Books… Movies..

Books:

1. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (by Micheal Chabon)
2. Inherent Vice (by Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.)
3. House of Suns (by Alastair Reynolds)
4. We Might as Well Win (the oh so humble autobiography of Johan Bruyneel mailed to me by Ryan and India)

Movies:

1. The Proposition (written? by Nick Cave)
2. Ponyo (Miyazaki playing at Cine now..)
3. The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, also apprearing on my previous movie / book list on this blog. Incidentally, “Encounters at the Edge of the World” was awesome)
4. … something else I’ve forgotten now

Movies to watch and books to read

.. before I forget them.

Movies

1. The Wild Blue Yonder; Werner Herzog, 2005
2. Encounters at the End of the World; Herzog, opens 6-11-08 (yesterday) in NYC

Books

1. Anathem; Neil Stephenson
2. Thirteen; Richard Morgan
3. Blue Mars; Kim Stanley Robinson

To Read

1. Spook Country, William Gibson. Ashamedly, I only realized that Gibson had written a new book when I was looking to buy Warren Ellis’ book below on Amazon and the wily amazon computer suggested I buy THIS and THIS to get a discount. Stupid computers.. making me look bad.
2. Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis. I love Nextwave, among other Warren Ellis projects. I also like mysteries, just like most old ladies I know.

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

Happy Towel Day: http://www.towelday.kojv.net/

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency came up in the blogosphere recently because, I guess, a “radio” production of said book is being made by some Swedes on the internet. Google book title + podcast to find it. I really enjoyed this book, though it was quite hard to follow the whole thing. Alot of effort.

On another book note, I’m reading Ian MacDonald’s new book called “Brasyl”. This is marketed as post-cyberpunk sci-fi, or something like that. The first 30 pages are somewhat boring and filled with all kinds of words I don’t understand (because they’re Brazilian slang or Portuguese?), but it is getting better. Maybe its just that I don’t like the first story so much. There are two more in the book apparently.