Posted on 05/17/2010 6:48:20 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Thanks!
Why don’t you post the ‘What Are You Reading’ posts anymore? I miss them! Too busy with Real Life?
” I, like Heinlein, think that sin lies only in deliberately hurting someone else unnecessarily. “
So much for 2,000 years of Christianity. Sigh.
Really. Well when y'all get your rocks in a pile and figure out which brand of "Christianity" you're selling you let me know.
” Well when y’all get your rocks in a pile and figure out which brand of “Christianity” you’re selling you let me know. “
The Word of God. Maybe you heard of that, maybe not. No selling though, a free gift, if you want it.
Oh I've heard of it, about a dozen different varieties. Is that the Word of God that says I'm going to Hell if I make love to my wife without wanting a baby?
Or is marital sex just for the sheer pleasure of it not a sin? Which one is it? You can't all be right. Right?
Or is it the Word of God that says I'm going to Hell because I enjoy a good Scotch or Bourbon?
Is it the Word of God that says I can't dance if I want to?
Or is it the Word of God that says dancing is OK?
Like I said, when y'all get that silly 'doctrine' thing figured out you let me know. Maybe then I'll darken the door of one of them churches everybody's talking about.
Until then I'll do what Jesus told me to do. "Go into a closet and pray." You remember that part of the Bible. Don't you?
Maybe I'll do it again before the summer reading season begins. Memorial Day weekend sound good?
Any day. Any time. Any book. Anywhere! :)
What DO people do that don’t read? ;)
“Starship Troopers” - based on the back cover of a novel by Robert Heinlein.
He was one of the greats in the Sci Fi genre. Dick, Heinlein and Isaac Asmimov, for the three laws of robotics....
Asimov—where’s my typing robot!
I honestly think Bladerunner was better than the original story. I read the novel shortly after seeing the movie and found it just too dreary and depressing.
Total Recall started off intriguing and funny, but because Paul Verhoeven was directing it, it was turned into a gratuitous gore-fest.
Screamers was indeed dreary, but the love story at the end sort of redeemed it.
I think it must have been an excerpt from his novel “The Monkey Handlers”.
Either that, or his listing of seven or so obvious points that terrorists could blow up to paralyze the nation, but I think he wrote that piece for Popular Science.
I hope to hell you’re not talking about the first 1979 movie where they’re wearing those silly pajamas. The polt was half-baked as well (think the TOS “Nomad” plot warmed over). The 1982 Wrath of Khan is the true classic. The soundtrack was awesome and the uniforms looked like uniforms.
Yeah, and he deliberately jacked up "Starship Troopers" as well.
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” was just so damn dreary. The androids in the book lacked all the savage passion and will to live that Rutger Hauer, Darryl Hannah, Brion James and Joanna Cassidy brought to their roles.
I don’t think it was necessary for Hauer’s Roy Baty to be such a sadistic killer, however.
Phillip K. Dick succumbed to schizophrenia in middle age.
J.G. Ballard grew up cracked because of his twisted childhood in Japanese-interned wartime Shanghai (see the autobiographical “Empire of the Sun” (the book is uglier than the movie). I’d put him up there with Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird) although there is recent evidence Kosinski exaggerated the brutality of his wartime childhood.
Well, crushing a guy's head is a bit over the top, but it does make his actions at the end much more surprising.
I think Ridley Scott did a great job with that film and I agree with the sentiment that Scott used Dick's novel more as a point of departure for a very different story.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
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