Patreon Backer Special 11 – Yet More Books
Added 2020-08-25 10:13:29 +0000 UTCWe’re back with another of our lockdown specials. Once again, we’re devouring books like hungry bookworms, hoping they’ll give us ideas for games.
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Things we mention in this episode include:
- Desperation by Stephen King
- The Spear by James Herbert
- Redshirts by John Scalzi
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- The Ninth Gate
- Imajica by Clive Barker
- The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
- Mr B Gone by Clive Barker
- Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
- Legend (1985)
- Gray Matters by William Hjortsberg
- Nevermore by William Hjortsberg
- Angel Heart (1987)
- Alan Parker
- “The Call of Cthulhu”
- Lisa Bonet
- The Cosby Show (1984)
- Esoterrorists
- Trail of Cthulhu
- Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels
- Parker series by Richard Star’
- Dortmunder series by Donald E Westlake
- Sweetpea by CJ Skuse
- Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
- Isiah Coleridge series (Blood Standard, Black Mountain and Worse Angels by Laird Barron
- The Imago Sequence, Occultation, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Swift to Chase and The Croning by Laird Barron
- Philip Marlowe series by Raymond Chandler
- Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
- The Burned-Over District
- True Detective (2014)
- Fargo (1996)
- Fargo (2014)
- Doris Lessing
- The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
- Masks of Nyarlathotep
- Shikasta by Doris Lessing
- The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
- The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
- The Best of the 2010s
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- “Cool Air” by HP Lovecraft
Comments
Listening to Scott describing Laird Barons novels reminds me of Dennis Lehane. Have you read any Lehane Scott?
Henrik Arborén
2020-08-27 18:54:54 +0000 UTCWhile I had very much enjoyed the few Old Leech short stories I'd first read, I had a similar reaction to you when I read The Croning when it came out, Steve. I was looking forward to it, but some of the dialog and characterization was grating and off-putting. It felt anachronistic, like the men in it had stepped out of noir B-movies and wandered around in the modern day. Maybe I'd enjoy it in the crime novels more, especially since I'd be prepared for it and find it less out of place.
Christopher Smith Adair
2020-08-26 22:43:15 +0000 UTCI find that wish some of Scorsese films, there's a humourless machismo to them. - Paul
The Good Friends of Jackson Elias
2020-08-25 18:49:28 +0000 UTCI was just starting at university the fall Angel Heart came out...Quite a few guys I knew had liked the movie for Lisa Bonet only...I could not even learn what the movie was about from any of them. Probably not what the creators were hoping for...
Anthony Adams
2020-08-25 18:49:27 +0000 UTCListening to Scott talk about his love of tough, pugnacious hard-boiled noir sounds like the types of characters he seems to enjoy playing in games. Always seemed a contrast to his bleak scenario design. :)
Anthony Adams
2020-08-25 18:47:23 +0000 UTCLaird Barron is like being punched in the face. He writes well, I like the subject matter, but it's just too macho for me. I'd rather read Derek Raymond for grit.
Steve
2020-08-25 17:58:51 +0000 UTCI've always felt 18 just lacks the mystique of X.
The Good Friends of Jackson Elias
2020-08-25 17:15:08 +0000 UTCAngel Heart was an 18. X certs in the UK stopped in 1982 (https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/student-guide/bbfc-history/history-age-ratings-symbols), 5 years before the film appeared.
Steve
2020-08-25 16:55:59 +0000 UTC
