Set 'em Wild… is their best album, but try to listen to "Running, Returning" off the self-titled album without getting swept away. Powerful stuff.

That Massive Attack track is killer. Super-moody and evokes a lot of stark imagery.

Noooooooooo!
Not to rain on y'alls parade, but this novel is wildly uneven. It does have some rather enjoyable passages, but for a novel about a magician it sure does a sloppy job of carrying out its tricks.

Gah!
240 pgs in. I'm racing to finish up so I might partake in the discussion with you all in the sitting room with tea and crumpets.

Right?

I think you're dead-on in labeling SLOOSHA'S CROSSING as RIDDLEY WALKER fan-fiction.

@ Crunchy: I too will back Ewing. There is some pitch-black comedy in his reservedness/naivety when he butts against some of the more surly types. A lot going on that isn't being explicitly stated in that section.

Oh I know, Mike. I'm just as happy as anyone. I was only referring to your plea on the Facebook page that I was secretly agreeing with but never thought would come to fruition.

Press on. Infinite Jest is worth your time. Once you've finished, you can mount it on your most visible book shelf for all to see the rare beast you've slain.

Not AS good as Riddley, but Shloosa is good. It was a satisfying tale and had the primitive-wisdom koans of Riddley Walker down cold.

It's a pretty dead-on mimic too. In someone else's hands, it could've been a disaster.

MikeStrange must have some pull around here.

No Photo?
You forgot the photo of Polanski reading "The Big Butt Book".

This Things I Believe

My God! It's full of stars!

Yeah, just reading that his wife found him dead prompted me to leave my desk for a moment.

Double feature at the drive-in with…
BABIES!!!

Soundtrack
Let's get Midlake up in this.

I might be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that one of the visages in the scrambler suit in the film was made to look like PKD.

Mike, speaking of those answers no one has: I was a bit thrilled to see even that briefest of mentions of cosmology towards the end of A Scanner Darkly.