I’ve known for quite a while that the main reason my book backlog is growing (other than “I keep buying books”) is the same device I draw my cartoons on.
The iPad’s always ready to offer me a quick distracting endorphin hit: check my feeds! watch a BSG video! play one more of the billion Wordle clones out there!
It’s especially bad when I’m reading an e-book on it, what with notifications popping up — few of them worthy of my attention, but all of them stealing it.
Still, I have a few in my queue that I’m really excited about. I just finished Mick Napier’s Improvise. Scene from the inside out, and started Tom Blank’s The Principles of Comedy Improv. Next up in fiction is Lake of Souls, a collection of Ann Leckie’s short stories, and then Samantha Harvey’s Orbital (which I think will be my first time reading a Booker Prize-winner — don’t judge me).
if you enjoyed a movie/show, and it was based on a book, there’s a 90% chance that the book is even better
And you get the characters’ mental commentary that a show usually has trouble getting across
The 10% is Philip K. Dick
TAKE HIS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH
hehe it’s “dick”
but seriously, disagree. they are pretty different tbf
Slow Horses has entered the chat…
I tried one book in the series and noped out in the first chapter because the narrator was annoyingly snarky.
The TV series is just so much better.
Another example is “The Godfather” which features a long subplot about one of Sonny’s girlfriends and her enormous lady parts.
You forgot the one where your favorite author turned out to be a crazy rape demon.
Three addictive writers who will further ruin your life.
Tanith Lee. “Kill The Dead” and “Night’s Master.” She basically created the whole weird fantasy genre. Neil Gaiman stole most of his best ideas from her.
Alan Furst. “Dark Voyage” and “Night Soldiers.” Spy stories set in the late 1930’s to mid 1940s. One great thing about him is his characters. The young Bulgarian fisherman is nothing like the Dutch sea captain.
Donald Westlake/Richard Stark. “The Hot Rock” and “The Hunter.” Harlan Ellison called Westlake the best American writer.
I can’t throw stones when I have a stack of 27 sitting next to me.
But I’d also add “Heard this is really good, too bad the author went crazy.”
Hardback is always worth the price
