Reading anything?

[Vik]

Finished Comfort to the enemy, great fast read.
I just got a bunch of screenplays I'll be reading next. ( Good Will Hunting, Invaders from Mars, The Thing, Evil Dead II, Natural Born Killers (original by Tarantino)

[Jim H]

Finished Comfort to the enemy, great fast read.
I just got a bunch of screenplays I'll be reading next. ( Good Will Hunting, Invaders from Mars, The Thing, Evil Dead II, Natural Born Killers (original by Tarantino)

Ooooh.  Let us know how that one is.  I'm quite curious what is different, as I've heard Stone changed it A LOT.

[Newt]

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks.  It's an autobiography of his days with the Special Operations Executive.  A unique perspective on the 'inside' of the war.  Reads like a spy novel and has many fascinating moments.  Marks' style is engaging and his subtle (mainly self-deprecating) humour makes an enjoyable read.

[Psycho Circus]

Caught In The Crossfire: The Stevie Ray Vaughan Story

Basically 35 years crammed into 275 pages, his early life upto gaining international recognition as one of the greatest guitar players and bluesmen of all time until his untimely death. It's told by various friends and family along with two co-authors filling in the rest. It's been a very interesting and enjoyable read so far... 

[Vik]

Finished Comfort to the enemy, great fast read.
I just got a bunch of screenplays I'll be reading next. ( Good Will Hunting, Invaders from Mars, The Thing, Evil Dead II, Natural Born Killers (original by Tarantino)

Ooooh.  Let us know how that one is.  I'm quite curious what is different, as I've heard Stone changed it A LOT.

I got the script yesterday, and finished reading it yesterday. It's seriously great and would of made an awesome movie. I'm a big fan of Stone's film, but I'm really not sure if he changed it for the better.
Great read.

[Flick James]

The user's guide for my new Droid phone. This thing does everything but iron my shirts.

[Vik]

Just finished reading the ' Invaders from mars (1986)' script. I haven't seen the movie though, the script was alright, but the ending was absolutely stupid. I hate the 'it was all a dream' endings.

[InformationGeek]

Superman: Red Son

This is part of the Elseworld series, where certian superheroes are changed or the world is changed in order to tell a new story that wouldn't work with the regular continuity of the certain series.  This is a huge what if story if I have ever seen one.  What would happened if Superman's rocket land in the Soviet Union instead of in America?  Well apparently by 1953, Lois would marry Lex, Lex himself is actually trying to help America, Jimmy Olsen is apart of the government, Jonathan Kent (Superman's adoptive father in America) would pass away sooner, and Superman would become the poster boy for Communism.

There's more, but that would be spoiling things.  I'm on issue one of three so far, but I really like what I am seeing here.  It is a well written story that isn't an American propaganda story, but a story that protrays both America and Soviet Union as good and bad countries and an interesting look at communism vs. captialism.  The story has a lot of references to things happening during the 50s and everything feels just like the time period, with even President Eisenhower being called Ike and the old classic propaganda posters of Russia.  There's even more stuff, with appearances from other superheroes including Wonder Woman before she became who she is.  The art style is also very good as well.

This is one of the best Superman stories I have ever read, especially along side the already fantastic All Star Superman.  If you even like the character or even curious about the premise, you just have to see this.  I highly recommend this even when I'm only a third of the way in.

[AndyC]

Screenplays can be fun to read. Back around the time Freddy vs. Jason came out, maybe just before, I read a few rejected screenplays that had gotten leaked, any one of which would have been much better than what they actually made.

[Vik]

Screenplays can be fun to read. Back around the time Freddy vs. Jason came out, maybe just before, I read a few rejected screenplays that had gotten leaked, any one of which would have been much better than what they actually made.

Any chance you still have them ?

[AndyC]

It was years ago, and I never had hard copies of them.

[Rev. Powell]

"Basketball and Philosophy."  This is part of a series teaching philosophical concepts in the context of popular culture: there are books on the Lord of the Rings, film noir, science fiction films, and the X-Files, among others.  I've read two essays so far---one touching on the vanished community spirit of Indiana high school basketball, the other on the ethics of the "hack-a-Shaq" strategy---and they were both interesting, clearly written for laymen.  It's a good idea and I might pick up some other books in the series.

But the coolest thing about this volume is the foreword (called the "power foreword"  ) by none other than Dick Vitale.  Sample: "...who would ever think to associate basketball with the term 'communitarianism'? That's a mouthful, baby!"

[The Burgomaster]

SILAS MARNER

[Hammock Rider]

   This is one of the Nostalgia Venture reprints which include full uncut adventures plus additonal information, usually interviews or essays by pulp historians. They put out The Shadow adventures too and I highly recommend them all.

[Vik]