Hands of Justice
The Lounge => The Dog & Duck => Topic started by: Macrune on September 29, 2009, 12:57:02 PM
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No account should be taken of how complicated they would be to make or how costly etc etc.
Purely list them on their merits not how possible it would be to do.
Tom sharp - Riotus assembly.
A black comedy book (no pun intended) about the appartide South African Police. Had me in stitches all the way through it.
Tom Clancy - Red Storm Rising.
A 1980's book about a 3rd world war. (written before the fall of the Berlin wall). Would be a complete knightmare to film for a number of reasons but if done well i think it would be the war film to end all war films.
David Eddings - The Tamuli trilogy.
Good old fashioned sword and scorcery. I love all 6 Sparhawk books. They appeal to the fantasy adventurous little boy inside of me. :P
David Eddings - Belgareth the sorcerer.
As above good old fashioned S&S. ;D
These are in no particular order though given a choice i'd put Red Storm Rising first on my list. There are loads of others that i will mull over and add as i think of them.
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belgareth was edding also i think
gemmell did legend.
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I stand corrected. your right. They are in my loft not on my bookshelf along with all the Druss and waylander etc .
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Dan Simmons - Ilium and Olympos - sci-fi
Douglas Adams - Damn near anything.
William Gibson - bridge trilogy
Arthur C. Clarke - Rama series - this guy shits out better sci-fi then most people could sell their souls for
Weis and Hickman - Death Gate Cycle - high fantasy
Bird, Klein, and Loper - Natural Language Processing with Python - technical; a compelling story about the trials and tribulations of one programming languages drive to bridge the gap of communication between man and machine. A real page turner.
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Dan Simmons - Ilium and Olympos - sci-fi
Douglas Adams - Damn near anything.
William Gibson - bridge trilogy
Arthur C. Clarke - Rama series - this guy shits out better sci-fi then most people could sell their souls for
Weis and Hickman - Death Gate Cycle - high fantasy
Bird, Klein, and Loper - Natural Language Processing with Python - technical; a compelling story about the trials and tribulations of one programming languages drive to bridge the gap of communication between man and machine. A real page turner.
hehe weis and hickman i also have read most of there work fizban/zifnab hehe.
would have liked gemmell's legend turned into a movie could have had connery as druss 10 years or so ago.
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Anything by Terry Pratchett, Providing it doesn't happen like the attempt to film Mort was... (we really like the story but can you remove DEATH because he wont play well in America ::))
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Currently reading the last few (printed not final (i hope)) books in the Recluse saga by L.E.Modesit Jr. fantastic books ,well written would make awesome movies yet will never be, too intelligent for an American cinema going market methinks.
*modified spelling issues*
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scary how much sense you make here btw, considering your other posts ;D
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Anything by Terry Pratchett, Providing it doesn't happen like the attempt to film Mort was... (we really like the story but can you remove DEATH because he wont play well in America ::))
Im not so sure. They have Achmed the dead terrorist already and thats half way there.. You might just be supprised by our colonial friends across the pond.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go ................ to see what i mean..