm a huge Happy Noodle Boy fan (he's popular among the homeless insane). Also, if you haven't read the Sin City graphic novels you ought to.

I read the Subtle Knife, and now I'm reading the Amber Spyglass. It's better than the Subtle Knife, but nowhere near as good as the Golden Compass.
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Re: Literature Lately
« Reply #78 on: August 28, 2006, 03:55:24 PM »
Hellboy's awesome and so are the Alan Moore books I've read (V, Watchmen, and LXG). Poor Alan Moore...his adaptations are always a lot different than the books, and I hope to whatever gods give half a shit that they never make that Watchmen movie they've been talking about.

Still, I thought that the V for Vendetta movie kicked ass, and that the changes made were just a conversion to the new medium. I treated it as a wholly seperate thing from the book, but based on similar themes. That being said, a comic virgin that I brought with me to watch came out saying he wanted to borrow my copy, so it was a good experience.

The last fiction book that I read would have to be Peter Benchley's (the Jaws guy with the shark fixation) 'White Shark' which is about a half-Nazi half-shark thing.
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Re: Literature Lately
« Reply #79 on: August 28, 2006, 07:18:41 PM »
Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on August 28, 2006, 03:55:24 PM
The last fiction book that I read would have to be Peter Benchley's (the Jaws guy with the shark fixation) 'White Shark' which is about a half-Nazi half-shark thing.

That sounds awesome. I may have to get off my ass someday and MS Paint a half-shark people D-Day battle. That would rock.
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Re: Literature Lately
« Reply #80 on: August 29, 2006, 12:16:06 AM »
I spent around eight hours learning to draw sharks so I can move on to half-shark half Nazis.
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