Books
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Liked "Blood Meridian" by McCarthy- looked at "The Road" but it wasn't for me. I'm all for a bit of gloom and doom but that was some heavy slogging.
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Actually if people on this thread can recommend drugged up fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 22d century… I'm all ears.
Good thread. Violent drug stories..."Crimes in Southern Indiana" & "Donnybrook" both by Frank Bill. "Poachers" and "Hell at the Breech" both by Tom Franklin. "The Devil all the Time" by Donald Ray Pollack. "Winter's Bone" by Daniel Woodrell. Anything by Woodrell I'd read his feckin shopping list. And I second the Joe R.Lansdale rec he's really good. Anything by George Pelecanos. Anything by Don Winslow, Thomas Perry, "The Butcher's Boy"...
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Like dystopian cyberpunk stuff? I might have a couple if so…
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Add to the list of crazed Americans -
"Knockemstiff"- Donald Ray Pollock, "All We Need Of Hell" & "A Childhood" by the late great Harry Crews,
"Volt", Alan Heathcock
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Just finished reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. Enjoyable, but I have mixed emotions about it. Mostly because it felt like it was building toward a more monumental conclusion than it actually had.
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Agreed, but as a geek I still love the darn thing. I love how Stephenson has cross-generational storylines in this and other books. Having Alan Turing as a character is a huge plus too. I think Snow Crash is probably a bit better in a way and I have not read the Diamond Age.
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Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Lanzac & Blain (SelfMadeHero London 2014)…Winner of the Best Graphic Novel Award Angouleme International Comics Festival 2013.....GBP 16,99...an excellent comics for all guys with a sense for the real backgounds of politics and diplomacy...Perfect!
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Only good Tintin btw (reàl good if you're into Class War mag/ socialism/ anarchism/ communism/ anti-sexism/ anti-racism/ anti-poofism and so on)…
http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Adventures-J-Daniels/dp/0951426109
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Lanzac&Blain: A silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry. The fictional eccentric, Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, is France's least likely comic-book hero.
But he is the star of a satirical graphic novel based on the former French prime minister and foreign policy supremo, Dominique de Villepin, which has become a surprise French literary hit,
and Tintin, I like the drawigs and stories…I know that some people like to see phantoms, too much interpretations, not ignoring some special aspects: Tintin in the Congo is forbidden to sell in South Africa and some critics about Tintin in the Land of the Soviets...Herge´s biography mirrors his time
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Just finished reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. Enjoyable, but I have mixed emotions about it. Mostly because it felt like it was building toward a more monumental conclusion than it actually had.
Yeah that was my feeling too. It was building for so long, and then the steam. it just kind of. ran dry. Anathem is probably my fav book by Stephenson. Difficult to get into, but sets up and delivers on point. Snow Crash, is a bit of an easy/relaxed read. Didn't stretch me, light and enjoyable, no less.
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Anathem was great!
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Yeah that was my feeling too. It was building for so long, and then the steam. it just kind of. ran dry. Anathem is probably my fav book by Stephenson. Difficult to get into, but sets up and delivers on point. Snow Crash, is a bit of an easy/relaxed read. Didn't stretch me, light and enjoyable, no less.
I've never read Snow Crash. It's petty of me, but I just can't get past the silliness of naming the main character "Hiro Protagonist".
I also just finished re-reading Dune for the first time since my early teens. A much deeper and richer experience this time around. It's prompted me to try out the others in the series, which I've not read before. I've got to do something to kill time until Patrick Rothfuss finally finishes the Kingkiller Trilogy; although I don't see how he's going to wrap up everything in a single book. I'm just praying he doesn't drag things out like George R.R. Martin. I've given up hope that the Song of Ice and Fire series will ever be completed.
