I just read and enjoyed "Draculas" in ebook form on the Kindle that I received for Christmas. At the end, it seems to say that a continuation called "Draculas 2" will be released in 2011. There is nothing about Draculas 2 in the "publishing schedule" section of FPW's monthly newsletter that I just received (perhaps because FPW is not the sole author), and I wondered if a release date has been set for a Draculas 2 ebook?

I've been an FPW / RJ fan for a looong time (frighteningly old am i, young Jedi), but I haven't checked in with the forum in a while (so long that I forgot my id and had to re-register).

I think most of we RJ fans recognize that there are very few images / depictions of a Rakosh on the web, or anywhere else for that matter. I've seen all the ones I could find from this forum - some really nice work there IMHO (BTW, is Rakosh plural and Rakoshi singular?).

I'd love to see somebody organize all the available images in one site (which would maybe help convince some other folks with talent to add more).

Regardless, I always wanted to ask if anyone else on the board saw the reasonably bad second Tomb Raider film - "Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life".

Fairly late in the movie, Angelina and company are attacked by a bunch of "tree demons" in some gnarled old forest they are trekking through.

I thought those beasties were a perfect representation of the rakosh. They were only on film for maybe less than a minute, but I thought they nailed it perfectly - tall, muscular, three taloned fingers, shark-like head.

Anybody else see this film and feel the same way? I'd be interested to know if the film special effects designer that created these was an RJ fan.

If you haven't seen it, and you can fast forward through it, it's worth getting to that part.

Just wondering,

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I thought this was one of the better dramas I've seen in awhile. Annette Benning and Julianne Moore are lesbian mothers of two teens. The son initiates contact with the sperm donor and when they meet the man, Mark Ruffalo, all their lives get a bit more complicated. Very smart and well-acted, definitely worth the rent.

Good news everybody!

You can start ordering from Gauntlet.

It is pretty cool.

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I still like the forum for ideas as well. I would have never found "In the balance" by Harry Turtledove if it was for here.

I put in the Keep and this is what came up. Partial list.

Phil Rickman - Candlenight

Phil Rickman - The Lamp of the Wicked

Philip Rickman, Phil Rickman - December

Phil Rickman - Midwinter of the Spirit

Phil Rickman - The Cure of Souls

Phil Rickman - The Wine of Angels

Greg Rucka - A Gentleman's Game

Caleb Carr - Killing Time

Raymond E. Feist - Faerie Tale: A Novel of Terror and Fantasy

Peter Straub - Floating Dragon

Clive Cussler - Sacred Stone: A Novel from the Oregon Files

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - Dance of Death

Jeff Long - Year Zero

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - The Ice Limit

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - 13 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Book of the Dead, Brimstone, Cabinet of Curiosities, Dance of Death, Ice Limit, Mount Dragon, Relic, Reliquary, Riptide, Thunderhead, Death Match (by Child alone), Codex and Jennie (by Preston alone)

Douglas Preston - The Codex

Stephen King - The Wastelands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, the Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Jeff Long - The Descent

Lincoln Child - Deep Storm: A Novel

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - The Cabinet of Curiosities

Clive Barker - The Great and Secret Show

James Rollins - Ice Hunt

Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow

Robert R. McCammon - Boy's Life

James Rollins - Excavation

Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child - Mount Dragon

Clive Cussler - Night Probe!

Dennis Lehane - Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel

Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child - Relic

Dean Koontz - Dark Rivers of the Heart

Robin Cook - Vector

Douglas J. Preston, Lincoln Child - Reliquary

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - Thunderhead

Douglas J. Preston, Child Lincoln - Still Life with Crows (Thorndike Core)

Clive Cussler - Raise the Titanic

Lincoln Child - Utopia

This is the latest movie from Neil Marshall, who I have to say after his first two movies "Dog Soldiers" and "The Descent" I was a huge fan of and had very high hopes of someone I could get behind and enjoy his work for a long time.

Errrrrrrrrr!!!! Screeeeeeeeecchhhhh!!! Not so, his next movie "Doomsday" was a horrible piece of shyte that had no redeeming quality to it at all and now he offers up "Centurion" using a period I am very fond of and a locale that I love the history of, the Roman empire and its exploits into Scotland/Caledonia etc etc.

This movie is a huge stinking pile of poop. Plot holes and horrible writing, even the lovely scenery and cinematography can't save this piece of stinking crap. I kept watching hoping Neil Marshall would show some of what made me like his first two movies so much but all this movie left me with is the feeling that he shot his creative wad on the first two movies and is now going to feed us "Doomsday" and "Centurion" and any other crap he creates. Ugh, what a let down.

So for Christmas I got the boxed American Gothic DVD set. It was a short-lived horror show from 1995 that both my wife and I really liked when it originally aired-I haven't seen it since. We watched the first two episodes last night and I thought it has aged quite well; it was effectively creepy. It was perhaps best known for its producers: Shaun Cassidy and Sam Raimi. We'll always remember it as the show that gave us our son's name Caleb. Lucas Black, the kid from Sling Blade, portrayed him and Michele thought he was the cutest thing in the world so we determined that if we had a son...

Readers can get too wrapped up in dates and ages in a series that runs this long. Here's something I threw together to help me keep age relationships straight. It's not complete, but the YA books made it sort of necessary to help me keep perspective. (Any corrections or additions welcome)

1890 – Ernst Drexler Sr born

1923 – Ernst Drexler Sr diverts Karl Stehr’s shot during Munich putsch

1930 (July) – Jack’s father born

1931 – Jack’s mother born

1946 – Walter Erskine born in Chillicothe, MO

1950 – Jack’s father trained by US Army

1951 – Ernst Drexler Jr. born

1959 – Tom Jr born

1961 – Kate born

1968 – Feb-Mar – Rasalom conceived REBORN
Mar – Dat Tay Vao enters Walt Erskine
April – Jack conceived
Sept – Weezy Connell born
Dec – Rasalom reborn

1969 – Jan – Jack born
Feb – Mrs. Clevenger moves into Johnson, NJ
April – Walter’s sister’s (Adelle) husband Kurt Bainbridge transferred from Kansas, City, MO to his company’s Trenton office; knew Jack’s Dad in Korea (calls him “Killer”; moved to Johnson for the trout and bass fishing; provides home for his brother-in-law but not crazy about idea.
Oct – Eddie Connell born

SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 1970s – Hank born in January; Jeremy 11 mo later in Dec; Moonglow / Christy born following Dec.

1970 – 24-yr-old Walt Eskine gets medical discharge from Army after treated for a mental condition at Northport V.A. Hospital. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Thought he could heal people.

1972 – Walt joins a faith-healing tent show in the South but kicked off the tour because he was never sober.

1974 – Walt comes to live with sister in Johnson.

1979 – Jonah Stevens killed in elevator accident.

1981 – Tom starts Seton Hall Law in Newark

1982 – Kate spends Junior Year abroad in France.

1982 – Walt Erskine in DC for march to Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedication

1983 – Sept: Kate starts UMDNJ in Stratford

1983 – Sept: Jack starts high school.

1987 – June: grad HS

1987 – Sept: starts Rutgers

1990 – Jan: mother killed by thrown block

What is Jacks real age? In most of the RJ books including the current book Fatal Errors,he is described as being in his mid-thirties.However when I was reading about FPW's YA Jack books, they are set in 1983, and state Jack is 14. That would mean Jack would be born in 1969-1970 making him 40-41 as of 2010. While that coincides with earlier RJ books, shouldn't the latest book describe him as being early forties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0yXC0oyIA


This is worth watching. Just some cool 15 minute cg movie.