Have that book/game/movie washed and send it to my tentFollow

I remember reading a lot of the authors notes in his books, and he seemed fairly sane, while having an obvious obsession with sexual things in his literature at least. He had a few interactions with fans that were pretty heart warming besides this.

found an interview with the kid who ran off.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/470/transcript

Well, that's the question, isn't it?

I'm pretty open to new things. I tend NOT to like noise metal. I like all kinds of fiction, though of course not every author hits my happy place. The nonfiction I like tends to skew toward historical and/or anthropological, but I'll try anything.

Movies: not crazy about romantic comedies, any era (I know, go figure). I don't like very graphic violence unless it's cartoonish (like, say, Pulp Fiction. The violence didn't bother me at all). I can skip most musicals.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Michael Swanwick, Ken Macleod, Christopher Priest (sounds familiar but nothing's jumping out at me). Start with those, please.

Yep i saw that a new one was coming out. I think I will go get the hardcover. I love books, even though i have a kindle now. I mostly use it for HBOGO lol. Sad isnt it?

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are a couple of Soviet writers who afaik only ever wrote collaborations with one another. I'd recommend you start with Roadside Picnic, a novella about a guy making his living in the Zone, an area of Earth littered with weird alien **** that is, most likely, rubbish. Inspiration for the video game Stalker.

Swanwick is a refreshingly imaginative fantasy writer. His best book by some way is The Iron Dragon's Daughter, which follows a slave girl as and after she escapes from the factory where she works to build iron dragons, which are a kind of sentient war machine. Kind of pulpy, very 'dark'.

Macleod is one of the more influential writers in the Scottish SF scene and was good friends with Banks. They have quite a few stylistic similarities, though Macleod has a drier sense of humour and his stuff's not quite so violent. His writing is generally concerned with socialism and the viability thereof, particularly with regard to changes in AI etc, about which he's more cynical than others in that vein (e.g. Banks; less than Reynolds though I suppose). Not really sure what you should start with, I read Newton's Wake first.

I've only really read one novel by Priest, Inverted World. It's set in a moving city on an alien world and follows a junior surveyor as he learns its secrets. I enjoyed it, but I'm not actually sure its plot makes sense. Kind of impossible to get into that without some pretty major spoilers, though.

I just saw on the Wiki that the Chronicles are a collection of 10 books not 5

No, no...there are 5. Courts of Chaos is the last of the 5 Amber books. Anyone who indicates otherwise is a horrible person and likely a ******.

I just read Open Secrets by Alice Munro. It's not in line with anything you asked for, but I think you'd enjoy it if you haven't already read it. Nexa's reading Far from the Tree and is enjoying it. It superficially seems like something I'll like, but her recommendation is probably good enough.

Do read the Iain Banks "Culture" books if you haven't (start with Player of Games even though it's not the first book, it's a far better entry point) already. Pulpy, but interesting big ideas. I've been reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen books lately, and honestly, they are kind of horrible. The writing is mediocre and the plot is fan ficy. I keep reading them, though, so there must be something that hooks into my lizard brain somewhere. Martin's Dunk and Egg stories are worth reading while waiting for him to die or excrete another book with 900 pages of Dornish water gardens and drunken god priests crises of faith. They are short, though, and closer to YA than most of that series.

That's all I can think of other than usual "things I don't mention because I assume you've read them:"

Blood Meridian, White Noise, Nabokov's entire bibliography, etc.

I've not only read but re-read the whole series. I am now astonished that the entire earth is not covered with pottery shards. AND YET.

I've not only read but re-read the whole series

Hmm. If we work at and get others to admit to this, we could lead Good Reads to indicate something like "If you like Thomas Pynchon.....you might like Phillip Roth, oh and Steve Erikson."

Me too. Debalic left us again. What server are you on?

Did I ever play with you? All I remember is paying the beta, and the release, through the beginning tutorial phases with my wife and never went back.

Cutting Class. 1989 super crappy horror movie.

Stars a young Brad Pitt before he became famous. It's absolutely terrible, and I think it says something about the quality of the film that there are several full copies on Youtube, and nobody is trying to take them down.

I missed this, sorry.

I'm on Hailol. Spoilerbest server name ever? Where are you at? And we can hop shards or something anyway yes?

Edited, May 15th 2014 3:37pm by someproteinguy