mark’s Comments (group member since Sep 18, 2012)

mark’s comments from the Completists' Club group.

same here!

once i put off breaking up with some jerk because we were in the middle of watching the series and he owned the vhs tapes.

yes, go to that corner! plus i will be sending you a copy of White Noise as a symbol of my displeasure.

it's funny, i've read the 'dry' comment before regarding Scott but it is hard for me to see it. details a'plenty, yes, but i think his prose is so [enter corny words like poetic, lyrical, evocative, etc here] that i never see him as dry.

well, i do plan on living forever.

it is exactly like that. you know the inside of my consciousness so well!

true. this is, after all, the same man who had a cameo appearance in Murder By Death. a perverse sort!

not sure i can add much to what Dan('s) said. an interesting defense of Wilson. Like!

love. although i hope that Paul Bryant does not find this discussion topic. look away, Paul, look away!

The Raj Quartet: The Jewel In The Crown, The Day Of The Scorpion, The Towers Of Silence, A Division Of Spoils.
Staying On
The Corrida at San Feliu
Johnnie Sahib

Aloha, you clearly don't realize that i will live forever. when this metal body wears down, i will simply have it replaced. and besides, my consciousness is portable.

i've been adding topics for those authors that i hope to complete one day. because i am a completist! but for some reason i am feeling bashful about my low-brow genre favorites Jack Vance, Philip K Dick, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, and um Tanith Lee. see how i even added that qualifying "um" in there? pathetic!

i loved the entire Mapp & Lucia series. brill! had very mixed feelings about Ravens' Brood.

a friend left me his near-complete collection of E.F. Benson novels when he passed away. so one of these days i plan on tackling them. but i'm feeling the need to re-read those Mapp & Lucia books first.

very surprised to see Mark Leyner! My Cousin, My Gastroetc was amusing.

thanks NR!

is she still well-regarded? i've read a lot of disdain towards her. ah well, she's a favorite.

loved:
Bellefleur
A Bloodsmoor Romance
Mysteries of Winterthurn
Them
Foxfire

mixed feelings:
Heat and Other Stories
Cybele
Black Water
Rape: A Love Story

loathed:
Zombie

as Rosamond Smith (mainly mixed feelings):
Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon
Nemesis
Soul/mate
You Can't Catch Me
Snake Eyes

Floating Opera and Chimera, long ago. mixed feelings.

i have Giles Goat-Boy & Lost in the Funhouse on the bookshelf and have been eyeing them dubiously for years.

ha! i feel him rolling over in his grave at the thought.

another obscure Colin. Lifeforce, an incredibly goofy 80s scifi-horror movie adaptation of one of his novels probably hasn't helped his rep much.

i've read:
The Outsider
The Mind Parasites
The Tower + the rest of the series
The Space Vampires (source of Lifeforce, sigh)
Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors

sadly, probably rather obscure now. but one of my favorites.

i've read:
Absolute Beginners
City Of Spades
Mr. Love and Justice
All Day Saturday
June in Her Spring

Blind Assassin is my favorite. so beautiful! and original. also loved Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride. mixed feelings about Handmaid's Tale.

one of my favorites. The Earthsea Trilogy, of course. and Left Hand of Darkness. most recently The Dispossesed. still have to read Always Coming Home, which has been on the shelf for decades. i still have the cassette tape of musical accompaniment that the book came with. which is ironic because i no longer have a tapedeck.

Dhalgren is overdue for a re-read. i had trouble with it - but loved it nonetheless - many years ago.

since then i've read The Einstein Intersection (loved), Triton (mixed feelings), and Hogg (loathed).

fascinating author. next up for me will probably be Nova.