Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

[garbon]

Your Honor, exhibit #598 of why Tim needs to be punched in the nuts repeatedly

Hear, hear!

[Eddie Teach]

Abe Lincoln vs. vampires actually sounds like it would work very well as an allegory -- vampires being parasites who survive off of the life energy of others.

Then there could be a sequel: Vladimir Lenin vs. Vampires.

[Neil]

Goddammit Tim.  I couldn't stand this sort of overclever thing when it was just the one book.  Now that the bandwagon is being jumped on by every second-rate hack, I refuse to pay any attention to this crap.

[Ed Anger]

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Philip Jose farmer did all of this stuff much better than the modern writers, back in the 1960s and 1970s.

I wish a omnibus of the Riverworld novels was shoved up Tim's ass.

[The Brain]

I wish an omnibus was shoved up Tim's ass.

FYP

[Ed Anger]

Or a minibus.

[HisMajestyBOB]

The reviews have been great, even the Abraham Lincoln blog liked it. Tim Burton has already optioned the film rights.

[Jaron]

Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie since Mars Attacks!

[sbr]

Tim Burton hasn't made a good movie since Mars Attacks!

I love that movie. 

[jimmy olsen]

The reviews have been great, even the Abraham Lincoln blog liked it. Tim Burton has already optioned the film rights.

What are you eye bleeding about?

[Razgovory]

Boring.

Of course.  The Hack Attack follows every original idea and produces tons of boring unoriginal copies.  Happened to fantasy, happened to vampire novels, and now to the "unusual combo" genre.

Philip Jose farmer did all of this stuff much better than the modern writers, back in the 1960s and 1970s.

And that wasn't that good to begin with.  I think the original writers of the pulps and fantasy and sci-fi and weird fiction (1920's-1940's didn't really care that their works weren't taken seriously, and the next generation 1950's-1970's felt snubbed and strained to be respectable and deep, and current generation just wallows and celebrates it's hackery.

[Eddie Teach]

Honestly, it's hard enough coming up with a storyline that's somewhat original, a writer can hardly be expected to come up with a unique *type* of story.

[grumbler]

Honestly, it's hard enough coming up with a storyline that's somewhat original, a writer can hardly be expected to come up with a unique *type* of story.

  duh!  That's why we talk about "genre" books and movies and whatnot.  I don;'t know of anyone who "expects" a writer to come up with "a unique 'type' of story."  Whoever it is must be disappointed a lot, as there are about 4,000 books published per day in the world, and a new genre comes along once a century or so.

[Neil]

Honestly, it's hard enough coming up with a storyline that's somewhat original, a writer can hardly be expected to come up with a unique *type* of story.

  duh!  That's why we talk about "genre" books and movies and whatnot.  I don;'t know of anyone who "expects" a writer to come up with "a unique 'type' of story."  Whoever it is must be disappointed a lot, as there are about 4,000 books published per day in the world, and a new genre comes along once a century or so.

I don't know about that.  The 20th century was full of new genres.

[grumbler]

I don't know about that.  The 20th century was full of new genres.

Depending on what you call a genre, I suppose you are correct.  Let me change that to "decade or so" then.