Your favourite authors, and why?

[Walker]

Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

[Maia]

Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

[promethean75]

Fantasy genre. Feist, the author of the Riftwar series with Pug. Ourstanding series.

All time favorite sci fi even over Asimov is Herbert and the Dune series. Untouchable. The one and only.

My blade will finish u!

He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

[Walker]

Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

I'm pretty sure you didn't get that from Pillars of the Earth, unless you're beginning a metaphor that involves the head office.

[Maia]

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

I'm pretty sure you didn't get that from Pillars of the Earth, unless you're beginning a metaphor that involves the head office.

Herodotus, I believe. He was probably only referring to the outer layer, though.

[accelafine]

Yes, that's the one. They were building a church, taking decades.

I heard they're using the old skills to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral, hand hewn beams and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's not some electric machines helping out. Fortunately they're not rebuilding one of the great pyramids with original methods.

At least the old skills still survive. As for the pyramids, though, apparently they were built from the top down. Or so I've read, anyway...

I'm picturing the tip of the pyramid floating in the air

[accelafine]

Fantasy genre. Feist, the author of the Riftwar series with Pug. Ourstanding series.

All time favorite sci fi even over Asimov is Herbert and the Dune series. Untouchable. The one and only.

My blade will finish u!

He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

All excellent. The Amtrak Wars are really good too. Love all those fantasy series. Unfortunately Frank Herbert stretched out Dune for so long that he ended up dying before he'd finished.

[Impenitent]

Fantasy genre. Feist, the author of the Riftwar series with Pug. Ourstanding series.

All time favorite sci fi even over Asimov is Herbert and the Dune series. Untouchable. The one and only.

My blade will finish u!

He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

Herbert was an excellent author

but Spock was not Herbert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NON4hksO77I

-Imp

[promethean75]

Tim Dorsey hangs out in Florida so you don't have to in...

Serge and Coleman Do Spring Break

[promethean75]

"Pablo (aka Testerando) played, as it's sometimes said, like a man possessed"

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8NIvZNGnO6 ... 1Rgk-sXWbh

[ThinkOfOne]

I'll start with Tolkien, mainly because I find his world building to be pretty amazing. My favourite book of his is the Silmarillion, which most resembles a genuine mythology.

Jane Louise Curry is an America writer of young adult fantasy, who has clearly, in part, been inspired by Tolkien, but has very much put her own spin on it. My favourite of hers is Beneath the Hill, which I read when I was little, leaving an indelible impression on me.

Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince are a writing duo who cover alternative history and unsolved mysteries, and have written on quite a wide range of subjects. My favourite of theirs is The Sion Revelation, an in depth investigation into the Priory of Sion story, from a critical perspective.

Robert Graves has written both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter is The White Goddess, a compendium of Celtic myth, though my favourite of his is I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, a fictional autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius.

There are more, of course, but that'll do for now, I think.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai whose writing his translator George Szirtes described as "a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.” Like Samuel Beckett's novels, they're fun to read.

I’ve said it a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. I wasn’t satisfied with the first, and that’s why I wrote the second. I wasn’t satisfied with the second, so I wrote the third, and so on. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book—Satantango, Melancholy, War and War, and Baron. This is my one book.

---Laszlo Krasnakorkai

I've only read all the installments of his "one book". Anyone read anything else?

[promethean75]

Okay, Dorsey fans, now we're starting the second book in the series called Hammerhead Ranch Motel. We will be discussing the book as we listen like we did the first one. Commentary on Florida history trivia is also welcome as always.

https://youtu.be/nDkLR0TfEDk

[Maia]

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr is a classic young adult fantasy that blurs the line between dreaming and reality.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marianne-Dream ... B00J1JON72

Marianne, after a fall from a horse, is laid up in bed for weeks on end with nothing to do. In a colouring book she draws a picture of a house, and then, when she falls asleep, she visits the house and finds a boy there, Mark, who can't walk, but doesn't know why. She keeps doing this every night, but after an argument with Mark, draws bars on the windows so he can't escape, and surrounds the house with menacing stones, like in a stone circle, except that they have eyes and can move. With the stones closing in on the house, and feeling guilty about what she has done, Marianne helps Mark escape. It turns out that Mark is a real boy, in the real world, who is in hospital, and because of how Marianne has helped him, he recovers, and they meet.

[promethean75]

Cue Serge, our lovable antihero. Here, he waits in a motel room during a stake out. He's following a tracking device on a car with five million in drug money hidden in the trunk, unbeknownst to everyone but Serge.

The car's on the move again, so Serge jumps out of the tub, grabs his shit and makes a dash to the car to follow the chrysler with the tracker in it.

But as he's following the car, he starts noticing historically unique places along the way. And as you know, Serge is OCD about this stuff and absolutely has to get some pictures. As he drives along, he battles with himself like an autistic person having a minor meltdown over deciding to stay in pursuit of the car or taking the exits to get some pictures of stuff. Lol.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxCt8gh4QLRB ... 0XqJWYJsz5

[promethean75]

A wealthy childless columbian couple named Juanita and Jose move into their new four bedroom waterfront home and immediately resume fighting. Dorsey's on fire here.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxLFhuJaE7z9 ... nGJkki1OiT