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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/22/2011 11:47:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		If we're onto Zelazny, are the Dilvish the Damned stories as good as the Amber?

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/22/2011 12:10:02 PM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/22/2011 12:29:49 PM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/22/2011 12:34:53 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Kana

Now, if you wanna go throw down modern crime or noir writers, there's James Ellroy, and then there's the rest of the pack.
Ellroy is insane, as in way way round the bend. The man oozes talent, killer in plot, style, and writing. And he dreams and creates big, as in big themes, huge mammoth characters and he writes with balls of steel.
Nobody walks deeper or better into the seamy side of mankind.



Agreed and his autobiographical stuff ("My Dark Places" and "The Hilliker Curse") are even better to me than his fiction.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 3:16:58 AM   
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Meaty cyberpunk - Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan
Fluffy spicy supernatural - Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, from which True Blood was spawned.
Darker spicy supernatural - Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake books
Fun lusty faeries - - Laurell K Hamilton's Merry Gentry books
Napoleonic era British Navy plus dragons - His Majesty's Dragon

The best Harry Potter ever:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality

or download the ebook here: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2269863/Less_Wrong

It's the first Harry Potter book retold as if Harry had been raised by a physics professor to be a hyper-rational, quasi-Vulcan scientist. Super, SUPER fun...






Just finished reading the Harry Potter fanfic. People read it. I stayed up all night  couldn't stop until I had finished. I had no idea that fanfic came in such high quality writing. If you love science and logic give this a try it may well appeal to you. Actually liking the original Harry Potter books isn't necessary.


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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 4:40:13 AM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 4:45:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		If you want some comedy then I strongly suggest getting a book called Puckoon by Spike Milligan A nervous breakdown over 200 pages.

My fave line.
Murphy. Why you wearing that terrible hat.
The Milligan Ahhh the wife threw the hatstand out & I've nowhere else to put it.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 4:52:07 AM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 4:52:40 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

That's an unusual taste.


You might hate it but I'd love to hear your view anyway.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 4:57:40 AM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 5:10:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Despatches by Michael Herr is probably the best book on war I've ever come across.

I was lucky I guess as my old man would get me a book & an LP that would change my life every year for Christmas. So I got stuff like The Great Shark hunt, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Catch 22 before I even left school.
& I appreciate how un PC it may sound but my 18th was a signed copy of Mein Kamph in English. which his father had claimed as war booty in Berlin. His reasoning was to understand what a bone idle self pitying, whinning little shit Adolph really was. It worked.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 8:28:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Great Shark Hunt. =)

My favorite HST book by far. The Proud Highway is good as well, but Shark Hunt really showed that when HST wasn't being Dr. Gonzo, he could write some incredibly deep stuff. I remember well the article in there where he drove with the trucker for a while.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 8:37:19 AM   
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The Great Shark Hunt. =)

My favorite HST book by far. The Proud Highway is good as well, but Shark Hunt really showed that when HST wasn't being Dr. Gonzo, he could write some incredibly deep stuff. I remember well the article in there where he drove with the trucker for a while.



haven't read either of those, thanks for the heads up!

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 8:38:09 AM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 8:40:05 AM   
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The Great Shark Hunt. =)

My favorite HST book by far. The Proud Highway is good as well, but Shark Hunt really showed that when HST wasn't being Dr. Gonzo, he could write some incredibly deep stuff. I remember well the article in there where he drove with the trucker for a while.



haven't read either of those, thanks for the heads up!


Well you're more than welcome to borrow my copies. They're right here, in my bedroom...close the door behind you...


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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 8:43:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		GWSH is spectacular, my second favorite HST (Hells Angels is far and away the first)-the scene where they're running through the airport like modern day Hansel and Gretel,s leaving a trail of amphetamines in their wake is one of the funniest things he's ever written.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 8:48:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		That part came from the main article, god that was funny. I think it was funnier than Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas.

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 9:00:28 AM   
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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 10:42:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's interesting: you almost never see Hell's Angels cited as anybody's favourite Thompson, which is a shame as it's an excellent piece of journalism. Written with a lot more self control than anything he's published since, put it that way...

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RE: Reading suggestions for my failed vacation... - 12/24/2011 11:05:57 AM   
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That's interesting: you almost never see Hell's Angels cited as anybody's favourite Thompson, which is a shame as it's an excellent piece of journalism. Written with a lot more self control than anything he's published since, put it that way...


One of many reasons I like it-plus it's HST kinda inchoate, and I always love watching something new and unusual cohere and actualize.
It's why I love live music-watching genius be spun from the ether simply fascinates me.

I should mention that I first read GWSH on a plane, which made the airport scene even funnier. I had passengers all around giving me all sorts of weird looks as I snorted, cackled and then laughed so hard I almost cried.

Edited to add that since it's Christmas, try reading a snowy book-give Mark Helprin's "A Winter's Tale" a gander.

The language is extraordinary, the vision massive, and the man writes like an angel (Be warned, bring your dictionary for some scenes), it's a surrealistic magical reality romance rooted in Dickens, a book the NYT said they were hesistent to describe for being unable to capture it's sheer beauty as well as identifying it as one of the single best works of American fiction published in the last 25 years.


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