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Post by Mark Sieber on Feb 2, 2020 21:11:03 GMT
I have so many new books to read, but I am still basking in the past. Last night I started rereading Mine. Like everything else by McCammon (especially beginning with swan Song) it is wonderful. Scary and wistful, moving and terrifying. One nice thing about getting older is how you can go back to old favorites and they seem brand new again.
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Post by goathunter on Feb 2, 2020 23:39:08 GMT
Wow. I just checked. I've read MINE twice---but the last time was in 1996! It sure doesn't seem like it. Maybe because I had the chance to read Frank Darabont's script for it that he wrote around 2005. I'm long overdue for another read.
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Post by Mark Sieber on Feb 3, 2020 21:52:13 GMT
I was always disappointed that Darabont's Mine never happened. It seems like an ideal project for him.
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Post by goathunter on Feb 4, 2020 1:20:43 GMT
I was always disappointed that Darabont's Mine never happened. It seems like an ideal project for him. I agree. He tried for about seven years before finally giving up. He told me that the studios weren't interested in making a movie with two female leads! |
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Post by glenkrisch on Feb 4, 2020 20:52:45 GMT
I read Mine when I was a new stay-at-home dad after our first son was born, so 2003. Taking care of my son, and the plot of the book... man, it was a nerve-wracking punch in the gut. Funny enough, I reread Pet Sematary right around the same time. The first read of that book had been back in high school. Those two books were the first time I could fully appreciate the fear a parent feels about the safety of their child.
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Post by Mark Sieber on Feb 5, 2020 0:06:35 GMT
For a parent, Mine is even scarier than Pet Sematary.
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Post by Authorfan on Feb 5, 2020 20:19:11 GMT
I love rereading books that impacted me one way or the other. IT, SWAN SONG, OFF SEASON, SPAWN OF HELL are just a few that I got into again recently. Not only are they riveting in their own rights but I love how they bring me back to a time where horror seemed to be a little more effective, in my humble opinion. Yes, recent titles still intrigue me but vintage horror always ends up rocking my world. I'm a child--a teen actually--of the horror boom years of the '80s so maybe that's why.
Martin
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Post by Mark Sieber on Feb 7, 2020 20:06:08 GMT
I probably spend too much time whiling away in my literary past, but damn it, I like it back there!
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