Rulin' and A-Ruin'

[handful_ofdust]

The SF Signal Mind-Meld I was invited to take part in is finally up, here (http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/11/mind-meld-which-horror-novel-would-make-a-great-film/). And I just got an email from Adam LG Nevill as a result, so damn, go me! How I love this era.;)

Not a great day otherwise, unfortunately; I woke with a massive crick in my neck, and have been sleeping on and off ever since. Still, lunch with Cal calls. Here's hoping the afternoon will be better--more productive, anyhow.

Comments

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Yeah, I could tell there was horror involved - as I wrote back then, the opening scene in the Himalayas was amazing, and seemed to have been written by a totally different writer. But all the (human) characters that followed seemed straight out of a Da Vinci Code knockoff, and I guess I didn't see that changing in the coming pages - that's what ultimately sticks with me about the book. I really hate reading characters like that.* I'd probably watch a movie made from it, but I felt the execution of the concept was too not-to-my-liking to read. I'm sorry :( I think I'll just have to miss out on this one.

*ironically, I can withstand cliched horror characters more easily, so I suspect a lot of this comes down to preference.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

A movie version would indeed rock, if you got the right design--vague surface resemblance to The Descent was one of the things that attracted me to The Cave, shit as that turned out to be. All I can tell you is that I re-read that book intermittently, almost every year...but then again, I do that with The Stand, too. So take it with a grain of salt.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Heh. Maybe you should have given that as an answer to SF Signal?

Speaking of The Stand, I eavesdropped on your comment below about Swan Song - I haven't read that either (never even heard of the author... terrible, I know) but I read the plot summary on wikipedia and the Job's Mask thing sounds really creepy.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

There's definitely stuff to like about Swan Song, like most McCammon--he's the best of the faux-Kings, with a crazy sort of energy and invention (especially in his earliest books, the ones he now refuses to allow to be reprinted). My favourites of his are They Thirst, Stinger, Baal and Bethany's Sin, though I recently read The Wolf's Hour for the first time, about a Nazi-fighting werewolf, and that was NUTS.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Interesante. McCammon may be in our city library.