Longstreet was from the same early 70s era.
Bruce Lee was in that teaching Longstreet how to defend himself. That was a cool series. t /showing my age
Angel: Is that what you think you are--a hero? Spike: Saved the world didn't I? Angel: Once. Talk to me after you've done it a couple more times.
'Destiny'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2005 7:44:13 am PST #7022 of 10002
brillig
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 7:46:18 am PST #7023 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
While, we're at it, The Catalog of Cool's Hiply Writ books - including Frankenstein, Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, Heraclitus, Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter and...
INTO THE HEART OF BORNEO- Redmond O'Hanlon (Random House). In 1983, British naturalist O'Hanlon and his poet-journalist buddy James Fenton took off for the world's third-largest island to contend with rivers, tropical jungles, and mountains no Westerners had tackled in 50 years. Into The Heart Of Borneo -- one of the hippest travel books ever -- is O'Hanlon's half-surreal, mostly hilarious report on their crack-brained expedition. Armed with books, medications and liquors and daily doused with anti-fungus powder until their "erogenous zones looked like meat chunks rolled in flour," the pair and their three antic Iban guides meet with nations of pests (leeches, wild-boar ticks, inch-long ants) and dazzlingly rare creatures (fish-eagles, pig-tailed macques, dinosaurlike water monitors) alike. They see 800 weird kinds of trees and have almost as many bizarre jungle-inspired dreams. Though the rumored blowpipe-toting Bornean cannibals never materialize, the explorers are obliged to teach the natives they do encounter the seven-step disco and to improvise war dances for them in raucous -- and bibulous -- tribal jam sessions. The Iban tribesmen, O'Hanlon writes, always lay down when they "know that they are going to laugh for a long time." Definitely the sort of book to take lying down. P.F.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 9:03:51 am PST #7024 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How literary reputations get trashed: A poison pen to Stephen Spender.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 5:56:39 pm PST #7025 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do any of you people know The Stainless Steel Rat? They were just recommended to me.
DXMachina - Feb 07, 2005 5:59:29 pm PST #7026 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I read them many years ago, and liked them well enough.
DavidS - Feb 07, 2005 5:59:30 pm PST #7027 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do any of you people know The Stainless Steel Rat? They were just recommended to me.
I loved those books. Or at least the first couple (as with most series, there are diminishing returns.) Protagonist is absolutely and completely amoral. This is entertaining.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2005 6:01:37 pm PST #7028 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
They do seem to exist in the NYPL, so I may give them a shot.
Volans - Feb 07, 2005 10:28:31 pm PST #7029 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I actually just read the first few Stainless Steel Rat (as I may have mentioned, the embassy's lending library basically contains the Sci-Fi Book Club holdings circa 1985) a couple months ago. Diminishing returns, but the first couple weren't bad. His writing style bugged the crap out of me, but I kinda liked the idea of a protagonist who breaks the law just because he'd be bored otherwise.
Jim - Feb 07, 2005 11:32:19 pm PST #7030 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
If you like the Soderbergh Ocean's 11, you'll like the early SSR books. They're exactly that playful hipster vibe. The first 2 books are ace, as are ...For President and ...Is Born.
Jesse - Feb 08, 2005 5:18:39 am PST #7031 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If you like the Soderbergh Ocean's 11, you'll like the early SSR books.
Ooh, I love that.