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Nov. 4th, 2000 06:40 pmTop 5 lists seem to be popular in LJ land. I think I'll put a top 5 at the bottom of each post, if I can keep thinking them up. Feel free to play along at home, but I'm partially doing this to sort myself out: I seem to have this weird fixation -- I can't think up a suitable bio on my info page, but I don't seem to have any problem posting journal entries.
Top 5 favorite books (and it took me a while to come up with this...so many choices...ask me again in a month and they'll probably be different):
1 -- Neuromancer, William Gibson. Re-reading it doesn't have the same impact it did when I first read it, but it's still my favorite. SF with a street/underground attitude. The best example of SF not always being clean and shiny like Star Trek. Read with Nine Inch Nails or Front Line Assembly in the background.
2 -- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice I can't read anything new by her; she really seems to have lost her edge. Louis has always been my favorite...much more so than Lestat the Brat. Background music: Bauhaus or Fields of the Nephalim.
3 -- The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler Phillip Marlowe at his best...not young anymore, but young enough to take care of himself. Old enough to have mellowed his wisdom. Friendship, love, murder, and a tall gimlet on the side. Background music: Billie Holiday.
4 -- Valis, Phillip K. Dick Very weird, even by Dick's standards. The ultimate tale of discovering God, through the narration of a paranoid schizophrenic. Background Music: None, just keep the lights on at night.
5 -- Necrom, Mick Farren Good luck trying to find this one, I think it went out of print 30 nanoseconds after printing. It's a very fast-paced, yet warped, tale about a washed up rock has-been, yanked into parallel worlds, 10,000 year old demon that look like Cher and Clint Eastwood, civilized and scientific Aztecs, the Kennedy assassination, and, for good measure, insane asylums. Sounds crackpot, but it's SF set to an MTV music video. Background Music: Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil.
Top 5 favorite books (and it took me a while to come up with this...so many choices...ask me again in a month and they'll probably be different):
1 -- Neuromancer, William Gibson. Re-reading it doesn't have the same impact it did when I first read it, but it's still my favorite. SF with a street/underground attitude. The best example of SF not always being clean and shiny like Star Trek. Read with Nine Inch Nails or Front Line Assembly in the background.
2 -- Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice I can't read anything new by her; she really seems to have lost her edge. Louis has always been my favorite...much more so than Lestat the Brat. Background music: Bauhaus or Fields of the Nephalim.
3 -- The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler Phillip Marlowe at his best...not young anymore, but young enough to take care of himself. Old enough to have mellowed his wisdom. Friendship, love, murder, and a tall gimlet on the side. Background music: Billie Holiday.
4 -- Valis, Phillip K. Dick Very weird, even by Dick's standards. The ultimate tale of discovering God, through the narration of a paranoid schizophrenic. Background Music: None, just keep the lights on at night.
5 -- Necrom, Mick Farren Good luck trying to find this one, I think it went out of print 30 nanoseconds after printing. It's a very fast-paced, yet warped, tale about a washed up rock has-been, yanked into parallel worlds, 10,000 year old demon that look like Cher and Clint Eastwood, civilized and scientific Aztecs, the Kennedy assassination, and, for good measure, insane asylums. Sounds crackpot, but it's SF set to an MTV music video. Background Music: Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil.
