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is anyone here a big fan of marvel? whether that be comics, television series, or movies... I may need to pick your brain.
I have a ten year old that probably knows an obscene amount of stuff about Marvel. I would volunteer Pops as a person who knows something though I don't know if it's a ton.
is anyone here a big fan of marvel? whether that be comics, television series, or movies... I may need to pick your brain.
I have a ten year old that probably knows an obscene amount of stuff about Marvel. I would volunteer Pops as a person who knows something though I don't know if it's a ton.
I can tell you most anything you need to know about comics from 1920-1993. Way out of loop on stuff ever since I sold the store though.
My first rotation show for KCOU (the student radio station at Missouri) is next Thursday from 10 AM - 11 AM CDT.
So if you wanna get through your late Thursday mornings by listening to one of your fellow Inforooers be a DJ, that starts next Thursday. YAY! The station's website is kcou.fm, and I should be on either one of the streams. (I'm also on every Tuesday at 5:15 PM CDT as a sports guy, so there's that; I do a lot with college radio).
Now I have to figure out which song I'm going to play first. I put a ton of personal stock in to my very first song for some reason. It seems like my first song should be sort of an introduction to not only the show, but me as an individual so people know what they're getting when they tune in, insomuch as I can make a mid-morning rotation show my own.
I've already started thinking about it. I'm leaning towards some songs more than others, but there can only be one....eye. I want to go for a song that has a great intro, or one that could fit at the beginning of something.
I have a ten year old that probably knows an obscene amount of stuff about Marvel. I would volunteer Pops as a person who knows something though I don't know if it's a ton.
I can tell you most anything you need to know about comics from 1920-1993. Way out of loop on stuff ever since I sold the store though.
I can tell you most anything you need to know about comics from 1920-1993. Way out of loop on stuff ever since I sold the store though.
Should I read Neil Gaiman?
I can't speak for his graphic novels but as far as regular novels go, American Gods is an absolute delight. Actually I need to reread that, its been several years. But I know its delightful.
I can't speak for his graphic novels but as far as regular novels go, American Gods is an absolute delight. Actually I need to reread that, its been several years. But I know its delightful.
Okay, he's one of those names that's always in the periphery of whatever I'm interested in at the time. I've just never took the plunge into discovering him. Thanks for the rec.
I almost picked up The Sandman the last time I was in a comic book shop but I got confused and didn't know were to begin. hahaha.
I can tell you most anything you need to know about comics from 1920-1993. Way out of loop on stuff ever since I sold the store though.
Should I read Neil Gaiman?
Yes.
American Gods, as postjack stated, is a classic; He also wrote Coraline, so if you've seen the film, you'd enjoy it (if you haven't seen the film, watch it).
Also: he wrote the English dub of Princess Mononoke, The Sandman (my favorite comic book series), and a Judge Dredd run. In TV, he wrote "The Doctor's Wife", one of Doctor Who's best episodes.
American Gods, as postjack stated, is a classic; He also wrote Coraline, so if you've seen the film, you'd enjoy it (if you haven't seen the film, watch it).
Also: he wrote the English dub of Princess Mononoke, The Sandman (my favorite comic book series), and a Judge Dredd run. In TV, he wrote "The Doctor's Wife", one of Doctor Who's best episodes.
Nice. I've seen Princess Mononoke. I've heard good things about The Sandman. I've just never been huge on graphic novels. I mean I've read popular ones like V for Vendetta, Sin City, The Watchmen, Walking Dead... I've just never put much time into discovering stuff on my own.
I can tell you most anything you need to know about comics from 1920-1993. Way out of loop on stuff ever since I sold the store though.
Should I read Neil Gaiman?
I would recommend him. American Gods and Neverwhere are really good fantasy books. I really liked the Sandman series, especially the first 5 issues with the wonderful art of Sam Keith.
Post by rummersizzo on Oct 8, 2015 16:28:14 GMT -5
Recently started reading the HP series again. Currently on the Half-Blood Prince, on the chapter "The Cave". My reading has slowed down because I know what's coming....
Generally Neal Stephenson books are characterized by fantastic characters, great turn paging pacing, lots of humor (i think they are all funny anyway) and a unbelievable, inhuman amount of hard science information. Every Stephenson book I read I don't understand how he keeps all this shit in his head. And its not like its just one subject that he keeps writing the same book about over and over, each book is almost a completely different subject.
Snow Crash (as snowmanomura recommended) is generally considered to be his most classic novel. Unfortunately for me, old school cyberpunk virtual reality based literature has always been frustrating for me. Given its been several years since I attempted to read Snow Crash, but when I tried I could never make it through it. Books that primarily take place in a VR environment just annoy the hell out of me, probably because there are no apparent rules and the author can just do whatever he wants. But I really need to pick it up and give it another go. Most people love it so don't let my disinterest turn you off.
The novel that really did it for me was Cryptonomicon. Its not even really science fiction, its more of a dual timeline thriller rooted in cryptography. It bounces back and forth between a WWII era and modern era timeline. While Snow Crash is Stephenson's most famous book, Cryptonomicon has his most famous piece of writing, which is a passage about eating cereal.
After that I jumped into The Baroque Cycle, which is a trilogy of historical fiction books, set in the age of Isaac Newton and alchemy. Its a damn good war/adventure book, with tons of stuff about early scientists, alchemy, the rise of the banking system, just all kinds of shit, its fucking wild is what it is.
This summmer I finally read Reamde, which focuses on computer virii, hacking culture, and a WoW like MMORPG that ties it all together. The most straight ahead adventure thriller out of all of his books IMO. Its not flawless but the characters were fantastic and it was a lot of fun to read.
After that I moved on to Seveneves, his latest novel, which deals primarily in the destruction of earth and orbital mechanics. Lots and lots and lots of orbital mechanics. Utterly fascinating, incredibly dramatic, stunning in its scope and scale.
I also know I read The Diamond Age and loved it, it has something to do with nanotechnology or the singularity or something, but this was back in the 90s and I barely remember anything about it.
Honestly you could pick up any of the above that deals with subject matter you find interesting, and before you know it you'll be tearing through it. I love reading but consider myself a slow reader, and I always manage to burn through Stephenson's enormous tomes in 1-2 weeks. He just has a gift for taking complex scientific matters and weaving them into utterly engaging stories.
Generally Neal Stephenson books are characterized by fantastic characters, great turn paging pacing, lots of humor (i think they are all funny anyway) and a unbelievable, inhuman amount of hard science information. Every Stephenson book I read I don't understand how he keeps all this shit in his head. And its not like its just one subject that he keeps writing the same book about over and over, each book is almost a completely different subject.
Snow Crash (as snowmanomura recommended) is generally considered to be his most classic novel. Unfortunately for me, old school cyberpunk virtual reality based literature has always been frustrating for me. Given its been several years since I attempted to read Snow Crash, but when I tried I could never make it through it. Books that primarily take place in a VR environment just annoy the hell out of me, probably because there are no apparent rules and the author can just do whatever he wants. But I really need to pick it up and give it another go. Most people love it so don't let my disinterest turn you off.
The novel that really did it for me was Cryptonomicon. Its not even really science fiction, its more of a dual timeline thriller rooted in cryptography. It bounces back and forth between a WWII era and modern era timeline. While Snow Crash is Stephenson's most famous book, Cryptonomicon has his most famous piece of writing, which is a passage about eating cereal.
After that I jumped into The Baroque Cycle, which is a trilogy of historical fiction books, set in the age of Isaac Newton and alchemy. Its a damn good war/adventure book, with tons of stuff about early scientists, alchemy, the rise of the banking system, just all kinds of shit, its fucking wild is what it is.
This summmer I finally read Reamde, which focuses on computer virii, hacking culture, and a WoW like MMORPG that ties it all together. The most straight ahead adventure thriller out of all of his books IMO. Its not flawless but the characters were fantastic and it was a lot of fun to read.
After that I moved on to Seveneves, his latest novel, which deals primarily in the destruction of earth and orbital mechanics. Lots and lots and lots of orbital mechanics. Utterly fascinating, incredibly dramatic, stunning in its scope and scale.
I also know I read The Diamond Age and loved it, it has something to do with nanotechnology or the singularity or something, but this was back in the 90s and I barely remember anything about it.
Honestly you could pick up any of the above that deals with subject matter you find interesting, and before you know it you'll be tearing through it. I love reading but consider myself a slow reader, and I always manage to burn through Stephenson's enormous tomes in 1-2 weeks. He just has a gift for taking complex scientific matters and weaving them into utterly engaging stories.
Cryptonomicon is great, but at 1000+ pages, I didn't really think it was worth suggesting as an into to Stephenson. (snow crash is less than half that)
Go back and reread snow crash. I dunno how long ago you read it, but I am actually in the middle of it right now and some of the tech seems startlingly similar to stuff that exists today. I keep thinking of the Mataverse as a giant mixture of like, facebook, World of Warcraft, and Tor/Silk Road.
Generally Neal Stephenson books are characterized by fantastic characters, great turn paging pacing, lots of humor (i think they are all funny anyway) and a unbelievable, inhuman amount of hard science information. Every Stephenson book I read I don't understand how he keeps all this shit in his head. And its not like its just one subject that he keeps writing the same book about over and over, each book is almost a completely different subject.
Snow Crash (as snowmanomura recommended) is generally considered to be his most classic novel. Unfortunately for me, old school cyberpunk virtual reality based literature has always been frustrating for me. Given its been several years since I attempted to read Snow Crash, but when I tried I could never make it through it. Books that primarily take place in a VR environment just annoy the hell out of me, probably because there are no apparent rules and the author can just do whatever he wants. But I really need to pick it up and give it another go. Most people love it so don't let my disinterest turn you off.
The novel that really did it for me was Cryptonomicon. Its not even really science fiction, its more of a dual timeline thriller rooted in cryptography. It bounces back and forth between a WWII era and modern era timeline. While Snow Crash is Stephenson's most famous book, Cryptonomicon has his most famous piece of writing, which is a passage about eating cereal.
After that I jumped into The Baroque Cycle, which is a trilogy of historical fiction books, set in the age of Isaac Newton and alchemy. Its a damn good war/adventure book, with tons of stuff about early scientists, alchemy, the rise of the banking system, just all kinds of shit, its fucking wild is what it is.
This summmer I finally read Reamde, which focuses on computer virii, hacking culture, and a WoW like MMORPG that ties it all together. The most straight ahead adventure thriller out of all of his books IMO. Its not flawless but the characters were fantastic and it was a lot of fun to read.
After that I moved on to Seveneves, his latest novel, which deals primarily in the destruction of earth and orbital mechanics. Lots and lots and lots of orbital mechanics. Utterly fascinating, incredibly dramatic, stunning in its scope and scale.
I also know I read The Diamond Age and loved it, it has something to do with nanotechnology or the singularity or something, but this was back in the 90s and I barely remember anything about it.
Honestly you could pick up any of the above that deals with subject matter you find interesting, and before you know it you'll be tearing through it. I love reading but consider myself a slow reader, and I always manage to burn through Stephenson's enormous tomes in 1-2 weeks. He just has a gift for taking complex scientific matters and weaving them into utterly engaging stories.
Cryptonomicon is great, but at 1000+ pages, I didn't really think it was worth suggesting as an into to Stephenson. (snow crash is less than half that)
Go back and reread snow crash. I dunno how long ago you read it, but I am actually in the middle of it right now and some of the tech seems startlingly similar to stuff that exists today. I keep thinking of the Mataverse as a giant mixture of like, facebook, World of Warcraft, and Tor/Silk Road.
Shit Cryptonomicon is 1000+ pages? Wow yeah that's pretty long. Been a while since I've had a paper copy around to read.
I will read Snow Crash, probably right after I wrap up The Reality Dysfunction which I'm reading now. I did read Ready Player One a month or so ago and its pretty much all in a virtual world as well. It suffered from similar sins I've seen in other virtual world books, mainly the author just all of the sudden making up some shit you can do in the virtual world out of nowhere. Similar to the deus ex machina thing you see in shitty fantasy novels where all the sudden the wizard summons the power to cast this enormous spell which saves everybody kind of thing. BUT, I did enjoy RPO for what it was, so maybe my brain is ready to handle Snow Crash now.
And I'm looking forward to the RPO movie, if they do it right it could be badass.
Post by heyyitskait on Oct 8, 2015 19:10:49 GMT -5
American Gods did not live up to all the hype for me. It's a good bit of writing and a really great concept, it just fell a bit flat in the end. Maybe I need to reread it? I kinda blew through it.
Gaiman's episodes of Doctor Who are some of my favorites.
American Gods did not live up to all the hype for me. It's a good bit of writing and a really great concept, it just fell a bit flat in the end. Maybe I need to reread it? I kinda blew through it.
Gaiman's episodes of Doctor Who are some of my favorites.
I've haven't watched Doctor Who since I watched it with my aunt as kid. It just seems way to overwhelming to pick up on now. I've read a little about were to begin, etc. But I have a completest personality. It would nag at it me if I tried to pick up in a certain era and missed everything before.
I can tell you most anything you need to know about comics from 1920-1993. Way out of loop on stuff ever since I sold the store though.
Should I read Neil Gaiman?
I'm 99% sure you're kidding.
Edit - ah read the rest and see you aren't. For about a year here all my avatars were Sandman characters. Back when I was Fiddler's Green and Lucien, so I thought you were ribbing me. Anyway, yes you should read Sandman. American Gods is a great novel and Neverwhere and Anansi Boys are decent novels. But Sandman is the crown jewel. You can read it multiple times and get new things in it every time. It's a real astounding work of literature when looked at from start to finish as one long novel with stories inside stories. The art was always tremendous and Todd Klein's lettering ability to do each character's words in different styles and fonts was the best ever. But Gaiman's plotting, character writing and dialogue are some of the best ever in comics. It started a real late 80s-90s revival of grown ups reading comics because of real storytelling and so DC created an imprint called Vertigo that had in addition to Sandman - Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol, Shade, the Changing Man and a bunch of other "adult" comics. Every time I go to reread the series, I get a thrill like I'm back at the first time I read them as monthly comics the day they would come out.
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Nah, I was serious. I've never read him. I was also referencing an avatar you had for a long time, which I think was from a Gaiman comic?
See edit above
Okay. I was pretty positive because I photoshopped one of your avatars and I've loosely associated Gaiman with you ever since. I'd just forgot most of the details with time.
Like I said to Postjack. I've had Sandman recommended to me and I almost picked it up at a comic shop. I just didn't really know were to start and figured I'd research it first. Instead of asking the guys at the store because I'm a social dingus and don't like asking shop owners about their products, I guess.
Okay, I've got so many recommendations. I'm going to get on it soon!
American Gods did not live up to all the hype for me. It's a good bit of writing and a really great concept, it just fell a bit flat in the end. Maybe I need to reread it? I kinda blew through it.
Same. I was super excited to read it then was really bored the whole time. I don't know if I even finished.
I'm definitely going to try it again. I feel like the problem is with me on that one, not Mr. Gaiman. Still though. It was a bummer.