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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:43 am
by I'm Murrin
Currently reading
Lint by Steve Aylett.
Jeff Lint was the author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century. He transcended genre in classic such as Jelly Result and The Stupid Conversation, becoming a cult figure and pariah. Like his contemporary Philip K. Dick, he was blithely ahead of his time. Aylett follows Lint through his Beat days; his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia and resentment; his disastrous scripts for Star Trek and Patton; the controversies of The Caterer comic and the scariest cartoon ever aired; and his belated Hollywood success in the 1990s. Lint's was a career haunted by death, including the suspicious death of his rival Herzog, and the mysterious 'Lint is dead' rumours, which persisted even after his death.
A sample:
'This is a craftsman at the top of his voice, who happens to want to bury us in a steamy load of despairing and accurate words,' wrote the respected Washington Post critic Simon Henwood. He concluded: 'It is impossible to imagine what Jeff Lint will do next, but whatever it is it ought to be good.' When Lint was seen naked riding a spaniel a few weeks later in Albuquerque, Henwood denied having read anything by Lint, or having written a review of anything by anybody at any time. 'I'm just a corporal in the Royal Navy,' he stated, quitting the Post all smiles.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:11 pm
by lucimay
right now i'm reading a little Francis Bacon (the four idols thing)
and carl sagan's last book - Demon-Haunted World - for class. we'll have to do a comparison/contrast paper i'm sure.
but last night, at borders, i picked up The Wasteland and other poems by TS Elliot and GRR Martin's Armegeddon Rag!
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:39 pm
by duke
Steinbeck - The Pearl
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:42 pm
by I'm Murrin
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:23 am
by bloodguard bob
The Zombie Survival Guide-Complete Protection from the Living Dead - Max Brooks
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:18 am
by Montresor
"The Man Who Was Thursday", G.K. Chesterton.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:35 pm
by Chrysalis
Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain.
Nice gory thriller about a female psychopath.
Thinking of starting Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill next.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:55 pm
by Cail
Marathon Training for Dummies.
Seriously, there's a "Dummies" book for everything.
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:10 am
by Montresor
A History of Orgies, by Burgo Partridge.
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:37 am
by emotional leper
Cail wrote:Marathon Training for Dummies.
Seriously, there's a "Dummies" book for everything.
The Dummies Guide to Dungeons and Dragons is actually more useful than the actual books for a new player.
Provided they read it.
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:01 pm
by sgt.null
a Thirty Days of Night Novel
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:58 pm
by Prebe
Tad Williams MST. Volume four of the trilogy (heh!) "Storm"
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:48 am
by Guest
2012:The War
For Souls, Whitley Strieber so far so good!
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:40 am
by Cleburne
i actually went and off and bought SD Mordants Need yesterday and im going to make a start this weekend and also reading Tad Williams Shadowmarch so I shall be busy.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:43 am
by Montresor
Finishing off Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:50 pm
by sgt.null
a history of the band rem.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:56 am
by danlo
OK, don't pass out-it's been 10 months ago since danlo read The Golden Spruce, the first non Sci-Fi/Fantasy he's read in, like, forever. Upon the Lady Tam's recommendation I'm 26 pages into My Sister's Keeper and it's already slammed me into the floor. The author is Jodi Picoult and it's about a girl who was genetically raised to "lend" blood marrow and other bodily parts to her older sister suffering from a rare form of luekemia. You can guess the legal, personal and spiritual implications...(even though it was written just 3 years ago this issue of "clinical' offspring has been in the new for the last year and a half) extremely good writting, so far.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:47 am
by emotional leper
In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason, for English Comp.
It seems to get very very very bad reviews.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:01 pm
by Wyldewode
Emotional Leper wrote:In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason, for English Comp.
It seems to get very very very bad reviews.
I read her
Shiloh when I did my undergrad in English lit. I actually liked it.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:22 am
by emotional leper
Wyldewode wrote:Emotional Leper wrote:In Country, by Bobbie Ann Mason, for English Comp.
It seems to get very very very bad reviews.
I read her
Shiloh when I did my undergrad in English lit. I actually liked it.
I'm 50 pages in, and it's the second most boring book I've ever read.