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"I enjoyed the interview."
"Here is a VIDEO (nine minutes) of my friend being interviewed on TV about his book."
"TORTILLA FLAT: John Steinbeck is my favorite America author, yet I have never before read Tortilla Flat. That's because, whenever I'm in the mood for Steinbeck, I usually re-read one of my favorites. But I went to California last week and that never…"
"Naomi Alderman's The Power, which uses an almost comic-book like premise (I have not watched the series it inspired) to develop a startlingly realistic-seeming SF/F which resonates. Alderman writes very well, and the book, thus far, has me. One of…"
"Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human by K.W. Jeter. I had no idea that a sequel (and at least one or two more) existed to the movie.This takes place about a year after the movie, and Deckard is forced to return to LA to hunt for an escaped replicant.…"
"Despite my interest in popular music, I had not been aware of the Liverbirds, an all-female Merseybeat band active in the 1960s. I'm currently reading The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band,…"
"I finally finished he New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction. At over 800 pages and 33 stories it truly took me a while. As much as I like pulp fiction, I was running out of steam and was wanting to move on to something else.
Now I am reading Predictally…"
Now I am reading Predictally…"
"I just re-read The End of the Dream, by Philip Wylie (1972). It's a story of ecological disaster, told from the viewpoint of Will Gulliver, one of a handful of survivors living in the far-off year of 2023, who is compiling stories of the various…"
"War of the Wing-men, a 1950s SF by Poul Anderson: it does not concern a pair of bros arguing over who can best help their buddy pick up a woman, but rather about humans getting involved with the local politics while tryiing to survive on a planet…"
"Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, the authors memoir of his time as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. It's harrowing and the kinds of events described happened, even if some have questioned the accuracy of some the author's specific claims. As an…"
"I just finished A Man by Keiichirō Hirano. Its a Japanese book translated into English (in case you thought I read Japanese, lol). It is about the lady who marries a man a nd starts a family, but then he is killed in an accident. She then finds out…"
"The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens."
"HELLO, MY NAME IS LOUISIANA PURCHASE O'LEARY:
My high school best friend's name is Jon Hickman, not the comic book writer you know, but they often mistakenly receive each other's e-mail. Anyway, my friend Jon is having his first children's book…"
My high school best friend's name is Jon Hickman, not the comic book writer you know, but they often mistakenly receive each other's e-mail. Anyway, my friend Jon is having his first children's book…"
"THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP:
The thing about the book The World According to Garp that tickled me was that the author tells you everything that happens to every character in the book after the story, even a newborn baby.
I took what Richard said…"
The thing about the book The World According to Garp that tickled me was that the author tells you everything that happens to every character in the book after the story, even a newborn baby.
I took what Richard said…"
""Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.""
"Too many to remember.
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you."
"All of you who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand."
"If you're traveling at the speed of light, and turn on the headlights, does anything happen?""
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you."
"All of you who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand."
"If you're traveling at the speed of light, and turn on the headlights, does anything happen?""
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