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who gets a lifetime pass?
Scandanavian War Machine:
Bill Murray
onewheelwizzard:
^^^ I can get behind that.
Also, Hunter S. Thompson.
BlahBlah:
Yes, The Great Shark Hunt is probably his best work. A lot of ...on the campaign trail appears in it but that's also an amazing book on its own.
I would probably give a lifetime pass to most of my favourite authors.
Mark E. Smith would also get one, for pretty much the exact same reasons as in Tommy's Neil Young post.
Scandanavian War Machine:
oh yeah, definitely Hunter S. Thompson (wasn't even thinking about Where The Buffalo Roam when I said Bill Murray! derp)
I really liked his botched (and debauched) "coverage" of the Kentucky derby. pretty disturbing stuff.
snalin:
George R.R. Martin. I've not read a single novel or short story by the man that wasn't absolutely brilliant. A Song Of Ice And Fire is a great, great series, but it's some of his earlier work that makes him stand out from the crowd. A Song for Lya and Sandkings are two of the best novelettes ever written. Fever Dream is a stunning vampire-novel, Dying of the Light is one of the saddest books I've read and there's simply too much to cover. He has through all of his work shown that you can use genres like fantasy and sci-fi to write stories that touches the very depths of human emotion. So he's got a free pass for sure - he could turn the new Songs series into a barbie-tribute for all I care. He could start writing Twilight fan-fics. He could even start making superhero no... oh, wait, he's already done that. And they're brilliant.
Dreamsongs really sums up all he's done in a great way. Check it out.
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