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Recent content by LinRobinson

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    James Ellroy

    Ellroy's recent work is pretty jazzy in style, velocipded. Suggest you try his earlier work. Brown's Requium, Because the Night, etc. are much more standard LA Noir dectecive novels.
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    Series recommendations please

    One of the best crime series ever, by one of the really fine living writers, is the adventures of Russian cop Arkady Renko. Starting with Gorky Park, then coninuing in Polar Star and Red Square as the USSR collapses, then to Cuba for Havana Bay. Cruz is a masterful writer. Renko is a...
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    comics in the same league as calvin and hobbes and farside and death note?

    Oh, but THAT was pretty funny, little person. In a snotty sort of way.
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    Please vote for my best video/poem EVER!

    Hello Friends Thanks to your votes, I won a covey award for my book "trailer" for IMAGINARY LINES. Voting is now open for the video of ENGINES OF DESIRE, a pretty remarkable video which is not just a promo but a work of art in itself. I think you'll be pretty impressed by it and hope I...
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    Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

    I don't think Pratchett quite measures up and Gaiman is sort of in a different league entirely. But I'll check out Fford. (I prefer Ddodge and VvW, actually) Adams seems to be one of those guys like Brautigan: so odd nobody can follow.
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    Larry McMurtry

    I consider it REALLY boring. A couple of disaffected kids on the rodeo circuit. Where nothing really happens. I use it as an example of a novel that doesn't fit the whole "three act, dramatic pyramid" model. Its arc is a pancake. You want to read about young Texans, I'd say "Leaving...
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    Scariest Book Ever?

    The only books I ever read that I thought were actually scary were by H P Lovecraft
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    Stephen King: The Dark Tower Series

    These are the only King books I ever read. I think horror is silly. Or at least just not scary. But these are really cool. In a way the clunky things about them are almost the most endearing: he doesn't mind taking chances and getting screwball. Very nice reads. I made myself some...
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    Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

    So is there anything else out there for Hitchhiker fans to read? Anything similar that might fill the void? The only thing I can think of is the Illuminatus trilogy, but its humor is much harder-edged and less charming. Hope somebody knows some others.
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    75 questions for fantasy writers

    Writers take the liberties that readers permit. If there is a market for long rambling books about medieval shires and rustic drag people will publish them.
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    Underdogs

    Good post. I'd add Thomas Berger, whose Little Big Man is certainly up there on the Great American Novel list, but is otherwise ignored. And Don Robertson, whose Paradise Falls might indeed BE the GAN, but is lamentably undiscussed.
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    Larry McMurtry

    I didn't care for Endearment or Lonesome Dove very much, but LOVED Leaving Cheyenne and Cadillac Jack. He's had an interesting trajectory. You go back to his first work, then his cool middle stuff, then the popular later stuff and it's almost like several different writers.
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    comics in the same league as calvin and hobbes and farside and death note?

    That's a hard elite to crack. But I'd suggest Brewster Rockit as the current funniest strip.
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    Self Tuning Guitar!

    You know the musician joke: What do you call a musician who can't read music? A guitarist.
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    The things they sell on eBay!

    It just shows that cool writing is not bound in any way by the genre or medium.
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