Tressa's comments
(member since Jul 28, 2007)
Tressa's comments from the Horror Aficionados group.
(showing 1-20 of 2,443)
Shawn, are we getting our wires crossed here or maybe I didn't explain myself clearly? I'm telling you that I enjoy all kinds of literature and even when I'm reading stories with a POV of something I don't agree with or don't feel comfortable with, I don't necessarily feel like I'm being bashed over the head or preached to. I am not so shallow that I only seek out books that are "safe" and don't offend me. That is far from the truth. And even arguments I agree with if they are written into a story in a clumsy and preachy way, yes, I would think they were bashing the poor reader over the head!
I mean, come on, I'm sure that most writers are very liberal, but they aren't constantly injecting liberal points into their stories. But some writers do and it's so obvious that, yes, I do feel like someone's bashing me over the head with a sledgehammer to make his point.
Well, that's pretty much my point - people only notice being bashed over the head with something when it's something they disagree withI disagree that people only notice being bashed over the head when it's a simple matter of something they agree with. I've enjoyed many books with different opinions than mine because I wasn't bashed over the head. There is a difference of opinion and bashing over the head and I and many more have enough sense to tell the difference.
Writing is for the most part subjective, so I understand how personal beliefs make it into a story. Just show some restraint and you might keep your fan base.
If it ain't working for you, quit - your time is more valuable than that!
Good advice. I quit King more than a decade ago and feel zero regret.
That bolded quote above is one of the ignorant statements the ditzy Diaz has made in her career. Who the hell thinks rape should be legal? People who don't vote? She's an ignoramous.
Scott, just read any of King's EW columns. It gets tiresome really fast.I personally don't give a rat's ass what any writer thinks politically, but if you continue bashing me over the head with your own personal politics, I'm tuning out and turning to another writer.
I don't read Clancy so I'm not aware of his political nonsense. Doesn't he write books about the threat of global terrorism? That's nonsense?
Exactly, Marisella! And we don't need another ditzy Diaz walking around trying to alarm everyone. After a discussion on lynching and the vote with Oprah, Diaz spoke of the dire consequences for women if they sit out this election:
Ms. DIAZ: We have a voice now, and we're not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo--if you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote, and those are the...
WINFREY: It's your voice.
Ms. DIAZ: It's your voice. It's your voice, that's your right.
I'm sorry. I can't think of one Christmas horror book with a Christmas theme or set at Christmas time.
Would of been Under the Dome, but a lot of it reads as political and enviornmental diatribe instead of a story. Which is the main reason I'm not reading it. In the past ten years King's political rants and bashings have gotten on my nerves.
I'm always the black sheep. :-(
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
True, Scott. I guess when I write about "Hitchcock short stories" I'm meaning the ones in the anthologies. I was never under the impression that he wrote them, or I hope I never came off that way. I sometimes can't remember how I worded something I wrote.Shawn, I scour used bookstores and thrift stores for copies of The Three Investigators. I adored those books when I was a kid.
Last year my dad gave me a DVD of AH Presents. I need to get it out and watch it.
Maybe being scared kept us on our toes in our early cave days, and that tingly feeling has stayed with us ever since. I don't know. But like Miriam I love the scary feeling. The feeling reverberates in my chest like when someone's playing the drums too near.Funny story, Neil. I've read so many Hitchcock stories that I've forgotten most of them. Wonder if his stories are listed in Wikipedia? Or on a Hitchcock Website?
I've loved the word "macabre" ever since I learned of it.slaughter
assault
tart
slave
I'm just mesmerized by the bizarro title Razor Wire Pubic Hair. What insane writer thinks up a title like that?
I've never heard of Ronald Kelly either, but I do see how a good writer could have been buried under all that crappy '80s horror.Let us know if his books are any good.
massacre
terror
haunting
died
puppet
bestial
exorcism
ghost
zombie
rape
razor
bloody
scream
twilight
curious
Excellent.
Ha ha. I never think of vampires as dead either. They're usually very suave and wealthy and unlike zombies don't walk down the street with parts dropping off of them.
I've been meaning to watch Transsiberian. Haven't seen Red Eye but just assumed it was just another horror movie without Hitchcockian style.
There's room for all opinions at HA. We villagers would never grab up our pitchforks against you, Danielle. Romantic horror is something that just doesn't appeal to me, but I don't look down on it.
Some writers are just so prolific and the ideas and words just come pouring out of them. We non-writers who have to agonize over anything we've ever written just can't understand that.Lee, you've GOT to read Afraid. The people at HA (I think with the exception of one) who have read it all said how great it was.
Susie, I loved Alfred Hitchcock presents, too. I watched the reruns with my dad, and I'm somewhere between ancient and young. I also burned through Alfred Hitchcock's ghost/mystery anthologies. And loved AH and the Three Investigators when I was a kid.
Horror Aficionados
