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zmeiat_joro:
Twin Peaks, Forbidden Planet and fucking _Spaced_. YEAH
Blade Runner, the book and film, and Dr. Strangelove... too, but... it there anyone who _hasn't_ seen them?!
I will recommend anything by Samuel Delany. He is among the top five authors of the twentieth century in my personal library. You need to have read a lot of science fiction in order to properly appreciate much of his work, but not all of it. Some of his later authobiographical work is accesible to anyone with serious literary interests. Granted, some poeple do hate his books, but even if you are one of these people, I think you will learn something about yourself from that Smile
Patrick:
Best movie ever? "The Right Stuff". "Road to Perdition" is an amazing film as well. Very good lighting, which is something I don't notice very often.
thetruthisunhappy:
Two books that I recommend:
Kushiels Dart by Jacqueline Carey (actually this is part of a trilogy): These books are awesome. I am a fan of fantasy books in general and my friend basically said OMG read this!! Do it!! It’s very well written and gripping story, it is somewhat of a romance, which normally I hate, but I didn’t mind in here. There’s lots of irony and it’s also thought provoking.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman: This is a very interesting and strange book. One review that describes it better then I could have says:
--- Quote ---As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America, at once eerily familiar and utterly alien.
--- End quote ---
Also thought provoking and has funny parts. Read an excerpt here: http://www.neilgaiman.com/books/americangods_pb.asp#excerpt
Mnementh:
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Absolutely hysterical. Fairly irreverent. It's a humourous story about Jesus and his buddy biff during the years not covered in the bible.
I read it through yesterday and I was chuckling all afternoon.
zerofiftysix:
I recommend reading some Haruki Murakami. I don't know why I am in love with Murakami but I am. I've read all of his stories that have been translated into the English and I even own one of his books in the original Japanese. Here are some of my favorite books by him:
[*]Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - I think everyone who's anyone will have read this book by Murakami. It's about a regular normal guy living his life with his wife in a little flat. But everything starts with one small incident - the departure of his cat. And the story takes a twist and enters a surreal world in which we find him sitting deep down in a dried up well. It's hard to describe without giving so much away.
[*]Sputnik Sweetheart - It's my favorite book by Murakami. It's a twisted love story, an unfinished love triangle (is there ever a complete love triangle? YOU TELL ME). Anyway, guy likes chick, chick likes older chick, older chick is just asexual. But I like this because it emphasizes the point that sooner or later we're all alone, like little Sputniks out in the vast emptiness of space.
[*]Kafka on the Shore - Murakami's most recent novel (although its been out in Japan for a few years now). It's two stories that intertwine and play off each other. On one weave is a story about a kid, named Kafka, who ran away to find his mother and sister. On the other weave is about a not-so-bright guy, Nakata, who has the ability to talk to cats. Nakata is off on a mission that's so secret, even he doesn't know about it. He is just drawn along with the current yet acts in a way that is defiant and unique. These two threads create such an intricate story, you might even have a story-gasm or something. Maybe.[/list:u]
Murakami has several themes that he uses in his stories. I think the most prevelant theme is that he presents to the readers a main character that we can so easily relate to: a regular joe-schmoe guy living in a terribly mundane world. The guy always has girl troubles and a shitty job but he's happy because its comfortable.
Yet, the trouble always comes from the women. Women are always viewed as something mysterious, weird, yet prized and special, something to be cherished, lusted after and unattainable. Man, what is up with women!?
There's always his philosophy of "going with the flow" which the characters seem either obey or defy. Either one, the story still progresses.
Oh yeah, even if the stories are set in Japan, Western readers will not feel totally alienated because it's not really that different. The world is the same world everyone lives in, the place names just happen to be Japanese. So totally pick up books by Haruki Murakami. It's good!
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