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Uber Ritter:
"The Straight Story" is very good if you like slow stories, beautiful camerawork, small-town America and Old people.  I'm a fan of all four.

est:

--- Quote from: The Cloaked Stranger on 09 Oct 2007, 08:23 ---If you read science fiction at all, I recommend the Sparrow and it's sequel Children of God. They are written by Maria Doria Russel, and are incredible.  They have very well planned stories, with fantastically detailed settings and characters.  It covers a wide range of interesting topics:  encountering other cultures, scientific discoveries, faith and philosophy, humour and adventure.  Excellent reads.
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I was about to come in here and say close to the exact same thing, so I'll just quote this instead to re-iterate how excellent these two books are.

wespeakinmidi:


a must read.


--- Quote ---The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson that was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998.
The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp, who moves from New York to work for a small newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Set in the late 1950s, the novel encompasses a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust among the American expatriates who staff the newspaper.
Thompson himself traveled from New York to San Juan in 1960 to write for an ill-fated sports newspaper on the island. Thompson had unsuccessfully applied to work at the larger English-language daily called the San Juan Star while novelist William J. Kennedy was the editor. While in Puerto Rico, Thompson befriended many of the writers at the Star, providing the context for The Rum Diary's fictional storyline.
Although Thompson was only 22 when he wrote the story, it deals extensively with a fear of “going over the hill” and growing old. The prominent characters are typical of Thompson's work; violent, maniacal and alcoholic, stumbling through life. It is written in a highly paced and rather exciting style, also typical of his work.
Thompson told PBS talk show host Charlie Rose in 1999 that he had given up the novel because it had originally "bounced about seven times - I got the standard list of rejection letters - and I came back from South America and I got into the politics of the 60s and 70s, and it was a full time job." He then said that he revisited the book because "it's got a romantic notion...that and money.. and I was faced with the fact of having to dig out my 40-year old story...I can't change it, like, 'ye gods, this is me, this is the world I lived in'...so I approached it as a writer...it's a good story."
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ellemnop:
The movie "Supertroopers" because it is one of those pointless movies you can rent out on a weekend and watch without having to think too hard! is has hilarious actors and an amusing storyline and is just an all-round funny movie to watch if you have nothing better to do!

dalconnsuch:
i'm a kurt vonnegut nerd so i have to recommend a kurt vonnegut book obviouisly

THE SIRENS of TITAN

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"It was all so sad. But it was all so beautiful, too."

The late Kurt Vonnegut was perhaps best known for his bestselling novel, Slaughterhouse-five, later made into a movie. But many would argue that THE SIRENS OF TITAN was the better book, and his greatest work. It has all the elements we've come to expect from a Vonnegut novel: biting satire, bizarre imagination, dry comedy, plus rich layering of commentary on philosophy, religion, humanity, and more. But this book adds an emotional depth, a wry warmth and kindness, and a fondness for his characters that is often lacking in his other works. It is satire with heart and soul.

Vonnegut had a knack for doing sweetly melancholy humor better than just about anyone, and he gives it free play here. Forget that it's science fiction, and forget the strange synopsis -- this story will draw you, from the first page, into a lovely and poignant rumination on the meaning of existence. If you were to cross Mark Twain in his bitter old age with Harper Lee you might get something like this -- biting humor and cynicism crossed with loving wisdom, delivered with the gentlest, most understanding, touch

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