shug
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Post by shug on Apr 14, 2007 17:26:06 GMT -5
I love various books by Philip K. Dick including 'Valis,' 'A Scanner Darkly' and 'Confessions of a Crap Artist.' I also like the novels of JG Ballard.
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Post by thepretender on May 3, 2007 1:04:37 GMT -5
I just happened to be in the right place at the right time (and looking over my sweetie's shoulder) when I saw an article that said that Chuck Palahniuk was going to be in Seattle tomorrow night. I got four tickets knowing full well that I probably won't go (prior committment) but my son and his girlfriend and two more kids are going and I am just so sad I can't go (again) At least I am driving them, since I have to be in Seattle anyway, and when I pick them up I hope to get an earful. *sigh*
Hey, Didn't they make a movie from a Philip K Dick book? Wasn't it the one about knowing what people were gonna do before they do it? I have heard great stuff about his books.
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Post by sinistrebunny69 on May 3, 2007 10:51:13 GMT -5
Personally, I've come to enjoy a particular author. Ever heard of Laurell K. Hamilton? She is by-far one of the greatest authors ever. Of all her books that I've read, I really enjoy "Guilty Pleasures" in the Anita Blake series. I strongly recommend it.
And did anyone know that Anne Rice has a sister who is also an author? Her name is Alice Borchardt. I've read one of her novels and it was VERY good. I love her way of using metaphors. The novel was "Silver Wolf". Also another recommendation.
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Post by thepretender on May 3, 2007 13:11:01 GMT -5
I always hear about Laurel K Hamilton on the McCammon board...I will check her out My new favorite is this guy www.ronaldkelly.com/Ronald Kelly who I met on the McCammon board. Nothing is in print right now but he is staging his comeback. My favorite Moon of the Werewolf is going to come out as The Undertakers Moon and is about a family of werewolves who move from Ireland to Tennessee. I can't wait to read it again cuz I gave away my book and haven't been able to find any more used ones. (well I haven't tried abebook yet) I have decided that it will be required reading for St Paddy's Day from now on!
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Post by sinistrebunny69 on May 3, 2007 13:41:43 GMT -5
Ironically, the novel by Alice Borchardt was about lycanthropes. A peasant girl, born a lycanthrope who has lost her parents, is raised by her uncle and cousin (who are total *insert vulgarity here*). After being betrothed to a prince she never knew (by her uncle in order to obtain money for alcohol), she tries to escape her destiny and conceal her secret inner-identity. Well, I'd explain more, but I'd rather you read it yourselves. It's extremely good.
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Post by ProvidencePortal on May 3, 2007 15:57:46 GMT -5
I saw that Chuck Palahniuk was going to be in Seattle tomorrow night. I got four tickets Argh! I just got his new one from Amazon, having preordered it sometime just before the printing press was invented. It's a first edition and I'd love to have it signed. Pretend, we have to work out some system where I can FedEx you stuff to bring to these Chucky P. meetings you seem to have all the time. The guy's practically coming to your house for dinner!
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Post by ProvidencePortal on May 3, 2007 15:59:20 GMT -5
Hey, Didn't they make a movie from a Philip K Dick book? Aside from Scanner, we owe several movies to Dick's fiction. Minority Report ... Paycheck ... Blade Runner ... maybe others someone else will know about.
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Post by Omnipotent on May 3, 2007 18:40:58 GMT -5
Aside from Scanner, we owe several movies to Dick's fiction. Minority Report ... Paycheck ... Blade Runner ... maybe others someone else will know about. You got most of them, 'Impostor' is another
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Post by twinkle on May 4, 2007 10:33:11 GMT -5
^and don't forget, although you might like to, Total Recall, based on the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
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Post by twinkle on May 4, 2007 10:36:12 GMT -5
^and of course the recently released Next (this may be the one to which Pretender refers...).
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Post by thepretender on May 4, 2007 13:22:29 GMT -5
I think the one I saw was Minority Report... where someone figured out how to mess with the program and made it look like the Tom Cruise character was gonna be a bad boy.
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After my meeting last night my son called me to let me know that they were in line to get books signed at the Chuck Palahniuk reading. I was able to drive over and walk in (as someone was walking out) and join them in line...they ditched me for food and I got to talk to the folks who were next to me. I saw at least three woman who were dressed up in wedding gowns. From what I heard, he had told folks to do that on his website. Several folks were walking around with fake bouquets that he had given to folks who answered trivia questions, people with plastics limbs, huge plastic cheeseburgers and also huge inflatable mooseheads. He signed them. A guy next to me was holding an unlit cigarrette in his hand and I kept looking at it because even tho he was flicking it, the dang ash was staying on. I found out later that he had given these fake cigarettes to everyone in the audience. It was so nice to meet Chuck afterwards, the guy is so tall! He posed for a photo with my son and his girlfriend and he is just so nice. I wish I had gotten to see the whole thing but at least I was able to experience what I did! :-)
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Post by thepretender on May 11, 2007 15:43:56 GMT -5
Here ya go... from the book reading and signing... awwwwwww..... these are the realistic yet fake cigarettes he passed out: He is the nicest guy!
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Post by ProvidencePortal on May 18, 2007 9:22:48 GMT -5
the book reading and signing While in a meeting yesterday afternoon, I got a call from a friend that Palahniuk would be on campus here at Ohio State last night. I scrambled to get there! They had a really cool set-up (probably no different from other stops, but cool to me) -- they had a signing from 5:30 to 7pm at the campus bookstore, a reading from 7pm to some time later, and they capped it off with a showing of Fight Club in the theater next door. I couldn't get there until pretty far into the signing, so I didn't make the line. But my buddy and I did muscle our way up to the front so we could gawk and feel our hearts go pitter-pat at being within jumping distance of Chuck. I was all giddy -- what a mark I am!
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Post by thepretender on May 20, 2007 21:59:00 GMT -5
Hey Provi! I am so glad you got to see him. I know what you mean about being all giddy! Sometimes that is what I love most...just watching from afar. You really get a sense of who they are as opposed to being concerned about your own feelings of wanting to say the right thing etc.
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Post by thepretender on Jun 1, 2007 21:59:26 GMT -5
Crap! I have already been in one argument today over this so I might as well fess up here as well and let all of you throw your rotten tomatoes at me... I did not appreciate Slaughterhouse Five. If 'someone' hadn't told me what the message was...I wouldn't have even bothered to read it to the end. I love the message. I thought the writing was nice but I must be an absolute dolt because I just don't appreciate it when a message is so hidden in things that it makes it seem as tho you shouldn't be looking for a message.
when I read A man Without a Country...Vonnegut was straightforward with his ideas. I still don't get the purpose of Montana Wildhack (or whatever) I am gonna listen to my bro who said that Breakfast of Champions was his favorite cuz he and I are copasetic as far as our reading tastes go. Maybe it is when people send messages with Science Fiction that I am rendered clueless. I remember putting down The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin when I felt I was waiting too long for 'the message' okay have at me...I probably deserve any criticisms I am about to receive. or maybe...can you help?
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