Bought Stephen Kings new book
As we say in South Africa
It's KAK
He's really lost it
(Fantasma:, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 17:43, archived)

I never enjoyed any of his books.
Shining, Shawshank and Running Man are good films though. His acting in Creep Show eclipses everything else.
( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 17:53, archived)

I haven't seen Creep Show
Sounds like something he should be in
:)
What books do you read? I used to read Arthur C. Clarke etc when I was younger and had more brain cells and more energy and longer concentration span. Now I battle to get through a long tweet.
(Fantasma:, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 18:37, archived)

ACC is great.
Larry Niven, too. Give me a big dumb object and I'm happy, but the weird sex stuff is often a problem... More so with ACC's paedo fantasies (e.g. all the Rama sequels) than Niven's alien orgy society weirdness. Not sure why megastructure-based SF is so intertwined with sexual perversions but here we are.

Give me a good comic and I'm happy. Give me a bad comic and I'll probably still be happy. No Marvel though, unless it's Kirby or Star Wars. DC's Hell-based stuff is always good (Neil Gaiman, Reign In Hell, The Demon, etc). Dan Dare is always good, especially when it's really bad.

I have about 1 metre of books piled up waiting to be read. Smaller than usual, I'm trying to cut down a little.
( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 19:19, archived)

Haven't read the Rama series
Didn't know about paedo fantasies! That's horrific!

Anything besides SF?

I'm reading the The End of Mental Illness by Daniel Amen
(Fantasma:, Mon 16 Sep 2024, 9:32, archived)

Oh I can't abide self help books.
I can't help myself.

Other than scifi and comics for babies I like a good political polemic, biographies of interesting people, a little bit of space history, that sort of thing.

Rendezvous with Rama is good, well worth reading, and it could make for a good film one day. The sequels are increasingly batshit and filthy. Best avoided.
( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 16 Sep 2024, 19:13, archived)

It's more of a text book
Or should be
(Fantasma:, Tue 17 Sep 2024, 16:04, archived)

Fuck, he's still alive?
He's extremely fucking old, it's probably been ghostwritten by the nurse who empties his commode. What did you expect, you fucking stupid fucking cunt, as we say in the UK?
(2 Can Chunder - Work account arbeit macht frei!, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 22:50, archived)

@ ghostwritten by the the nurse who empties his commode hahahahaha brilliant
Well I don't know, I always liked him, but he's not good anymore.
(Fantasma:, Mon 16 Sep 2024, 9:28, archived)