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Appaloosa - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 07-30-2008
Parker travels to the old west to write some startling esoteric fiction about the inner lives of Native Americans and their plight.
Okay. Not so much. It's cowboys. It's lawmen and gunfights in the streets. Oddly there is a little more description and less talking. If you are sitting in the airport lounge and you need a book to pass the time, this is the one for you. I'm waiting for the sequel.
Have I mentioned how much I love the library?
Re: Junk Food Books - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 07-31-2008
Simon Green: His John Taylor/Nightside books (the secret dark heart of London, where Gods and Monsters walk and all of your darkest dreams are for sale, etc....) and his Shaman Bond series (see above, but with secret society and some spy stuff) are great fun. Good library fare. Lotsa action and quips. A ton of imagination and a great deal of reading to toss them off like so many bon mots. Summer Reading at its best.
Re: Junk Food Books - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 07-31-2008
I read those Simon Green Books. At least a couple. Do they get better? It seemed like a good idea, just poorly executed. Wait. We are in the junk food books. Never mind.
Re: Junk Food Books - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 07-31-2008
They do get better. Characters darker and relationships more complex. And just as light and fluffy as a really satisfying fart.
just as light and fluffy as a really satisfying fart. - Drunk Monk - 08-13-2008
Brilliant comment, ppfy. Ima gonna steal that for something.... plagiary is my middle name.
p.s. I just read A Practical Guide to Test Cutting for Historical Swordsmanship. The author asked for a review quote from me. That's not really junk food. It's stuff I gotta read for work. I suppose I should make a new thread. Either that or just tag it to the quotable DM thread if he uses the quote.
Re: Junk Food Books - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 08-13-2008
Please be my guest; it was you, after all, that told me "sleep-deprivation is a cheap drug". I try to live those words every day.
Re: Junk Food Books - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 10-21-2008
John Scalzi (Old Man's War trilogy, on par with Joe Halderman's Forever War...so may be overqualified as "junk food") has a one-off entitled The Android's Dream that definitely is "junk food" in the best sense: low in substance, high in entertainment. Good humor, good action sequences, decent political satire, just enough characters getting killed off that you can't get too comfortable....
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Sanders - Drunk Monk - 11-11-2008
A throw-away novella with a nice cover. I kept thinking this was something CF should have written. It echoed his style of the absurd and abstract.
Re: Junk Food Books - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 11-11-2008
CF? Do we know anybody by that monikor? didn't he use to review posters or something?
CF is also out of work... - Drunk Monk - 11-11-2008
...except what he does for KFTC. He just quit his last position. I daresay we'll be hearing from him here soon...
Re: Junk Food Books - The Queen - 11-30-2008
Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote:John Scalzi... has a one-off entitled The Android's Dream that definitely is "junk food" in the best sense: low in substance, high in entertainment. Good humor, good action sequences, decent political satire, just enough characters getting killed off that you can't get too comfortable....
Based on your recommendation, I got this from the library before I left on my travels; enjoyed it very much. I do love the concept of a self-fulfilling religion that acknowledges and celebrates that it was based on a con-job.
I also picked up Scalzi's "Agent to the Stars" and will be reading that on the way back to L.A. tomorrow. Hope that's good junk food, too.
Me Chi and Bruce Lee by Brian Preston - Drunk Monk - 11-30-2008
This book pissed me off a little, mostly because I could see what the author was doing rather quickly. He had very little martial arts experience, so he did some webresearch and followed up on it. His follow up is ok - he goes to Wudang, Shaolin and a UFC fight, but it's all very cursory with plenty of shallow generalizations. He's a decent writer though, so he acheives some funny moments of self deprecation, but overall, it's just webresearch with some follow up questions/travels.
The hardest part for me was the persistant notion that I could have written this and done it more accurately. Time to crack on my book...
His first book was Pot Planet, which sounds better.
Re: Junk Food Books - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 11-30-2008
You could combine both of his previous books and surpass him all the way around. Kick his ass, says I!
New Evanovitch (#15) - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 07-24-2009
Still funny.
New Evanovitch (#15) - The Queen - 07-24-2009
Yes, it is. Very consistent. Maeve enjoyed it too, especially the first chapter and the spine which was unfortunate because I had planned to send it to my mom next.