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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:rgb(41,47,51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Imagine the fantasy genre if Peake, not Tolkien, had become the megaseller.</span></span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2015/06/bradley-coopers-hyperion-adaptation-heading-to-syfy.html'>http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2015/06/bradley-coopers-hyperion-adaptation-heading-to-syfy.html</a></p>
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<p>Theres a fairly hefty Sci Fi serving on here... <strong>Hyperion</strong> is being made into a TV series!</p>
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<p>So thats good.</p>
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<p>By Sci-Fi channel.. so, yeah.. less so.</p> -
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<p>Theres a fairly hefty Sci Fi serving on here... <strong>Hyperion</strong> is being made into a TV series!</p>
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<p>So thats good.</p>
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<p>By Sci-Fi channel.. so, yeah.. less so.</p>
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<p>Wow, wondered if someone would be brave enough to take this on. A big ask and a really deep story. A series does sounds better than a movie, but only if they have a decent budget.</p> -
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<p>Wow, wondered if someone would be brave enough to take this on. A big ask and a really deep story. A series does sounds better than a movie, but <em><strong>only if they have a decent budget.</strong></em></p>
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<p>alas thats where it falls over being with SciFi not Netflix or HBO</p>
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<p>See American Gods has finally got greenlit too & has a writer. So its happening. Thats a fucking great book.</p> -
<p>I got into Lehane's work sometime back and really enjoyed it. I liked the Kenzie/Gennaro books best but got the feeling that we was not getting fulfilled in writing them. I've read most of the rest of them up to and including "The Given Day". I've tried reading the follow up "Live by Night" but just can't get into it.</p>
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<p>I just hope they make American Gods nice and dark, not lighten it up for 'broader appeal'.</p>
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<p>I got into Lehane's work sometime back and really enjoyed it. I liked the Kenzie/Gennaro books best but got the feeling that we was not getting fulfilled in writing them. I've read most of the rest of them up to and including "The Given Day". I've tried reading the follow up "Live by Night" but just can't get into it.</p>
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<p>Lehane also wrote a number of The Wire's scripts.</p>
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<p>I like his writing but couldn't get into the Kenzie/Gennaro series, I just didn't like the characters enough to read a whole series. I made a mistake when I read Coronado as I thought it was a novel and not short stories, I got to the end of the first one looking forward to the next chapter - and nope, new story. What a dumbass.</p>
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<p>I was actually disappointed that I read Shutter Island as I think the movie would have been great f I had no idea what was happening.</p> -
<p>Yeah Nepia, I know what you mean re Shutter Island. Having read the book I didn't bother with the film. Couldn't see the point,</p>
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<p>George Pelecanos is very similar to Lehane, and also wrote a lot of The Wire. Really good books. Highly recommended.</p>
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<p>I went through an american crime thing a few years back, Lehane, Pelecanos, James Ellroy, Walter Mosely, Don Winslow, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard.</p>
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<p>Really fantastic writing. Tho of those 4, Ellroy can be a bit of a slog. The other 6 are like watching Shutter Island, or The Drop, or Killing Them Softly. Ellroy is like watching all 5 seasons The Wire directed by Cormac McCarthy. American Tabloid (Ellroy) is easilty one of my favourite ever books.</p> -
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<p>George Pelecanos is very similar to Lehane, and also wrote a lot of The Wire. Really good books. Highly recommended.</p>
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<p>I went through an american crime thing a few years back, Lehane, Pelecanos, James Ellroy, Walter Mosely, Don Winslow, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard.</p>
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<p>Really fantastic writing. Tho of those 4, Ellroy can be a bit of a slog. The other 6 are like watching Shutter Island, or The Drop, or Killing Them Softly. Ellroy is like watching all 5 seasons The Wire directed by Cormac McCarthy. American Tabloid (Ellroy) is easilty one of my favourite ever books.</p>
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<p>I made the mistake of reading too much Pelecanos at one time, I think it's best to have gaps when reading authors or you notice the patterns too much.</p>
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<p>I made the mistake of reading too much Pelecanos at one time, I think it's best to have gaps when reading authors or you notice the patterns too much.</p>
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<p>I've never read a Cormac McCarthy book, are they a decent read?</p>
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<p>I know what you mean about Pelecanos, I read 2 & really liked his "he put fire to his cigarette" tick, then by 5th book I wanted him to just write "he lit it". Also his early books were short & sparse, really good, then he got deeper more verbose but less interesting later, I haven't bothered reading his latest one & yet I raved to anyone whowould listen about Firing Offence or Shoedog.</p>
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<p>McCarthy can be a bit of a slog I find, The Road was great, everyone raves about Blood Meridian but I found it to be just too unendingly samey grim. Its like the depressing parts of Unforgiven, over & over, for 300 pages.</p>
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I made the mistake of reading too much Pelecanos at one time, I think it's best to have gaps when reading authors or you notice the patterns too much.<br><br>
I've never read a Cormac McCarthy book, are they a decent read?</p></blockquote>
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Agree with Gollum , no country for old MFN and the road are great, all the pretty horses is ok but blood meridian has such depraved characters it's a hard slog .<br>
I just finished this, <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.smithsbookshop.co.nz/bookshop/isbn9781869502041.php">http://www.smithsbookshop.co.nz/bookshop/isbn9781869502041.php</a> it's a great read and finishes off in Trieste which was a pretty sad way for the kiwis to end their war. What happened in Trieste reminded me a lot of what happened near by forty or so years later. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="497763" data-time="1435091554"><p>Agree with Gollum , no country for old MFN and the road are great, all the pretty horses is ok but blood meridian has such depraved characters it's a hard slog .<br>
I just finished this, <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.smithsbookshop.co.nz/bookshop/isbn9781869502041.php">http://www.smithsbookshop.co.nz/bookshop/isbn9781869502041.php</a> it's a great read and finishes off in Trieste which was a pretty sad way for the kiwis to end their war. What happened in Trieste reminded me a lot of what happened near by forty or so years later.</p></blockquote>
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All of my lit. friends and colleagues love Blood Meridian, but I struggled too. No country for old men is my fav. Book of his, but the pretty horse trilogy is great and I go back and read it every now and then. Id definitely start with NCFOM and go from there.<br><br>
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<p>Seeing all this like/not fussed discussion reminds me to try and chill, that some will like and some will loathe. Emphasis on the try, my next book is out on Monday 29th and I'm utterly crapping myself just quietly. Sometimes discussions and reviews are super hard for authors to read, especially when they say something that makes you go WTF, how the hell did they come away with that.</p>
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<p>Thing with any form of art (books, movies, TV) you don't have to appeal to all audiences, you just have to appeal to<em><strong> your </strong></em>audience.</p>
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<p>Haha, yes, but we authors are a needy, greedy lot. Half the reason we're all whacked on caffeine or alcohol or drugs (or all three) is to dull the urge to run up to perfect strangers and wail LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEE.</p> -
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<p>Haha, yes, but we authors are a needy, greedy lot. Half the reason we're all whacked on caffeine or alcohol or drugs (or all three) is to dull the urge to run up to perfect strangers and wail LOVE MEEEEEEEEEEE.</p>
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<p>These writers' conventions might be more exciting than they sound! Especially if the morning coffee is late. :)</p> -
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<p>These writers' conventions might be more exciting than they sound! <strong>Especially if the morning coffee is late</strong>. :)</p>
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<p>Sweet vodka bonnet, Chris, don't even joke about it. crosses self</p> -
<p>The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie is fucking rad. It's not like any fantasy series i have ever read. Dark. The overall story means less to you than what happens to the main characters. The "good" guys are all pretty terrible people. The "bad" guys are barely mentioned. And i loved it.</p>
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<p>I'm now reading the stand-alone novels that go with it. Can recommend</p>
