Hope has 256 pages?! Blimey. I'd have said 40 to 60
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Proudhuff on 17 April, 2024, 01:42:41 PM Dredd fights stage left pursued by Bear, great fun and a good bit of Dreddversity. Liking the new sidekick
I'm also delighted to see Brink back. Talking heads, but talking sense.
Aquila: Thought I'd missed an episode or turned two pages at once, trip tropping along at a fair old pace, nice change of pace from recent slogs in the prog.
Indigo Prime did Edgar Borrow this?
Vex is charging along... not sure where or why, but I'm enjoying the ride.
4/5 for me, with the prog on a major up tick, admittedly from flat lining
Quote from: JohnW on 11 April, 2024, 08:58:39 AMQuote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 April, 2024, 08:11:32 AMI'm reading Stephen King's The Stand for the first time. I've really lost my reading habit and tried to get back into itWhen it comes to getting back into reading, early King is always a good route, and The Stand (at least before he dicked around with it) is a grand satisfying wodge of a read.
There's a lot about the man's style I don't have much time for these days, but that's offset by the sheer amount of content he delivers. My habit now is to read one of his books until things start drifting towards absurdity and then I chuck it. As soon as he introduces stuff like space turtles I know I probably won't like how the story ends. But that doesn't matter because the book has already served up several hundred pages of human interest with spooky stuff added.
Quote from: JohnW on 11 April, 2024, 10:40:18 AMQuote from: JayzusB.Christ on 11 April, 2024, 09:53:14 AMKing dicked around with The Stand, then? Hopefully not in a George Lucas way.He released a sort of author's cut which included all the bits that the original editor wisely deleted. I only read the start of it, but it was bloated even by Stephen King standards.
(In the proper edition, for instance, the action begins with a bunch of good ol' boys watching a car steering towards some petrol pumps. In the self-indulgent text, it starts with the driver bundling his wife and kids into the car a few days before, thus removing the tense 'Who? How? What the fuck?' of the proper opening.)
Then I gather he produced a version updated from the seventies to the nineties or two-thousands for no good reason at all. I for one like my Stephen Kings to be rooted in a minutely observed 1970s America. Indeed, I often think that most of what I know about the US comes from Sesame Street and early Stephen King.
Anyway, I hear this revision was unnecessarily awful.
Always listen to your editor, children, and just say no to drugs.
Quote from: Doomlord66 on 25 March, 2024, 10:45:27 PMNot the best of covers to entice new readers, is it?
The announcement of a complete story on the cover seems unnecessary. What is so great about this that it had to be on the cover?
Maybe as its for new readers, perhaps put the story name under the character circle pics?
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 09 March, 2024, 01:11:47 PMThe annual meat bingo went smoothly enough, but we haven't chosen whose blood will anoint the crops yet.
Quote from: Funt Amenable to Change on 27 February, 2024, 03:21:11 PMQuote from: Barrington Boots on 27 February, 2024, 01:45:46 PMBaldurs Gate 3 was amazing and well worth all the hype its had - so good, in fact, that I'm tempted to play it through again.
I played 1 and 2, so have been sorely tempted by this. My daydream is a new gaming PC, a copy of BG3 and then ... immersion! (Getting in the way of that - family, career etc.)