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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.81.125 |
I've just finished FEARS UNNAMED - a set of four apocalyptic-ish novellas - which I picked up in my goodie bag in Toronto last year. I really enjoyed the book, particulary REMNANT and WHITE. Any suggestions for what I should try next? | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.201.66.176 |
"White and other tales of ruin" is a good collection. You have read the great story White already but there is plenty of other good stuff in the book. I must say that I find his recent books less interesting, the style is more slick as well. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
"White" is one of Lebbon's best, but his short fiction is even better. As far as his novels go, 'Desolation' is absolutely wonderful. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.81.125 |
Thanks for the suggestions guys - I'll have a look... | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.113.145 |
'As the Sun Goes Down' is an impressive collection. Have only read half, so far, but can recommend it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
I'll echo Lincoln's recommendation of "As the Sun Goes Down". It's a fine collection from a fine writer. At his best, Lebbon is truly magnificent. | ||
| John_l_probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.20 |
I finished AS THE SUN GOES DOWN a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed. It's a good mix of well-written stuff. I also love the novella he has in NIGHT VISIONS 11 | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Yes, he's a class act. I still think WHITE is his best, though. That novella blew me away. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Another briliant Lebbon novel is FACE, btw. Superb. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.69.11.73 |
Face is superb. Desolation is also very good and deeply deeply weird. I'm always impressed when I read Lebbon. He's constantly surprising me. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.201.66.176 |
Yes, "as the sun goes down" is also a good collection. I do prefer the White collection however. Get 'em both! Notice here that the titles that people recommend are usually older stuff. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
"Desolation" is recent, Tom. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
I read Simon Clarke's and Tim Lebbon's 'Exorcising Angels' from Earthling not too long ago and really enjoyed it. I need to read more of his stuff. I also have his novella In The Valley where Belladonna Grows, from Fourbodings-A quartet of Unneasy Tales. Sounds like I should track down his collections and novels. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.81.125 |
I have "Fourbodings" on its way to me, bought solely because it has a Terry Lamsley story in it - the Lebbon will be a bonus! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
I really enjoyed the collection Mick! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
'Exorcising Angels' is a good one. "Fourbodings" is another I'd like to read - apparently, Mark Morris's tale, "Stumps", is a belter. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
One of my favourite paintings ever:  | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 121.219.113.145 |
'Stumps' is a belter, Gary! As it happens, I'm halfway through the Lamsley tale (in Fourbodings) at the moment. Will read '...Belladonna Grows' next. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
That picture is also one of my favourite pictures ever! To think the painting is the last really, him imagining the birds scattering just after the gunshot...the approaching storm on the horizon. Amazing stuff. I liked all the tales. Stumps was also really good. They all were. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.81.125 |
Zed - I've seen that picture in the flesh - can't think where though... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Amsterdam, Mick? It may be in the Van Gogh museum there. Here's my absolute favourite painting of all time:  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
I hope I'm not infringing copyright here...  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
Who did this picture? It is a really strong image. It is both mysterious, frightening and sad as well. The colour of the dress somehow makes the girl both stand out and fit perfectly in the landscape. The artist added some blues and purple in the yellows around the girl to make the difficult colour of her dress fit better into the landscape. Great image! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
It's "Christina's World"by Andrew Wyeth. I oncew rote a story inspired by it; I wrote another one recently inspired by the Wyeth painting below (which I don't know the title of):  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Here are some more of his wonderful, wonderful paintings: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=239 | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.81.125 |
Ah - the Van Gogh museum it is, then. I know that second painting too, although I don't think I've seen that as an original. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
The painting above - with the bell - is called "Combers". | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Is the part of the painting that contains the heading at the very top of the page by Caspar David Friedrich? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Mick - Wyeth's work is in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. We'll be going there next April, to celebrate my 40th and the wife's 30th birthdays so hopefully I'll see the beautiful "Christina's World" in the flesh - so to speak.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Griff - do you mean the prtrait of Wyeth? I haven't a clue who the artist is, mate. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.81.125 |
Ah - not been to the museum of modern art, as it was undergoing construction work when we went to New York in '04 and a very small selection of stuff had been moved to a building out in Queens, so we gave that a miss. I highly recommend a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - absolutely massive place. The Guggenheim is nearby but we found it of less interest as that was undergoing renovation work as well and as a result only had half of their items on display, although we did get in for half price because of this! | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
He is amazing!- didn't know his work. The image of the bell is great- the backgroud in softer watercolour, then the attention to detail just where the bell is lodged at the supporting beam. Powerful image. I lived very close to New York City when I went to University and enjoyed all the museums. One memorable occasion was seeing the original hand painted film poster by Rodcheko of the Battleship Potempkin. Anyone here likes the art of Gottfried Helnwein? http://www.helnwein.com/werke/leinwand/tafel_1.html This is his new stuff, but he has a huge catalogue of work. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
No, Zed. It's got the words "MuseumSyndicate" in the middle. It shows a blue sky and trees. Right at the top of the page. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
"Ah - not been to the museum of modern art, as it was undergoing construction work when we went to New York in '04 " On the way to your paymasters in Langley, Virginia eh, Mick?  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.93.30.31 |
Wanted to upload a Helnwein but I didn't the brower sub menu when I tried. Here is a link to it: http://www.helnwein.com/werke/leinwand/bild_87.html | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Amazingly enough, I have been to the Van Gogh museum once years ago in Amsterdam... Yes, Amsterdam...Not all sex n'drugs...  gcw | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.189.60 |
That Helnwein stuff is amazing. Thanks for the link! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.32.76 |
Incredible art. Wyeth gets so much out of a simple observation or sitting. There is a wildness about other paintings and then this one which is quite extraordinary. http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=15558 | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.168.215 |
On the way to your paymasters in Langley, Virginia eh, Mick? I'm afraid it could damage national security if I answered that, Griff. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.189.39 |
Not to mention Mick would have to kill you, Griff. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.168.215 |
...but only because it's a hobby of mine. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.183.80 |
They don't call him 'Mick the Mangler' for nothing... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Especially after all those mangling incidents. I don't think he was ever as much referred to as the mangler before those mangling incidents. In fact the name was quite convenient, given the ensuing manifestation of said mangling. Fortuitous, even. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.242.129.203 |
Back to Tim Lebbon for a sec: A really good story is still available online (if you know where to look as this part of the site is officially obsolete). If you have not yet read "The origin of truth", then you really should: http://tinyurl.com/23jy7v | ||
| Grant (Grant) Username: Grant Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 131.156.226.96 |
The only novel I read of Lebbons was Desolation.It was good and all but I felt like there was more to the story. A few pieces fell out somewhere along the way. | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.164.76 |
Zed, I have "the Crows" in my bedroom. "Christina's World" is a favorite of mine, though Wyeth is not well-appreciated here in the states. Accused of being sentimental! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Thomas - you're a man of taste. Wyeth sentimenta? i'd suggest he's anything but. There's a real sense of disquiet in his work, even the seemingly restful landscapes. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.243.70.44 |
> There's a real sense of disquiet in his work, even the seemingly restful landscapes. From what I've seen, I do agree that there is a certain brooding tension. I think that Edward Hopper's paintings also often have this peculiar quality: http://tinyurl.com/6f448r http://tinyurl.com/5fs457 http://photos7.flickr.com/10436349_4d2cb45fc2.jpg http://tinyurl.com/6lhm4q http://tinyurl.com/6pvzhv | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.83 |
Hopper's another of my favourites - New York Movie is a beautiful painting. | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.176.132.217 |
Mick - has 'Fourbodings' arrived? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.60 |
Ooh, sorry, Lincoln - didn't realise you'd posted here. Fourbodings was excellent - nary a duff story among them. I loved Lebbon's especially... |