'93 Big Papery Things

On 07/23/2015 at 02:53 AM by KnightDriver

What do you collectively call books, both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, comics and visual art books? I guess they are all books, not all are literature though. When you say "book" you automatically eliminate comics and art books. So I guess I'll use a Black Adder reference and call them what Baldric did in one episode, "big papery things".

So this is my list:

Burgess, Anthony	A Dead Man in Deptford
Johns, Linda	Sharing a Robin's Life
Bear, Greg	Moving Mars
Gibson, William	Virtual Light
Zahn, Timothy	The Last Command
Heaney, Seamus	Keeping Going
Parker, Michael	Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
Nicieza/Madureira	Deadpool: The Circle Chase (Marvel)
Wilke, Hanna	photographer, etc. . .

Anthony Burgess' book is about Elizabethan playwrite Christopher Marlow. Linda Johns book is about her living with a Robin and observing its behavior. Greg Bear is Greg Bear and I want to read more of his scifi. William Gibson, of Neuromancer fame, had a new cyberpunk book in '93. Got to read that. Timothy Zahn had a new Star Wars Thrawn series book. Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet I like for his translation of Beowulf that I read. I'd like to get back to some poetry. I studied a lot of it in school. I'm also curious about Deadpool. The first miniseries featuring him came out in '93 called The Circle Chase. I'm going to go find it at my comic store tomorrow. Hanna Wilke is a photographer, painter, etc... I don't know why, but in the lists of artists on wiki, I usually don't recognize any current artists, but I usually do in the death lists. So I've been putting them on my list just to have some art. Hanna Wilke died in '93. I'd like to see her work.

I looked up any audio books of this stuff in the libraries and didn't find anything. I'm ready for a new one since I'm about to finish Robert Ludlam's The Bourne Supremacy. I'm still reading The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats in 'big papery thing" form. So when I'm done, I'll pick something from this or next week's list. Ah books. Can't seem to finish them fast enough.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

07/23/2015 at 03:01 AM

Ink slag?

KnightDriver

07/23/2015 at 03:40 AM

Ha! That's a good one.

Super Step Contributing Writer

07/23/2015 at 04:22 AM

I should read other Anthony Burgess stuff since I really liked A Clockwork Orange. I think Seamus Heany was the translation of Beowulf we partially read in 8th grade.

As for Deadpool, he seems like my type of character.

07/23/2015 at 03:39 PM

Me too. I read Clockwork Orange, and that's all I know of Burgess. I discovered Heaney's Beowulf long after I'd already read someone else's translation. I'm not sure if I'd like his poetry, but I want to check it out.

Deadpool has gotten so crazy. It's a little much at this point, but I like the character and want to see what he was like at the beginning, but my comic store was out of Deadpool Classic Vol. 1, so I'll have to wait on that one.

Ranger1

07/23/2015 at 07:14 AM

Jason is a big Seamus Heaney fan. Me, not so much. Although I did recommend his translation of Beowulf to Snee yesterday (I prefer the Donaldson translation myself). Love William Gibson. Cyberpunk was big when I was in high school and I read a lot of it in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.

07/23/2015 at 03:46 PM

I know only his translation. I haven't read his poetry yet, so we'll see whether I'm into it.

I distinctly remember the beginnings of cyberpunk in High School and being all conservative old school fantasy/scifi about it. I wasn't into computers and I wasn't into hero hackers. Oh, what I missed not reading Neuromancer. Great book!

goaztecs

07/23/2015 at 11:16 AM

As a group I'd call them books. I didn't read much in 93 other than the required books in high school. I think this is when I read Les Miserables.

07/23/2015 at 03:48 PM

Yea, I was way into music at the time. I don't think I read anything that year other than the script for the musical I was in.

PixlBit