tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post7386410137922306926..comments2024-02-26T02:13:54.009-08:00Comments on Caustic Cover Critic: After We're GoneJRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-53806921849239848882009-01-12T14:10:00.000-08:002009-01-12T14:10:00.000-08:00Lucy: I must seek out that hippie Pliny book; it s...Lucy: I must seek out that hippie Pliny book; it sounds great! I actually did read 'The Road' on a holiday, and it did blight things a bit--wise move on your part!<BR/><BR/>Tournevis: Pleased to have helped refuel an old obsession: it's a strange but wonderful book.<BR/><BR/>Tuesday: Wow, thanks! I must put my mighty brains to the test of finding suitable blogs to pass it on to.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-69553799901908625932009-01-12T14:00:00.000-08:002009-01-12T14:00:00.000-08:00Hi there :)You've been awarded the Premio Dardos A...Hi there :)<BR/><BR/>You've been awarded the <A HREF="http://tuesdayinsilhouette.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/primo-darios-award/" REL="nofollow">Premio Dardos Award</A> (by me, hahah.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your contribution to the blogging communityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-53975160238374765302009-01-12T13:58:00.000-08:002009-01-12T13:58:00.000-08:00I remember After Man so well! I saw this book at a...I remember After Man so well! I saw this book at a book store in 1981 and wanted it on the spot. I begged and begged and begged my parents to buy it for me and the refused. We left the bookstore and I never saw a copy of it, ever, until now! Since I did not know any English at the time, I could not recall the author nor the title, but I remembered the "Tree Dwellers" page perfectly, as it was engraved in my memory. I will now track the book down and find a copy post haste. Because I still want this book, after 28 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-12238237631161560852009-01-12T06:54:00.000-08:002009-01-12T06:54:00.000-08:00Oh my lord I remember "After Man" - it fascinated ...Oh my lord I remember "After Man" - it fascinated me hugely as a child, as did "Inventorum Naturae" by Una Woodruff - quite the opposite kind of book, being a hippie-illustrated reprint of a Pliny text, but still full of strange fantastic pseudo-scientific creatures you could pretend existed. The end of the world and subsequent/consequent collapse of society is a pet fave of Mr fishwife's too - although last year we went on holiday and I refused to let him read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" because it was too depressing.Lucy Fishwifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468092971495182126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-61964970753954384772009-01-10T16:03:00.000-08:002009-01-10T16:03:00.000-08:00It was the original 'Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide...It was the original 'Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide' - late 1980s, I think.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-82875785926626140662009-01-09T21:46:00.000-08:002009-01-09T21:46:00.000-08:00Steerforth: I'm going to get me a copy. Was that t...Steerforth: I'm going to get me a copy. Was that the original 'Bloomsbury Reading Guide', which was full of lovely (now out-of-print) delights, or the revised version full of obvious suspects?<BR/><BR/>Levi: It's a seriously creepy book. All those distorted, mutated human faces and limbs...JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-24064559639449751952009-01-09T18:32:00.000-08:002009-01-09T18:32:00.000-08:00Wow, that final cover image is creepy. Eek. Remind...Wow, that final cover image is creepy. Eek. Reminder to myself: don't live too many centuries into the future, just in case.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-62832051929683905282009-01-09T16:49:00.000-08:002009-01-09T16:49:00.000-08:00I read it when it was still in print, as it was re...I read it when it was still in print, as it was recommended in the 'Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide'.<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed the book and although my critical faculties weren't as great then, it must have been pretty good to get such a glowing recommendation.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-86519077620887858082009-01-09T15:37:00.000-08:002009-01-09T15:37:00.000-08:00No--but looking it up, it looks both interesting a...No--but looking it up, it looks both interesting and Australian. I must seek it out. Is this one of your cunning recent 2nd-hand finds?JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-47793283738649474412009-01-09T02:11:00.000-08:002009-01-09T02:11:00.000-08:00On the subject of post-apocalyptic fiction, have y...On the subject of post-apocalyptic fiction, have you read 'The Sea and Summer'?Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-12388210872710720242009-01-08T19:33:00.000-08:002009-01-08T19:33:00.000-08:00Maybe I'll try to track it down. A lot of things w...Maybe I'll try to track it down. A lot of things would be improved if they ended with arboreal cephalapods going sentient. The fiction of Ernest Hemingway, for example.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-89947210224292751722009-01-08T18:54:00.000-08:002009-01-08T18:54:00.000-08:00The TV Future Is Wild was actually quite enjoyable...The TV Future Is Wild was actually quite enjoyable -- much less hokey than it might have been. It ended with the emergence of higher intelligence among arboreal cephalopods (as I recall), mammals having become extinct. Worth seeing if you ever get the chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com