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I just finished a novel by Richard Matheson called I am Legend. It's about a man named Robert Neville, who is the last man on earth. Everyone else is a vampire.
The writing was brilliant and the book was smart. I really cared about Neville and what happened to him. What I didn't like was the story's explanation of vampires, which was more sci/fi that horror. I really don't like sci/fi, and I felt almost cheated.
Has anyone else here read this book?
Timberwolf
06-26-2003, 08:15 AM
Sorry, no...sounds interesting though.
I've now just started Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and there appears to be a lot of religious undertones, which I like.
Timberwolf
06-26-2003, 12:50 PM
That is one cool series...I think you'll like it.
Awesome. http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Do you know if King is a Christian at all?
Dash_Riprock
06-26-2003, 06:19 PM
I haven't read the book, but it was made into two movies. The first was "The Last Man on Earth," starring Vincent Price. The second was "The Omega Man," starring Charlton Heston.
Yeah, I've heard the one with Price is most faithful to the book.
Timberwolf
06-26-2003, 09:57 PM
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Trau said:
Awesome. http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Do you know if King is a Christian at all?
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No clue...I know that during an interview he responded to some question that his writing was an emotional release for him. The interviewer then ask him what he thought he'd be doing if he didn't have his writing. He answered, "Oh, I'd probably be an axe murderer or something like that."
I'm glad he's a writer. LOL
Hahaha. http://freeconservatives.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
wolfplus3
06-27-2003, 11:35 AM
If King is a christian, he's a rather peculiar one. His daughter recently married her professor, just one catch. It was a lesbian affair. Hey, he approved of a same sex, May/December interacial union of his child. That's a definate twofer in the pagan world...go figure. As to his literary ventures, King's writing has suffered the past few years, becoming stale and predictible. With "Dreamcatcher" he has regained his stride, it being a marvelous story.
My 2 1/2 cents worth......
Where in the Bible does it say not to marry a different race?
same sex isnt the same as a race issue lol
Well, he did mention interracial.
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If King is a christian, he's a rather peculiar one. His daughter recently married her professor, just one catch. It was a lesbian affair. Hey, he approved of a same sex, May/December interacial union of his child. That's a definate twofer in the pagan world...go figure. As to his literary ventures, King's writing has suffered the past few years, becoming stale and predictible. With "Dreamcatcher" he has regained his stride, it being a marvelous story.
My 2 1/2 cents worth......
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Dash_Riprock
06-28-2003, 07:10 PM
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Yeah, I've heard the one with Price is most faithful to the book.
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It depends on which version of the book you're referring to. There was an updated version of the book written to appeal to today's Rave party/slasher flick audiences, entitled "My Ass Is Legend".
n_carolyne
06-30-2003, 06:46 AM
Stephen King is most definitely NOT a Christian. I think he was raised in a Christian home but turned away from it in his later years. In fact, I read Dreamcatcher not long ago, and the villian in the story is a man who frequently says "praise God" when he's talking. This is supposed to convey the idea that because he praises God every other breath that he's a lunatic. Another of the main characters in the story, the hero no less, has the idea in his head that Christianity is "bullshit". There are anti-Christian references in almost all of King's stories. Even his movies are getting full of Christian hate. In the "Storm of the Century" the main character takes the story of Job and twists it into something almost blasphemous.
I've been extremely disappointed with King's stories here lately, both for it's lack of a decent plot and the anti-Christian undertones. King has become a hack.
Also in Dreamcatcher, I feel the need to mention that King made references to the "stolen" election of 2000 as often as possible. He didn't go to any trouble in hiding his hatred for Bush whatsoever. I'm convinved that King has bought into the liberal propaganda.
JonECat
06-30-2003, 07:18 PM
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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
-Stephen King
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Source: Quoteland.com (http://www.quoteland.com)
EveningStar
07-02-2003, 04:52 PM
I read "I am Legend" many years ago, before either movie came out. It's an excellent book.
wolfplus3
07-02-2003, 10:48 PM
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Trau said:
Where in the Bible does it say not to marry a different race?
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It don't, weed. I'm just giving all the particulars of the nupituals. Personally could care less what she does with her life, or you with yours, or etc. etc....
King's a flake who can turn a good story, but I've figured he was a twisted one years and years ago.
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