Yep, B&N moved into the husk of Target, and I needed a reason to check it out.
Checking websites, Bullmoose didn't have the thing I sought, but B&N did.
So, I raced over, and finally got....
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (2015)
Grabbed it on Thursday, 4/24/25.
Ahhh, look at it, it's gorgeous!! 😍😁
Naturally, he was my God in high school.
One of 'em.
Certainly in English class.
His stuff was about the only thing with any bite to it they'd let you fuckin' read.
Fuckin' school....
I almost grabbed a similar collection in the 90's, but I talked myself out of it, and then it was gone, and then there was always some other book, movie, TV series, or electronic toy to get.
Well!! This one's even more complete, and sexier looking than the one I gave up; so, it all worked out.
Regret antidoted.
I'll re-read the ones I already love first, then do I the ones I've always heard of from pop-culture osmosis, then the ones I totally don't know.
Unknown Poe to explore!! Wheee!! 😁👍
Stay tuned!!
Update: Big review uploaded!
5 comments:
Have you seen the 1988 thriller "The Vanishing," the original Dutch version? The one Stanley Kubrick said was the most terrifying movie ever made? The one that got remade five years later by the same European director as a piece of shit Hollywood movie with Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland in it?
It's hugely acclaimed and has a Criterion release and I watched it and I thought that the big devastating event that ends the movie was undercut by a)too much blather about the killer's motives and b)the hero being sort of a dipshit and his actions being kind of hard to believe. I have no idea if you've ever seen it or not.
I'm starting to wonder if I really like movies anymore. Everything seems to be a disappointment now. Even classics and foreign movies end up feeling like homework anymore and I can't easily remember the last time I really loved any sort of summer blockbuster type film. It's not that I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel or anything, it's that I just think I've watched too many films. You ever feel that?
Heh, why do you think I'm reading so many books instead? I had that "too many movies" feeling way back when I did those Halloween binge-a-thons trying to find the secrets of the universe in underground cult horror movies. Then I only found out that 99.999999999% of them were just tedious trash. I found a tiny handful of ones that were treasures that gave me a happy giggle that I permanently bought. But what a hard lesson to learn. Kee-rist. The glow of childhood comic book nostalgia kept me hanging on to the blockbusters, but that's waning. I've been doing the book reading thing with my instincts as my compass, and so far, so good. Been just plain lucky.
I kinda got burnt out on books too but I guess I could try some new stuff like what you're recommending. With movies it has become an issue of a lack of profundity--even films that I didn't like gave me a lot to think about when I started watching all the classics after getting my first DVD player in 2005. But not anymore. I read loads of reviews, loads of discussion, and...I dunno, I sort of ask why I'm bothering anymore. I think the last time I added any new favorites to my movie collection was "I, Tonya" and "The Disaster Artist" seven or eight years ago. Even stuff that approve of like "Oppenheimer" never ends up being something I'd like to watch over and over anymore.
I've also been digging up video games I haven't played in 20 years and replaying them, and that's so far worked pretty well, but it's not going to last terribly long.
Have you seen "The Vanishing," though?
Yup! From here, 9 years ago.
https://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-bigass-bravo-horror-list-part-1.html
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Another one that crawled around in my head after.
Very simple idea, no gore, but man oh man...
About a guy whose girlfriend disappears, and he spends the next few years trying to chase down who took her, and he thinks he knows who did it, and confronts the guy, and the guy won't admit to WHAT he did, but he cops to he did something, and he offers to show him what he did, but only if he takes a sleeping tablet.
The Bravo show spoils the ending, but I won't.
Check it out.
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Heh, 9 years later, you DID check it out!
Dunno if it would work on me now.
I'm seeing a lot of horror and mystery conventions being invented by Poe.
Everyone's just been playing on Poe's harpsichord and modifying his sheet music for the last couple centuries.
Just read Poe's "The Premature Burial". Same basic idea as "The Vanishing" but the ending twist is better, and the moral is better. So, don't take away "movies are bad" from "The Vanishing". "The Vanishing" was just inept. They should have read their Poe. Also, it's apparent the episodes in "Creepshow" are Poe rips top to bottom. I don't think I'd even have to waterboard Stephen King to get him to admit it.
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