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Did anyone read The Regulators? It was the companion piece to Depseration, and featured "that cop."

I liked it a lot.
 
I actually have it but haven't cracked it open yet. Figure on reading some of Everything's Eventual when I need a short read.

Problem with King is that he dominates the Horror genre too much.
 
SkynetV3 said:
So we have another convert yet? I also agree that the Idiot is Dostoyevsky's best work. Crime and Punishment was too gloomy, The Karamazov Brothers was too social. I read The Player but I still don't know what the hell is that about.
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I haven't read Karamazov, yet. Haven't been able to secure a copy of that work. But I think I wasn't aware of Dostoevsky's greatness so much because of the intense surrealism of Crime and Punishment. While Crime and Punishment has a more interesting "moral" and backstory, I think that it's too surreal to really show that he is that good. Most of the characters there seemed to me, at the time, completely unrealistic and psychotic. I'm experiencing this very differently with the Idiot. It might also be because I've grown older, though.

Jebus said:
It's a book written by Belgian reporters who worked in England. Miel Dekeyser did it for a damn, damn long time, and now Greet De Keyser is the settled USA-reporter for the Flemish television.
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I suppose you mean America, and not England?
 
Sander said:
Jebus said:
It's a book written by Belgian reporters who worked in England. Miel Dekeyser did it for a damn, damn long time, and now Greet De Keyser is the settled USA-reporter for the Flemish television.
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I suppose you mean America, and not England?
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I did, I did.

Damned, I'm so bloody tired... This can't be healthy anymore.
 
Malkavian said:
Did anyone read The Regulators? It was the companion piece to Depseration, and featured "that cop."

I liked it a lot.
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The spirit was called Tak I think. Now the past that is associated with the China Pit is kinda creepy. The regulators was good but I still am unsure which one came first, The Regulators or Desperation?

I really like Lovecrafts style. I especially like how he explains that evil is a mere word invented by humans. What one consides "evil", could be considered "day to day operations", to others. He is also the first author who actually brought up a fear I had but could never properly explain it, the cosmic horror.

Lastly he doesn't rely on the cliched "God Vs Lucifer, Evil And Good balance". He instead takes a view that what we might consider gods were extremely ancient aliens so to speak.
 
I have to agree that this is interesting. One of my favorite parts of It was the odd cosmic role of other beings in the lives of the main characters, something they don't fully understand themselves.

Maybe I need to pick up the Regulators after all.

This notion of alternative religions is a good one for horror. A good move away from the stupid serial killers or the overused thropes of vampires, werewolves, ghosts and witches that we have seen used to often.
 
Hey Welsh maybe you can remind me but I remember one story where a guy is actually made into a god. He however is so hideous that the mere sight of him would drive someone mad. In the end his friends taunt him and one of them actually removes the mask and they all die? Maybe its the same story about the guy who is taken to ancient Earth through dreams, when the old Gods still reigned supreme?
 
I'm currently re-reading Dune, by Frank Herbert

and the Legends of the war of the Rift trilogy (I think).
 
Dune was one hell of a book. The prequels that have come out were also equally butt kicking even though some major players that the prequels focused on were barely mentioned and elaborated upon by the original Dune.

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I continued with the books orignal and its sequels until Paul was killed and his son had become a half human/sand worm amalgamation. I think it was either there or right before it where the story just became too dull for me.
 
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