felix
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The big one, for me.
Yep, yep, yep.
Plus:
Iain M Banks
Always hoped to meet him someday. I have a signed copy of "Whit" that I'll never give up.
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The big one, for me.
Yep, yep, yep.
Plus:
Iain M Banks
Always hoped to meet him someday. I have a signed copy of "Whit" that I'll never give up.
I believe that Williams was a victim of auto-erotica asphyxiation. It makes total sense to me. I doubt he would have "hung himself" in a chair with a belt from the closet. This dangerous practice is not talked about, and is claiming more lives.
When musicians I like die it does hurt a bit because I feel them in a way through their music. Its like a mourning period and sadness that they will not be there to create and express new amazing stuff. Though I wasn't there, I think back to when Marc Bolan of T. Rex died. He was so young and made such amazing music. He never got a license in fear of dying in a car crash and thats exactly what happened leaving a baby without a dad. And kurt Cobain is another one. The voice of a generation blah blah. Point is there was some great stuff creatively going on there. Brandon Lee is one I look back on. I'm sad for him because his career was just getting started, he was very much into loving life and establishing his own identity apart from Bruce lees son. He was about to get married and that got ripped away. And my most recent one was Pete steel from type o negative. I love them and hadn't had the opportunity to see them live yet. And from friends that were acquainted he was just the sweetest guy they say. It doesn't matter if you personally knew these ppl. They were a part of your own life in a way, and when something dissapears from your life esp. Without warning you have the right to mourn a bit. Good thread.
I would kill to have the opportunity to see Pete and type o perform. I never went and saw them live and it sucks now. Def a regret I have. I'm assuming you did? That's great.
Jean-Paul
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lazylazyjoe
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@LL You kidding? I've seen Type O maybe 20+ times.
Every Halloween for like 6 years, they would have a gigantic toilet paper fight after their show in Philly.
Imagine a venue (electric factory or The Troc) with space for 1500 people, a couple hundred boxes of toilet paper, and tons of people amped up after a show. That and the Gwar shows I looked forward to all year.
Plus I always liked how they did their encores. 'You suck, You suck!'
Every Halloween for like 6 years, they would have a gigantic toilet paper fight after their show in Philly.
Imagine a venue (electric factory or The Troc) with space for 1500 people, a couple hundred boxes of toilet paper, and tons of people amped up after a show. That and the Gwar shows I looked forward to all year.
Plus I always liked how they did their encores. 'You suck, You suck!'
felix
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Oh god, such a better book to have signed by the man, if that matters.
If you can upload a photo, it might be somewhat interesting to compare. I bought this hardback from the big Waterstones in Edinburgh Princes Street a day after he'd done a personal appearance, which I missed. That was the week it came out. I was gutted to miss that then and I'm obviously massively more gutted that I'll never be able to more meaningfully interact with him.
here you go:
alasdair
alasdair
felix
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Thanks for doing that. Mine is 1995, yours must be about 1987?
Even after 12 years, you can see the similarities. Must be tedious writing the same thing countless times, but you can tell he put effort into both of them. Slightly less so, in my case.
God bless him. Cheers.
Even after 12 years, you can see the similarities. Must be tedious writing the same thing countless times, but you can tell he put effort into both of them. Slightly less so, in my case.
God bless him. Cheers.
i was really sorry to hear of his death. i've read about 10 of his novels - all iain banks. no iain m. banks.
for the longest time, the bridge was my favorite book of all time.
alasdair
for the longest time, the bridge was my favorite book of all time.
alasdair
felix
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If you'd made another trip up here, I would have gladly given you what remains of my "M" collection. Dammit! :D
This means you are unaware of "The Culture".
I'm literally shaking my head in amazed jealousy that you haven't immersed yourself in the Culture universe yet. Seriously???
Start with the first one, "Consider Phlebas", and work your way forward in chronological order. If you love The Bridge... as all Banksy connoisseurs do... then you have about a dozen exquisite books on your reading list now. I can't fucking believe you've never gone over to the M Side. I would give anything to discover the Culture all over again.
Go forth and hit that amazon button, or whatever's quickest. %)
This means you are unaware of "The Culture".
I'm literally shaking my head in amazed jealousy that you haven't immersed yourself in the Culture universe yet. Seriously???
Start with the first one, "Consider Phlebas", and work your way forward in chronological order. If you love The Bridge... as all Banksy connoisseurs do... then you have about a dozen exquisite books on your reading list now. I can't fucking believe you've never gone over to the M Side. I would give anything to discover the Culture all over again.
Go forth and hit that amazon button, or whatever's quickest. %)
mostly-human
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Didn't realise Banks had died, weird, I've read about 3 of the 'Culture' books in the last couple weeks!
That's a shame, as far as giving a shit about celebrities dying, I do often stress that an author I really like will die before completing a series I'm into.. my favourite books to read are those that form a series of three or more, I love finishing a really good book and knowing there's more to come.
That said - The Culture books, whilst great, are a pretty far cry from my favourite SciFi (I mostly read SciFi over all else). And, they're more or less self-contained, so his death - whilst putting an end to The Culture - doesn't leave anything left unwrapped. So I guess it doesn't really bother me, at all.
I was pretty bummed out when Douglas Adams died whilst writing The Salmon of Doubt. I've read the uncompleted novel, which was a bad move, just tortured myself really.
I kinda hope the dude who write the Game Of Thrones books dies before they're finished, just to piss everyone off, although IIRC HBO have the rights to complete their show in this eventuality, in fact - I believe they're even allowed to 'get creative' if the show over-takes the books.
FYI: The books are fucking shit, they all go for about 1000 pages but only have about 200 pages worth of content worth reading, just long-ass, boring as fuck books. The show is about 50 times better, though - not really my type of thing, not into the whole fantasy thing.. bring on the SciFi IMO. I read the first three books and it took me ages, because they really are NOT page turners, it's hard to read more than 50 pages as a time, because nothing ever fucking happens.. not even at the end of the books, like you think the last few chapters will have some epic conclusion, but they just drone on like all the other chapters. Rubbish.
So this completes my review of Game Of Thrones - The Books based on the Hit Television show: The Fire of Ice. I give them 4 out of 10.
That's a shame, as far as giving a shit about celebrities dying, I do often stress that an author I really like will die before completing a series I'm into.. my favourite books to read are those that form a series of three or more, I love finishing a really good book and knowing there's more to come.
That said - The Culture books, whilst great, are a pretty far cry from my favourite SciFi (I mostly read SciFi over all else). And, they're more or less self-contained, so his death - whilst putting an end to The Culture - doesn't leave anything left unwrapped. So I guess it doesn't really bother me, at all.
I was pretty bummed out when Douglas Adams died whilst writing The Salmon of Doubt. I've read the uncompleted novel, which was a bad move, just tortured myself really.
I kinda hope the dude who write the Game Of Thrones books dies before they're finished, just to piss everyone off, although IIRC HBO have the rights to complete their show in this eventuality, in fact - I believe they're even allowed to 'get creative' if the show over-takes the books.
FYI: The books are fucking shit, they all go for about 1000 pages but only have about 200 pages worth of content worth reading, just long-ass, boring as fuck books. The show is about 50 times better, though - not really my type of thing, not into the whole fantasy thing.. bring on the SciFi IMO. I read the first three books and it took me ages, because they really are NOT page turners, it's hard to read more than 50 pages as a time, because nothing ever fucking happens.. not even at the end of the books, like you think the last few chapters will have some epic conclusion, but they just drone on like all the other chapters. Rubbish.
So this completes my review of Game Of Thrones - The Books based on the Hit Television show: The Fire of Ice. I give them 4 out of 10.
felix
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Hell yeah. :D
One of my pet peeves is the way bookshops and libraries merge sci-fi and fantasy in the same sections. Makes my blood boil sometimes.
I want to read about spaceships and aliens, not fucking elves and wizards and unicorns. If I was Minister for Culture & Education I'd pass a law requiring them to be kept separate.
mostly-human
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Hell yeah. :D
One of my pet peeves is the way bookshops and libraries merge sci-fi and fantasy in the same sections. Makes my blood boil sometimes.
OMG!!! Me too!! I complain about this so much.. Well, actually - since about 2010 I do ALL my reading on an eReader / Android tablet. (if you haven't made the switch yet - do it, it is soo fucking good for sooo many reasons).
But - I still hate that the (COMPLETELY DIFFERENT) genres are mixed up - even online - quite often when I'm looking for my next book to read, I'll google something like "top 10 SciFi novels of 2012" and in that list, 4 of them will be hard-fantasy (not even remotely SciFi), seriously, WTF?
What the fuck does stupid bullshit about wizards and fucking other dumbass shit like that have to do with fucking science? In any other context, 'magic' is generally regarded as the polar-opposite of science, yet fucking somehow, in a fiction novel - they're the same thing!!
felix
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Amen! :D
Nothing against people who are into that kinda stuff, but I wish they'd just keep it separate. Annoyingly, there was always seems to be about only 20% of sci-fi in the sections that I look at regularly. It makes it hard to pick out something good.
Nothing against people who are into that kinda stuff, but I wish they'd just keep it separate. Annoyingly, there was always seems to be about only 20% of sci-fi in the sections that I look at regularly. It makes it hard to pick out something good.
That's awesome. I just never got heavily into them before he died. I was more into industrial stuff like ministry and skinnypuppy. It was only this year I really began to appreciate type o in a whole new way. That's awesome tho, I have heard about their crazy Halloween shows, sounds SO awesome. If I could I'd go to a show a day. My soul lies in live music.
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Robin Williams. Mrs. Doubtfire is one of my favourite movies.