I like my sci-fi fantasy books :(
The Businessman: A Tale of Terror is a novel written by Thomas M. Disch, and published by Harper & Row in 1984. The Businessman is a contemporary novel, a form that Disch -- best known for his science fiction and historical novels -- had not hitherto tried, although all of his subsequent adult novels have shared its milieu.
Disch's novel of Robert Glandier, a Minneapolis businessman who murders his wife and is later haunted by her; his mother-in-law, Joy-Ann Anker (whose death frees her daughter Giselle's entombed spirit and allows her to roam the world, and who eventually defers her own ascent through an elaborate afterlife in order to help her beleaguered daughter), and various other, historical characters -- including the ghost of poet John Berryman, whose 1972 suicide has left him in a beleaguered posthumous condition, and Adah Isaacs Menken, the nineteenth-century actress, who conducts Joy-Ann through the afterlife -- is a mordant and complexly-plotted metaphysical thriller, which follows numerous viewpoints (including an omniscient narrator, who explains to the reader that "The source of grace has its favorite bloodlines, for which there is no accounting" and that the Anker family, although slothful and philistine, is blessed with grace whatever their weaknesses) in their characters' interactions, which culminates in a sexual encounter between the ghost Giselle and her murderer Glandier, and the resulting conception of a demonic foetus.
just started this three novel compendium that deals with a genetically altered superhuman race and their fate among the stars.
Screenplay with Will Smith in the leading role please.
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Nazi Literature in the Americas reminds me that you should read Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Dream-Norman-Spinrad/dp/1902002164/)
Just picked these up last night:
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I hope to get to one of them later this week, after I finish this up. I am about half-way through.
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Nazi Literature in the Americas reminds me that you should read Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Dream-Norman-Spinrad/dp/1902002164/)
Nazi Literature in the Americas reminds me that you should read Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Dream-Norman-Spinrad/dp/1902002164/)
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I highly recommend his 'Bug Jack Barron', if you can find it. True speculative genius that is increasingly resonant as time passes (the key themes are longevity research and the media IIRC).
"Complicity" is so good! I just reached that point where things go *bang*. I kind of want to finish reading it asap, but I also like spacing it out and subconsciously digesting everything.
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Started last night.
re: Thomas M Disch the Word of God.
I have found myself enjoying several Disch works recently, so when a brand new book by him showed up on the Locus release lists, I added it to my Amazon order post haste.
I really kind of wish I hadn't.
I think I know what the author is trying to do, but it feels like it's falling flat on its face. The books is metafiction wherein Thomas Disch declares to us that he is God. I kid you not. I thought that he would be able to handle this quite well as he has a sly irony to much of his work, and his writing is never unpleasant.
This work, however is horrible. Smug, self-satisfied, cloying, and a waste of my time.
The book has 175 pages and many of them are taken up with slagging off Philip K Dick, because PKD wrote to the FBI to report Disch for his book Camp Concentration (which is excellent. read it).
wait wait wait
WHAT THE FUCK?
I was about to google the validity of this claim (that PKD narced him out) only to find out that Thomas M Disch COMITTED SUICIDE TWO DAYS AGO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch
Well, this is a really horrible book to leave as the legacy of decades of authorship.
Lies My Teacher Told Me is awesome but too front loaded (early US history)
My mind was blown when I read about thatspoiler (click to show/hide)black people and Romans might have been on the Americas 2000 years ago[close]
On another note, I finished the Gulag Archipelago. About 2000 pages read in a month and a half or so. I recommend the read.
Do you have examples of the left bias? I might have read an earlier edition.
Do you have examples of the left bias? I might have read an earlier edition.
Without having the book in front of me, he makes a comparison between one of Wilson's worst anti-spying/pro-censorship bills and compares it to the illegal wiretapping and loss of privacy under the reign of Bush II. Looking in the index, Bush II gets quite a few mentions, too, throughout the book.
So far (I am about 80 pages in) all the things that have set my buzzer off have been very slight.
Do you have examples of the left bias? I might have read an earlier edition.
Without having the book in front of me, he makes a comparison between one of Wilson's worst anti-spying/pro-censorship bills and compares it to the illegal wiretapping and loss of privacy under the reign of Bush II. Looking in the index, Bush II gets quite a few mentions, too, throughout the book.
So far (I am about 80 pages in) all the things that have set my buzzer off have been very slight.
I must have read an earlier edition. That or I stopped after they just did brief covering of recent US history.
I was feeling a bit like this (http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/compulsory-reading) recently, but now I found my old copy of The Glass Key (which I've wanted to reread since I caught Miller's Crossing at the AFI) and it's gonna be aaaaaaaall good.
Do you have examples of the left bias? I might have read an earlier edition.
Without having the book in front of me, he makes a comparison between one of Wilson's worst anti-spying/pro-censorship bills and compares it to the illegal wiretapping and loss of privacy under the reign of Bush II. Looking in the index, Bush II gets quite a few mentions, too, throughout the book.
So far (I am about 80 pages in) all the things that have set my buzzer off have been very slight.
I must have read an earlier edition. That or I stopped after they just did brief covering of recent US history.
When did you read it? The newly revised edition is just a few months old. It includes 6 more, recent textbooks. Since I haven't read the original, I have no idea how much of the content is new, but I think it's safe to say the GWB material is :p
I was feeling a bit like this (http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/compulsory-reading) recently, but now I found my old copy of The Glass Key (which I've wanted to reread since I caught Miller's Crossing at the AFI) and it's gonna be aaaaaaaall good.
I've been on a 95% nonfiction diet lately, and I feel like that too.
I like my nonfiction because, well, it's easier to read more than one book at a time. I've gotten so impatient and it's sometimes difficult to dedicate myself to a novel, especially when I know I can safely read like 4 nonfiction books at once. Nonfiction is like the reading salad bar, whereas novels, to me, are like marriage. You can't really fuck around on the side of the one you've committed to.
added to the list
you bastard
between you and cor....
added to the list
you bastard
between you and cor....
If you mean me, I didn't actually like The Chronoliths all that much. It was ok as a holiday paperback read but I remember being very surprised that it won awards.
added to the list
you bastard
between you and cor....
If you mean me, I didn't actually like The Chronoliths all that much. It was ok as a holiday paperback read but I remember being very surprised that it won awards.
i actually just meant as a source for "hey that book sounds neat, i should buy it"
i've only read the club dumas so i can't help you out there
have you read An Instance of the Fingerpost?