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Michael Stockin said:
Ooh that may be worth a watch.




In the DVD collection. :)
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It is deffo worth watching as a short, called 'Ex-s:The Wickerman' - runs about 29mins- just for the actors (Lee, Pitt, etc) and their insights alone and Woodward meeting all the locals /musicians in the same pub, seeing the bakery, revisiting the sights. Then the wicker man's burnt leg stumps were still extant, buried on the headland in '98! It's nearly 40years (I'm 54!) since I first watched the film on VHS. Watched it new year on the BBC Iplayer and had totally forgot Ingrid's bath scene during his house search... :)
 
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Those both look like very cool reads (and additions to the collection!)
I'm currently idling my way through:

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Very interesting read about a lot of lost heritage of England some ~50 years ago. I do still need to go and have a rummage in my "big box of sci-fi"™ for another read to go alongside.

EDIT - and that sucks about the comic collections, really annoying when you're getting a series and it stops half way through. Even more so when it's not just a change in style, but nothing at all.
 
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Fighelm said:
It is deffo worth watching as a short, called 'Ex-s:The Wickerman' - runs about 29mins- just for the actors (Lee, Pitt, etc) and their insights alone and Woodward meeting all the locals /musicians in the same pub, seeing the bakery, revisiting the sights. Then the wicker man's burnt leg stumps were still extant, buried on the headland in '98! It's nearly 40years (I'm 54!) since I first watched the film on VHS. Watched it new year on the BBC Iplayer and had totally forgot Ingrid's bath scene during his house search... :)
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Just watched that documentary! Remember when it came out? Had a tour around some of the filming locations for The Wickerman a few years back, that graveyard is uncanny.
 
Fighelm said:
Any good? Saw this in our local Oxfam bookstore last week but opted for a 1986 copy of 'The Rituals of Infinity' by Michael Moorcock instead!
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i haven't finished it yet but so far, like most anthologies, some stories are better than others.
having said that, i'm enjoying it enough to have considered looking for volumes 2-4.
 
twisted moon said:
i haven't finished it yet but so far, like most anthologies, some stories are better than others.
having said that, i'm enjoying it enough to have considered looking for volumes 2-4.
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And it's the treasure you find in some anthologies! I've picked up a few charity bought sci-fi & fantasy books in the last few months (it's like someone has donated their entire library in our local store). Most interesting one so far has been a 1988 copy of 'Best New SF2' (sold as 'over 250,000 words of science fiction'), and apart from Ursula. K Le Guin I didn't recognise many of the authors in it. However, some excellent recycled short stories in there. One standout novelette called 'Flowers of Edo' by Bruce Sterling -involves two protagonists at turn of 19th century- a Japanese vaudevillian actor, plus his ex-Samurai mate, who both end up very drunk at the studio of a maudalin artist for more sake and interesting events with telegraph poles, a demon, and a subsequent city fire. Eclectic! :)
 
Cool I nearly bought the first one in a charity shop the other week, but decided really I already have a few boxes of SciFi to go through first and resisted! I've supplemented my book on England's diverse regions with Kev Adam's biography so have both idly on the go.
 
Just read the event horizon prequel graphic novels... Not very impressed, makes me worry about the alleged sequel that comes out in April.

Going to aggressively dry brush some Skellybois to relieve stress 🤣
 
i preferred the second one; i think because it helped me understand what the first one was about.
currently reading this:

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... and because that particular picture does not paint a thousand words:

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What I am reading at the mo', into the 3rd chapter. Well written. Believe the stories all come together at some point, but no hint of a link yet between characters, etc., so far.
 

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orkwrangler said:
Parker/Holt's fantasy world is a primitive setting devoid of magic.
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Interesting I've always been quite interested in low magic fantasy worlds. It was one of the things I enjoyed about A Game of Thrones before it got a little magical and it became apparent the story was never going to be finished (I was one of those foolish people who read it when first published). I'll have to go and have a look at those siege books.
 
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