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Dracko
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:23 pm        Reply with quote
A Dune review for TOLL:

Tucker Stone wrote:
I can count, on one hand, the number of science fiction books I've actually read. It's a pure kind of disinterest, one that isn't tied into any specific ill will or critical sarcasm--I've just never had an interest in the shelves that contain these books. The copy of Dune that I read has been sitting, gathering actual dust (which I cleaned off with a paper towel), ever since I purchased it, which was right after I read what I remember being a pretty fascinating article in the Believer regarding the series' political philosophy. The book came up in conversation a few months ago with a comic book artist, and it was mentioned again to me by yet another comic book artist about two weeks ago, and it seemed like it might fit the bill as a plane trip book. And so, over the course of a couple of back and forth jaunts in a coach seat between my sleeping wife and an elderly man who smelled like decaying flowers, I finally read Dune.

It's pretty fucking good! It's interesting to see that Herbert has a flat zero of interest in describing the appearances of almost all of his characters--he barely gets into what the worms look like, obsessing mostly over mentioning their length and diameter--and you'll go the entire book without finding out what almost every character looks like, except for when they have a scar that he likes to mention. God bless him for doing more than the role-playing-game style structure that dominates so many comics of this particular genre--Dune never reads like a book created to display All This Great Shit I Made Up; instead, it's a story, a pretty engrossing one about the birth of tyrants and the cruelty of guerilla warfare, the building of a cult from the inside out. Dune starts like a million other revenge epics, but by the end of the book, when the downtrodden unleash a blitzkrieg of scorched earth violence, its gone somewhere much different. I hear these don't stay good for long, and that's fine: for now, I'm good right here, with the Guild receding in junkie withdrawal on the outskirts of Arrakis, praying that the Kwisatz Haderach doesn't decide to eviscerate them as well.

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Dracko
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:53 pm        Reply with quote
Repudiated for obscenity in 1922, denounced as trash by DH Lawrence, and with great b&w illustrations by Wallace Smith, Ben Hecht's strange, decadent novel, Fantazius Mallare, free at the Internet Archives.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:15 am        Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:46 am        Reply with quote
Jeff Boyardee wrote:
history may be written by the winners, but guess who writes all of our sci-fi and fantasy!

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:23 am        Reply with quote
http://ireadoddbooks.com/
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:04 pm        Reply with quote
The Quietus: Yeah. Whereas a lot of the steampunk doesn't have that intellectual content, it just uses the period imagery.

Michael Moorcock: Yes, that's right, and they think, "oh great, big airships! Wow!" You're a bit suspicious of people who like too many big airships. You think, maybe you should be writing porn, you know!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:32 am        Reply with quote
The Coens are the last directors you should be worrying about when it comes to balancing tragedy and comedy.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:05 am        Reply with quote
Supervert's annual giveaway contest in on.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:46 am        Reply with quote
academia strikes again
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:04 am        Reply with quote
nmfp

alt. post: read books
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:08 am        Reply with quote
milton? *farts*
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 12:32 am        Reply with quote
Rad French books I got for Christmas:

Antonin Artaud's Heliogabalus: The Crowned Anarchist
Michael Gira's The Mouth of Francis Bacon (Containing the long out-of-print The Consumer among other shorts)
Stefan Wul's Fantastic Planet (The original French, Oms en série, but going to use the opportunity to remind you that an English translation came out recently)

And on the topic of Creation Books, they're soon to publish The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:06 pm        Reply with quote
The unknown Jorge Luis Borges

Five fucking new anthologies under review.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:18 pm        Reply with quote
http://mervynpeake.blogspot.com/2011/03/illustrated-gormenghast-and-titus.html
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:54 am        Reply with quote
Solaris finally has a direct English translation.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:56 pm        Reply with quote
Cocaine Socialist wrote:
no print edition yet ;_;

You know what is out as of yesterday, though?



Scans of the recent Sunday Times article on Peake.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:13 am        Reply with quote
Glitch book covers.


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