If ever a comic book deserves that kind of treatment, it’s Watchmen. And it comes out right around my birthday! Time to start laying hints.
You haven’t read Snow Crash OR Neuromancer?
Shut down your computer and go do that. Don’t wait for them to come up in the book club. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
With the whole Sarge thing and the “Don’t wait” thing, for some reason I’ve got you playing the role of General Chang from Star Trek VI. Y’know when Kirk and McCoy are on trial and they’re holding Klingon translators to their ears and Chang screams, “Don’t wait for the translation! Answer me now!!” Oh man I love that scene. Anyway, that’s what seeing and it’s great.
Yeah alright. Yessir and all that jazz.
And yet you didn’t shut down your computer and comply.
You will pay for that…
Eh, what’s that? “You will pay for that” ?
You know, Pike, if you really wanna get into that General Chang shtick, then you gotta get yourself an eye-patch and a copy of “Shakespeare Quotations For Every Occasion”.
So instead of “you will pay for that” you gotta talk like “revenge is a dish best served cold”
“Revenge, like pizza, is a dish best served cold.”
And what about this?
“And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.”
Not Chang, but the Bard.
“To have a cookie or to have two, that is the question here!”
Following Frakkingtalos’ lead, I’m putting in yellow the books I’ve read (or, as in the case of Dark Force Rising, am halfway through) and red the books that I either have a copy of and haven’t gotten around to reading yet, or am interested in.
Adams, Douglas - “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Asimov, Isaac - “Foundation”
Brooks, Max - “World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War”
Dick, Philip - “A Scanner Darkly” - though in the interests of variety, we’ve had a book by him before, so maybe we should try to read some more authors before we go for repeats?
Doctorow, Cory - “Little Brother”
Gibson, William - “Neuromancer”
Heinlein, Robert A. - “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” - see my comment on A Scanner Darkly
Lem, Stanislaw - “Solaris”
Martin , George R. R. - “A Game of Thrones”
Moore, Christopher - “A Dirty Job”
Murphy, Amy - “The City Not Long After”
Niffenegger, Audrey - “The Time Traveler’s Wife”
Robinson, Kim Stanley - “The Years of Rice and Salt”
Shelley, Mary - “Frankenstein”
Simmons, Dan - “Hyperion”
Steakley, John - “Armor”
Stephenson, Neal - “Snow Crash”
Wilson, Robert Charles - “Spin”
Zahn, Timothy - “Dark Force Rising” (Thrawn Trilogy #2)
The more I think about it, it would be neat to follow up The Matrix with more cyberpunk stuff, and that means Snow Crash or Neuromancer. Hrrrm.