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Post by sisyphus on Mar 15, 2007 0:13:04 GMT -5
sounds interesting, thornalogos
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 22, 2007 15:14:38 GMT -5
Finished HEART SHAPED BOX. Loved it. Young Joe King Hill sez "Move it on over, Old Man!"  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 3, 2007 11:43:30 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 5, 2007 13:23:45 GMT -5
here's the capsule review I submitted to Amazon.com:
*****
Literally A Blast To Read, April 5, 2007
Reviewer: Luciferal "plebiscite" (salt lake city) - See all my reviews
I just finished Ed Lee's OPERATOR B, and I'm floored. This is a short, sharp, shock of a read. Containing none of the gross-out sickness Lee has built his reputation on, instead OPERATOR B delivers an outstanding story of covert military test pilots with almost lethal intensity. Lethal to your sense of boredom, that is. OPERATOR B is sure to entertain any reader lucky enough to stumble upon it. I only wished it were longer, and from what I understand, he is developing it into a full-length novel. Read this stripped-down, entertaining booklet as a prologue to the real deal, and I'll bet you'll be chompin' at the bit for the novel to be released, as I am.
Lee has performed a great job expostulating on themes of duty to one's self, family, and country in his sharp narrative. Not a phrase is wasted. It really catapults the reader into some classic science fiction tropes, and beyond. Highly recommended for just about anyone.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 12, 2007 16:35:15 GMT -5
Just ordered a first edition hardcover of Zoran Zivkovic's Impossible Stories, signed by the author.  This guy is amazing. He's a Serbian post-modernist, I've got 2 of his books and the stories in them are way cool, the literary equivalent of an Escher drawing or something. Can't wait to have this one of a kind book in my hot sweaty hands soon. For more info on the book, go here: www.zoranzivkovic.com/impossible_encounters/impossible_encounters.html |
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 12, 2007 16:36:54 GMT -5
And then this one, which was only released as a trade paperback: One of the latest from another of my favorite all time writers, [shadow=red,left,300]A.A. Attanasio[/shadow]Killing With The Edge Of The Moon Hell Yes. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 12, 2007 16:37:52 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 17, 2007 10:16:02 GMT -5
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Post by Fuzznuts on Apr 17, 2007 10:18:53 GMT -5
^^^What the hell?
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 17, 2007 11:04:34 GMT -5
Get yours while they're hot. Will go into a 2nd printing right quickly, I'd imagine. It is illustrated by Alan Lee - the art set designer for the LOTR movies. He is a badass. Here is an illustration from the book:  Fucking fantastic. I've been waiting for this day since last year, when I first heard about it. Turns out, this saga is one of Tolkien's "Great Tales" of middle earth; i.e, it is the mother fucking true blue hardcore shit, and it is guaranteed to put the Trilogy itself into the dirt ( imo). I know because I'm a devotee of The Silmarillion, and my favorite chapter in it is the one about the Children of Hurin - which focuses largely on Turin Turambar, to be precise, one of Hurin's sons. He's my favorite tragic character in Tolkien's fiction - (well, along w/Smeaghol) - Turin is the single human who ever laid eyes on the Hidden Kingdom, having been taken under the elven King Thingol's wing, there. He is one doomed fucker - "Turambar" meaning "Master of Doom". He wields a black rune sword forged of meteoric iron; at one point wears a Dragon Helm when he fights the dragon Glaurung; has a doomed relationship w/his lover, which I won't go into other than to say, are you beginning to sense a pattern, here? Let's just say that one classic fantasy character (once upon a time, my very favorite...) by the name of Elric of Melnibone, is the spittin' image of Turin. . . yet Michael Moorcock denies having ever read the Silmarillion manuscript before writing the Elric novels. So it's a literary coincidence of the highest order. Anyhow, back to The Children Of Hurin - - Turin's father, the titular Hurin himself - a hero from the First Age -- who was captured by Morgoth's forces and hung from chains on a cliff face of Thangorodrim - the sinister mountains under which Morgoth's fortress of Angband was hidden. IN any case, The Children Of Hurin promises to be the grimmest, most spectacularly tragic tale of monsters, heroism, and anguish imagineable. The sheer scale of the tragedies folded within tragedy of the story of Turin Turambar and his legacy is unmatched in my readings of the fantastic. For this reason among others, The Silmarillion will continue to shine as the greatest work of literature I have ever fervently read. And this addendum to it, the fully fleshed out story of The Children Of Hurin, may very well outshine its predecessor not in its overall scope -- for The Silmarillion boasts 20 times as many stories, making it the richer of the two in terms of a motherlode of characters and events -- but I have every reason to believe The Children Of Hurin will outshine The Silmarillion in intensity and focus, bringing the reader closer than they ever dared believe possible into the brilliant tragedy surrounding these mythic heroes. Did I mention I called Barnes & Nobles and ordered them to hold me a copy to be picked up later this afternoon? Damn straight |
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Post by Kensterberg on Apr 17, 2007 11:15:42 GMT -5
Very cool. The concluding (and darkest) chapter of Harry Potter coming out this summer, this out now ... should be a good year for fiction reading. I'll have to pick this up, though I'll probably wait a while. I'm in the middle of a weighty book on jurisprudence/law and society right now, and if I give myself an easier option, I won't finish it.
I'm also smack in the middle of a fantastic but utterly exhaustively detailed history of Russia, from the arrival of the Slavs in the 7th-8th century CE through the election of Putin (or so). And that sucker is some seriously heavy going.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 17, 2007 11:21:04 GMT -5
Sounds like it. I'm glad I'm not reading anything right now, cuz as soon as me hot lil mitts are on this Children Of Hurin tome - - I'm divin' right the fuck in ;D
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Apr 17, 2007 14:44:09 GMT -5
Tolkein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 17, 2007 14:48:52 GMT -5
Hell ya bro, this shit's tha bomb ass diggedy  |
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Post by poseidon on May 14, 2007 17:19:20 GMT -5
Happy 42nd Birthday Thorns. Your less than a month older than me. 6-11-'65.
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