Classic novels.

[Rev. Powell]

Thanks guys, I'll be fine. I liked LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (based on a lesser known Austen novella) a lot.

[Allhallowsday]

seriously rev, i'd suggest the 1940 movie first, THEN read the book. and THEN watch pride and prejudice and zombies, a romp& a 1/2, lol!

I gave that novel to my sister-in-law a few years before I lost her.  She loved that English stuff and old fashioned names and monsters!  Perfect! 

[Svengoolie 3]

oh yes, and ringworld. i loved it, it got me into serious scifi as a teenager.

I'm not a niven fan anymore but I liked "protector" and "a world out of time".

[RCMerchant]

I enjoyed Ira Levin's ROSEMARY'S BABY and the STEPFORD WIVES very much.

[316zombie]

i read the stepford wives at the age of 15, with my momma. it scared the living SNOT out of both of us because it was just TOO close to some of the people in my hometown...

[RCMerchant]

Speaking of scary books from the 70's I have a 1st edition of the EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty. That book scared the s**t outta me. When I first read it in 1974, I was 12.I still believed in God. I mean f**k- I spent time in a Catholic orphange with nuns all over the place. I still like nuns to this day.

[316zombie]

i read it around the same age, terrified me. then the movie came out and i LAUGHED through the whole thing the first time i saw it, lol! now, it MIGHT be because it was a double feature at the drivein and the original night of the living dead was the first movie. THAT one scared me witless, and the exorcist just... didn't, after watching NOTLD.

[Svengoolie 3]

If you  want old fashioned, rip roaring,  gosh wow space opera sci-fi, try reading "3 from the legion" by jack Williamson.

The legion of space is old,  old school SF. How old? In one scene a radio is disabled by having itcs tubes smashed and itcs lead acid battery jars broken and emptied.

There are tentcled aliens from another star system, traitors, cowards,  heroes,  an alien world and a beautiful woman who knows the secret to the most powerful  weapon in the universes to rescue.

It's really old school sci-fi but classic stuff.

[Allhallowsday]

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by SHIRLEY JACKSON... I have not seen any film.  I read a few things by SHIRLEY JACKSON including The Haunting of Hill House (which might be considered her masterpiece) and if you dig her style, CASTLE is her best. 

[316zombie]

i like pretty much all of shirley's stuff. somebody did make a movie of castle that i saw last year, it made absolutely no sense at all. here's the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQg-nUoMCBo

[Svengoolie 3]

Since people here seem to like horror novels i'll toss this in because I read it and remember it as being pretty good horror.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_(Herbert_novel)

DO NOT CONFLATE THIS WITH THE ABYSSMAL HORROR MOVIE "THE DARK"!!!

[Allhallowsday]

i like pretty much all of shirley's stuff. somebody did make a movie of castle that i saw last year, it made absolutely no sense at all. here's the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQg-nUoMCBo

I also like SHIRLEY JACKSON, not a devotee, but as far as writers go, close... There apparently is a movie from last year, but I have no interest in it. 

I gave my own copy of WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE to an old friend this past Christmas.  It was a trade paper copy probably a publisher like Penguin that I'd owned for decades, but remained unread.  I have not read a copy with the cover I used for illustration, but that cover is cool.  Though... misleading?  What is apparent in that story was the kind-of witchcraft Merricat practised which is entirely personal subjective emotional... That's a fabulous book...  and that cover strangely accurate.   

 

[316zombie]

i'm serious. don't waste your time on the movie, it's THAT bad. i threw tv bricks.

[Allhallowsday]

i'm serious. don't waste your time on the movie, it's THAT bad. i threw tv bricks.

... There apparently is a movie from last year, but I have no interest in it...

[Sitting Duck]

Speaking of William Peter Blatty, here's the episode of You Bet Your Life which he appeared on before he became famous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrnzDMbFHkY