I've had a hard time finding a copy of the original Colossus novel by Dennis Jones. The books appear to be long out of print. Has anyone one here read them? Any good?
What evil drives the Car?...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWea3Eu97E
This is a great movie. I read the 3 books. It was so long ago, I just remember that I liked the movie a lot more than the book.
I read the second book.
It was not as good as the movie.
During the second book they take Forbin's wife away.
To a croatian man. Who ...this is so wrong....rapes her every night until she loves him.
This was disturbing to me so I never read the third book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Colossus
"Though Blake passes the necessary information along to Cleo, she is quickly arrested by the Sect and sentenced by Colossus to spend three months at an "Emotional Study Center" where she is repeatedly raped as part of an experiment designed to help Colossus better understand human emotion."
I also read the second book. I thought its was very good.
shareI have the trilogy of the books... The latter two, Colossus and The Crab and The Fall of Colossus are not as good as the chilling thriller that the first book is IMO - the steer off towards some quite implausible plot devices.
shareI have the trilogy of the books... The latter two, Colossus and The Crab and The Fall of Colossus are not as good as the chilling thriller that the first book is IMO - the steer off towards some quite implausible plot devices.
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The movie I love so much , made me love computers along with other scifi, and today I work in computers...the second book was never as good at the movie. I was hurt.
shareIn order to have the Croatian read up on the Stockholm Syndrome, the novel's author or the writers of this 1970 film would have had to have been remarkably prescient. What eventually became known as the "Stockholm Syndrome" was detailed in a 1974 report written by a psychiatrist and criminologist who worked on the investigation of a 1973 bank robbery.
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So you're still wrong. Accept it.
shareYou can read a sumary in Wikipedia page of the books, I think the second is good, not as the first... but the third book is ludicrous...
shareYes the martians in the third book would have to be reworked the way the Squids were in the Watchmen movie... something more realistic
shareThe first book is the only one worth reading. The other two take place in a "feeling tone", and a type of sci fi, completely foreign to the themes and atmosphere of the first one.
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