What keeps you up at night? Is it something you’ve seen in a scary movie, or something you heard in your dark house, maybe it was that weird guy that seemed like he was following you one evening. None of that stuff gets me freaked out - I’ve grown up with scary stuff, through movies, books, real life - that you’d think it would take something pretty horrific to get me frightened.

WRONG!

It takes the subject of this book to do it - why? Because it’s more real than any horror that lurks in darks corners or under beds or even behind leathery masks. This kind of scary is real!

The specific topic I speak about is, information. How can that be scary you ask, let me take a moment and ask you a question instead.

How much do you rely on a computer in your day to day activities? How of your life is controlled by computers that you don’t even know about?

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What keeps you up at night? Is it something you’ve seen in a scary movie, or something you heard in your dark house, maybe it was that weird guy that seemed like he was following you one evening. None of that stuff gets me freaked out - I’ve grown up with scary stuff, through movies, books, real life - that you’d think it would take something pretty horrific to get me frightened.

WRONG!

It takes the subject of this book to do it - why? Because it’s more real than any horror that lurks in darks corners or under beds or even behind leathery masks. This kind of scary is real!

The specific topic I speak about is, information. How can that be scary you ask, let me take a moment and ask you a question instead.

How much do you rely on a computer in your day to day activities? How of your life is controlled by computers that you don’t even know about?

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It’s been a while since I cracked open an actual book. I mean don’t get me wrong I love reading, but I just find time, or the lack there of the problem.

I got this book for my birthday a couple of months ago and just never got around to reading it. Then before Independence Day (an associate thought it better to refer to it like that instead of the 4th of July, and I tend to agree) I found some extra time and thought I’d sit down with it. It was explained as starting out non-fictional and then going all Stephen King.

I was intrigued.

“The Terror” written by Dan Simmons.

Surprisingly enough it read fast. It’s almost 800 pages but it felt so much faster then that. I attribute that to good story writing, which is almost a win win situation. It would be, except I really didn’t want to finish it. I wanted it to keep going - so it’s not really a bad thing.

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It’s been a while since I cracked open an actual book. I mean don’t get me wrong I love reading, but I just find time, or the lack there of the problem.

I got this book for my birthday a couple of months ago and just never got around to reading it. Then before Independence Day (an associate thought it better to refer to it like that instead of the 4th of July, and I tend to agree) I found some extra time and thought I’d sit down with it. It was explained as starting out non-fictional and then going all Stephen King.

I was intrigued.

“The Terror” written by Dan Simmons.

Surprisingly enough it read fast. It’s almost 800 pages but it felt so much faster then that. I attribute that to good story writing, which is almost a win win situation. It would be, except I really didn’t want to finish it. I wanted it to keep going - so it’s not really a bad thing.

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It seems like a simple question right? Well go rent a copy of Death Race 2000 and find out.

In this corner wearing pink shorts, with a slightly stroked out left side weighing in at a hefty 13 stones (sounds cool huh, I don’t really know his weight, but 13 stones comes out to be like ~175lbs).

He looks pretty tough over there in his matching pin stripped helmet/sport coat huh?

Look at the intensity on his face, he’s driving to win, and taking no names, he’ll even stoop to strangling a girl to win.

Now that doesn’t sound like the lovable Rambo we’ve all come to know now does it?

In the other corner wearing black shorts, tall and lanky weighing in at a slimmish 11 stones.

“Bring out the gimp” comes to mind as he looks at you through his black vinyl sout, and black rubber mask.

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It seems like a simple question right? Well go rent a copy of Death Race 2000 and find out.

In this corner wearing pink shorts, with a slightly stroked out left side weighing in at a hefty 13 stones (sounds cool huh, I don’t really know his weight, but 13 stones comes out to be like ~175lbs).

He looks pretty tough over there in his matching pin stripped helmet/sport coat huh?

Look at the intensity on his face, he’s driving to win, and taking no names, he’ll even stoop to strangling a girl to win.

Now that doesn’t sound like the lovable Rambo we’ve all come to know now does it?

In the other corner wearing black shorts, tall and lanky weighing in at a slimmish 11 stones.

“Bring out the gimp” comes to mind as he looks at you through his black vinyl sout, and black rubber mask.

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So I finally finished it, the audio book that took forever.

I have to say, I was rather unimpressed. I can’t tell you why exactly, if it had to do with the pitiful miniseries or because ti took so long (I’m going to lean towards that though). But I just wasn’t very thrilled at the end.

I’m trying to remember why I liked it before, and why others seem to think it was such a great book. It seemed a little anticlimactic in the end, and seemed a little thin on the macabre.

I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about characters, because he [Stephen King] does a great job of introducing and developing the characters in the book, in fact I’m afriad I’m not going to spend much time at all on it.

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So I finally finished it, the audio book that took forever.

I have to say, I was rather unimpressed. I can’t tell you why exactly, if it had to do with the pitiful miniseries or because ti took so long (I’m going to lean towards that though). But I just wasn’t very thrilled at the end.

I’m trying to remember why I liked it before, and why others seem to think it was such a great book. It seemed a little anticlimactic in the end, and seemed a little thin on the macabre.

I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about characters, because he [Stephen King] does a great job of introducing and developing the characters in the book, in fact I’m afriad I’m not going to spend much time at all on it.

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I was hoping to have timed it better, but it just didn’t work out. I know, this post is almost a week old too (well that I should have written it a week ago). But I just can’t stand it anymore.

Sometime ago I recall Stephen King saying he would rather work with TV rather then movies, in context with his stories. When I first heard that I thought “What? No way, you can’t get all the gore and stuff on TV”. I wish I could find a quote of it, but this was years ago, and before the internet took off in any way, shape or form (like early 90’s). At any rate, I still hold to what I thought back then. It just wouldn’t work, he remade The Shinning for TV and, well it rightly sucked, same with his TV version of It. I was sorely disappointed and it just added to my growing dislike for his “progression”.

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I was hoping to have timed it better, but it just didn’t work out. I know, this post is almost a week old too (well that I should have written it a week ago). But I just can’t stand it anymore.

Sometime ago I recall Stephen King saying he would rather work with TV rather then movies, in context with his stories. When I first heard that I thought “What? No way, you can’t get all the gore and stuff on TV”. I wish I could find a quote of it, but this was years ago, and before the internet took off in any way, shape or form (like early 90’s). At any rate, I still hold to what I thought back then. It just wouldn’t work, he remade The Shinning for TV and, well it rightly sucked, same with his TV version of It. I was sorely disappointed and it just added to my growing dislike for his “progression”.

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