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I think Valis was my last unread PKD  although I do also have "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick" to dig through.Somberbrero posted:I mean, if you enjoy Nabokov and haven't read Pale Fire, you should read Pale Fire. Magnus Gallant posted:I enjoy existentialism myself (the fall is great), check out "blindness" by Jose saramago. It's a great book about how an epidemic of blindness affects the world. Also check out Amerika by Franza Kafka, a book that is as funny as it is wrong. He wrote it without ever stepping foot on American soil and many facts are wrong. It isn't complete as he never finished it but it's still a great story. Dugong posted:You should read Joyland by Stephen King Nearly all the other mentioned books I have already read!
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Ernie. posted:can someone explain phillip k dick to me? He was a schizophrenic. He plays the unreliable narrator unbelievably well. His best stories are the ones that he has a character who is not sure what reality is real. Where there may or may not be clones that exist. Where the president may or may not be a robot. One of my favorite stories of his at the end of it you don't know if the main character is dead and in a suspended animation type device or alive and hallucinating because of a drug he has taken. Phillip K. Dick creates vividly read scifi universes that he uses not to explore science but the human condition. He also has had like 5+ of his stories turned into blockbuster movies.
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My favourite is Don Dellio's White Noise I also recent read Kraken by China Mievielle which was cool, kind of an r rated Douglas Adams book
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Somberbrero posted:Running Escape the Room scenarios. Those are great. My work group set a record at one recently!
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The most recent book I read that wasn't intentionally garbage pulp fantasy so I could read the terrible parts to my partner and cackle madly before bed...well, I stalled out halfway through Ryu Murakami's "Popular Hits of the Showa Era", which is a bizarre tale of multiplicative revenge murder, but would still suggest the book to others. I've gotten back into "How The Beatles Destroyed Rock & Roll: An Alternative History of American Pop Music", which gets a little dry when talking about the rise of 1910s-20s dance bands, but picks up speed again as you head into the 30s. Not much else, though. I should pick up something of substance the next time I'm at Half-Price Books. Either that or get another Louis L'Amour paperback, because I agree with the guy in A Reader's Manifesto: gently caress Cormac McCarthy, this is where you get your spare prose of lonely men in the wilderness.
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Lumpen posted:I think Valis was my last unread PKD The cool thing about blindness is Jose saramago decided to experiment with grammatical conventions. He uses commas instead of periods in many instances and also sometimes has many speakers speaking in the same paragraph. He does this, in my opinion, to make the reader just as offset as the characters of the story. Just like they have lost their sight we have lost our normal reading conventions. It's a great book.
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Lumpen posted:What are your 5 favorite books of all time? I have lots of series on here because to me it isn't worth picking out one book of a series that's my favorite, get the whole story or don't get it at all.
Also there is a sixth favorite book because I recently read Ready Player One in one god drat day from start to finish and it is now on my list of favorite books.
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CapitalistPig posted:I have lots of series on here because to me it isn't worth picking out one book of a series that's my favorite, get the whole story or don't get it at all. Is that earth sea? The one you can't think of?
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Magnus Gallant posted:Is that earth sea? The one you can't think of? Def not, earthsea was ok but that's not it.
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CapitalistPig posted:Def not, earthsea was ok but that's not it. Do you have any more details?
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Ernie. posted:hi guys
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Magnus Gallant posted:Do you have any more details? Well not really, if I could remember more I probably would already have found it. I read this book when I was like 9 or 10.
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CapitalistPig posted:Well not really, if I could remember more I probably would already have found it. I read this book when I was like 9 or 10. What year was that? 1960?
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Magnus Gallant posted:What year was that? 1960? Lol I'm not that old mags. Maybe 1989 1990?
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CapitalistPig posted:Lol I'm not that old mags. Hahaha I know you're not I was just kidding. I was born in 90 so it's not that big a diff. Was it scifi or fantasy?
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watch this for exactly 10 seconds: code:
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Opopanax posted:Tick tock, Asiina. One step closer to the grave! 
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Magnus Gallant posted:Hahaha I know you're not I was just kidding. I was born in 90 so it's not that big a diff. Fantasy I'm p sure Ok heres the infodump There is a magic user of some kind He has a mirror that shows him whatever his hearts desire is or some poo poo. It hasnt shown him anything in a super long time and one day some girl appears in it. He looks for girl. He lives in a castle made of ice or glass or something like that.
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CapitalistPig posted:[*]The Death Gate Cycle (Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman) This was a pretty good series and I never really see anyone really mention it. Also, I remember reading a pulpy sci-fi type book when I was in high school in the late 80s that was about some sort of space marine but I want to say he had the leg of a mutant chicken and I think an arm that was different too. I can never remember that drat book.
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CapitalistPig posted:Fantasy I'm p sure Did you read it paperback or hardcover?
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Magnus Gallant posted:Did you read it paperback or hardcover? lol paperback
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CapitalistPig posted:lol paperback You read it in paperback in 1990? And it was a novel?
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Magnus Gallant posted:You read it in paperback in 1990? And it was a novel? uh yeah man, there were plenty of paperbacks.
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CapitalistPig posted:uh yeah man, there were plenty of paperbacks. I'm trying to narrow it down. If it was paperback in 1990 then it was probably published before then maybe some years before that
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Magnus Gallant posted:I'm trying to narrow it down. If it was paperback in 1990 then it was probably published before then maybe some years before that I have no idea when it was published, that's just when I read it.
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CapitalistPig posted:Fantasy I'm p sure Could it be a really distorted memory of "The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass" (1997) by Stephen King or "The Eyes of the Dragon" (1984) by Stephen King?
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EccoRaven posted:Fair Mafia Thread tonight I am eating the flesh of an animal (a chicken in the form of general tso's chicken). Face/off
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Magnus Gallant posted:Face/off Seen it also too creepy. Also criteria #2: must be on netflix (us).
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Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil is great if you like horror / comedy with your lighthearted action
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EccoRaven posted:Seen it also too creepy. Tai Chi Zero!
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Stop or my mom will shoot. If that's on Netflix watch Jeffry who lives at home. Or the black and white movie starring will forte called "Nebraska"
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EccoRaven posted:Fair Mafia Thread tonight I am eating the flesh of an animal (a chicken in the form of general tso's chicken). Die Hard? It's a classic. The Raid and The Raid 2 are really badass if you haven't seen them.
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Kumbamontu posted:Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil is great if you like horror / comedy with your lighthearted action This is winning! CCKeane posted:Tai Chi Zero! ??? The Ninth Layer posted:Die Hard? It's a classic. I have never actually seen Die Hard. I will see if it is on netflix. e: it is not.
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Lumpen posted:The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is a pretty good book, but unrelated. nah it wasn't either of those.
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tucker dale etc. has won thank you kumba!
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EccoRaven posted:This is winning! Tai Chi Zero is a cheerful kung fu movie with great choreography and some laugh out loud funny moments.
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