[MUD-Dev] Re: There can be.. only ONE! (fwd)

["Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>]

> From: Matt Chatterley <matt#mpc,dyn.ml.org>
> > > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > >> cf The Running Man.
> > 
> > > Strangely, I was going to mention this in my previous post. This is
> > > the model I am now working towards. I always thought that film would
> > > have been more fun if they hadn't tied in the resistance/hero crap,
> > > and had just played out the game to the more 'normal' conclusion (or
> > > even to the team being the first ever to 'win').
> > 
> > They had the (dis)advantage of basing the film on a prior book.  
> 
> Wasn't aware of that. Shame. The book worth finding?
>  

Yeh, I liked it better than the movie. (not suprising)
The book works much better with the "hero" being a wimp 
rather than he-man Arnold.
Some guy named Stephen King wrote it under the 
psuedonym of Richard Bachman.  

J. Lambert

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