February 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I loved the Elric series from Moorcock, but it's hard to find them anymore. Wanted to get some for my son a couple years ago. and they're not on the Kindle either!!!!
February 23, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
[font="Verdana"]You don't need the illegal drugs: Philip K Dick did them for you! 😀
Read Exegesis years ago. I don't think I would go back to re-read it.
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Yeah, but you'd think a contact hight would require, you know, contact, not simply reading.
I won't be rereading it either.
Another head trip book, Dhalgren by Samuel Delany. Read that while hanging out in bars on the lower east side of Manhattan, where he wrote it. Walking home at night got decidedly creepy (er).
I tried reading that book in High School, could do it, don't even want to try now.
February 23, 2009 at 1:08 pm
So.... The Illuminatus! Trilogy?
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February 23, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Lynn Pettis (2/23/2009)
I tried reading that book in High School, could do it, don't even want to try now.
I tried three times to read Mists of Avalon. I got a few pages further each time before flinging the book across the room. However, every time I'd then go & re-read Firelord by Parke Godwin and feel SO much better about life.
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February 23, 2009 at 1:10 pm
[font="Verdana"]Dhalgren was a bit of a head spin, I agree. Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand was not only a head spin, but a complete waste of time! An entire book where pretty much... nothing happens. Grrr.
Didn't Moorcock write another Elric recently? (A few years back, from memory.) Might be worth looking for. I rather liked The Eternal Champion series.
Zodiac I would class as "contemporary science fiction". I loved Anathema, but maybe that just shows I'm a bit of a maths geek.
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February 23, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)
So.... The Illuminatus! Trilogy?
fnord Hail Eris! fnord
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February 23, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)
So.... The Illuminatus! Trilogy?
[font="Verdana"]That one is just rollicking good fun! I particularly enjoyed the continual set-ups for the grassy knoll. Admittedly, getting used to the story being narrated by a computer that changes character viewpoints without so much as a warning can be a little startling.[/font]
February 23, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Dhalgren is definitely on my list. When I read it the first time, I got to the end and thought "What a ride!". The whole diary within a novel expressing two different realities at the same time was quite daring. Every 10 years or so I re-read it and I always find something I missed the previous times. I enjoyed Triton and Babel-17 also.
February 23, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)
I tried three times to read Mists of Avalon. I got a few pages further each time before flinging the book across the room.
I got about half way through. I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't finish it. Odd, because I normally love Arthurian myth.
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February 23, 2009 at 1:16 pm
GilaMonster (2/23/2009)
Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)
I tried three times to read Mists of Avalon. I got a few pages further each time before flinging the book across the room.I got about half way through. I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't finish it. Odd, because I normally love Arthurian myth.
I'm a sucker for Arthur too, but man... that book.
She Who Must Be Obeyed has read it something like three times or more. I'm not sure.
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February 23, 2009 at 1:17 pm
GilaMonster (2/23/2009)
Odd, because I normally love Arthurian myth.
[font="Verdana"]After Mary Stewart (brilliant), I find most Arthurian myth disappointing.
But on the note of dissapointing movies from books and Arthurian myth, did anyone else suffer through watching The Seeker? (Movie of The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper.)
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February 23, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)
So.... The Illuminatus! Trilogy?
Author?
Worth reading?
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February 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
GilaMonster (2/23/2009)
Odd, because I normally love Arthurian myth.[font="Verdana"]After Mary Stewart (brilliant), I find most Atrhurian myth disappointing.
But on the note of dissapointing movies from books and Arthurian myth, did anyone else suffer through watching The Seeker? (Movie of The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper.)
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You might want to check out Parke Godwin then. He did three books around Arthur (although I found the St. Patrick one to be exceedingly dull) and a two really good Robin Hood books as well.
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February 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm
GilaMonster (2/23/2009)
Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)
So.... The Illuminatus! Trilogy?Author?
Worth reading?
[font="Verdana"]Robert Shea and Robert Anton. Yes, but for fun. It's almost a spoof.
Wikipedia: The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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February 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
After Mary Stewart (brilliant), I find most Atrhurian myth disappointing.
I will look her books up.
But on the note of dissapointing movies from books and Arthurian myth, did anyone else suffer through watching The Seeker? (Movie of The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper.)
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Yup. As a movie, I enjoyed it. As an adaptation of "The Dark is Rising" it was terrible.
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