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Post by ropardoe on Oct 30, 2017 12:16:53 GMT
Yeah, I think there may be a few other Hammers that still get the 18 Cert, but not many. Another thing I've often been struck by when buying DVDs is the differences between the age certs given in the UK and Ireland - I've quite often seen a 15 (or 12) for the UK that has an 18 (or 15) for Ireland, though I can't remember any specific example just now. When I was first getting interested in monsters and stuff, somewhere under the age of ten (this would be in the late '50s/early '60s), I was constantly frustrated by the fact that not only were Hammer films all 18 certificate, but so were the likes of Godzilla. So strange to remember those times now.
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Post by ropardoe on Nov 7, 2017 16:20:14 GMT
Has anyone mentioned Christopher Fowler's The Book of Forgotten Authors yet (maybe in some other thread)? It includes something over a hundred mini-essays, a number of which should interest Vault denizens. I was particular pleased to see a piece on one of my favourite writers - Jack Finney. Others covered include John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, Margery Allingham, Gladys Mitchell, Nigel Kneale, Graham Joyce, Kyril Bonfiglioli (whose antiques shop in Oxford I used to pass every time I took a bus into town in the early sixties), Marghanita Laski, and Arnold Ridley (who, as well as The Ghost Train, apparently wrote another play about a train: The Wrecker "concerned a train driver who comes to believe that his engine is possessed by a malevolent sentience"). Don't bother to point out that a lot of these authors aren't "forgotten", as such: Fowler tackles that point in the book!
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Post by dem bones on Nov 7, 2017 18:17:13 GMT
Has anyone mentioned Christopher Fowler's The Book of Forgotten Authors yet (maybe in some other thread)? It includes something over a hundred mini-essays, a number of which should interest Vault denizens. I was particular pleased to see a piece on one of my favourite writers - Jack Finney. Others covered include John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, Margery Allingham, Gladys Mitchell, Nigel Kneale, Graham Joyce, Kyril Bonfiglioli (whose antiques shop in Oxford I used to pass every time I took a bus into town in the early sixties), Marghanita Laski, and Arnold Ridley (who, as well as The Ghost Train, apparently wrote another play about a train: The Wrecker "concerned a train driver who comes to believe that his engine is possessed by a malevolent sentience"). Don't bother to point out that a lot of these authors aren't "forgotten", as such: Fowler tackles that point in the book! Groan. Looks like another must have. Will it never end?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 8, 2017 14:50:20 GMT
Has anyone mentioned Christopher Fowler's The Book of Forgotten Authors yet (maybe in some other thread)? It includes something over a hundred mini-essays, a number of which should interest Vault denizens. I was particular pleased to see a piece on one of my favourite writers - Jack Finney. Others covered include John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, Margery Allingham, Gladys Mitchell, Nigel Kneale, Graham Joyce, Kyril Bonfiglioli (whose antiques shop in Oxford I used to pass every time I took a bus into town in the early sixties), Marghanita Laski, and Arnold Ridley (who, as well as The Ghost Train, apparently wrote another play about a train: The Wrecker "concerned a train driver who comes to believe that his engine is possessed by a malevolent sentience"). Don't bother to point out that a lot of these authors aren't "forgotten", as such: Fowler tackles that point in the book! Groan. Looks like another must have. Will it never end? I meant to mention this. You can still hear Christopher Fowler talking about The Book of Forgotten Authors here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09b0w55
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Post by valdemar on Nov 9, 2017 4:48:42 GMT
Yes, it's brilliant. I got my copy the day it was published, and had read it cover to cover by that afternoon. I can't argue with his choices - a lot of books mentioned I remember adorning my parents' bookshelves when I was a kid. I had to post on Christopher Fowler's site about one small error, though; in one of his essays, he attributes 'Pinocchio' to Charles Perrault. As Monsieur Perrault died in, I think, 1703, it would have been difficult for him to write the tales of a lying wooden child in the 1880's.Thankfully, Carlo Collodi did it for him. Possibly as a ghost writer. There were several writers whose work I was unfamiliar with, and there were two that I thought might appear, but didn't. John Creasey, whose 'Toff' books my father was fond of reading, and A.J.Cronin, whose work 'The Citadel' was loved by my mother, and I found it simply astonishing, when I read it as a teenager, at a loss for something to read, and thought that the old book would be as dull as ditchwater. Sometimes, it's good to be proved wrong in one's beliefs.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 1, 2018 10:06:51 GMT
Just noticed this in a bookshop today - it includes the likes of Dennis Wheatley, Richard Marsh, Thomas Burke and MP Shiel. Many I wouldn't say are particular forgotten or obscure, but it looked like a fine read.
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Post by helrunar on May 1, 2018 12:59:25 GMT
That sounds really cool. Most of what I read consists of "forgotten" authors.
H.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 1, 2018 15:50:29 GMT
Just noticed this in a bookshop today - it includes the likes of Dennis Wheatley, Richard Marsh, Thomas Burke and MP Shiel. Many I wouldn't say are particular forgotten or obscure, but it looked like a fine read. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! It is very entertaining.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 2, 2018 16:08:32 GMT
Just noticed this in a bookshop today - it includes the likes of Dennis Wheatley, Richard Marsh, Thomas Burke and MP Shiel. Many I wouldn't say are particular forgotten or obscure, but it looked like a fine read. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! It is very entertaining. It does seem to have been written in something of a hurry, though, and contains some strange sentences such as "Few careers are more easily destroyed than a sudden fall from fashion." (Or is it me? If you understand that one, please let us know.)
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Post by ramseycampbell on May 3, 2018 13:03:21 GMT
I'd guess it should be "Few careers are more easily destroyed than by a sudden fall from fashion."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 3, 2018 13:38:43 GMT
I'd guess it should be "Few careers are more easily destroyed than by a sudden fall from fashion." Aha!
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