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[Lord Anubis]

Hah! I'm sure you get frustrated hearing that stuff LA but there is truth to some of that. There are so many amazing new stories to tell so we don't need so many damn remakes.

Hah!  You've chosen my trap card, The Tomb, which allows me to play Thread Necromancy! 

 

[zombiemutts]

Did that chart I sent you set up that nuclear warhead of a reply?

[Lord Anubis]

I'm in training!  I must take everything to an EXTREME EXTREME!!!

(I had to say extreme twice because it's so extreme)

But... it is very frustrating to hear people blame Hollywood again and again when the fault is clearly, unquestionably, the moviegoers.  Hollywood writers, directors, and actors put out far more original films than anything else... but nobody goes to see them. 

It's like blaming Ford for making cars instead of refrigerators. 

[zombiemutts]

Dear Hollywood

This is .....true.

But the movie experience isn't worth it anymore. Over pay for bad seating for a movie that has a 50/50 chance at sucking. And an even higher chance of not being the movie I was promised by the commercials.

None of that is too critical but it becomes unbalanced when in a few months I can watch it at home in glorious HD.

Signed

Fan

[zombiemutts]

Although I do enjoy those movie theaters where you can order food & drinks. Those are a blast.

[Lord Anubis]

Although I do enjoy those movie theaters where you can order food & drinks. Those are a blast.

See that's the kind of thing I love.  That's an experience you really can't get at home-- essentially going out to a bar and going out to the movies.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled book thread.   

[Thom Brannan]

you fuckers!

just finished reading Simon R. Green - The Man With the Golden Torc

i enjoyed it, but Simon Green does what Simon Green always does, and there's too much of a good thing in there. it's like he sits and thinks up cool names for things and what they might be, then develops them for five minutes, and they get three paragraphs of book space and are never heard from again. cool things just to have cool things. blecch. there are other Simon Green-isms, like repeat of pithy phrases and titles for people get hammered into the dirt by the Dirt Hammerer. like that.

and yet, here i am, reading another book. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

clearly, it's mind control. or it's empty entertainment. i read it between Central America and Brazil, somewhere, and it went pretty quickly.

[zombiemutts]

Sir! Frankly, I'm offended!!!!

[heavens2kadonka]

"Second Foundation" - Isaac Asimov

Part One wrapped up what I thought would be the conclusion of the series.  The second part started slowly, but wound up wrapping everything up BEAUTIFULLY.  Most entertaining ending I believe I have ever read in a work of fiction.

Van

[Lane Adamson]

Told you it was worth wading through Foundation and Empire.  But things aren't nearly as wrapped up as you think.

Hie thee hence to your bookmonger of choice and now read The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, and Robots and Empire.

(R&E in fact ties in to the Second Foundation series, but can be read with or without those; should you choose, Foundation's Edge precedes it whilst Foundation and Earth comes after.)

Later, we'll discuss the highlights of one Arthur C. Clarke...

[Warhammer]

I just finished the graphic novel, Chew, Vol. 5--Major League.

If you like comics with a dark sense of humor, do yourself a favor and read Chew.  Volume 5 just came out, and I was chomping at the bit to pick it up.  It's about a detective who can sense the life of anything he eats, from how a plant was grown to what pesticides where used to how it was prepared.  Or, what kind of chemicals a pig was fed, how its handlers treated it and how it was slaughtered.  No imagine this in the hands of a detective, Tony Chu.  Now this could become very dark, but it's set in this insane world where the Avian Flu has killed millions and the FDA is the most powerful governmental agency in the U.S.  And chicken and other poultry products are illegal. 

I could mention more of the insanity.  The different levels of pure chaos, but you should really go and find out for yourself.

[Thom Brannan]

Forrest Carter- The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales

more shootin' and figgerin' and reckonin'. it was an enjoyable read, but the author feels the need often to tell us how bad things are about the government or whatever it is often, and it gets tiresome. i heard tell this was made into a movie, but i haven't seen it yet. Josey Wales is still one of my favorite western characters.

[heavens2kadonka]

"Worthless" - Aaron Clarey

Blunt, cold observations of the education system, work, and majors to pick/avoid.  Though I agreed with his main thrust, Aaron made a *lot* of good points on a lot of interconnected subjects.  An absolute minimum of fluff, it makes for an entertaining and quick read.

Unless you are like me, and have a weird sort of fascination with displaying your literary conquests on a bookcase, I'd suggest you get the kindle version for $5: the physical copy is overpriced.

Van

[Thom Brannan]

Mindy Kaling - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

so, yikes. this was just about hilarious. and it was a short read, too, like she says in the book. "If you're reading this book every night, for like, a month, there is something wrong there."

she's funny and gives some startlingly good advice. is it wrong of me to be startled by how good the advice is? hah. but it's a good read, for sure. yay! fun stuff.

[Lane Adamson]

Picked up some of my long-neglected pile whilst on an electronics-less vacation...

The Handle, by Richard Stark (AKA Donald E Westlake)--It's amazing how Westlake could be so drop-dead hilarious as himself, and so drop-dead brutal as Stark.  The Parker novels (of which this is a standout) set the bar for lit noir.

Mack Bolan:  Grave Mercy--An official product of the Don Pendleton estate, with an acknowledged contribution on the copyright page to some Doug fella with an unpronounceable surname.  Everyone's favorite one-man army takes on a chemically-induced voodoo zombie apocalypse.  (I almost wet myself when the President of the United States told the director of Stony Man Farm, "You have to shoot zombies in the head.")

The Teeth of the Tiger, by Tom Clancy--Speaking of old Pinnacle books products, seems to me like someone somewhere ought to be able to cook up a lawsuit against this Clancy guy.  First, he blatantly rips off Pendelton's Executioner major plot points for Without Remorse; now in this one, he's taken the basic bones of the Sapir-Murphy Destroyer series--a non-sanctioned agency established by a former president to gather intelligence and assassinate the enemies of the US in a stealthy manner that strikes fear into the remaining enemies.  The only things missing are the inscutable Oriental and the snarky trainee assassin; the agency ("The Campus" versus CURE) is almost a dead ringer.

I've begun The Hunger Games but haven't finished that yet so more later...