On 26.06.22, ted@loft.tnolan.com <Unknown@Sender> wrote:
> In article <t985a8$3ksfc$1@dont-email.me>,
> Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Ath wrote:
>>> On 18.06.22, Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> These aren't really in my reading lane, so I don't have a lot to
>>>> suggest there other than I know of the Sookie Stackhouse stories.
>>>> These were quite popular so you might find them in audio easily.
>>>
>>> I found the ebooks in my library in German. No audiobooks. Reading
>>> some of the descriptions, I'm thinking, wait, is that what that TV
>>> series was based on?
>>
>> "True Blood" I assume you mean. As far as I know it's based on it,
>> but having not much of the written work or seen any of the show, I
>> couldn't say whether they used any of the stories or to what degree.

> I saw some of the series, and it was decently close to the books
> for the episodes I watched (first season I think).

> To be sure, I thought the books kind of went off the rails after a
> fairly strong start.

Thanks for clarifying. :)

Going by the (in my never humble opinion) schmaltzy Mary Sue TV series,
it's got nothing to do with what I am looking for. (First season still
had me giggle, IIRC, but I stopped watching the second season when it
just got too terrible to even laugh at.)

I really like that Internet Archive which James Nicoll linked. Went
looking for something longer than half-hour episodes, and swerved round
to Miss Marple stories. :))

Pointers to something like that, preferably with supernatural elements,
or Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos still welcome!

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In article <Fwcyvx25czB@ATH>, Ath <ATH@kruemel.org> wrote:
>
>I really like that Internet Archive which James Nicoll linked. Went
>looking for something longer than half-hour episodes, and swerved round
>to Miss Marple stories. :))

See, I liked the short stuff because it happened the average X Minus One
episode was just as long as my average bus trip.

The Thin Man movie was adapted to radio for some reason, and is on the
archive somewhere.
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On 26.06.22, jdnicoll@panix.com <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <Fwcyvx25czB@ATH>, Ath <ATH@kruemel.org> wrote:

>> I really like that Internet Archive which James Nicoll linked. Went
>> looking for something longer than half-hour episodes, and swerved
>> round to Miss Marple stories. :))

> See, I liked the short stuff because it happened the average X Minus
> One episode was just as long as my average bus trip.

Makes perfect sense.

And those links are certainly not wasted! I listened into one or two
each so far, and only then went looking for something longer. :) I'll
get back to the short ones sooner or later.

> The Thin Man movie was adapted to radio for some reason, and is on
> the archive somewhere.

41 hits for The Thin Man title and audio media. Looking for more info, I
find that the characters might be drinking a bit too much for my taste.
:)

I'm surprised though that not more books like the Rivers of London
series and the Dirk Gently stories surfaced among the collective rasfw
memory.

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On 6/21/2022 1:18 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 7:18:19 AM UTC-6, Ath wrote:
>> was wondering whether people here still talk about SF, or just politics
>> and other nonsense. ;P
>
> Given the scope and importance of world political events, I'm not surprised
> that they're discussed in addition to science fiction.
>
> However, I wouldn't blame you for lamenting the lack of on-topic discussion...
>
> but I've just realized something.
>
> Even a lot of the *on-topic* discussion here is about politics!
>
> No, I'm not kidding.
>
> You get one person who mostly only posts about mil-sf, particularly by David
> Weber, John Ringo, and the like. That could be taken as a political statement.
>
> Then you get another person who informs us about... science fiction by authors
> who are women, science fiction translated from other languages, like Japanese,
> and so on and so forth.
>
> Mind you, if someone only talked about 'safe', 'traditional' science fiction, from
> the Golden Age up through the 1960s, or modern-day imitations of same, wouldn't
> _that_ be a political statement too?
>
> John Savard

So dark fantasy books about vampires and werewolves are now military sf
? Really ?

I have been thinking about rereading my John Ringo zombie books and
posting them here. I may just do that to annoy you.

Lynn

On Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 19:48:23 UTC+1, Ath wrote:
> On 26.06.22, jdni...@panix.com <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
> > In article <Fwcyvx25czB@ATH>, Ath <A...@kruemel.org> wrote:
>
> >> I really like that Internet Archive which James Nicoll linked. Went
> >> looking for something longer than half-hour episodes, and swerved
> >> round to Miss Marple stories. :))
>
> > See, I liked the short stuff because it happened the average X Minus
> > One episode was just as long as my average bus trip.
> Makes perfect sense.
>
> And those links are certainly not wasted! I listened into one or two
> each so far, and only then went looking for something longer. :) I'll
> get back to the short ones sooner or later.
> > The Thin Man movie was adapted to radio for some reason, and is on
> > the archive somewhere.
> 41 hits for The Thin Man title and audio media. Looking for more info, I
> find that the characters might be drinking a bit too much for my taste.
> :)
>
> I'm surprised though that not more books like the Rivers of London
> series and the Dirk Gently stories surfaced among the collective rasfw
> memory.

Not many people would dare to write anything /like/
those. But Ben Aaronovitch vouches for Paul Cornell's
"Shadow Police" series in a London setting -
_London Falling_ is the first.

Ben cheers for another friend's work
<http://inkblotbookreview.com/the-vinyl-detective-andrew-cartmel/>

And that page led me to
<http://inkblotbookreview.com/sam-hain-occult-detective-series-by-bron-james/>
All that I myself can say is, that's a "cute" title!

On 27.06.22, Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 19:48:23 UTC+1, Ath wrote:

>> I'm surprised though that not more books like the Rivers of London
>> series and the Dirk Gently stories surfaced among the collective
>> rasfw memory.

> Not many people would dare to write anything /like/those.

No one dares write detective stories with supernatural elements? Hm.
Does no one want to read such?

> But Ben Aaronovitch vouches for Paul Cornell's "Shadow Police" series
> in a London setting -_London Falling_ is the first.

Looking for some info, it sounds interesting!

Sadly, both links for the online library don't show audiobooks by that
author. :/

> Ben cheers for another friend's work
> <http://inkblotbookreview.com/the-vinyl-detective-andrew-cartmel/>

Tried to find more info, as there is no mention of a supernatural
element, and failed. Is there a supernatural element?

Mind, library failed me here, too.

> And that page led me to
> <http://inkblotbookreview.com/sam-hain-occult-detective-series-by-bro
> n-james/> All that I myself can say is, that's a "cute" title!

Sounds very interesting!

Library again lets me down.

Now I'm grumpy. ;P

Thanks for the pointers, though!

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On Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:27:44 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 6/25/2022 3:42 PM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 12:30:01 PM UTC-4, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:40:02 -0700 (PDT), "pete...@gmail.com"
>>> <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 2:12:17 PM UTC-4, The Horny Goat wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:57:15 -0700, Paul S Person
>>>>> <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:38:46 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcr...@home.ca>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 09:58:50 -0700, Paul S Person
>>>>>>> <pspe...@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> And, Gollum not being a Terminator, I really don't buy his being happy
>>>>>> when he falls into the lava.
>>>>> I agree - I'm pretty sure Tolkien described him as screaming as he
>>>>> fell.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I remember going home completely bummed as I had been so looking
>>>>>>> forward to seeing how he did the death of Saruman .... which was on
>>>>>>> the drawing room floor. Which for me was far more interesting than the
>>>>>>> Grey Havens stuff and about as interesting as the last 15 minutes of
>>>>>>> Game of Thrones (which is to say not interesting at all other than
>>>>>>> ogling Sansa)
>>>>>
>>>>> I heard they did film that scene and that it's included in the special
>>>>> edition DVD. Maybe I should see if the local public library has it - I
>>>>> can't imagine buying the whole set just for at most 5-10 minutes of
>>>>> the scene.
>>>>
>>>> You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djmahoN32A8
>>>>
>>>> This end of this clip extends it a few more seconds:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HD5qpInaQo
>>> That's actually closer to the book than what was described in another
>>> newsgroup in the past.
>>>
>>> But still far too early in the film, and in the wrong place.
>>
>> After cutting the Scouring of the Shire, this was a reasonable place
>> to include it. Christopher Lee was reportedly upset that he didn't
>> appear in the theatrical release of the RoTK.
>>
>There was a lot for the cast to be upset about in the production of
>LoTR. :) IIRC Sean Astin actually kept track of the number of times he
>had to wear hobbit feet without them appearing in the shot and ragged on
>Jackson about it.

From watching all the making-of documentaries and commentaries on the
DVD sets, I got the impression that Sean Astin was kind of a pain in
the ass to work with. They mention a couple times that while filming
the scene where the hobbits reach the gates of Mordor, when Gollum
tries to pull Frodo and Sam back out of sight Andy Serkis accidentally
pulled Astin's wig off, causing Astin to storm off the set in a snit.

In general I got the feeling that Astin thought he was in charge (to
the point where he was trying to direct helicopters where to land) and
Peter Jackson and the other actors just kind of put up with him.

-- Bob

On 2022-06-21 9:08 p.m., Quadibloc wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 8:52:24 PM UTC-6, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> What's an "African-sounding accent"? Fellow I used to drink with
>> sounded like a Londoner. Charlize Theron seems to speak middle
>> American. Whatever accent Elon Musk has sounds to me like a mild
>> speech impediment.
>
> It certainly is true that since some of Africa was colonized by France,
> and other parts were colonized by Britain, and also since not all of
> Africa has much of a tourist trade, in parts of it, only well-educated
> individuals are likely to speak English... there isn't really any _one_
> accent with which the black people of Africa would speak English.
>
> Of course, Elon Musk isn't black; presumably, he would sound sort of
> like a Dutchman,

Presumably? His mother was Canadian. His paternal grandmother was
British. And "Musk" is not a Dutch name.

On 2022-06-25 10:25 p.m., Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <t985a8$3ksfc$1@dont-email.me>,
> Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Ath wrote:
>>
>>> On 18.06.22, Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> These aren't really in my reading lane, so I don't have a lot to
>>>> suggest there other than I know of the Sookie Stackhouse stories.
>>>> These were quite popular so you might find them in audio easily.
>>>
>>> I found the ebooks in my library in German. No audiobooks. Reading
>>> some of the descriptions, I'm thinking, wait, is that what that TV
>>> series was based on?
>>
>> "True Blood" I assume you mean. As far as I know it's based on it, but
>> having not much of the written work or seen any of the show, I couldn't
>> say whether they used any of the stories or to what degree.
>>
>>
>> Brian
>
> I saw some of the series, and it was decently close to the books
> for the episodes I watched (first season I think).
>
> To be sure, I thought the books kind of went off the rails after a
> fairly strong start.

And the TV series drifted away from the books as they tend to do.