War and Peace

Wasn't the tv version of Shogun shot in slow motion.:snz::D
Seemed to be de riguer at the time.


Pappillon and Centenniel are the only two books I have read more than twice.

 

Time for an update.
Current read is DRACULA
Just the story to night time reading!

 

I have bought a couple of Wilbur Smiths (ebay) for hols next month.

 

Good choice for those dim rainy days........
robert

 

Do you know something I don't??:D

 

If the weather is anything like my holidays...well, I shall say no more..
Worst was Florida in a hurricane.. nasty

 

Hopefully Madeira won't be that bad, I too have bad memories of Florida.:(

 

You will be glad to know that DRACULA has once again been laid to rest..
Until the next time....
I have now finished Dracula and just started on
"The Terminal man" by Michael Crichton

 

I think you'll like Crichton Capney-I was entranced by Jurassic Park, much scarier than the film-although like most I did jump when that veloceraptor snapped at the kids legs as they scuttled into the roof.


North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is my current read.

How did you like Bram Stokers writings Capney?

 

"How did you like Bram Stokers writings Capney?"

I work on the assumption that if I finish a book I have enjoyed the read.
Bram Stokers style is typical of early modern writers with text from Van Helsings journals at times difficult to understand without going back over a few words.
The suspense built towards the end but I was disapointed with the final scene.
I`m sure the movie makers have made a far more suspenseful ending.
I would rate it 6/10
robert

 

As a huge Christopher Lee fan I think he was scarier than the Stoker book aswell.

 

First movie Dracula starred Bela Lugosi produced in 1931
The more common Dracula starring Christopher Lee was produced in 1958 directed by Terence Fisher
When the film was originally released in the UK the BBFC gave it an X rating, being cut, while the 2007 uncut re-release was given a 12A Seems what was scarry then is not so these days.
robert

thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1958_film)
for info

 

A bit like The Excorcist-my son-15yrs old thought it was funny, yet my Mum banned it in our house, then again she forbid me from watching Grange Hill-in spite of my huge crush on Tucker Jenkins lol.

 

The terminal man has been terminated, not a happy ending.
THE KRAKEN WAKES (aka. Out of the Deeps) by John Wyndham is my next target.

 

The Kraken Wakes now finished and I would rate this yarn with a 6. The tale drags out over several years with not enough action covering world events during an alien incusion, and for me to much philosophizing about human nature and in depth feelings of the books characters.
I am now well into THE EXORCIST by Peter Blattey
A story I`m sure we are all familiar with. The perfect book for bed time reading...
robert