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I'm getting ready to read about the death of another Japanese legend:
I picked it up at the used book store a week or two ago.
I picked it up at the used book store a week or two ago.
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ghce
·Phillip Pullman's latest series, a re-read for me.
1st book in the trilogy, published about 2017, the 2nd one The Secret Commonwealth about 2019 and the 3rd hopefully later this year, a long awaited book.
1st book in the trilogy, published about 2017, the 2nd one The Secret Commonwealth about 2019 and the 3rd hopefully later this year, a long awaited book.
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ghce
·Not exactly reading yet but I just purchased about 200 plus SF books mostly new and modern with the odd classic thrown in too for $25.00, some really good stuff in there, charity shop find but the dearly departed soul obviously had great taste!
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·Not exactly reading yet but I just purchased about 200 plus SF books mostly new and modern with the odd classic thrown in too for $25.00, some really good stuff in there, charity shop find but the dearly departed soul obviously had great taste!
Bought this years ago because I loved this….
….which led to a love of science-fiction!
Oh, and get some blanco, stat!😉😀
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Bought this years ago because I loved this….
….which led to a love of science-fiction!
Oh, and get some blanco, stat!😉😀
I hadn't even realised that Heinlein was the author of the book that turned into that cult classic film.
One of the main reasons I spotted this hoarde of SF books was that I noticed a paperback version of Heinleins Stranger in a Strange land which I hadn't read since I was a kid when it was published and I had an overwhelming desire to reread it, and then noted a bunch of other Heinleins amongst them.
Yeah the shoes need some beautification attention, Fila Disrupters, great shoes but the leather surface facing is peeling, I do have the white leather cure for them but hadn't got around to applying yet.
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·Yeah, I noticed that one after I got them home, this is the 1958/9 published edition which would make it the first stand-alone published Starship Trooper book ( first came out in an SF anthology mag in 1958).
I hadn't even realised that Heinlein was the author of the book that turned into that cult classic film.
One of the main reasons I spotted this hoarde of SF books was that I noticed a paperback version of Heinleins Stranger in a Strange land which I hadn't read since I was a kid when it was published and I had an overwhelming desire to reread it, and then noted a bunch of other Heinleins amongst them.
Yeah the shoes need some beautification attention, Fila Disrupters, great shoes but the leather surface facing is peeling, I do have the white leather cure for them but hadn't got around to applying yet.
I love both the book and movie- for largely exactly the "opposite" reasons they were written. Heinlein sometimes published under pen names- I think I have a copy of The Astounding sci-fi that has "By His Bootstraps" (Anson Macdonald) in it around somewhere. At least, I know that I did at one time. I love that short story, if you haven't read it, it's fun.
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·I love both the book and movie- for largely exactly the "opposite" reasons they were written. Heinlein sometimes published under pen names- I think I have a copy of The Astounding sci-fi that has "By His Bootstraps" (Anson Macdonald) in it around somewhere. At least, I know that I did at one time. I love that short story, if you haven't read it, it's fun.
I'll have to look it up to jog the grey cells.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerI love both the book and movie- for largely exactly the "opposite" reasons they were written.
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·I've read several accounts (contradictory) that the movie either was or was not satire. I tend to believe it was - the book I'm less sure of.
I'm nearly 100% certain I read an interview sometime in the last several decades in which the director openly stated the movie was supposed to be satirical. Before I'd read that interview, I'd always assumed it was- the uniform worn by Neil Patrick Harris' character is impossible to mistake for anything other than what it is supposed to be. I first saw it in theater with a (perhaps not that observant) friend who was planning on enlisting and who treated the book as his own personal bible. We had radically different reactions to the movie- at that time I liked the book as much as a I liked any of Heinlein's sci-fi, for the snappy prose, but I definitely wasn't as attached to it.
My friend absolutely loved the movie. I found it violent, disturbing and thought-provoking; I tried to have a conversation with my friend about my observations about it and he angrily told me that I didn't understand the book or the movie or how things were in the real world.
It took me a few years to appreciate the fact that that was the whole point, and a few more years to appreciate that my friend really could have been a character right out of the movie itself in a lot of ways.
Regarding the book- Heinlein had incredibly complicated and somewhat interesting personal politics. Perhaps most people who have a little bit of experience with Heinlein are familiar with Stranger in a Strange Land and may assume that he was just a free-loving hippie, but that's both as correct and as inaccurate as assuming he solely believed many of the ideas Starship Troopers argued. It's difficult to outline his personal views without using contradictory descriptors and ideas. I suppose that makes sense, given that he was ultimately a progressive thinker whose ideas were shaped by two world wars and the great depression.
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FurryWristAbroad
·The Silmarillion by Tolkien 😌
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·The Silmarillion by Tolkien 😌
Nice book, nice watch, Welcome to the forum!
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·Preparing for the 585th anniversary of Eton College....
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