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Post by deuce on Dec 20, 2017 13:41:49 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 6, 2018 10:31:59 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 11, 2018 16:02:39 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 13, 2018 13:39:09 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 26, 2018 14:30:04 GMT -5
Pretty cool:
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Oct 5, 2018 9:17:41 GMT -5
Iconic image of an iconic man. Would love to have see them live . . . |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Oct 5, 2018 9:59:15 GMT -5
Many writers write odd-balls for which they're not known--obscure works that only true fans seek out -- Clark Ashton Smith's Black Diamonds & The Sword of Zagan, ERB's You Lucky Girl, REH's Last of the Trunk material - the scraps for which we dogs wait under the table to hit the floor where we eagerly scarf it up. While I've only read one of Louis L'Amours's westerns -- To the Far Blue Mountains -- which was good, from what I recall (I was youngggggg when I read it) -- The Last of the Breed had an impact on me that lasts to this day. In a way, the story reminds me strongly of something REH might have written had he lived -- not the prose, but the theme. I think it was mentioned that L'Amour possibly read Howard - this tale certainly causes me to feel that he did. This reviewer summarizes the plot, and the zest of the tale, very well: This further insight to the novel from Wiki is also interesting: And a Publisher's Weekly Review: Some might consider the novel to be dated by it's Soviet-era, red-commie theme; but then, by default so would be many of the Tarzans by their Nazi plot threads. I don't know how many here on SwordsofREH enjoy westerns, but obviously, Bob Howard did. We also know he enjoyed Jack London, and this is certainly a novel I feel he would have really liked, capturing as it does the theme of epic survival against not only evil men, but a vast and merciless stretch of wilds. A friend recently returned this novel to me -- I think I loaned it to him ten or more years ago and had nearly forgotten having done so, although the story would come up on occasion in our discussions. It would make a fantastic movie, and I can't help but feel, based on how it ends, that L'Amour might have considered writing a sequel, as it was certainly left wide open for such.   |
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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2018 6:55:49 GMT -5
I think that was in both of the Zep photobooks I had. Lost them in the Flood. Apparently, the dove/pigeon just flew down and landed on Plant's hand. |
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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2018 7:32:09 GMT -5
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Post by buxom9sorceress on Oct 14, 2018 18:37:26 GMT -5
- -- Very good, interesting info and speculations about the Merlin legends.  |
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Oct 16, 2018 10:02:30 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Nov 2, 2018 15:02:15 GMT -5
Would Boorman's made more sense than the Lester version with the four gentlemen from Liverpool? Welles is a treasure trove of unmade and unfinished. There were loads from the 30s: Rupert of Hentzau with Coleman and Fairbanks...unmade. Robin of Locksley with Flynn reprising Robin Hood...unmade. |
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Post by deuce on Nov 21, 2018 1:03:56 GMT -5
Good doc on Classical Greece. Narrated by Liam Neeson.
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Dec 5, 2018 15:16:03 GMT -5
The best Dracula adaptation I've ever seen is the BBC version from 1977. Scared the bloody hell out of me as a kid and gave me nightmares for weeks. Great stuff.
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2019 2:43:36 GMT -5
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