tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post8839920518399728768..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: Tar or Milk?bill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-31152869059042825412009-03-15T19:00:00.000-04:002009-03-15T19:00:00.000-04:00So Brian Keene thinks that "indeterminite" means p...So Brian Keene thinks that "indeterminite" means pretty much the opposite of what it actually means. Also, hey, that's some good job, editor.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-5945523290678886472009-03-14T18:30:00.000-04:002009-03-14T18:30:00.000-04:00If you think those examples are funny, try this on...If you think those examples are funny, try this one, from chapter 6:<BR/><BR/>____<BR/><BR/>"Ooo ayyk! Yaaayy!"<BR/>Baker removed the wet rag from his forehead, studying his benefactor. His age was indeterminate, somewhere between fourteen and nineteen, Baker guessed. Judging by his facial features and deformities, the boy suffered from some form of retardation. Baker couldn't determine what type.<BR/>_____<BR/><BR/>And "The Rising" is easily Brian Keene's best novel.Bill Pacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14255567602383303733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-3664812935353662482009-03-13T09:42:00.000-04:002009-03-13T09:42:00.000-04:00No!But then again...No!<BR/><BR/>But then again...bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-52638185441483337982009-03-13T09:14:00.000-04:002009-03-13T09:14:00.000-04:00I can't see the back of my head but I know it's co...I can't see the back of my head but I know it's covered with hair. By the way, I'm typing this comment nervously as their may - or may not be - a zombie in here with me. There could be. Then again, there could not be. <BR/><BR/>Or could there?<BR/><BR/>Or maybe not.<BR/><BR/>I guess I'm safe.<BR/><BR/>Or am I?Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-12740938720242906962009-03-12T18:11:00.000-04:002009-03-12T18:11:00.000-04:00Knarf Black, yes it counts (although I have to adm...Knarf Black, yes it counts (although I have to admit to not liking that one, either). It's absolutely true that horror thrives in the short form (even writers whose awful novels I've slogged through have turned out decent stories), but I think good horror novels exist. <B>The Exorcist, Song of Kali, Flicker, The Haunting of Hill House, Conjure Wife</B> and bunches more. I'm not saying it's common, but such books do exist. It's largely the post-King writers who are killing the horror novel.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-11637238782966589612009-03-12T17:48:00.000-04:002009-03-12T17:48:00.000-04:00I've always been a huge horror fan, and I can bare...I've always been a huge horror fan, and I can barely think of a single example of long form horror fiction of any merit.<BR/><BR/>Aside from Stephen King, whom I tired of in High School, I'm having a hard time even thinking of a contemporary horror novel that I ever bothered to read all the way through.<BR/><BR/>Does <I>World War Z</I> count?Frank Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14850057409016456318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-72082042619054642722009-03-11T14:27:00.000-04:002009-03-11T14:27:00.000-04:00Thanks, H. P. Lovecraft!!Krauthammer - Yes, that's...Thanks, H. P. Lovecraft!!<BR/><BR/>Krauthammer - Yes, that's absolutely true, and horror literature fans and horror film fans dovetail in another way: the majority of horror writers these days were inspired by the shitty 80s movies they grew up with, as opposed to writers like Poe, Lovecraft, James, Aickman, and so on. And the fans want to <I>read</I> books that are like those shitty movies from the 80s they grew up with, so in that sense the relationship works out quite well. But increasingly I want no part of it.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-79353692018961306542009-03-11T14:18:00.000-04:002009-03-11T14:18:00.000-04:00"Horror fans, by and large, seem to completely una..."Horror fans, by and large, seem to completely unable to tell good writing from bad, and I'm getting a little fed up with it."<BR/><BR/>Although my experience with horror literature basically begins and ends with Edgar Allan Poe, I feel kinda similarly about horror movie fans. I love horror movies by and large, and there are a lot of people doing good work in that field, but for the most part whenever I meet a self-proclaimed "horror fan" they tend to treat the genre more like a drug; something to get their blood pumping and their adrenaline going, rather than an art form. And I'd argue that this has lead to a lot of the boring excess that we see today.Krauthammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579174548781288062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-39324908280077561222009-03-11T14:14:00.000-04:002009-03-11T14:14:00.000-04:00Top Notch Post! I couldn't put it down!- H.P. Lov...Top Notch Post! I couldn't put it down!<BR/><BR/>- H.P. LovecraftAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com