Monday 12 September 2011

Philosophileing Horror

 First of all I guess I should explain, mostly because, what the hell does that friggin word say?!.

Yeah, I made it up, get over it. But it’s really just me saying what I feel about crap that has a deep meaning. It’s about me ruining it. Me talking shit about something that’s already had someone much better tell you what’s what. It’s about me talking about shit that’s important to me. but I’m not that good with worlds from my own mouth and so I’m sure to stuff this up so much that it’s a shame I ever opened my mouth in the first place. So I’m defiling philosophy. 

And today’s it’s going to be on Horror, though it’s not really defiling anything. It’s more what I don’t like horror, why I can’t, nor want to read it, and why I feel it’s not that big a thing in books, at least YA.

You see, to me horror should be done in one sitting, you don’t want to start a book and then get half way through it, all the feelings that the book clogging you up but you can’t finish it, you have to put it down for whatever reason and so you’re on edge all the time, it’s not going anywhere, you can’t help it, but it’s there and it’s like, you’re always looking over your shoulder and all that. 

Because let’s face it, if you aren’t jumpy while reading it, it ain’t that great a horror book. 

I get reading something like crime, I actually don’t mind it all that much except I’m not fully into knowing that it could actually happen to me (reason I like paranormal), I don’t particularly like that full out crime shit either, I don’t like the investigating – and yet, I love watching it. 

But horror... creepy. I’m not a huge fan of horror, mostly because I have a bad – good – imagination and well... yeah, the whole things comes back on my tenfold and I find myself scared of things that I don’t need to be scared of. Seeing things because its fun to scare the crap out of yourself, but you can’t do it if you, you know, what your children not to fear their own shadow, because you fear your own shadow. 

But that’s not the point. The point is I have trouble watching horror, though it’s always been that way for me. At - shit, I can’t remember, whenever that shark movie came out. Um the one where they were really smart or maybe human’s made them smart..? Hell, I don’t know, don’t care. Point is when that came out and I was watching it with my friends, it got me running and screaming out of the room. I hated the crap. But then a few years late when I watched the Exosite with the same good, I felt nothing but laughter, maybe fascination at the whole things. 

It was weird, the movie scared the shit out of the rest of the group, but me, nothing, yet I still can’t watch shark movies, no Jaws, no nothing – and it’s not like they actually look real any more is it. 

Still, I find that horror, to me, should be more visual, like yeah, I get the whole reading of it, but I’m the type of person that would rather be scared out of my mind for like an hour or two rather than for a day or so while I read the whole things. I like heart racing, blood pumping scariness that comes from the actual should of the door slamming when it was really just the wind. I love the music that make you roll your eyes and know what’s coming and yet, you still jump out of your skin when that hand comes out of the dark. 

To this day my favourite scary movies are Scream, and I love all three of them. But I can’t watch Saw; I have seen, I think, maybe half of one of them. Or was that something else. They were all in a house not able to get out, with someone watching them. That’s Saw right? Anyway, I don’t like watching people cut themselves up, or the real like when they cut another. I’m not into mutilated bodies and all that crap. I really can’t stomach it - though I think that’s because I draw too much into a movie and I feel what they feel – though it’s all phantom, but when they start cutting off their hands, I feel like a pain shot—whatever, again it’s not really the point, I just don’t like horror, if I don’t have to watch it I won’t, nor will I read it. 

I’m just saying, back in the day when movies didn’t really don all that much for your fear, ‘cause let’s face it, movies where something that you could get to whenever you wanted like they are now, both travel, and money where a big factor, not it’s still there, but to indulge yourself isn’t as hard as it would have been back then (or so I can imagine, and hopefully aren’t wrong about, but it happens more than not) so it would have been easier to read a horror book then see the movie, but let’s fact up, would you prefer to read a horror or go and see it on a big screen?

book review, marathon (Wild Fire & Savage Nature)

          Wild Fire                                                                  (9/Sept/11)



Prod deets: Leopard People series, book four
Author: Christine Feehan
Pub: 2010, The Berkely Publishing Group,
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: Paperback; 445pp w/21 chapters
Whose: Connor & Isabeau
Age Range: Adult

Summary: Coonor Vega, physically and emotionally scareed by his past has returned to the lust, exotic landscape of the Panama rainforest - his birthplace, and hopefully an escape from the guilt that consumes him. Free to roam at last, the leopard in him longs to take control, but knowing how dangerous that would be, Connor must resist. However, there are more serious issues to deal with. Connor's been brought back for a specific purpose: to help save his people from an evil threatening their existence, and to avenge his mother's brutal murder. And this time he means to take care of buisness.

Review: this book started in the middle and by the middle of the book it had pretty much ended. Or at least the romance, or love part of the story. But it was hard to keep on reading, though you should, it was an awesome end. It’s just that the whole time I was reading it I felt as if I was missing so much. Even though she had done it so we knew what the hell was going on with them, and there past. It still had a feel of something special hidden. Almost like you were a voyeur to the whole story, it’s actually very weird. Or I find it that way. It’s like it needs something more. like there should be a short story about what happened before this book, that to me would make this book a lot more interesting, as it is, it’s mostly about a chick in love with someone who’s betrayed her, her becoming a leopard, so she’s horny, and half way through the book they have made up and are together forever. But that’s not all of the book, it just seems to take up all of your mind. Really a rogue wanting her, and kidnapped children, a sadist couple, who aren’t a couple anymore and an old man who can make you feel save when all you should be doing is running in the opposite direction. All done in a rainforest that’s use mostly for killing humans, trafficking and drug running. It’s exciting and thrilling and makes you want to have someone like that loving you. It’s... a great book, but...





 next                         Savage Nature                                                          (11/Sept)

Pod deets: Leopard People series, book five
Pub: 2011, The Berkley Publishing Group
Format: paperback, mid; 367pp w/21 chapters
whose: Drake & Saria

summary: When Saria Boudreaux finds a dead body in the Louisiana bayou near her home, her first instinct is to go to the police. But there's a problem: It looks as if the victim may have been killed by a big cat - and her brothers are all shape-shifting leopards. 
  Sent by the land's owners to investifate, leopard-shifter Drake Donovan is ready for anything - except the insatiable hunger that rocks him when he meets Saria. Deep in his soul he knows that she is destined to be his mate. Torn between protecting her brothers and finding the truth, Saria treads warily around the powerful shifter. Yet as they venture deep into the mysterious bayou on a hunt for the killer, Saria finds herself longing for Drake's touch and the sweet realse of surrender.

Review: This book was really good, though I found to be a little repetitive in descriptions threw the thoughts but the first thing I love about this book is Saria. She’s a great lass, with her neglect, her childless childhood and her streak of independence, she’s the type of woman you would think is going to be annoyingly bossy but she’s not. And she’s something perfect. Really I loved her character in this book. Though maybe it helps that Drake is her mate and that he’s the type of man that any woman would die to have love them. it’s one of those books that wasn’t anything you would expect because nothing threw the whole book was expectant. You were thrown from one moment to the next, thinking you know what the hell was going on, when you had no real idea and even when you are pretty sure you know who the killer is, you could be so wrong.
   Its one of those books that is interesting to a point that it nearly becomes boring, but I think that could be for the fact that you didn’t know where it was going, you always had to think, always had to remember things that you didn’t think was all that important. But it’s good, I love her concept of leopard people it’s done so well. 

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