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Post by mcannon on May 12, 2017 9:32:46 GMT
[/p] Anderson is a much better actress, even if I thought The Fall was a bore. But I liked her on Hannibal.
[/quote] Anderson shows up in Episode 2 (and presumably later as well) of the new TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" as one of the new gods - "Media", I think. She appears to the hero on a bank of TV screens as Lucille Ball, looking very much like the original! Mark
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Post by cromagnonman on May 12, 2017 11:29:27 GMT
Anderson doesn't mumble admittedly but she does tend to drone, doesn't she? Or at least she did on The X-Files. Can't say I've watched her in anything more recent than Bleak House (which was a great ensemble achievement assuredly but one chiefly powered by the dynamo of Anna Maxwell Martin, who really is a great actress and would go on to do her own ghost busting stint later on of course).
Once upon a time working extensively over here, as she does, would have cured Anderson's tendency not to modulate. But as all modern British tv actors now effect laryngitis to suggest gravitas Anderson's doodlebug hum of a voice probably passes for RP.
Media - Medea - Really? God, to paraphrase Clive Anderson, is there just no beginning to Gaiman's cleverness?
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Post by jamesdoig on May 14, 2017 0:00:42 GMT
From Vinnies for .50c
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Post by jamesdoig on May 14, 2017 0:06:52 GMT
Oh aye, The Fall is pretentious balls Just finished season 3 the other night and can't disagree. Watched The Windmill Massacre last night - a mildly amusing gore fest.
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Post by cromagnonman on May 16, 2017 20:20:48 GMT
Found today in the local Sense charity shop. Now this branch isn't exactly renowned for the regularity of its stock changeovers. Books can sit in untroubled retirement upon its shelves for months and months. So that made today's discovery of a small clutch of mainstream SF and paranormal books all the more welcome and surprising. These two first edition hardcovers constitute the pick of the bunch. The icing on the cake came from the fact that all books were being sold for three-for-a-pound.
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Post by Swampirella on May 16, 2017 21:21:43 GMT
Found today in the local Sense charity shop. Now this branch isn't exactly renowned for the regularity of its stock changeovers. Books can sit in untroubled retirement upon its shelves for months and months. So that made today's discovery of a small clutch of mainstream SF and paranormal books all the more welcome and surprising. These two first edition hardcovers constitute the pick of the bunch. The icing on the cake came from the fact that all books were being sold for three-for-a-pound. Congratulations; hope you enjoy them. Great covers.....
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Post by cromagnonman on May 25, 2017 17:25:19 GMT
Had a rare opportunity to take a trip down to historic Rochester on the Medway today. My purpose was to visit Baggins Book Bazaar which touts itself as the largest second-hand bookshop in England. As far as I know no one has ever produced any grounds to dispute that claim. Must be twenty years now since I was last there and I'd forgotten what an amazing place it is; a expansive warren of groaning bookshelves. The fiction rooms are like something out of King Tut's tomb, all the more so for one of the lights in the hardback room having gone which made trawling the shelves more an object of exploration than casual browsing. Haven't seen such a stock of fine condition vintage paperbacks in many a long year. And the prices were very reasonable too. Would heartily recommend to any vaulter able to make the excursion there. Here's a selection of my finds for your delectation: And just take a look at this fine pair. The innuendo is justified as this is Andy Offutt is full on smut mode. Pretty rare pieces of classic erotica as it happens.
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Post by Swampirella on May 25, 2017 17:39:20 GMT
Congratulations on your finds! Baggins Book Bazaar is now at the top of my list of places to visit the next time I'm in the UK, whenever that may be....
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Post by cromagnonman on Jun 6, 2017 20:48:48 GMT
I would like to put on record an unequivocal endorsement of, and wholehearted recommendation for, a second-hand bookshop which I've just visited down in picturesque Faversham in Kent. Its called Past Sentence and it is located on West Street. Its a small family run affair which, in my experience, often makes for the best business of this kind and this one is no exception. It boasts one of the best and most extensive SF/Fantasy sections I've ever come across in a provincial bookshop. It probably accounts for a full half of the fiction that the shop has to offer. And its almost exclusively made up of vintage editions too. The owner did confide to me how difficult he finds it now to maintain stock of this calibre and so any Vaulter moved to make a visit is probably best advised to plan it in the short term rather than the long if they wish to make the most of what the shop has to offer. Be advised also that the shop's opening hours are extremely limited: it is only open on tuesdays, fridays and saturdays. I only spent a fiver in the shop but I'm particularly delighted with these two finds, especially the paperback edition of LADYGROVE which I've never seen before. It dates from 1981, a full three years after the hardback was published. Try and get down there if you are at all able to and lend the shop your support. Tell them a friendly neighbourhood caveman sent you.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jun 18, 2017 6:19:38 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 4, 2017 10:16:00 GMT
Junk shop for $2: Came out at the same time as Basil Copper's book: And the classy new issue of Haunted Horror is out:
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Post by helrunar on Jul 4, 2017 21:55:46 GMT
James, that Basil Copper paperback cover is hilarious! Looks like that poor chap's "fangs" might actually be false fingernails. A technique that has been used for bargain-basement ultra-low-budget projects in the past...
Thanks for sharing!
cheers, H.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 5, 2017 1:01:29 GMT
James, that Basil Copper paperback cover is hilarious! Looks like that poor chap's "fangs" might actually be false fingernails. A technique that has been used for bargain-basement ultra-low-budget projects in the past. And a previous owner has written "me" on him.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 7, 2017 1:17:40 GMT
Well, the mid-year lifeline bookfair is on in Canberra at the moment. The mid-year fair is the smallest of the three held here during the year - it's usually in some sports club, but now they've upsized to the Tuggeranong basketball courts. So I was wandering around thinking this could be the crappiest bookfair yet - only Vaultish pickings were a 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories and Chetwynd-Hayes' Welsh Tales of Terror - went to the comics section and what should I find but a box of about 50 issues of Famous Monsters of Filmland and 5 or 6 issues of Monster World, all for a buck each. Famous Monsters was a complete run from #98 - # 133, plus some early issues including #9, #11, #16 etc - most in excellent nick. Monster World, some sort of Famous Monsters spin-off, dating from the mid-60s: Famous monsters by james_doig1, on Flickr
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 7, 2017 9:11:32 GMT
Well, the mid-year lifeline bookfair is on in Canberra at the moment. The mid-year fair is the smallest of the three held here during the year - it's usually in some sports club, but now they've upsized to the Tuggeranong basketball courts. So I was wandering around thinking this could be the crappiest bookfair yet - only Vaultish pickings were a 7th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories and Chetwynd-Hayes' Welsh Tales of Terror - went to the comics section and what should I find but a box of about 50 issues of Famous Monsters of Filmland and 5 or 6 issues of Monster World, all for a buck each. Famous Monsters was a complete run from #98 - # 133, plus some early issues including #9, #11, #16 etc - most in excellent nick. Monster World, some sort of Famous Monsters spin-off, dating from the mid-60s: Famous monsters by james_doig1, on Flickr Memories! Even before I discovered fandom I was avidly reading Famous Monsters, which I used to buy from a weird newsagents that also sold Vargo Statten magazines!
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