Dr Sleep's Favorite Books and Films
| S | ome books I've enjoyed recently (and therefore recommend) are: |
| Bag of Bones, Stephen King | Outpost, Scott MacKay |
| Bringing Out the Dead, Joe Connelly | Walking Wolf: A Weird Western, Nancy A. Collins |
| Full Tide of Night, J. R. Dunn | Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson |
| The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia A. McKillip | Song in the Silence, Elizabeth Kerner |
| Children of God, Mary Doria Russell | Dust, Charles Pellegrino |
| Moonfall, Jack McDevitt | The Neutronium Alchemist, Peter F. Hamilton |
| The Tooth Fairy, Graham Joyce | Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin |
| Fog Heart, Thomas Tessier | The Orchid Eater, Marc Laidlaw |
| Kissing the Beehive, Jonathan Carroll | Cosm, Gregory Benford |
| Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear | Player of Games, Iain M. Banks |
| The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton | The Bell Witch, Brent Monahan |
| Titan, Stephen Baxter | Days of Cain, J. R. Dunn |
| The Last Day, Glenn Kleier | Illegal Alien, Robert J. Sawyer |
| Horror Show, Greg Kihn | Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman |
| The Prestige, Christopher Priest | How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker |
| Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut | A Small Dark Place, Martin Schenk |
| Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind | Summertide, Charles Sheffield |
| Underworld, Don DeLillo | On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers |
| A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin | The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw |
| Created By, Richard Christian Matheson | Furnace, Muriel Gray |
| Aurian, Maggie Furey | The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman |
| Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons | Neverwhere, Neil Gaimen |
| St Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, Walter M. Miller, Jr. | American Tabloid, James Ellroy |
| Sewer, Gas, and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, Matt Ruff | Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt |
| S | ome of my all-time favorite books (an eclectic mix): |
| Little, Big, John
Crowley The Sunlight Dialogues and Nickel Mountain, John Gardner Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcìa Marquez To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig Carrion Comfort and Hyperion, Dan Simmons Arthur Rex and Who is Teddy Villanova?, Thomas Berger The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux Darconville's Cat, Alexander Theroux The Killer Angels, Michael Sharra Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan |
Lord Valentine's Castle,
Robert Silverberg Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman Watership Down, Richard Adams Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury Last Call, Tim Powers Towing Jehovah and Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates Something Happened, Joseph Heller Far Tortuga, Peter Matthiessen The Wrestler's Cruel Study, Stephen Dobyns Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski The Postman, David Brin Neuromancer, William Gibson The Gold Bug Variations, Tim Powers One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey |
| I | also have a weakness for vampire fiction. My list of the best (in no particluar order): |
Vampire$, John Steakley Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy Collins Covenant With the Vampire, Children of the Vampire, Jean Kalogridis Of Saints and Shadows, Christopher Golden Salem's Lot, Stephen King Anno Dracula, Kim Newman They Thirst, Robert R. McCammon The Book of Common Dread, Brent Monahan The Empire of Fear, Brian Stableford |
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| F | avorite Horror: |
| The Shining, The
Stand, and Pet Sematary, Stephen King The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw Swan Song and Boy's Life, Robert McCammon The Elementals, Michael McDowell The Tribe, Bari Wood The Revelation, Bentley Little The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty Shadowland and Mystery, Peter Straub Watchers and Phantoms, Dean R. Koontz Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris The Other, Thomas Tryon Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin The Keep, F. Paul Wilson Lie to Me and Bring Me Children, David Martin Blood of the Lamb, Thomas F. Monteleone The House Next Door, Anne Rivers Siddons The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, and Books of Blood, Clive Barker The Dunwich Horror (and others), At The Mountains of Madness, and Dagon (and other macabre tales), H. P. Lovecraft The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson Carrion Comfort, Summer of Night, Dan Simmons Phantom, Thomas Tessier |
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| F | avorite Science Fiction (under construction): |
Ender's Game and Xenocide,
Orson Scott Card
The Robots of Dawn, Foundation series, The Gods
Themselves, Isaac Asimov
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Strange Wine, Shatterday,
and Stalking the Nightmare, Harlan Ellison
Childhood's End and Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C.
Clarke
Starship Troopers, Stranger in A Strange Land, and Friday,
Robert H. Heinlein
The Stars My Desitination (Tiger, Tiger), Alfred Bester
The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness,
Ursula K. LeGuin
Gateway, Beyond the Blue Even Horizon, Heechee
Rendezvous, Man Plus, and LEM, Frederick Pohl
Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers, and The Mote
in God's Eye, Larry Niven
Vurt, Jeff Noon
Battlefield Earth, L. Ron Hubbard
Majipoor series, Tom O'Bedlam, Robert Silverberg
The Killing Star, Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski
The Time Ships and Anti Ice Stephen Baxtor
Riverworld series, Philip Jose Farmer
Bug Jack Barron, Child of Fortune, Norman Spinrad
The Forever War and The Hemingway Hoax, Joe Haldeman
Manhattan Transfer, John E. Stith
Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymion,
Dan Simmmons
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Postman, Startide Rising, The Uplift War,
David Brin
The Forge of God and Eon, Greg Bear
The Engines of God, Ancient Shores, Jack McDevit
The Dark Beyond the Stars, Frank M. Robinson
No Enemy But Time, Michael Bishop
A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
Doorways in the Sand, Amber Chronicles (1 & 2),
Roger Zelazny
The Harvest and Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson
The Hollow Earth, Rudy Rucker
Consider Phlebas, Against a Dark Background, Excession,
Iain M. Banks
Timescape and Galactic Center series, Gregory M. Benford
The Diamond Age, Neal
Stephenson
The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton
| F | avorite Fantasy (under construction): |
Lord of the Rings, The
Hobbit, and The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien
Wheel of Time series, Robert Jordan
The Riftwar Saga, Raymond E. Feist
This is the Way the World Ends, Only Begotten Daughter, Towing
Jehovah, and Blameless in Abaddon, James Morrow
Aurian, Maggie Furey
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind
The Prestige, Christopher Priest
A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
| F | avorite films? |
Eraserhead and Blue Velvet,
David Lynch
Excalibur and Deliverance, John Boorman
Seven Samurai, Ran, and anything else by Akira Kurosawa
Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman
Annie Hall, Love and Death, and anything else by Woody Allen
The Exorcist, William Friedkin
The Haunting and The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton
Brazil, Terry Gilliam
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Jones
The Evil Dead series, Sam Raimi
Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino
La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson
The Bear, Jean-Jacques Annaud
Blade Runner (The Director's Cut), Ridley Scott
The Terminator and Aliens, James Cameron
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
They Live, John Carpenter
This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner
The Tenant and Chinatown, Roman Polanski
Raising Arizona and The Hudsucker Proxy, Joel and Ethan Cohen
The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme
Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmuller
Remains of the Day, James Ivory
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders
Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks
2001: a space odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket, Stanley
Kubrick
A Christmas Story, Bob Clark
The Usual Suspects, Bryan Singer
The most bizarre and irritating film I've ever seen is Liquid Sky. The most contemptible is I Spit On Your Grave. Hands-down, the worst film I've ever had the sorry misfortune of sitting through in absolute abject agony has got to be Basket Case. I highly recommend it.
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