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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| | Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 11:25 pm: | |
Well, the Landlord's done it again. I've just read "The Long Way" in Best New Horror 20, and it's a belter - top-flight Campbell.
The pacing and mood are beautifully evoked, and there's an incredible sense of place to the tale. The supernatural elements actually scared me, really scared me, and not just because the story almost reads like an extended anecdote from my own childhood.
A wonderful, wonderful piece of work. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 01:19 pm: | |
has no-one else read this? It levelled me, it really did. Like a smack in the teeth. |
Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 01:49 pm: | |
I don't think anyone else has BNH20 yet, Zed.  |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 01:57 pm: | |
It's a reprint collection, so I thought someone else might have read the story. Oh, pity me; I am so alone.  |
Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 01:59 pm: | |
That's a good point - which didn't occur to me. I'm a dumbo!  |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:32 pm: | |
Don't worry; so am I.  |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.47
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:33 pm: | |
You're not. you're just the size of an elephant, that's all. |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:44 pm: | |
Meet Weber: the man who tries to make up for his conversational deficencies by utilising jokes thrown out as unusable by Jim Davidson. :-) |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 62.254.173.35
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:50 pm: | |
I think all Jim Davidson's jokes were sold off cheap in an auction when he was made bankrupt. (Morally, some might say, he'd been there years ago.) And i would guess they were already second-hand when Davidson was telling them. Chalky. |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.47
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:55 pm: | |
I aspire to be as funny as Jim Davidson. It's a dream of mine. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 62.254.173.35
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 02:57 pm: | |
not quite up there with martin luther king's, webber, if I may say so. Though I do ratehr suspect Doctor King's dream speech would've gone down better in some quarters if he'd done it in Davidson's Chalky White voice . . .
"Me as this dream..." |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.47
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 05:16 pm: | |
He could have been a comedy legend. Shame he wasted his time on all that human rights nonsense. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.72
| | Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 05:58 pm: | |
Same's true of Ben Elton.
Hey, Richard Curtis has signed up to write an episode of Dr Who. Surely the worst idea since getting Eoin Colfer to do another Hitchhiker's Guide novel...
I'd quite like to see Foghorn Leghorn do the 'I have, I say, I have a dream' speech... |