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« Reply #32 on: 19 April 2009, 06:07:34 » |
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Currently rereading Havemercy, which is pure self-indulgent reading: Metal dragons, epic gay magician romance, explosions, and sensitivity training. Aaah.
Read Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing some weeks ago. It sort of hits me how much Sandman was obviously influenced by it, even beyond Preludes and Nocturnes.
Books I'm planning on getting: Sir Apropos of Nothing Bilgewater - An old favorite of mine, but my copy is falling to pieces. Sort of the antithesis to Rebecca.
Other stuff on the reading list: Perdido Street Station - I started it last year, but drifted off after the first couple of pages. Going to give it another go since, by all accounts, it's worth it. From Hell Mister B Gone - Picked it up, read a dozen pages, put it down for reason of encroaching paranoid terror. Damn it, Clive Barker.
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« Reply #42 on: 1 May 2009, 08:40:25 » |
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I'm rereading Call of Cthulhu, and starting on Dante's Inferno. I eventually intend to read all the divine comedies, but this seems a good start. Posted on: 21-04-2009, 20:17:38
I just read Chuck Palahniuk's story, "Guts." I personally found it hilarious. It's not for the weak-stomached or those with an issue regarding experimental male masturbation. It was fun to read whilst stomping on wet towels, certainly. I haven't read much Palahniuk, but the short stories and excerpts that I read in Northwest Lit. have certainly made me wanting to read more. Pahalniuk and Tom Robbins both.
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« Reply #49 on: 3 May 2009, 05:54:21 » |
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So, I heard about this show that's starting next fall on ABC called Flash Forward. The premise REALLY interested me: basically, after testing the Large Hadron Collider, everyone on earth passes out for 2 minutes, and has their consciousnesses catapulted about 21 years into the future, where they get a glimpse through their eyes Being John Malkovich-style. Then, everyone wakes up, but there's a crapload of destruction... like, everyone who was driving a car passed out and the cars kept going, all planes taking off and landing crashed, anyone on a ladder or anything fell off, that sort of thing. Everyone has to deal with this catastrophe and the fact that they got to see what their lives would be like 21 years later.
So, basically, I found out it's based on a book called Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer, so I went out and bought it the other day. I'm about six chapters in and I really like it. There's a lot of great stuff, like some people DIDN'T see flashes and that basically means they die within the next 21 years. One guy who doesn't see a flash basically finds out (from other people who were reading newspapers when they flashed) that he was murdered, and he now wants to try to solve his own murder and prevent it from happening. There's a lot more cool things like that and a whole bunch of characters and, basically, it's a great read so far.
Definitely looking forward to the show.
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