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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2022 22:18:58 GMT
What books have you read recently? I'm currently reading Saward's Resurrection of the Daleks novel. I wasn't a fan of it when I first read it, but I enjoyed it a lot on the second read. I haven't read it for a few years so I thought I'd read it along with all the other Saward target novels I own. Reading can be so relaxing.
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Post by rushy on May 24, 2022 0:18:56 GMT
I'm well into George R. R. Martin's "Fire & Blood" (a Game of Thrones prequel detailing the history of House Targaryen), as well as John de Lancie's novel "I, Q".
After that, I intend to get into the Star Wars Thrawn trilogy.
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Post by cyberhat on May 24, 2022 0:50:12 GMT
Ulysess
I found it a very surprisingly fun read. Modernist masterpiece. Don't know it Joyce was on the autism spectrum, all those internal monologues. The final chapter with Molly Bloom may be one of the finest works of art in the 20th century.
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Post by burrunjor on May 24, 2022 11:57:46 GMT
Well I've been reading a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs recently. Just started his Venus series. He had such an imagination. Always been a big idol of mine that way.
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Post by RobFilth on May 24, 2022 12:02:58 GMT
Ploughing my way through a second reading of the entire 2000AD Ultimate Collection and Judge Dredd Mega Collection, I estimate it's going to take me about 2 years to go through the lot again.
Ultimate Collection is 140 books(when completed) and Mega Collection is 90 books.
I'm on around Volume 16 of each, so a long way to go yet.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2022 12:12:48 GMT
My introduction to Judge Dredd was the 1995 film with Stallone and Rob Schneider. I didn't think it was as bad as they said, but then I don't know much about the character from the comics. Dredd seems to be more liked and I admittedly like the bloodier and more adult feel to the story. I own a book of art work from the 1995 film and used to own the soundtrack by Alan Silvestri too. I think I have the novelization somewhere which I remember being a lot better than the movie. It's not great, but Diane Lane is nice to look at.
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Post by RobFilth on May 24, 2022 12:19:46 GMT
My introduction to Judge Dredd was the 1995 film with Stallone and Rob Schneider. I didn't think it was as bad as they said, but then I don't know much about the character from the comics. Dredd seems to more liked and I admittedly like the bloodier and more adult feel to the story. That film isn't a very good introduction starting point for Judge Dredd, the more recent Dredd film(2012) is closer but still not perfect. The best intro is really the comics, particularly the graphic novels. Either the Judge Dredd Case Files Vol 1 or The Cursed Earth(uncensored) are good starting points. The creators of the Judge Dredd character Pat Mills and John Wagner also wrote all of the early Marvel Tom Baker Doctor Who comic strips too(Iron Legion to Dogs of Doom) Judge Dredd is pretty much an anti-hero, in that he can be the oppressive villain in one story and the good guy in another. Probably the one film which has literally ripped the most content out of Judge Dredd is the first Robocop movie. |
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Post by Bernard Marx on May 24, 2022 12:22:07 GMT
My introduction to Judge Dredd was the 1995 film with Stallone and Rob Schneider. I didn't think it was as bad as they said, but then I don't know much about the character from the comics. Dredd seems to more liked and I admittedly like the bloodier and more adult feel to the story. That film isn't a very good introduction starting point for Judge Dredd, the more recent Dredd film(2012) is closer but still not perfect. I watched the 2013 film iteration of Dredd earlier this year. Its main flaw is that it doesn't delve into the lore of the graphic novels or opt for broader world-building at all (it'd have been great to see Strontium Dog adapted in that veneer), but if you approach the film as a pilot for an unmade TV series, it gets pretty much everything right. |
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Post by RobFilth on May 24, 2022 12:25:52 GMT
That film isn't a very good introduction starting point for Judge Dredd, the more recent Dredd film(2012) is closer but still not perfect. I watched the 2013 film iteration of Dredd earlier this year. Its main flaw is that it doesn't delve into the lore of the graphic novels or opt for broader world-building at all (it'd have been great to see Strontium Dog adapted in that veneer), but if you approach the film as a pilot for an unmade TV series, it gets pretty much everything right. I think the problem with the Karl Urban film is that although it gets Dredds character down to a tee(Andersons too I reckon), is that because it is set in a more closer less distant future than the comic strip, the central star missing from it is Mega City 1 itself and it's crazy madcap culture. It's still streets above the Stallone movie which comes of the rails within about the first 15 minutes. |
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Post by Bernard Marx on May 24, 2022 12:26:09 GMT
Reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar at the moment- a superb read thus far, although made all the more nihilistic when read alongside a quick re-read of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell.
I have Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory and Waugh's The Loved One coming up afterwards. Just hoping I can continue to read for pleasure given the deadlines I'm dealing with at the moment...
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Post by Bernard Marx on May 24, 2022 12:28:27 GMT
I watched the 2013 film iteration of Dredd earlier this year. Its main flaw is that it doesn't delve into the lore of the graphic novels or opt for broader world-building at all (it'd have been great to see Strontium Dog adapted in that veneer), but if you approach the film as a pilot for an unmade TV series, it gets pretty much everything right. I think the problem with the Karl Urban film is that although it gets Dredds character down to a tee(Andersons too I reckon), is that because it is set in a more closer less distant future than the comic strip, the central star missing from it is Mega City 1 itself and it's crazy madcap culture. It's still streets above the Stallone movie which comes of the rails within about the first 15 minutes. Yeah, if the film had a more faithful and intimate sense of world-building (perhaps with an extended runtime and re-allocated variation of the city), it'd have benefited significantly. I've only seen the Stallone film once, and almost a decade ago. Unsure if I'll approach it again anytime soon... |
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Post by RobFilth on May 24, 2022 12:39:42 GMT
I think the problem with the Karl Urban film is that although it gets Dredds character down to a tee(Andersons too I reckon), is that because it is set in a more closer less distant future than the comic strip, the central star missing from it is Mega City 1 itself and it's crazy madcap culture. It's still streets above the Stallone movie which comes of the rails within about the first 15 minutes. Yeah, if the film had a more faithful and intimate sense of world-building (perhaps with an extended runtime and re-allocated variation of the city), it'd have benefited significantly. I've only seen the Stallone film once, and almost a decade ago. Unsure if I'll approach it again anytime soon... The main problem is I don't believe the character is really suited for movie franchise, it might possibly work as a tv series, I dunno. The subject matter and world in Judge Dredd is too complex to cram into a 90 minute movie faithfully and do the character justice. The Stallone film has elements which look nice, but none of them are Stallone. His rendition of Dredd is awful, "Uh um dah lurrrgh!" and "Ah jess nooooo dey were goin tuh say dat!". Arrrgh!! |
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Post by burrunjor on May 24, 2022 16:18:18 GMT
I've been meaning to get into 2000 AD for a long while. Just don't know where to start.
I absolutely loved their version of Dan Dare. Honestly one of the best comic series I've ever read. The vampires issue had a huge impact on me.
I will say though it has pretty much nothing in common with the original 50s and 60s stories.
If I had to compare it to DW I'd say it goes like this.
50s and 60s stuff is classic who. The original run and still one of the most ground breaking pieces of sci fi ever made.
70s stuff is the Eccelston and Ten Inch eras. Good, enjoyable sci fi in its own right, but an in name only sequel that understandably pissed off original fans for that reason.
80s New Eagle is Matt Smith. Closer to the original, but still suffering from some new isms, like shorter stories.
Grant Morrison's version is the Capaldi/Whittaker eras.
Both the nadir for the same reasons. Lame, thin political metaphors in place of a plot, pathetic attempts to sex up the series, and both written by people with outright contempt for the origiinal. Both killed each franchise stone dead.
I guess with this in mind Ncutti will be the 00s and 10s Dan Dare comics. IE by that stage no one even cares as indifference has set in, but it probably won't be quite as big a trainwreck as Morrison, whilst Big Finish when it was good was Spaceship away.
Dan Dare and DW have both suffered in regards to revivals for the same reason. No one has even tried to revive them. The whole point of Dan Dare as that it showed us a future where things had worked out for us. It was Star Trek before Star Trek. All of the revivals however try and present the future as being awful and Dan as a rebel, with the writers of the revival always saying the same thing that the original is too foppish, old fashioned and wouldn't work in today's environment, despite having never tried!
It's quite an interesting parallel.
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Post by cyberhat on May 25, 2022 0:03:53 GMT
I have Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory and Waugh's The Loved One coming up afterwards. Just hoping I can continue to read for pleasure given the deadlines I'm dealing with at the moment... Fell in love with Waugh's writing during lockdown. But I just know that if we met, we'd hate each other, being class warriors coming from opposite directions. In many ways, he's the worst kind of satirist, the one that fights to keep everything the same. But his talent shines through it all. I adore him. |
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Post by Brian MK.II on May 25, 2022 0:59:21 GMT
I've got lined up 2010 and 2061 of the Space Odyssey series next. I re-read 2001 last year for the first time since the mid noughties and happened to stumble across these two at a car boot sale this Sunday just gone. I've heard mixed things about them but I'm still interested in checking them out and hopefully they'll be serviceable enough.
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