Search results

Both are quite boring, I agree. Try Setting Free the Bears or The Water-Method Man. Irving was happily non-Dickensian in his earlier days, much less mainstream. Does that make him one of the Bit American Writers? But then, what makes any of those others on the list candidates? Maybe old age...

Does the foil work? Looks dangerously lo-tech to me.

I read Gravity's Rainbow 4 times, imho one of the Great Books. ATD seemed very much like Pynchon was trying to do the same thing again, paranoia, a zillion weird characters with weird names & sexual prefs - but without any punch at all, all cardboard. I certainly tried my best, but it just never...

Would you recommend The Quite Girl?

Thomas Harris, Red Dragon (filmed twice, actually, not badly, either, but neither picture does justice to the book). Scary. Great read. William Hallahan, The search for Joseph Tully. More on the spooky side, certainly different, and terrific in atmosphere. One of my all-time favorites in the...

How does the book end? Does the cat get to live?

"Atheist philosophy"? That would be the philosophy of not believing in "God", what- or whoever that is? That sounds depressing: defining a way of thinking in terms of what you do NOT believe in. Maybe I am being facetious. But I don't think Atheism makes all that much sense as a concept: I...

"Inside Man". What a great picture. And Clive Owen did alright in it, I thought.

Miss Smilla, of course - what an amazing read (shame about the humdrum filming). That Danish Dreams book sounds intriguing.

There was a different version of the bible, originally?

Is it just me? This is one of the funniest threads I have seen in some time. Just because somebody asked whether I (or anybody else) was gay. Go figure.

That wouldn't be my first thing to come to mind when thinking about Faust, but you are quite right, that is definitely there: the urge to experience everything, even if it costs you your eternal soul. Of course, I read it in the 70s, when expanding one's mind was all the rage. Most of my...

Try Iain Banks, Inversions. I can pretty much guarantee you won't find anything quite like it in fantasy.

I guess you will have to let me know about Sci Fi you really like - those three would be fairly high up on my list. Add Iain Banks - Look to Windward, William Gibson - Neuromancer, Stanislav Lem - Solaris, and OF COURSE, the short stories of James Tiptree Jr (does anybody still remember her?).

If I may be so bold to ask: How did Faust change your viewpoint on human nature? And how did that fit in with reading the bible? I would have thought there would be an almighty (sigh) clash of ideas there. Now there would HAVE to be that clash.

Something wrong with wanting and having sex, I wonder... If not, is it wrong if you're 15? if yes, is it OK if you're 18? Is sex better (morally speaking) when you're 18 than when you're 15? Why (not)? Does any of this have anything to do with the books we (or anybody else) is reading...

What kind of books are you interested in, apart from them being written in a foreign language? French: Any play by Sartre is a good read if you are into "deep" stuff; those crime novels by San Antonio if you are into thrillers; and of course those Franquin comics (Gaston Lagaffe) are quite...

My pleasure.

arthur c. clarke - childhood's end. Could that be it?

Are there any 15-year-olds on this forum? I don't really know what's going on at that age these days, but I am not sure whether that's up to "us grown-ups" to judge - they can talk for themselves. I don't understand 15-year-olds. They don't understand what's going on in my age-group, either...