In the same vein as the movie thread, if you are an avid/casual reader, or a member of the Intelligentsia/Literati, post your recommendations/comments here.
Edit: Oops I hit the modify button instead of 'reply'.
Here is a delight:
http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/ErnestBramah.php
But let us pass to matters of almost equal importance...
Mmm have to think deep on that one.
By the way, Hazen, is your image the album sleeve of Abominog (Uriah Heap)
It is indeed, full marks to you.Originally Posted by median
I'm currently re-reading my entire back catalogue of James Bond novels, I'm an uberfan.
My favourite contemporary author at the moment is David Eggers, he's superb. I don't read a huge amount of modern literature though, unless comics and graphic novels count
or a member of the Intelligentsia/Literati
I think I'll leave my critique of Enid Blyton's Round the Clock Stories 'til later then!
I got it for coming top of the class in Easter 1973 8)
Apart from that. I read all things skeptical and scientific, although I'm just starting reading up on parapsychology.
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I tend towards reading more technical stuff at work, often referencing other stuff to understand the original documents :p I vary between Pharmaceutical bits (Job) and items that are referenced here and at the JREF (when I get bored at job)
Leisure reading is mainly light fantasy and Sci-Fi, although I do occasionallyhave a hankerin' for outrageous action\adventure that's easily satisfied by Matthew Reilly :)
I've sort of gone off reading fiction now but if I do I tend to re-read a lot of early sci-fi. I like the no-nonsense delivery of HG Wells and Jules Verne. I have a great love of the Sherlock Holmes stories even though Conan Doyle nicked a lot of the deductive stuff from Poe's M. Auguste Dupin.
Read Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Kind of religious allegory aimed at young adults but hey I liked it.
Recently got a copy (lost/borrowed 3 already) of Martin Caidin's Cyborg.
By the way tkingdoll, please please tell me..in any of the novels does anyone say
'Ah I've been expecting you Mr Bond'?
Just curious
The OP should have read 'whether you're an avid/casual' etc.
My last read: Hemingway's 'The Old Man And The Sea', for which, IIRC, he received the Nobel prize for literature - and justly deserved, I reckon. Great story.
The only other work of his that I've read thus far was 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' which I didn't particularly rate since it was, for the most part, a romance/love story but does have some interesting insights into the complicated situations that made up the Spanish civil war.
Someone on the JREF forum posted a thread called 'Is Motorhead Art?', to which someone else replied with a quote from Andy Warhol: 'Art is anything you point to and say: This is art'.
In the same spirit, I wouldn't discount comic strips/cartoon stories from being literature. (I used to be a regular reader of 'The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers' and '2000 AD').
Hazen
You are a person after my own heart!
I was brought up on 2000AD and as for Fat Freedy et al...well what can I say? :D
Just brought some GNs from Amazon recently (Indigo Prime, Bad Company) Also some Captain Britain (Alan's Moore and Davis)
Certainly I agree, the graphic novel or comic is definitely worthy of the titles of art and literature.
Oh. Um, I've got quite a large collection of 2000 ADs going back years. My favourite character is Zenith, but they may not be able to bring him back, as he seems to be ageing in real time, and must be about ready for his pension now.
Any fans of Devlin Waugh out there? You've got to admire a man who was stripped of his Olympic medal in flower arranging for abuse of anabolic steroids. :)
Zenith? Aw, c'mon, it's gotta be Slaine!
Hmmm...dunno. Some of the jokes are good ( " We don't wear armour. It implies that you're frightened of getting hurt.") But I've never warmed to the character. Reminds me of Garth.
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