Guest Iain C Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Loughborough :S Not a million miles from here actually. What's the deal awkward? I understand you're a UK bloke relocated to the US? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 i want his new book really but 'd have to buy it on import. bah Loughborough :S Not a million miles from here actually. What's the deal awkward? I understand you're a UK bloke relocated to the US? exactly. born and bred just outside loughborough, met a lovely american lovely and upped and moved here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Ah that's nice. Anywhere's better than the east midlands, I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 it has a fond place in my heart. but i'm a yes man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endangered betche Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 (edited) Orcs by Stan Nicholls Apparently he's supposed to be the shit in the UK and this is the book that's going to break him to an American audience. Was three books but they omnibused it for this release. Very readable and interesting so far, but nothing groundbreaking. Told primarily from the orcs' pov. Edited September 19, 2008 by endangered betche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest philia Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 finishing up 'against the day' now, by pynchon. it has been a lovely and magical journey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Buddha Volume 1 by Osamu Tezuka Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Jurgen by James Branch Cabell nutty... fuckin'...... shit...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beneboi Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlen great book, you should read have spacesuit will travel next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Taking the Red Pill - Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic...0&start=150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlen great book, you should read have spacesuit will travel next I'll ask my friend, I'm working my way through his Heinlen collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Time out of Joint by Phillip K Dick And I learned this searching for my avatar -- do NOT search 'pkd' on google image search. Edited September 20, 2008 by Great Maker ShaiHulud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementia Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) Is that suppose to be a replicant? Shostakovich, A life Laurel E. Fay The Good War Studs Turkel Edited September 20, 2008 by Dementia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) I've seen more than one person complain about not being able to find PKD books. Are Powells.com and amazon not enough? I also swing by the Goodwill on my way home from work every few days - I've gotten 7 or 8 Dick novels in good condition there. As well as virtually everything ever published by Gene Wolfe. (!) Edited September 20, 2008 by Great Maker ShaiHulud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementia Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Have you heard of Alistair Reynolds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Bleah. (yes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementia Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Tell me about your mother . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic...0&start=150 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=g...mp;aq=f&oq= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 (edited) Tell me about your mother . . . When replicant Leon responds to bladerunner Holden’s question ‘let me tell you about my mother ... [shots propel Holden through the plate glass window into the street many floors below]’, the bullets may not offer stories of his mother, but the unmistakable technological phenotype of their impact etches Leon’s military-industrial genealogy in scar tissue over Holden’s damaged body. The point is that, qua organism, the replicant is an orphan, or what amounts to the same thing, has no exclusivist claim to, no biunivocal bit-map of his progeniture, issuing instead from an institutional-techincal matrix and not a couple. Leon has no mother, only a matrix of industrial-military technologies . Edited September 20, 2008 by Great Maker ShaiHulud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 the empire never ended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 the kite runner - just started this as i'm reading yes man with my wife concurrently and shes got behind so shes got first book choice and she had kite runner for college reading and my best mate said it was good. s'good so far. finished yesterday in a 2 day binge reading session. a real page turner, i actually cared about the coward. i don't understand why thy didnt wear gloves though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 danny wallace - yes man being made intoa film with jim carrey too apparently. not sure if thats good or bad but the book is great. fuck just watched the trailer for the movie. they removed the spiritual side of it - the guy on the bus, and put in a healer or some bullshit. carrey tries to do funny faces :~ and they americanized it. shame shame. why am i still surprised when they fuck shit up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest philia Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 finished 'against the day', loved it. just ordered 'mason & dixon' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylonbitch Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 just finished 'until i find you' by john irving... pretty good. previously, 'the time travellers wife', superb, can't for the moment remember who wrote it. prior, 'setting free the bears' also by john irving. one of his weirder books, and apparently a favourite of kurt vonnegut. didn't do much for me except ellicit a bit of a WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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