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I just god through the original Watchmen comics and good lord was it good !!! I liked the contrast between the classical "comic" graphism and the dark story/atmosphere. It really was excellent - wonder if the movie is worth watching ?

By the way do you know about any comics that are as good as this one ? If yes please let me know. Cheers !

  On 2/14/2012 at 9:50 AM, StocKo said:

I just god through the original Watchmen comics and good lord was it good !!! I liked the contrast between the classical "comic" graphism and the dark story/atmosphere. It really was excellent - wonder if the movie is worth watching ?

 

By the way do you know about any comics that are as good as this one ? If yes please let me know. Cheers !

Definitely check out more Alan Moore stuff, if you liked Watchmen. V for Vendetta, From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the first few volumes, anyway) are all quite good, and infinitely better than their adaptations.

Thanks ! I caught V for Vendetta at the library too, it's the next things I'll read. Will check the other as well

  On 2/17/2012 at 7:43 PM, Mr Ouija said:

This is one of the greatest books I read. 4 of 5 years ago but I still have good memories about it...Time to open it again :)

  On 2/17/2012 at 2:46 PM, Xenblake said:

I was thinking about reading this next, so I shall take this as a sign and do so..........I hear it is his most frightening novel. PKD felt that he shouldn't have written it, that is was some sort scourge he let loose on the world by writing it. All the more intriguing!

My first PKD read. The story is very well devised, how the hell did he come up with these ideas?! It's beautifully mind twisting yet comes across all sober, self assured and extrememly relatable despite it's fantastical premise.

I still have the four other novels to go though (bought the "5 great novels").

Bitches, you need to get this from the Library of America : (best PKD bang of the buck)

I put down Trapped, this non-fictional account of a caver's fateful account, stuck deep in a Kentucky cave in the 1920s, to start reading John Dies At The End.

I really don't fucking like this book so far. I'm only 20-odd pages in, but so far, I have seen the words "badgerconda", "detectivey", and "vintage 1987 ghetto blaster" in the novel.

This shit reads like a john carpenter fan-fiction by a ten-years-too-old guy trying to be cool with the kids or something. I don't know, it's reading as annoyingly schlocky so far.

I'm reading freakonomics right now.. that and my textbooks..

  On 2/17/2012 at 9:41 PM, Atop said:

  On 2/17/2012 at 2:46 PM, Xenblake said:

 

I was thinking about reading this next, so I shall take this as a sign and do so..........I hear it is his most frightening novel. PKD felt that he shouldn't have written it, that is was some sort scourge he let loose on the world by writing it. All the more intriguing!

it's in my bookshelf, I should go and read this. bought it a year ago I think.. was watching that documentary about him yesterday and he did indeed say that.

I know my Dick.

someone told me to wash my dick but now all my books are ruined :(

Pretty good so far, very grimey fairytale/folklore fiction.

I started reading "The Enterprise of Death" first, but decided to back track to Bullington's first novel to get a better idea of his style.

  On 2/21/2012 at 2:36 AM, Philip Glass said:

Bitches, you need to get this from the Library of America : (best PKD bang of the buck)

 

Phillip K Dick brofist

Currently reading VALIS, after finishing "The Man in the High Castle"

Apparently there was talk of Ridley Scott doing a 4 part adaptation of it which I can barley contain myself for.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/07/ridley-scott-sci-fi-philip-k-dick-bbc-drama

holy shit what??? Hope this happens. Although I wish someone would adapt "VALIS" as a series.

Just finished "Palmer Eldritch" and my mind is thoroughly happy after reading such brilliance.

In 1965, PKD was able to loosely predict global warming, skyping, gaming, and virtual realities.

I think he was afraid that some form of his ideas from this novel would come into being.

He was right to be afraid.

A biography of Lars Von Trier.

Just ordered an english version of 'The Dice Man'. Can't wai to re-read that sucker.

the seven days of peter crumb

Just got this, it's SO massive (1100 pages) even in "small" format, I can kill somebody with it.

This is my subway read :

I genuinely prefer that Broom cover to my Broom cover.

I just finished Brett Easton Ellis's Glamorama. I read it really quickly and I am going back and reading his books in order next starting with less than zero. BUT I can't say I liked glamorama. Nothing really happened or was explained (for such a long book). the mystery element was underplayed and not that interesting. the main character was annoying. But I must have liked it enough to want to read more of his stuff. i have only read american psycho previously of his.

I am also reading Lawrence Lessig's Republic Lost, but not far enough in to comment on it

The whole time I've been reading Infinite Jest I've been wondering why Remy Marathe seemed like such a familiar name and I just now remembered watmm