I never enjoyed any of his books.Shining, Shawshank and Running Man are good films though. His acting in Creep Show eclipses everything else.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 17:53,
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I haven't seen Creep ShowSounds like something he should be in
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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.
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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.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 15 Sep 2024, 19:19,
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Haven't read the Rama seriesDidn't know about paedo fantasies! That's horrific!
Anything besides SF?
I'm reading the The End of Mental Illness by Daniel Amen
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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.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 16 Sep 2024, 19:13,
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