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[BrilliantEraser]

I am mid-way through Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed. It's a fictional account of a husband and wife who work at Columbine during the shootings. They both survive, but the book tracks the emotional trauma that occurred, and how it effectively ruins both of their lives. I usually do not get too upset when I read, but when I read the section detailing the shootings, I was shaking so hard that I had to put the book down. Talk about an emotionally difficult read.

[I is Grammar]

I generally think that horror works better in films than in books.

Then you've been reading the wrong kind of horror.  Try reading Peter Straub or Graham Masterton. 

In that vein, Night Wars by Graham Masterton disturbed me on many different levels.  Also, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood scared the pants off of me.  I love dystopian tales. 

[BrilliantEraser]

I love Margaret Atwood. Ever read Oryx and Crake?

[pilsner]

I stopped reading dystopic Atwood books after Handmaid's Tale in high school, but if you're looking for futurist books that will make you shed actual tears, I can't recommend Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go strongly enough.  Soon a movie with Kiera Knightley!

[ackblom12]

Kat just checked out the sequel to "Oryx and Crake" called "The Year of the Flood". I'm quite interested in reading it once she's done.

[Alex C]

What pisses me off about Never Let Me Go is that I wrote a pretty alright short story about pretty much the same topic back in '03, but now I cannot show it to anyone without feeling even hackier then usual. Stupid Ishiguro just had to go and be more talented than me, the bastard.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

I hate it when people (see: everyone) do that.

[pilsner]

What pisses me off about Never Let Me Go is that I wrote a pretty alright short story about pretty much the same topic back in '03, but now I cannot show it to anyone without feeling even hackier then usual. Stupid Ishiguro just had to go and be more talented than me, the bastard.

I'm pretty sure the growing clone kids for parts thing has been done several times before and since by published authors so at least you're in good company.  Oh yeah, why don't I have permissions for spoiler tags?

[Alex C]

Yeah, ideas have a way of getting farmed out and explored by many different people; we're all living in the same world, after all, so I'm not pretentious enough to really think I have any extraordinarily original ideas or anything. That said, I still find it somewhat intimidating when someone tackles the same subject as I have but does so with a far greater degree of success. His book essentially rendered any input I have on the subject superfluous, and it chafes me a bit. Ah well, there are worse crosses to bear than a mild case of artist envy.

[I is Grammar]

I love Margaret Atwood. Ever read Oryx and Crake?

I haven't, but I shall soon!  There are perks to living within walking distance of a library.