The Books That Mattered Most to David Bowie, Bibliophile. David Bowie once recounted a story from the filming of The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1975.
Relocating from Los Angeles to New Mexico for the shoot, he brought hundreds upon hundreds of books with him, a “traveling library” that he ported in cases large enough to hold an amplifier. His director, Nicolas Roeg, seeing Bowie sifting through piles of books, told him that “your great problem, David, is that you don’t read enough.”
Bowie said he didn’t realize for months that Roeg was joking. Instead he berated himself, asking “What else should I read?” Not the typical 1970s rock star anecdote. Many rock songs have been hatched from books: “Sympathy for the Devil” (Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita); Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”; the Mekons’ “Only Darkness Has the Power” (Paul Auster’s The Locked Room) and so forth. Reddit: the front page of the internet. Best summer books from Wall Streeters. Best Dystopian Books. We may or may not be living in a dystopian age, but we are certainly living in an age of dystopias.
At every turn in a bookstore aisle, you’re increasingly likely to stumble across a vision of our world, through the looking glass. You’ll find the classics — your Orwells, Huxleys, and Atwoods — but you’ll also find a rising crop of new entries into the dystopian canon, from younger authors with fresher concerns about what, precisely, could spell our doom. They don’t just appear in the sci-fi section, either — dystopian fiction is firmly ensconced in book-club-ready literary circles, as well.
It’s fashionable to be pessimistic. It’s in this spirit that we assembled a group of readers to put together a list of some of the greatest works of dystopian literature, as part of Vulture’s Dark Futures week. That said, we’ve done our best to also put the spotlight on works from throughout literary history and pay homage to the early influencers. Brief descriptions of excellent comics. Some of my favorite fantasy novels/series. Awesome Epic-Fantasy Books Worth Your Time.
Top 7 Comics For Anxious Millennials. Navigating early adulthood seems a more difficult journey than ever.
A hundred years ago, all anyone was expected to accomplish was to get a job, marry, have kids, and then die. Our current, collective adulthood is proving a little more complicated than that, what with astronomical student debt, a wobbly housing market, a generation disillusioned with monogamy and marriage, and the internet. We don’t even have our forefathers’ short life expectancy to rely on when things get super tough. With that in mind, here’s a few comics every modern adult can relate to. Giant Days Giant Days John Allison’s original webcomic spun-off to its new home at Boom! Lucky Penny Lucky Penny Lucky Penny is a web original turned graphic novel from the duo of Yuko Ota and Ananath Hirsh.
Lucky Penny is filled with these little quirks that build up the bright and colorful characters within it. Octopus Pie Ocotpus Pie vol. 1 Seconds Seconds. Free textbooks, wish I had known about this when I started uni. MarvelNerd's albums - Imgur. Web comics that could be worth looking at. Some kick ass books if you need a good read. The Absolute Best Comics And Graphic Novels of 2014! But The Love Bunglers earns its place by chronicling a new story starring L&R's star Maggie Chascarillo.
Now a middle-aged landlord, the weight of Maggie's past — seen in three decades of Hernandez comics — gets full impact in this new chapter in her life and relationships, a story told with warmth but also honesty. Time may have worn down Maggie, but it has done nothing to Hernandez's phenomenal storytelling skills. Co-signed — and despite what the usual dudebro suspects would have you believe, Los Bros Hernandez have been creating a genuinely diverse and nuanced gallery of women (NOT zeppelin-titted wank fantasies) with genuine love and respect for over thirty years. This should be the norm in comics, but all too often it isn't. The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of 2014. Genre Map, Literary Map. Publishers, booksellers, and readers describe books by their literary categories, or genres.
It's how books are placed in stores and sold online. We created the Genre Map to help you find the right genre for your book. Roll over the map with your cursor to see the different genres. 32 Books That Will Actually Change Your Life. Reddit's Top 105 Fantasy Novels/Series of All Time. The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time.
Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine.