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Post by piggsy on Jan 27, 2008 0:27:18 GMT -5
I'd have to say The Amityville Horror. That one really creeped me out.
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Post by maycanady on Jan 27, 2008 0:31:35 GMT -5
Carrie for me. I've been reading that book at least once a year since about 6th grade.
A close runner-up, though I hesitate to classify it as a straight up horror, would be Flowers In The Attic.
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Post by piggsy on Jan 27, 2008 0:38:03 GMT -5
Stephen King's work is entertaining, but it just doesn't give me much fear. Stories of the paranormal always find a way to get under my skin unlike any others.
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Post by lowkey on Jan 27, 2008 0:46:48 GMT -5
The Stand, though I'm really not for sure if that should qualify as horror. Salem's Lot was far more scary, yet I didn't enjoy it quiet as much. I keep meaning to read It, the Shining, and the Dark Tower series(I did read the Gunslinger a few years ago).
As strange as it may seem considering how much I love both reading, and horror, I haven't read that many horror novels. I usually go for sci-fi, and fantasy.
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Post by piggsy on Jan 27, 2008 1:37:04 GMT -5
"It" is fantastic, but as for The Shining, I much prefer Stanley Kubrick's movie.
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Post by maycanady on Jan 27, 2008 2:13:59 GMT -5
I have to agree there. I have a hard time getting through the book.
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Post by malbowski13 on Jan 28, 2008 19:36:17 GMT -5
Part of Barker's Books of Blood series "The Midnight Meat Train". I am going to say, here and now, that this movie will be a top contender for horror this year.
"The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum was a tough read. Great flow and characters but does leave you feeling...well, something.If books are supposed to move you, then this gets my pick.
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Post by lazario on Jan 30, 2008 6:31:16 GMT -5
I don't read horror books because I don't want to change my enjoyment of horror movies.
But, I used to read R. L. Stine's Fear Street books. If we were talking about stories though, I think Little Red Riding Hood had its fair amount of horror in it. It's between that and the Three Little Pigs.
You see, in the Three Little Pigs, the Stupid pigs pay for their stupidity.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 30, 2008 9:17:55 GMT -5
how would reading a book change your enjoyment of horror movies?
i never used t like to read horror, but over the past 8 months or so i have read a few horror novels and plan to read more
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Post by malbowski13 on Jan 30, 2008 22:01:28 GMT -5
Anyone read any Ramsey Campbell? I hope that's his last name...
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Post by lazario on Jan 31, 2008 6:53:56 GMT -5
how would reading a book change your enjoyment of horror movies? T, there is a phenomenon in movie making. Where people take loyalty with a book version of a story over a movie version. Surely you know about it. That would inhibit all adaptations of literature. Because people's loyalty to it will always drag down movies. They are two different worlds. And if you get into one, it will always change the other for you. |
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Post by tsmooth31 on Jan 31, 2008 13:35:31 GMT -5
They are two different worlds yes
but i dont think they really change the other for me
i mean i dont read books of movies i watch, i just read some random horror novels sometimes, i would much rahter watch a movie
but by reading a horror novel it doesnt take anything away from watching a totally diff movie
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Post by lazario on Feb 1, 2008 8:38:46 GMT -5
i dont read books of movies i watch, i just read some random horror novels sometimes, i would much rather watch a movie But what if one of the books you've read becomes a movie? |
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Post by lowkey on Feb 1, 2008 13:23:45 GMT -5
Some movies just suck anyway. Just about every Stephen King adaptation does.
The Outlaw Josey Wales/Gone to Texas is one of my favorite movies and novels. They are somewhat different from each other, but Clint Eastwood really did it justice. Nothing too important was cut out, except for Wales and Jodie's background as bank robbers. In the novel that was why they were being hunted, but in the movie it was because the Union soliders were just outright murderers.
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Post by lazario on Feb 1, 2008 14:15:30 GMT -5
Some movies just suck anyway. Just about every Stephen King adaptation does. I think there's something like 70 King adaptations. Out of a number like that, yeah "just about every" is fair. |
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Post by tsmooth31 on Feb 1, 2008 16:24:47 GMT -5
But what if one of the books you've read becomes a movie?
well id still watch it, i actually read jack ketcums "the girl next door" and loved it, they then made a movie which i saw and really liked that too.. i guess it depends on alot of diff things tho
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Post by lazario on Feb 3, 2008 5:26:25 GMT -5
Well, what I was saying anyway is that people don't keep an open mind with movie adaptations of books. If you are the exception to that rule, you're the only one.
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Post by tsmooth31 on Feb 3, 2008 10:20:57 GMT -5
well yea i know what you mean, alot of people if they read the book they will judge the movie by that, i always keep an open mind though.. i enjoy a movie or a book for what it is
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Post by lazario on Feb 4, 2008 17:11:46 GMT -5
i always keep an open mind Always a good idea. Can't really hurt. |
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