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What is it about horror stories that you like?
Tressa wrote: "I agree. Always loved her pale skin and freckles and her dark hair. I recently saw a pic of Sarah Jessica Parker and she looked like a skeleton."
SJP has never been truly attractive to me. Sometimes she looks good. But I think her fashion sense is atrocious, and she's too thin, IMHO.
Tressa wrote: "I agree. Always loved her pale skin and freckles and her dark hair. I recently saw a pic of Sarah Jessica Parker and she looked like a skeleton."
I always thought SJP looked like a horse.
I've been a fan of SJP since her Square Peg days, and while she's certainly no beauty something about her confidence and style has made her attractive in my eyes. But she is definitely too thin now, but I never thought she was in the past. She's around 5 feet tall and very petite anyway.
Jakob wrote: "I was thinking about what it is in horror stories that I like. I read a short story recently that was pretty well written but it just didn't spark my interest all that much. Personally I like it wh..."I like the supernatural element a lot, and the mysterious. Guts and gore are fine too, but I really dig the "unknown" aspect because, in the end, we really don't know all that much about the universe.
I liked SJP on Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Square Pegs. At first I liked Sex and the City, but it started feeling like propaganda to me.
I like SJP in Square Pegs, really liked her. Just my personal prejudice I guess, but I think she did not age well.
I don't remember SJP in that. Wasn't the lead girl Lori Somebody? Oh, for one season back in the '80s there was a great drama called A Year in the Life. SJP played a bohemian flake who caught the eye of a young guy who was about to marry a longtime (boring) sweetheart. She was really good on it.
Dang, just looked it up, she was in it! I don't remember her at all. Oh, did she play Chris Penn's girlfriend?
I liked her on A Year in the Life. Dana, I agree. I don't think SJP has aged well.
Wow, I thought I was the only one in the world who remembered A Year in the Life. I went to YouTube and saw the opening scene. So dated.Funny how some people age well and others don't.
Tressa wrote: "Dang, just looked it up, she was in it! I don't remember her at all. Oh, did she play Chris Penn's girlfriend?"Yup, she was Rusty.
I watched so much tv growing up. That's why I get annoyed when people say tv is bad for you. I turned out just fine, depending on your opinion of me, I guess. :)
I watched too much tv too and I'm not weird. Still do. I imagine books would stop toppling on my head from the piles if I ever stopped watching all of my shows.
I watched a lot of TV, too. Hell, back then mothers truly did use it as a babysitter. But I guess I'm normal. But we didn't watch violent or disrespectful-to-adults shows like what's on now. There are so many shows I don't let my son see. Like that stupid iCarly. He picked up some really bad habits watching that show at my mother's, who doesn't give a fig what he watches.
LOL. I tend to have dvds piling up b/c I'm reading or on GRs and have the tv on for white noise.
Some of the kids shows are just plain weird and not good at all. For example, Hannah Montana. It was on at the dealership, and I wanted to run screaming from the room. I'm sorry, but I think that show is bad.
My 11-year-old niece is into all that Hannah and Twilight stuff. I love my niece but I can't stand to hear her talk. She has all the mannerisms of an annoying teenager. She spoke 4 sentences the other day and there were 8 "likes" sprinkled throughout them. And her voice goes up and up at the end of a statement, so it sounds like a sentence. I don't know if the teen shows were all so shitty back in my day, but I don't think so.
I can't remember specific teen shows, growing up. I know the kids' shows were much better, though.
Let's see, for young teens we had The Patridge Family, The Hardy Boys, The Brady Bunch, After School Specials, um, what else?
The Addams Family. The Munsters. Little House on the Prairie. The kids weren't a-holes like they are now in teen shows.
LOL. Yeah, how could I forget that bitch?
Wednesday and Pugsly followed their parents rules of playing with dead things and not disturbing the cobwebs.
One kid/character I never found lovable was Angel's son, Conner (from Angel, obviously). I never found anything redeemable about that bratty, mean, douche.Most characters on a show are people you root for, but not him.
Conner was a real brat!
Hey ladies did you all see how a new kid on the block tried to get back on subject, and yall just railroaded him. I totally agree with you all about SJP. My sister and I watched Square Pegs at her house every week. I tried to watch Sex And The City, but after 3 or 4 episodes I just thought it sucked. My favorite movie with her in it is Hocus Pocus. I LOVE that movie, and she doesn't look to bad in it, like she was still eating a steak once in awhile. But now she just looks sickly, and way to thin.
I LOVED Angel! And Conner was a snotty little bastard.
I was & still am a tv nut, which is part of my problem. We also had Gilligan's Island, The Pink Panther, The Waltons, Good Times, Wonder Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Logan's Run, Laverne & Shirley, One Day At A Time, Fat Albert, All In The Family, Happy Days, and so many better shows then we do today. Today they don't have time to be an old favorite. If they don't have ratings to show with in the first to third episode they get pulled, never to be seen/heard from again.
I watched all those shows, and then some, Lori. :)
Lori wrote: "Hey ladies did you all see how a new kid on the block tried to get back on subject, and yall just railroaded him."No. Guess I was driving so fast I didn't notice I ran over him. Sorry New Kid. You will get run over if you try to steer a runaway thread back on topic. But good try.
OMG. The Waltons. My first celebrity crush was on one of the boys on that show. Not John Boy or the redhead. The other. I think he played guitar at the Dew Drop Inn.
I watched all those shows except Logan's Run. I never cared for All in the Family. Archie was such an a-hole and he screamed all the time and it was so in-your-face black & white on the issues it dealt with. If there was any subject Archie could be bigoted about, it was highlighted on that show. I hated it. And why'd Edith have to sit in that hard chair while he got the recliner?
Lori wrote: "Hey ladies did you all see how a new kid on the block tried to get back on subject, and yall just railroaded him...."Everybody likes a good railroading.
Jason Walton, the quiet, sensitive one. Well they were all a little sensitive on that show, a little TOO sensitive. Except for Grandpa.
TJ wrote: "I really dig the "unknown" aspect because, in the end, we really don't know all that much about the universe...."I'm totally with you there TJ. I love that aspect of all fiction really. Can you think of any particular books/stories that illustrate that concept? I'd love to add some more books to Mount TBR. :)
Koontz's Strangers is a book dealing with just that subject, Leslie.
The way you say that Stephanie makes me shiver all over:)That's why I loved All In The Family. Every week he got told off one way or another. I LOVED the episode where Sammy Davis JR kissed Archie on the lips. You know The Jeffersons were a spin off of AITF right. Well I seen on there more then once Louise tell him off. I learned a lot about racism, and how not to be to people. I was never around any other race of people till I was around 11 or so. We did have a black nanna who used to help my mom till she left us, and so did nanna. Hell we didn't have mexicans around here till 1995 or so. As far as I could tell. I learned watching that show that people are people, assholes come in all colors.
And Grandmaw wasn't to overly sensitive to Grandpa, or the Sisters. She wasn't happy about Jason playing at The Dew Drop Inn, or helping the Sisters with their Recipe.
I'm lucky. My niece is 3 1/2 and thinks Spongebob Squarepants is the greatest. I can live with that. It's gonna suck when she starts liking Hannah.
I like the supernatural more so than human versus human horror. My favorite would include the supernatural but would also be very strange, dark in atmosphere and content, and even confusing at some parts. Caitlin R. Kiernan is a master of this. I know that there are others, but, funny enough, I can't think of them right now.
Awesome! I'm adding 'Strangers' and Caitlin R. Kiernan to my lists. I should read more Koontz. The last book of his that I read was 'The Funhouse' and that was an abysmal disappointment. I don't know if it's funny or not funny at all that they also made a movie out of that book.
RE: Caitlin R. Kiernan-I bought one of her comics about ten years ago because it was about Sloss Furnace here in B'ham. It was muey creepy. I gotta find that and read at it again.
I enjoy reading Caitlin Kiernan. She is very good at writing stories that leave me awed, but clueless.
I read Kiernan's The Dry Salvages. I think I either scratched my head at the end, or was underwhelmed by the ending. Can't remember which. Wasn't too impressed, though.
I like scracthing my head at the end sometimes. If the author has done a good job, it comes off as realistic, considering that if something supernatural were to happen in real life, the individual experiencing it wouldn't actually know what was happening, exactly. And it would probably be impossible to know.
Sometimes a head-scratcher is OK, but not if the ending makes no sense at all. A story shouldn't remind me of how dumb I am. I can get that abuse from my fellow human beings, not from my only friend: the book.
I liked Alabaster a lot, because it was surreal. You didn't know if Dancy was crazy or if she was a savior of mankind from the monsters.
Alabaster was good, but doesn't stand out in my mind like Silk or Threshold do. The Red Tree is also really good. I'd say it's her best yet. Reminded me a lot of Shirley Jackson, though.
Murder of Angels wasn't a favorite of mine, either. Not her best.
I haven't read those yet. I'd like to.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Murder of Angels (other topics)The Red Tree (other topics)
Alabaster (other topics)
Silk (other topics)
Sherrilyn Fenn is gorgeous. No question.