The Books/Reading Thread

[Manic Ferocity]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

but you're a wigger so this is more appropriate ...

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Yeah, because wiggers wear tight pants.

"Why did you tease me? You make me feel upset..."

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

is that how you feel? Turn that frown upside down baby boy.

 

[CiG]

Good shit.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

is that how you feel? Turn that frown upside down baby boy.

That's the actual lyrics of the song you posted.

You can't read. Sorry, I should have been a bit more sensitive...

 

[CiG]

Why would he read the lyrics to that shitty song? Why would anybody?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

manic knows the lyrics to that song by heart. You know, since its about him

 

[Einherjar86]

Im not familiar with those, how good are they? Im into cyberpunk/dark science fiction stuff.

Have you ever read anything by Peter Watts? His novel Blindsight is one of the darkest sf novels I've ever read.

(I'm also a huge fanboy, so I take any opportunity to plug his work)

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Yeah, because wiggers wear tight pannts"

 

[Sophii]

Have you ever read anything by Peter Watts? His novel Blindsight is one of the darkest sf novels I've ever read.

(I'm also a huge fanboy, so I take any opportunity to plug his work)

I have not! I'll give it a read. So far the bleakest sf story Ive read is anything by Harlan Ellison.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

I have not! I'll give it a read. So far the bleakest sf story Ive read is anything by Harlan Ellison.

Harlan Ellison
Writer of the super bleak episodes of the black and white twilight zone

 

[Sophii]

Yep! He also wrote my favorite short story - I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

And sorta wrote the terminator
(It's on Harlan Ellison's Wikipedia page)

 

[Einherjar86]

I have not! I'll give it a read. So far the bleakest sf story Ive read is anything by Harlan Ellison.

In my opinion, Watts is a better writer and explores more interesting ideas than Ellison.

Ellison mostly strikes me as a misanthrope and generally pessimistic grouch who uses sci-fi concepts to enact his bleak fantasies. The premise of "I Have No Mouth" is terrifying, but it's also very paranoid. Watts's fiction works the other way, I think; that is, he discovers bleakness and pessimism within the folds of science itself--which is, to me, far more horrifying.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Ellison mostly strikes me as a misanthrope and generally pessimistic grouch who uses sci-fi concepts to enact his bleak fantasies.

Stephen King doesn't try to write in genre x or write to entertain target x audience, he doesn't even write books to entertain the fans of his previous books
Stephen King just puts onto paper all the crazy shit that's just floating around in his head

As far as I can tell
Ellison writes the exact same way
He writes super bleak dystopian future stuff because that's what is just going on in his mind when he's not holding a conversation with someone

 

[Sophii]

Ellison and King were pretty close friends too, were they not?

I know King was influenced by Ellison with certain types of horror.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Stephen King has mentioned multiple times that he spends way the fuck more time per day/week/month reading than other book authors

IIRC Stephen King once or twice mentioned Harlan Ellison as an author he likes
(Stephen King has also mentioned Stephanie Meyer as an author he hates)

 

[TageRyche]

I finished reading the C.J. Box thriller Wolf Pack.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Just finished this. Late to the party, I know. So fucking good. Rorschach is one of my favorite characters in all of literature now.