Reading thread

[wogbog]

Hmm. Would you recommend reading all three at once? I'm debating powering through or maybe sliding one other book in between each one.

 

[brightorangetrousers]

Maybe break it up with some of his shorter stuff?

His (I think) very last piece--Stirrings Still--is accessible, beautiful and very short.

 

[_cameosis_]

anything by raymond queneau -- start with "zazie in the metro" or "excercises in style" -- and if you can, read it in french, because that's what's up.

 

[noob in 89]



Hmm. Would you recommend reading all three at once? I'm debating powering through or maybe sliding one other book in between each one.

Anything before the trilogy I would not read all at once.

 

[wogbog]

?

 

[GraphicNovelty]

some stuff i read recently:

Cool and trippy. A quick read and some cool ideas that verge on jaeden smith fake deep but they're fun to think about.

depressing as ****

Really well written and generally terrifying. I liked the feminist take on the dystopian novel a lot and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes scifi.

Interesting, but dense and hyper referential. Like, i'd really like it if i cared more, if that made sense?

Currently re-reading neuromancer for fun. God I love that book, though I forgot how over-written it is.

 

[ter1413]

Just started:

 

[Superb0bo]

reading this right now, seems interesting. First Lem encounter.

 

[rjbman]

Got 1Q84 for my birthday. Brought that and a 100 story collection of Bradbury stories to college. So happy about both!

 

[dotcomzzz]

^^ Lem is awesome, highly recommend The Cyberiad.

 

[Nikos]

some stuff i read recently:

Cool and trippy. A quick read and some cool ideas that verge on jaeden smith fake deep but they're fun to think about.

The first city is my favorite.

Currently reading these two

 

[noob in 89]

I remember liking that one a lot as a kid, but I was slightly devastated to see what he did with Daredevil; as if everything in the 80s had to feature some kind of ninja storyline, or worse, a full-scale retcon where -- surprise! -- Daredevil and Wolverine are actually ninjas!

Otherwise, his reading of of Superman seemed pretty spot-on.

 

[GraphicNovelty]

Frank miller's TKR totally revolutionized Batman the character. He had previously been a relatively goody two-shoesy superhero and Frank miller made him a grim avenger of the night.

This was before that sort of thing was a cliche and it was totlly groundbreaking at the time.

 

[LonerMatt]

Graphic, I initially read your post as "Arthur Miller's TKR revolutionised Batman..." and got wayyyyyyyyyyy more excited than was reasonable given that I know he never did anything remotely like that.

 

[noob in 89]



Frank miller's TKR totally revolutionized Batman the character. He had previously been a relatively goody two-shoesy superhero and Frank miller made him a grim avenger of the night.

This was before that sort of thing was a cliche and it was totlly groundbreaking at the time.

Eh, I mean yes and no. I dunno if you were even alive in the 80s, but the character was totally consistent with the zeitgeist of the time: 'dark' exploitation/revenge narratives that proliferated with the rise of home video, paired with a particular type of Cold War exhaustion where anything remotely nationalistic was a target for lampooning. True, Batman suffered from the comics code, the awful tv show, the blight of the sidekick, etc., but he went through a lot of stages, and Miller's was, in IMO, a return to his dark roots, not a total rehaul or anything.

I think you also have to figure in the hype machine of the time. The industry was looking for figures to lionize in a period where comics, due to the skyrocketing values of the early titles, were increasingly seen (wrongly) as an investment; and I remember this one as severely hyped and spun and sold as 'rare', even as more and more were being printed. A legend on delivery.

Not that it isn't good or anything; it's probably his best. I just think its 'groundbreaking ness' is a little overblown, a product of the generation who grew up on it more than anything.