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[Rose]

I've read about 90% of the non-Prachett books mentioned here. I refuse to read Prachett because everyone tells me his books are "just like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but with fantasy." I hated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in all three forms.

The only real similarity is the type of humor used, and even then, not all of the books have them.

if you don't like that type of humor, try reading Nation, that one's a bit more serious.

[Char13magne]

Well, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Series (incomplete), is great, as is T.H. White's The Once ANd Future King, for those who haven't picked it up yet, Scott Lynch's series, so far The Lies of Lock Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies (great for anyone who saw and loved The Sting, with Paul Newman), and I'm currently reading S.M. Sterling's The Peshewar Lancers, so those are some of my favorites. Oh, and Terry Pratchett is great for comedy, too.

[Retro]

My favourite King book remains The Shining (and is still the only book to date that's ever actually made me feel afraid to keep reading). In contrast, the movie was just crap. It didn't make me remotely scared, and it downgraded literally everything in the novel from 'this happened because of this back in this time and this is why it's been doing this creepy thing' to 'ooooOOOOooOoOoooo mansion is haunted weird random shit happens!!!!!'

They even changed the ending, my favourite part of the book :\ And they took out the fight with the hedge animals too. Bah.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That's nowhere near as horrible as what they did to The Mist when it got a movie. Mostly a fine adaption throughout, except the damned ending! The worst part is that their ending would be decent, if it was how the book actually ended. King was even apparently alright with the change, and yet it still pisses me off!

[Lord Shonus]

Ye do know there's two movies of The Shining, don't ye?

[de5me7]

i quite like the shining movie (the jack Nickleson one), the film is made by the score tho.

i havnt read the book, maybe i should give it ago.

[Heron TSG]

The Secret Window ended up being a pretty good book-based-movie.

[Lord Shonus]

As one might expect, it was based on one of King's "short" stories. (Although his "short" stories are often longer than many author's novels (and even one or two of his own), which is probably why the books he CALLS novels often make poor movies.)


On a different note, can anyone reccomend some good Stone Age or early Bronze Age fiction? I'd like something like Earth's Children, but with less sex.

[Grakelin]

Space Odyssey: 2001?

Battlefield Earth?

[Heron TSG]

Stone age... The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Founding of Uruk, other Mesopotamian tablets.

Bronze age... The Odyssey, the Iliad, Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Story of Herakles, The Legend of Perseus, Pandora's Box, and so forth.

[ChairmanPoo]

Stone age... The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Founding of Uruk, other Mesopotamian tablets.

you are doing it wrong

[Lord Shonus]

I should have specified MODERN fiction.

[Heron TSG]

Oh? Is the Neolithic period not good enough?

[GlyphGryph]

As far as horror books go, I found the premise of "Breeding Ground" pretty damn creepy.

Actually, one of the creepiest premises I've come across.

Has anyone else read it?

[ChairmanPoo]

I googled it and found two different novels. Which is it?