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	Re: You weren't dreaming... unfortunately
	Posted By: Hamish Sinclair	Date: 4/25/02 10:43 a.m.
	In Response To: You weren't dreaming... unfortunately (Callie21V) : According to this page, there are four such novels... though only the : first has yet been reviewed. : Each time you refresh the page, one of a dozen random paragraphs pop up: : It was a Bosch canvas, severed limbs and hollowed-out trunks - eaten out by : animals, I prayed - planted through the fields like stalks of corn, blood : painting doors and walls like the first Passover...except it was human : blood, not lamb's blood. : I closed my eyes, listening to the powder hiss, bullets crack, the metal : clang of receivers slamming back home. The screams of the dying. The : shouts of the victors. I smelled the smoke from the smokeless power, the : primer, fresh blood. : I'm in hell, I remember thinking; I'm in hell. : I volunteered to go along. Sometimes I'm not very bright. : Jesus Christ! As the Godfather once said, there are men who go through life : begging to be killed. : Traveling through a million miles of nothing in a little cubicle just so you : can reach another cubicle at the end is not my idea of the conquest of : space. : At times like this, nothing is more welcome than an anti-climax. : When the fearsnake slithers around inside your gut, it's pretty damned easy : to just start squeezing off at anything that moves. : I was crazy, buggin', freaked like some hippie punk snot flying on : belladonna. : I leaned against the wall, and suddenly it was like those old Abbott and : Costello movies back Earthside: the wall had a hidden door. I even tripped : going through the blasted thing. In my mind a laugh track played and : played and played. : It sounded odd, but the results were great: red blood splashed us both, and : she kept at it, screaming a war cry that just might scare a fallen angel. : The alien monster laughed, opening its mouth wide enough to swallow a man's : head. "Weee throw rocks...big rocks." : To enter or not to enter? That was as good a question as any I'd had all day. : Staying behind meant facing inconceivable danger and unimaginable odds. : Whereas going forward meant facing unimaginable danger and inconceivable : odds. Or something. : : *shudder* Heh I can top that. Here's a quote from Terry Fitzgerald of Todd McFarlane Entertainment about doing a Doom movie: "The first time I beat Doom 2," said Fitzgerald, "I sat and read the three sentences of text you get to read as a reward for plowing through 32 more levels of the exact same crap you plowed through in the first game, and quickly realized that this had to be made into a movie." That's the movie industry for you. ;-) Cheers Hamish

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	Books and video games	Alfred Mordeir	4/25/02 7:26 a.m.
	Re: Books and video games	Boomer	4/25/02 7:44 a.m.
	Re: Books and video games	D-M.A.	4/25/02 10:53 a.m.
	You weren't dreaming... unfortunately	Callie21V	4/25/02 10:19 a.m.
	Re: You weren't dreaming... unfortunately	Hamish Sinclair	4/25/02 10:43 a.m.
	Re: You weren't dreaming... unfortunately	Mark Levin	4/25/02 1:06 p.m.
	Re: You weren't dreaming... unfortunately	Hamish Sinclair	4/25/02 2:07 p.m.
	Re: You weren't dreaming... unfortunately	Fred	4/25/02 3:41 p.m.
	Oh yeah...	Hamish Sinclair	4/25/02 10:49 a.m.
	Doom sucks! *NM*	Boomer	4/25/02 11:40 a.m.
	Wow.. i.. guess	Ernie	4/25/02 3:13 p.m.
	Re: Doom Books, quick synopsis...	Soliptic	4/25/02 9:19 p.m.
	Re: Doom Books, quick synopsis...	Alfred Mordeir	4/25/02 10:03 p.m.
	Re: Doom Books, quick synopsis...	Soliptic	4/26/02 3:09 a.m.
	Marathon books... good idea?	Brian Dubick	4/28/02 9:15 p.m.
	Re: Marathon books... good idea?	archon	4/28/02 9:47 p.m.
	Re: Doom Books, quick synopsis...	Hamish Sinclair	4/26/02 12:20 a.m.
	Re: Doom Books, quick synopsis...	Inverted Sock Puppet	4/27/02 5:37 a.m.

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