jimjack on 10/7/2009 at 23:49
Finally started to read Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep. I didn't think BladeRunner kept true to the plot.
SubJeff on 11/7/2009 at 00:14
Blade Runner is quite different but excellent on its own. I saw the film first so perhaps I'm biased, but although I liked the book I think the film is superior (the reverse of most cases).
There is so much sci-fi to plunder for films but damnit why can't someone get it right? Blade Runner is the only film I've seen that measures up to the book at all. I am Legend the film was an abomination and I dread to think what they can and will do with so many of the other remaining sci-fi classics.
suliman on 11/7/2009 at 01:04
Yeah, I know what you mean. With almost every science fiction book I read I get the feeling that it would make an awesome movie in the right hands. I mean, Childhood's End, The Stars My Destination, Lord of Light, Day of the Triffids, The End of Eternity... that's great source material, right there.
Instead we get things like I, Robot. Bleh.
Finished The Martian Chronicles, by the way. Great book. Ray Bradbury may not be the best science fiction writer out there(..well, maybe if we don't count the dead ones...), but he is the best writer among them. Some paragraphs just make me want to frame them and hang them on the wall. It's gorgeous.
Starting Rendezvous with Rama right now. I hear it's supposed to be one of Clarke's best books, so high expectations here:D
june gloom on 11/7/2009 at 19:30
The film version of A Scanner Darkly was pretty good.
SubJeff on 11/7/2009 at 23:29
Rama is very good but there is a lot of it that people have copied so go easy on it, it might not seem as original as it would have the first time around. Ripe for a film.
Yeah, A Scanner was pretty good but why was that? Because the plot is preeeetty damn close to the book is why. This is how it should be done.
Aja on 12/7/2009 at 06:56
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
Just finished Faulkner's
As I Lay Dying: Holy shit, what a staggeringly fantasic book!:thumb:
Next:
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway and I'm still waiting for my wife to hurry up and finish
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay!, we have a little bit of a holiday coming up next week so perhaps she can get through it then!
Jesus christ you're just
plowing through this stuff! ;) I'd love to read more Faulkner, I was thinking about
A Light in August but maybe I'll start with
As I Lay Dying instead. Of course that's after I finish my Hemingway and also the required reading for the summer course I'm taking :(
DaBeast on 12/7/2009 at 10:56
Currently reading The Horus Heresy series and Gibsons Neuromancer.
So far I'm enjoying the Warhammer books more than I thought, I've recently finished volume 1 of Malus Darkblade and Gaunts Ghosts.
The non warhammer Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East was surprisingly good. One of my supervisors left the book in the guardhouse one night and I thought it looked quite pop-ish, well, teaches me for being snobish because it was thoroughly enjoyable.
Next on the list will be
Gaunts Ghost Vol 2
Malus Darkblade Vol 2
More Horus Heresy
Warrior of Rome 2
Starrfall on 12/7/2009 at 13:56
Quote Posted by Aja
I'd love to read more Faulkner
You and Angel Dust are crazy, Faulkner is the only author depressing enough to make me wish I was reading something by Tennessee Williams
Matthew on 12/7/2009 at 17:59
Quote Posted by DaBeast
Currently reading
The Horus Heresy series
The first book is so horrendously tragic, there's a real sense of potential lost in it*. Where are you up to?
*Edit: on the part of the characters rather than the book, I mean.
Aerothorn on 12/7/2009 at 18:10
Currently making my way through Gravity's Rainbow. Slowly. I'm a lazy reader.
