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Reading the follow up to Feed by Mira Grant entitled Deadline. good post outbreak zombie stuff here!

Cool like Zombie / end of the world type of books, just pulled World War Z off the shelf to read again (due in part to it being in the news for the forthcoming film) which is reallly cool. Have you ever read Blood Crazy by Simon Clark? Another end of world scenario book (not zombies per se but they may as well be) which is brilliant in IMHO.

 

Going to have to look into both of those, they sound real good.

 

With Feed and Deadline, the titles of the books have double meanings dealing with 1. zombies and 2. the media. Get it Feed Deadline... Not only are the main characters trying to cope in a world that has been for some time plagued by the undead (most of the main chareacters no no other existence), interesting spin on how the people become the walking dead, not to spoil but take the cure for cancer and the cure for the common cold and apparently those to things don't get along and viola zombie strain!, but they are also "journalists" (albeit computer aged live camera upfeed, blog styled) reporting on the goings on of the zombie world and the evil government that "might" be not so squeeky clean...

 

Certainly well written and if they aren't being developed as I type should/would translate well to the cinema.

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Moonlight Mile- Dennis Lehane....follows "Gone Baby Gone" 12 years later.

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Reading the follow up to Feed by Mira Grant entitled Deadline. good post outbreak zombie stuff here!

Cool like Zombie / end of the world type of books, just pulled World War Z off the shelf to read again (due in part to it being in the news for the forthcoming film) which is reallly cool. Have you ever read Blood Crazy by Simon Clark? Another end of world scenario book (not zombies per se but they may as well be) which is brilliant in IMHO.

 

Going to have to look into both of those, they sound real good.

 

With Feed and Deadline, the titles of the books have double meanings dealing with 1. zombies and 2. the media. Get it Feed Deadline... Not only are the main characters trying to cope in a world that has been for some time plagued by the undead (most of the main chareacters no no other existence), interesting spin on how the people become the walking dead, not to spoil but take the cure for cancer and the cure for the common cold and apparently those to things don't get along and viola zombie strain!, but they are also "journalists" (albeit computer aged live camera upfeed, blog styled) reporting on the goings on of the zombie world and the evil government that "might" be not so squeeky clean...

 

Certainly well written and if they aren't being developed as I type should/would translate well to the cinema.

 

Nice one...will check those out.

World War Z is written from accounts of people caught up in the zombie war and how various factions dealt with it (I wasn't interviewed - the week the war was on I think I was on holiday and missed it all). I like it a lot but some folks find it a bit boring as there's no central charecter as such. Whereas Blood Crazy is just mayhem, blood n stuff, everyone over 18 pretty much becomes zombified and starts killing anyone younger.

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Reading the follow up to Feed by Mira Grant entitled Deadline. good post outbreak zombie stuff here!

Cool like Zombie / end of the world type of books, just pulled World War Z off the shelf to read again (due in part to it being in the news for the forthcoming film) which is reallly cool. Have you ever read Blood Crazy by Simon Clark? Another end of world scenario book (not zombies per se but they may as well be) which is brilliant in IMHO.

 

Going to have to look into both of those, they sound real good.

 

With Feed and Deadline, the titles of the books have double meanings dealing with 1. zombies and 2. the media. Get it Feed Deadline... Not only are the main characters trying to cope in a world that has been for some time plagued by the undead (most of the main chareacters no no other existence), interesting spin on how the people become the walking dead, not to spoil but take the cure for cancer and the cure for the common cold and apparently those to things don't get along and viola zombie strain!, but they are also "journalists" (albeit computer aged live camera upfeed, blog styled) reporting on the goings on of the zombie world and the evil government that "might" be not so squeeky clean...

 

Certainly well written and if they aren't being developed as I type should/would translate well to the cinema.

 

Nice one...will check those out.

World War Z is written from accounts of people caught up in the zombie war and how various factions dealt with it (I wasn't interviewed - the week the war was on I think I was on holiday and missed it all). I like it a lot but some folks find it a bit boring as there's no central charecter as such. Whereas Blood Crazy is just mayhem, blood n stuff, everyone over 18 pretty much becomes zombified and starts killing anyone younger.

 

 

World War Z will be my next read as my local library ad it. They did not however have Blood Crazy, they had/have a number of other books written by Mr. Clark, have you read any others by him?

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Stopped @ the library to return some stuff yesterday and was surprised to see "Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica" by British rock authority Mick Wall on the new-release shelf, so I snagged it.

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Stopped @ the library to return some stuff yesterday and was surprised to see "Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica" by British rock authority Mick Wall on the new-release shelf, so I snagged it.

 

I've been eyeing that book on Amazon. Let me know if it's any good or not.

I'm sure with Mick writing it's awesome.

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Stopped @ the library to return some stuff yesterday and was surprised to see "Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica" by British rock authority Mick Wall on the new-release shelf, so I snagged it.

 

I've been eyeing that book on Amazon. Let me know if it's any good or not.

I'm sure with Mick writing it's awesome.

 

I'm less than 100 pages in and I've already picked up some early-days trivia that I didn't know about. And here I thought after all this time I knew pretty much everything there is to know about that era. :blink:

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Stopped @ the library to return some stuff yesterday and was surprised to see "Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica" by British rock authority Mick Wall on the new-release shelf, so I snagged it.

 

I've been eyeing that book on Amazon. Let me know if it's any good or not.

I'm sure with Mick writing it's awesome.

 

I'm less than 100 pages in and I've already picked up some early-days trivia that I didn't know about. And here I thought after all this time I knew pretty much everything there is to know about that era. :blink:

 

Like what?

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Just bought Kiss - Behind the Mask by David Leaf and Ken Sharp.

I've meant to buy this for years and it's next on my to read list after I finish the book I'm currently reading, 'Dance With Dragons - Book Five of Song of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin.

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Stopped @ the library to return some stuff yesterday and was surprised to see "Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica" by British rock authority Mick Wall on the new-release shelf, so I snagged it.

 

I've been eyeing that book on Amazon. Let me know if it's any good or not.

I'm sure with Mick writing it's awesome.

 

I'm less than 100 pages in and I've already picked up some early-days trivia that I didn't know about. And here I thought after all this time I knew pretty much everything there is to know about that era. :blink:

 

Like what?

 

Nothin' really earth shattering, just little inconsequential sh*t. Like the fact that on the very first pressing of the Metal Massacre I album (i.e. the first 2500 copies), the band name was misspelled "Mettallica" (with two t's) and Lars was on the phone bitching at Brian Slagel within 30 seconds of finding out about it. :rofl:

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Wowser, Belinda Carlisle has a bio too? Must read for me.

 

Haven't been here for a while, but going to Tonga in a couple of weeks so hoping to get in a bit of reading whilst there. Looking forward to hearing about how Jasmine St Clair stuffed her body full of hard schlongs for a living.

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Another holiday, another opportunity to read some pages:

 

'Glamorama' - Bret Easton Ellis ; very cool. I loved the indifferent first 1/3 of the book and did like how it all panned out, though at times I felt that Victor's character changed too dramatically throughout the course of the novel, despite what was going on in his life. I dunno, it could just be written off as a reflection of what he was going through, but the constant crying and stuff at the end was getting to me a little bit. Anyway, overall I did love it and it's probably my 2nd fave of his, having not read 'Imperial Bedrooms' yet.

 

'What the hell was I thinking?' - Jasmine St Clair ; Only about halfway through this, but while it's fresh on my mind... If you're not familiar with this whore, she started out in porn for a while (in which time she did a world record at the time 300 dude gangbang - seemingly. Turns out it was a scam), then went on to wrestling and now (apparently - I haven't got that far yet. :lol: ) she's doing something with heavy metal interviews etc. Cool book, even if she is extremely unlikeable.

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Just finished PROVINCES OF NIGHT by William Gay, which I was inspired to read by the movie BLOODWORTH. It was nice to revisit the characters, but I thought the movie adaption told a better story. Also, the writer doesn't use "" marks for dialog which always irritates me. I think they do it to screw with speed readers

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