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Tickled pink - I read a book before Sparkchaser did. Couldn't agree more, that book really is ridiculously good.

"White people"? Why white people?

Maybe it is instructive to look at Iain Banks's books: he writes both "straight" and Scifi. I really like Scifi, and imho Banks is up there with the best. But even his best Scifi can't really hold a candle to, say, The Bridge or The Crow Road.

I hate to be the one to break the news, but the apocalypse has already happened. Quite a while ago, actually. We are all just a figment of Oliver Stone's imagination.

I am great fan of Neal Stephenson's. So of course I have started the Quicksilver series and I am very intrigued as well - but I keep getting stuck. Lots of things I enjoy in a book are there: a feel for life in a different age (different ages, actually), lots of accurate details, there is much...

Limbo, by Bernard Wolfe. Depends what is meant by "ideal society". Most recommendations here are rather dystopian (as is "Limbo").

Is it right-wing to want someone like Alex drawn and quartered? :whistling: At least politically incorrect, I suppose. Darn.

The Dortmunder stuff I find very funny. One of the Dortmunder books, I forgot which one, actually features a robbery modelled on a Richard Stark novel - which does not exist. His later stuff seems a bit less exciting to me, I have to admit. My favorite is still Adios Sheherazade.

There are studies about the differences between the books and the movie. Burgess himself was horrified at the time when the movie came out. IMO, Kubrick, with all his brilliance, has always had a bit of a problem not getting carried away with the movie-making, at the expense of the story. He...

Is it really that bad? Great title. What a shame.

Spot on. Be sure to also try Stanislav Lem's Solaris (the book, not the movie).

He'd tell you, he loves them, every one of them. In spite of all they get up to. Which is the kind of thing I always find a bit awkward to answer.

How nice to meet a fellow Tucho fan... I don't meet too many of those these days. Would you want to have that dinner with him or her?

Concerning the Da Vinci Code, this thread should be Books everybody has managed to avoid except me. I read it, and I still cannot believe I actually finished it. Same about Fahrenheit 451. I read it, I even saw the movie (believe it or not, it is actually even more boring than the book)...

Sorry I haven't answered - I honestly noticed only just now that you posted a visitor message. To answer your question: more than 70 different kinds - of which maybe half can realistically be expected to be spotted without serious detective work. And maybe half a dozen around my private...

Tom Robbins always had good titles, I just never really got the hang of the books. I haven't tried any of these two - are they very different from his earlier stuff?

I must have read all of his stuff at least up the late 80s. The Stark stuff is something else (ever see Boorman's Point Blank Brilliant, beats the Mel Gibson remake hands down). The Dortmunder series is hilarious. Then one looks at the stuff he wrote as Tucker Coe and wonders: this is the...

I read the first of the Last Rune series. I felt it was well-written & very strong on atmosphere, but the story seemed a bit limp. How do the sequels compare to the first book?

Black bean & Hoisin together? I shall have to try that variation. This is one of my favorite dishes - when I lived in China I had it every second day or so for over a year and never got tired of it. The one ingredient I would never make a Kungpao without, though, is missing in your recipe...

I have hardly ever read a book of such manic energy like Snow Crash. It's chock-a-block with over the top ideas, from the Pizza Deliverator to the Vagina Dentata (don't ask - just read it). I quite agree with Sparky: if you don't like Snow Crash, you better give up on Cyberpunk altogether...