Wait, so how did Richard Burton (the Scheherazade one, Doodlebug) enter a conversation involving Philip Jose Farmer aside from being the main character of Riverworld? So confused! I blame , Limey . . .
Now, now, poor Limey's already had slanderous asperions cast upon him today. (My apologies, comrade.)
The fault is all mine because the only Farmer I've read (well, not really) was in Promethea.
Continuing the deliberate mixing of highbrow and low
In retrospect, did Dick ever perform in a Thousand Nights-derived film? 'Cuz he shoulda.
The fault is all mine because the only Farmer I've read (well, not really) was in Promethea.
[After searching through boxes of comics]
And not even that, as it turns out. Got The House Boat on the Styx confused with The Fabulous Riverboat, which makes sense as I've read neither.
Wait, so how did Richard Burton (the Scheherazade one, Doodlebug) enter a conversation involving Philip Jose Farmer aside from being the main character of Riverworld? So confused! I blame , Limey . . .
Thlanderouth Athperthionth! (no worries :)
That was to do with Lord Dunsany, to whom he (RB) was supposed to be related. I assume it was the explorer, swordsmen and champion ponker and not the actor, actor and champion ponker, but Wikipedia was silent on that point.
Never read any of the Riverworld books. Any good?
I was trying to find the mashup of RB (II) reading the start of 'Under Milk Wood' with a dub version of 'Dreamt Last Night About Ali Baba' (or whatever it's called), but to no avail. Now back to your Philip Jose Farmer discussion.
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Now up: Mordecai goes on about PJF's The Maker of Universes while talking about his old D&D campaigns.
I never got to read World of Tiers, although I did read one of the Riverworld books and one or two of the Dungeon series he oversaw.
I noticed that Mordecai seemed to have missed the shape of the World of Tiers; IIRC, it was sort of like a wedding cake, with each tier being a successively smaller arc around the diameter, until you got to the Lord's Palace at the top.
Ignorance of tesseract geometry and/or poor spatial reasoning skills are the least of that guy's problems.
OK, they're finally onto Margaret St. Clair; I guess they read (or at least started) The Shadow People. Granted, my only experience with St. Clair was starting Sign of the Labrys in the library stacks one day, seeing a bunch of Vance I hadn't read, and putting dreary old Maggie back on the shelf after getting only a chapter into it... so I'm exactly not one talk about not finishing things.
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This thread makes me sadder and sadder as it goes on.
It just continuously reminds me of how many more books I have to read.
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The review of Andrew Offutt is up!
I'm surprised no one commented on how the creature from the black lagoon is touching that swordsman...I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought that was kind of naughty.
You heard it here first, Andrew Offutt was an editor, not a writer.
I know they have to review the books listed in Appendix N, and not everything else said author has written, but do these guys seem completely uninformed to anyone else out there, or is it just me?
It turns out that special guest columnists at Tor are nowhere near as nerdy as the average Paizo.com habituee.
F+%+in' a right!
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Reading the erotic titles on Offutt's Wikipedia page made me giggle. No wonder he used pseudonyms.
Hmm...maybe Tor should do a review of Offutt's other works?
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Reading the erotic titles on Offutt's Wikipedia page made me giggle. No wonder he used pseudonyms.
Hmm...maybe Tor should do a review of Offutt's other works?
Well, that's my next six months' reading sorted out :D I especially like the sound of 'Satana Enslaved' and 'The 24 Hour "Thing" '
I haven't read Offutt's adult stuff, but when I was twelve or so I managed to get ahold of an omnibus edition of The Image of the Beast and Blown by Philip Jose Farmer. The first time I read it, I was all, "This is like having sex during a bad acid trip, and I haven't done either of those things yet!" Man, I read that book over and over again, until the binding fell apart and it was just a stack of pages. I think my roommate stole it when he packed up his stuff at the end of freshman year.
Ah, memories!
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It turns out that special guest columnists at Tor are nowhere near as nerdy as the average Paizo.com habituee.
Say what you want, at least this time our buddy Mord managed to sit down, actually read the work in question, provide a semi-coherent synopsis and review of said work, relate it to D&D and why it's in Appendix N, and do all that without obsessively picking off-topic fights with other authors. Considering his track record so far, going 4 for 4 with Offutt is a major accomplishment for him, nerd cred or no!
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic/erotic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Known pseudonyms include John Cleve, J.(John) X. Williams, Jeff Douglas, Turk Winter, Farrah Fawkes, & Baxter Giles
Heh. "Turk Winter" sounds like a porn star name, more than a porn author name!
And is it just me, or do some of his fantasy/sci fi titles actually sound worse than his "erotic" ones? Of Alien Bondage might be about an undocumented Mexican dominatrix...
It turns out that special guest columnists at Tor are nowhere near as nerdy as the average Paizo.com habituee.Say what you want
Okay.
Paizo.com habituees out-nerd special guest Tor columnists!
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic/erotic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Known pseudonyms include John Cleve, J.(John) X. Williams, Jeff Douglas, Turk Winter, Farrah Fawkes, & Baxter GilesHeh. "Turk Winter" sounds like a porn star name, more than a porn author name!
And is it just me, or do some of his fantasy/sci fi titles actually sound worse than his "erotic" ones? Of Alien Bondage might be about an undocumented Mexican dominatrix...
I don't quite understand why the word 'worse' should appear in that sentence at all.
Clearly a take-off on Of Human Bondage, as most people have realised already. It's littrichur, so it's clean, but I've not read either.
... as most people have realised already.
Easy there, Dean Wormer. It's juvenile humor, granted, but humor nonetheless.
... as most people have realised already.Easy there, Dean Wormer.
Kirth, stop making me Google things. The strain is too much.
All I meant was that everybody else had probably already got it and I hadn't, and I'm kind of upset that it isn't about a Mexican dominatrix (or is it?).
Oooh, finally, something that I've read.
Of Human Bondage is about a poor lisper and the slatternly hussy who torments him!
All I meant was that everybody else had probably already got it and I hadn't, and I'm kind of upset that it isn't about a Mexican dominatrix (or is it?).
Oh. Carry on, then! (I'll admit that, while vaguely familiar with SW Maugham and some of his titles, I never actually sat down and read OHB, either.)
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All I meant was that everybody else had probably already got it and I hadn't, and I'm kind of upset that it isn't about a Mexican dominatrix (or is it?).Oh. Carry on, then! (I'll admit that, while vaguely familiar with SW Maugham and some of his titles, I never actually sat down and read OHB, either.)
I've seen the movie! This one!
SW Maugham
Wait -- should be WS -- he was one of those "first initial" guys. Have to hand it to him, though; "Somerset" is a pretty memorable given name.
I've seen the movie! This one!All I meant was that everybody else had probably already got it and I hadn't, and I'm kind of upset that it isn't about a Mexican dominatrix (or is it?).Oh. Carry on, then! (I'll admit that, while vaguely familiar with SW Maugham and some of his titles, I never actually sat down and read OHB, either.)
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She's got Bette Davis eyes
That singer sounds like a pack-a-day smoker. I like the lyrics, but that poor singer needs a throat lozenge.
In other news, Knode reviews Leigh Brackett. Not the BEST review IMO, because I wanted more about the story and less about Leigh, whom we all know and love, amirite?
Because of the title, I'd been expecting someone...not white on the cover? That said, the lady on the cover is wearing an AWESOME outfit I'd love to cosplay! (I probably would NOT be the best cosplayer EVAH, but I'd be willing to try!)
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When they were reprinted for Planet Stories, I read and reviewed a couple of Brackett's EJS stories HERE (scroll to bottom of 1st page).
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She's got Bette Davis eyesThat singer sounds like a pack-a-day smoker. I like the lyrics, but that poor singer needs a throat lozenge.
In other news, Knode reviews Leigh Brackett. Not the BEST review IMO, because I wanted more about the story and less about Leigh, whom we all know and love, amirite?
Because of the title, I'd been expecting someone...not white on the cover? That said, the lady on the cover is wearing an AWESOME outfit I'd love to cosplay! (I probably would NOT be the best cosplayer EVAH, but I'd be willing to try!)
Go for it! :)
In other news, Eric John Stark has Dickie Davies Eyes
"Mention The Lord of the Rings one more time, Kirth'll more than likely kill you
Michael Moorcock, Michael Moorcock you fervently moan"
There should probably be a couple of extra commas in that last sentence. But where?
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I wrote a Leigh Brackett review, too.
I wrote a Leigh Brackett review, too.
Your review beats the hell out of mine in terms of brevity. And Mr T besides -- can goblins grow mohawks?
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Mr. T?!? Come now, Kirth...More musical links that aren't even tangenitally related to the thread
Can't read 'em at work. :(
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In other news, Knode reviews Leigh Brackett. Not the BEST review IMO, because I wanted more about the story and less about Leigh, whom we all know and love, amirite?Because of the title, I'd been expecting someone...not white on the cover? That said, the lady on the cover is wearing an AWESOME outfit I'd love to cosplay! (I probably would NOT be the best cosplayer EVAH, but I'd be willing to try!)
Wait, did Knode really say that Robert E. Howard wrote Barsoom?
Stark is Space Tarzan, and in The Black Amazon of Mars, he’s Space Tarzan on Robert E. Howard’s Barsoom.
Ummmm...yeah.
Headdesk.
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I doubletaked at that, too, but they've already done a John Carter one so I don't know if he's trying to say "imagine Barsoom as written by REH" or if he just had a brain-fart. Sometimes it happens...
And now that I've re-clicked on the link, Get 'em, Zeugma!
Can't read 'em at work. :(
Hint: The singers initials are B"B"B.
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Interestingly, as per world-building, the former is set in multiple dimensions based on Earth-world fantastical literature (the Norse Eddas, the paladins of Charlemagne, the world of Cuchulainn, etc.) and the latter, according to what I read in the preface, is set in a world created by Dunsany, whom I've never read.
I think most of his work should be in the public domain. I picked up a free e-book of his work on Drive-Thru Fiction last month. I could send you the link. Only read one of the stories so far, but if I had to pick one word to describe it would be 'breathless'. If it were read aloud, it would just increase in intensity going faster and faster and further and further into more epic and grandiose verbiage without pausing to let you catch up until the end.
If you like Clark Ashton Smith, and Lovecraftian Dreamlands fiction, I think it'd float your boat.
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In other news, Eric John Stark has Dickie Davies Eyes
I never thought I'd see a Half Man Half Biscuit link on this site.
Do I take it you're from our northern counties, Mister Longears?Because they're rather a regional oddity, though Comrade Doodlebug may appreciate 'Trumpton Riots' or 'Arthur's Farm'.
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Can't read 'em at work. :(Hint: The singers initials are B"B"B.
Beter, Baul and Barry, er, Bary?
@Snorter - I live in our northern counties (and my surname's that of a small village in the Bradford area) but I'm not native to the region.
I must admit I've never thought of HMHB as a specifically Northern thing, but I can see what you mean.
Joy Division Oven Gloves and Irk The Purists, then no more threadjacking. Promise.
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In other news, Eric John Stark has Dickie Davies EyesI never thought I'd see a Half Man Half Biscuit link on this site.
Do I take it you're from our northern counties, Mister Longears?Because they're rather a regional oddity, though Comrade Doodlebug may appreciate 'Trumpton Riots' or 'Arthur's Farm'.
Pretty sure I've linked All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit somewhere around here.
...and I'm from far enough to the north to call the Scots a bunch of southron ...people.
Woops. I forgot the apostrophe. "The singer's initials..."
Half Man Half Biscuit, meet Half Japanese.
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I thought it was about teasing Kirth...