Hey! My book review is up! (part 9, Among Madmen)

[grendel]

I know this one is obscure. I know it. But really, there were a LOT of copies run off and I did see it everywhere for quite a while.

Anyone read it? How about the others that I'm throwing up this week? Legend? Dirty White Boys (no, Blo, it's not porn)?

Speaking of Dirty White Boys (we weren't, but fuck you), it's by Stephen Hunter, who wrote 'Point of Impact', which CHUD's very own Bill Ko did a review on a coupla weeks ago (and quite a good one, at that), and it turns out that I had it's sequel 'Black Light' in my car, and read it. MUCH BETTER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE!!! So, to accompany his 'Point of Impact' review I may co-join it with 'Dirty White Boys' and 'Black Light', as they are loosely entertwined.

[Xymog]

I think we should get Spike Lee to do a film of the two books, called "Dirty, Light-black White Boys." It'll be an angry comedy about race relations in urban America.

Waitaminnit, I think it's already been done . . . .

[Nick Nunziata]

And there's also the fact that Stephen Hunter is a film critic.

[grendel]

Nobody likes books, evidently. Ah well...

So, what's YOUR favorite end of the world novel? Any takers?

Lucifer's Hammer? The Stand? Earth Abides?

Come on, share your paranoid Armageddon fantasies with me...

[Blofeld]

Well, you named my top two. The Stand and Lucifer's Hammer.

[grendel]

Ah. Well, there you have it.

[Shelby]

Swan Song was pretty good http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif Cant think of the authors name though http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif

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You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me not you!
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[Blofeld]

Robert R. McCammon. Swan Song is good, too.

[Shelby]

yea thats it http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif Its been a long time since I read it (I think I was 15 or so) but I really liked it. Enough so, that I went and read alot of his other books.

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You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me not you!
Shelby (http://shelbyiam.cjb.net)

[grendel]

I read it, and I liked it at the time, but I felt, even at the time, that it was not well plotted.

And it isn't. McCammon's strongest by THE LONGEST SHOT is 'Boy's Life', and his book of shorts, 'Blue World'.

Conversely, the rest of his books are books of pants.

[matt]

It's too bad McCammon hung up his hat. Dammit!

Matt

PS-who's Bill Ko?

[Blofeld]

Me too! I was excited about his World War II novel, and now, apparently, it'll never see the light of day. I think McCammon was really starting to hit his stride. Boy's Life is indeed brilliant, and his follow-ups Mine and Going South were pretty good, too.

[grendel]

His maturity as a writer was really developing, and he is missed.

Bill Ko is Hellblazer, I think. I don't know. But I was wrong in stating that he wrote the Point of Impact review. It was the first short asian name that came to mind so I assumed it must be right.

My bad.

Good review, by the way, and now I am reading Hunter like it gets me free head.

[This message has been edited by grendel (edited 09-14-2000).]