Pompeius Magnus
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I read Solaris as a teenager but I remember the old movie much more vividly for some reason. It's a LONG movie tho
, not a short sit at all.
, not a short sit at all.
OT: The Good Book: What are you reading right now?
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I can't recommend Lem enough. If you love Sci-Fi try his stuff out. Solaris IIRC is a pretty short book and it is great but my favourite of his is The Futurological Congress. Not sure if that's the exact title in English since his stuff is originally written in Polish, I read most of his stuff in French.
Strangely though my all-time favourite novel is Stendahl's The Red and the Black which I've read twice and only in English despite its French origin.
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Finishing up the the 4th book in the Dexter series, but growing tired of it.
Just picked up Red Dragon so excited to start that.
Just picked up Red Dragon so excited to start that.
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Philip Roth has passed away. I read most of his books in a fairly short period in the 90s. My favorite will always be "Portnoy's Complaints". The last one I read was "The Human Stain" about a year ago which I enjoyed.
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My favourite subject matter, I'm absolutely facinated by themI see you like psychopaths.
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Please don't tell me how you're finding prime material just reading our threads.
Grate n Colorful Oz
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Sooo... did you like Dr Danko?
Red Dragon is a good read. Best Harris book.
You should try Murder as a Fine Art.
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lol yes, 2nd book was great. Series kind of falls off a cliff after that though. Very much looking forward to Red Dragon.
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Somewhat controversial Sci Fi writer Harlan Ellison has passed away at 84.
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Just finished The Silence of the Lambs. Tremendous. Bout to start the 3rd of the Hannibal series this weekend.
Pompeius Magnus
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He wrote probably my favorite short horror story of all time, I have no mouth and I must scream. By most accounts he was a very peculiar dude but then again most writers are deep down. There's a lot of paper back compilations of his short stories out there, I would recommend them for any soft sci-fi fan.
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Ellison was on the vanguard of "New Wave" SF writers and there is debate whether he's best known for his award winning writing or his contentious, SOB personality.
He wrote the teleplay for what was perhaps the best episode of the original Star Trek series, "The City on the Edge of Forever". He hated the rewrite Gene Roddenberry did on his script and insisted his pseudonym (Cordwainer Bird) was used on the credits.
A very good friend of mine was a huge fan and while traveling in California (circa 1980) he bought Ellison's newest novel, and with a spectacular amount of chutzpah, showed up at Ellison's door hoping to get it autographed.
Amazingly, Ellison invited him in, served him coffee and engaged him in conversation for an hour!
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"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
"I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid."
"Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled."
"To say more, is to say less."
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RIP Harlan
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Reading "Voltaire's Bastards". Question: if we move towards a rational creative based society, would that just become the new doctrine of oppression for which it is the outlet now ?
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My fav of that series though I gave up on it after the 3rd. The 2nd book was excellent though.
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I'm into my 3rd book of the Summer semester. First off I read Stat Shot a hockey advanced stats book relevant to my MSc dissertation, then moved to Nudge by 2017 Economic Nobel Prize Winner Richard Thaler. I'm currenty halfway through Scorecasting, a book by another behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim (Sports Illustrated), as suggested by my dissertation supervisor.
Next up is Soccernomics by Szymanski! Pretty happy with my reading pace this Summer, I need to pick up on the writing pace though!!!
Next up is Soccernomics by Szymanski! Pretty happy with my reading pace this Summer, I need to pick up on the writing pace though!!!
Awesome experience for your ballsy friend!
Ellison was an opinionated prick who was a great interview. One of his quotes I liked: "You're NOT entitled to an opinion; you're entitled to an INFORMED opinion." Been tempted to use that a few times on this site.
The Star Trek connection was how I discovered him. I remember reading his original screenplay of the episode -- the crazed crew member who beams down to the planet and starts the chain of events was a random ensign who was addicted to drugs, as opposed to the cleaner version they rewrote for TV. Ellison tried to... um... inject some of the 60s drug culture into Star Trek, but the networks weren't having any of it.
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I completely forgot one of his short stories is credited with inspiring the Terminator franchise ( Or the first movie at the very least) . I remember reading it as a teenager 20 years ago and thinking it really didn't have that much in common with the Terminator, outside of the general time travel concept. I guess James Cameron and co got scared that he'd be crazy enough to sue them, which he most certainly was
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Retired the mists of avalon which i truly enjoyed, started east of eden and have Circe by madeleine miller on the bench
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Reading a book on Napoleon (Boyhood and Youth by Oscar Browning).
Written many years ago based on a stack of Napoleon`s documents that turned up, long after his death.
Some stuff that he wrote is reprinted and pretty impressive considering his age at the time. Takes you back to the French revolution.
Written many years ago based on a stack of Napoleon`s documents that turned up, long after his death.
Some stuff that he wrote is reprinted and pretty impressive considering his age at the time. Takes you back to the French revolution.
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Well it maybe not a novel but it's about a comic-book or rather a graphic novel adaptation of the Game of the Thrones books that I'm reading. I'm at the first collection and so far for someone that has only seen the TV show, it's an eye opener and it's pretty interesting how different it is from the TV show. The characters look completely different, some of them act differently. It's pretty refreshing and it's like reading a parallel World of what we saw and it makes it pretty fun. For example, Joffrey and Robb have the same age. And they fight with sparring swords and get into some competition and what happens is really going to pay off later with what we know.
1984. 1/3 in.
Heard there’s a movie too, will check it out later. Book is interesting, how true it is in present day.
Heard there’s a movie too, will check it out later. Book is interesting, how true it is in present day.
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Just finished The Drama of the Gifted Child from Alice Miller (the title is not an accurate representation of the book, "Prisoners of Childhood" was the original title, they changed it for marketing purposes). Highly insightful read about childhood traumas. When people think of traumas they tend to associate traumas with severe incidents of abuse/neglect, but in reality the vast majority of individuals lived some form child abuse under the cover of what is wrongfully depicted as good parenting by the parents themselves(which is often reinforced by the society at large), therefore since we can't grasp how we have been traumatized we are still carrying those unresolved traumas with us without being aware of their existence. If you lost touch with some of the spontaneity you once had as a child, do not have an natural easiness to express the entire array of your emotions or do not have high self esteem of oneself independently of one outside circumstances, you most likely are carrying unresolved childhood traumas which are detrimentally impacting your life to this day. If you truly want to work on improving yourself this book is of greater use than any book that qualifies itself as self-help which I have read in the past. From my experience and intellectual observations, psychoanalytic healing has greater long-lasting positive effects on one life than being inspired to change one mindset toward a so-called scientifically proven desirable way of being.
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