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    That Dark Tower series by Stephen King is also pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books:
    The Gunslinger
    The Drawing of the Three
    The Waste Lands.

    "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
     
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    What did you think of the movie?

    I liked the drawing of the three book the best, though its been 15 years since i read them. Lol

    You a big stephen king fan? Ive got alot of older books and most movies on dvd. Let me know if you wanna borrow next time you are over. :)
     
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    For sci-fi geeks like myself:
    Isaac Asimov's Robot Books
    Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
    Michael Crichton - Sphere
    Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the movie "Bladerunner" is based on this book)
    Robert L. Forward - Rocheworld (fantastic Hard Sci-fi)
    Walter M. Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz
    Clifford D. Simak - Cemetery World

    For those horror fans:
    John W. Campbell - Who Goes There? (the movie "The Thing" is based on this novella)
    Stephen King - The Mist (the movie is based on the novella with a different ending!)
    Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (one of my all-time favorites as a youngster)
    H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
    Richard Matheson - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (the Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner and the Twilight Zone: The Movie Segment 4 with John Lithgow is based on this short story)
    Richard Matheson - I am Legend (3 movies are based on this novella)
    Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - The Relic

    Historical Fiction:
    Michael Crichton - Eaters of the Dead (the movie "The 13th Warrior" is based on this book)
    Dan Simmons - The Terror (the Television Series Adaptation is based on this book)

    Nobel Prize:
    William Golding - The Lord of the Flies

    Other:
    Douglas Preston - Jennie (book about an orphaned chimpanzee learns ASL American Sign Language to communicate and is raised by a family of 4 with 2 small children)
     
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    I haven't seen the movie yet. I heard it's a big disappointment with Dark Tower fans. Have you seen it?

    Yeah, I am big fan of Stephen King. Thanks for the offer to borrow books and movies. We will have to hang out again when we both have time.
     
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    Absolutely.
    You can borrow the movie and then we can discuss.
    Soon
     

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