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liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
 Posted: 13-07-2013 11:12 Post subject: FT 304 |
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Just arrived here at Bin Towers.
I shall withdraw to the garden with a g and t.
I'm sure I only just finished the last one, FT that is, not g and t. I'm only half way through one of those. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-07-2013 18:15 Post subject: |
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| Yes, mine arrived, I hope to tackle it tomorrow. One thing that has made me absolutely livid is the Crook Frightfulness article was delayed till next issue! Well, I'm not livid really, but I was looking forward to it. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 13-07-2013 21:39 Post subject: |
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Mine arrived this morning and I've left it at work.  |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 14-07-2013 04:30 Post subject: |
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| Sigh, I have to wait a week for it to arrive out here in the (former) colonies! |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-07-2013 20:18 Post subject: |
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| escargot1 wrote: | | Mine arrived this morning and I've left it at work. |
That's a pity because it's the best issue they've ever done in the history of the publication.
Well, I enjoyed reading the nutty tokoloshe stories, I suppose we in the UK have poltergiests and the Southern Africans have little hairy invisible men with enormous penises. The Breatharians always sounded like deluded fakes to me, and that article did not dispel that opinion.
Bit disappointed to see the IHTM including that one about the broadcast from the future. It's been debunked on here as an advert, though has taken on a life of its own, evidently. |
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| liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
| Posted: 15-07-2013 19:40 Post subject: |
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| I concur. I'm only half way through it so far and it's a blinder. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-07-2013 22:42 Post subject: |
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| I was joking a bit, but it's definitely one of the better ones. Really enjoyed it. Also: that pic on page 29? Of the waving alien? Should have been the cover image. |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 26-07-2013 04:11 Post subject: |
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| I liked the black and white faced sheep! |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 26-07-2013 08:55 Post subject: |
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I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Spent two pleasant afternoons sitting on a pub terrace whilst reading it and drinking a beer, so far.
Good articles on H.P. Lovecraft and one on the health benefits of coffee, yet didn't read any mention of Lovecraft's habit of writing through the night due to his coffee fuelled insomnia. Maybe I missed it.
Wouldn't mind reading an article on the heyday of the magazine, Weird Tales, itself. Lovecraft wasn't the only writer of weird and uncanny stuff. Just one of the more wholesome ones.
Phenomenomix is doing a bio. on Arthur Machen, this time. Great series. |
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| stuneville Administrator
Joined: 09 Mar 2002 Total posts: 10230 Location: FTMB HQ Age: 46 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-07-2013 09:15 Post subject: |
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| Haven't read mine yet - I'm saving it for a train journey tomorrow. |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 28-07-2013 03:15 Post subject: |
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| Having finished this issue, I am eagrely waiting for the next issue! |
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| liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
| Posted: 28-07-2013 20:17 Post subject: |
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| Very good issue. I didn't really bother reading the Lovecraft stuff as I'm not too fussed with him. The rest of it was very good though. |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 30-07-2013 02:59 Post subject: |
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| You know, I've never even read Lovecraft, despite the high praises some folk heap upon him. Should I read him? |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
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| Posted: 30-07-2013 11:37 Post subject: |
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| 47Forteans wrote: | | You know, I've never even read Lovecraft, despite the high praises some folk heap upon him. Should I read him? |
I think the article nicely summed up his appeal in conjuring a cold, unfeeling, impersonal universe which his characters inhabit which of course means very few 'happy' endings. When you add in the constant threat of the cosmic pushing at the periphery of our reality it really does give the reader a genuine sense of unease.
I think he's worth reading just to get the sense of what he was trying to do, something so few authors have managed to capture before or since. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-07-2013 13:05 Post subject: |
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| 47Forteans wrote: | | You know, I've never even read Lovecraft, despite the high praises some folk heap upon him. Should I read him? |
Read him, he really had something, not really dated imho, except there is casual racism in some of his stories but it reflects the time they were written in. His prose & letters are more extreme. In his fiction his ire is directed at hillbillies who he potrays as inbred tunnel dwelling cannibals. |
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