Hadn't heard of it until your post, but I looked it up and added it to my "to read" list. Thanks :thumbsup:
I generally have an appreciation of the vulgar, the crude, the tasteless, and the dark, but, this was a bit off the scale. I love habaneros, and ocassionally dabble in ghost chilis, but this was pure capsaicin extract.
Andrew Vachss.I generally have an appreciation of the vulgar, the crude, the tasteless, and the dark, but, this was a bit off the scale. I love habaneros, and ocassionally dabble in ghost chilis, but this was pure capsaicin extract.
I'm reading Revelation Space now, not very far in, but so far so good. I've not read anything else by Reynalds so thought the first novel was where to begin.
I'm reading Revelation Space now, not very far in, but so far so good. I've not read anything else by Reynalds so thought the first novel was where to begin.
And that's why I'm intrigued. I'll report back once I've started it, but it'll be a while yet (few weeks at least).
As for me, I'm currently reading Unstoppable by Bill Nye (yes, the science guy). It's decent so far...it's about climate change and solutions to such.
Also reading Them by Jon Ronson. Love Ronson's writing.
Andrew Vachss.
I love Reynolds, the Revelation Space universe is fantastic. I found the ending of the last book to be disappointing, but the whole thing is still absolutely worth reading.
I tend to crawl through most books, little by little at night. I think I spent a whole month working down the pages to The Brothers Karamazov.
Bill Nye is cool!
The Burke series. Sorry for the delay.Thanks, I will have to check something out, any favorites?
I have read nothing by Andrew Vachss before, but I'm always looking for interesting stuff to some day read. Seems like he has amassed quite a portfolio!
I generally have an appreciation of the vulgar, the crude, the tasteless, and the dark, but, this was a bit off the scale. I love habaneros, and ocassionally dabble in ghost chilis, but this was pure capsaicin extract.
If you haven't read Robert Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters" give it a go. It may have been my first Scifi book ever. I think I've read it about 3 times. I doubt that it's aged badly. Heinlein would definitely be considered in the top tier of Scifi authors, a brilliant man.If someone has similar SciFi about human fighting other species, space battles and whatever that someone can pick up and understand, feel free to PM me names of authors. I have a stupid hard time in SciFi to find books I like, I've hated every book I've tried from Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Dan Simmons which are apparently the 'top scifi authors'.
Just finished The Girl Next Door. Maybe I'm too desensitized from reading graphic non-fiction...or I was expecting much worse, but it wasn't that bad for me. I can see how it would bother some though...are you a parent? I'm not, so that also may have something to do with it. Note: I know it's based on a true story...but it is still a fictionalized telling of that story.
If you want to read some non-fiction that is comparable (or worse), let me know. LOL. Starting with any biography of Albert Fish will probably help you decide if you'd like to read more.
I dunno, I just dont like "torture" type stuff. I'm OK with really weird and disturbing stuff, but torture not so much. I am not a parent. As far as Albert Fish goes, I learned enough about him from songs by the band Macabre.
I like disturbing type stuff, Blood Meridian and Blindness were two of my favorites... very dark, but, rapery torture family is just a bit much for me.
I can understand that. I don't like paranormal/fantasy stuff at all. Psychological terror and just insanity I'm alright with...but I have zero interest in ghost stories and the like. Aliens (more or less) is another area I have no interest in.
This work soon crossed into an investigation into human consciousness; his most famous experiment was meant to demonstrate that the unconscious electrical processes in the brain called Bereitschaftspotential (or readiness potential) discovered by Lüder Deecke and Hans Helmut Kornhuber in 1964[3] precede conscious decisions to perform volitional, spontaneous acts, implying that unconscious neuronal processes precede and potentially cause volitional acts which are retrospectively felt to be consciously motivated by the subject. The experiment has caused controversy not only because it challenges the belief in free will, but also due to a criticism of its implicit assumptions[citation needed]. It has also inspired further study of the neuroscience of free will.