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LAST DITCH RECOMMENDATIONS


Well we will soon be going do how about getting something off our chests. Any recommendations that you'd like to share?
Anything at all, who cares if it's off topic, we're history soon anyway.
Any tv show recommendations, or books or music, or even food or booze likes you'd like to pass on.
I'll start,
Music; Blue Aeroplanes....what a band
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppo5Gm8Hgzo
Books; read any AE Van Vogt? What a truly bonkers Sci fi author. Under the influence of L Ron Hubbard, Van Vogt wrote some amazing novels.
Quest for the Future is a stand out for me. This might seem like a major spoiler but its not,its a small section of this bonkers book.
Three astronauts become the first to reach Alpha Centauri by being frozen for 500 years and sent on their way, when they wake they're prize idiots because humanity has overtaken them and the journey now takes a few hours. Alpha Centauri is waiting for them ,even named their cities in their honor.
However one of them , the books hero was only on the flight so he could get back to the future after being booted out of the Palace of Immortality in the far future even though the booting took place in the 18th century Wild West in a wagon which was a disguised time machine err..or something, yep bonkers.
Tv shows; The Sandbaggers 70's spy show brilliant, Catweazle class,I've recently discovered the 90's comedy BRASS with Timothy West, a truly funny show set in the 1930's north of England
Finally surprise find for me is ITV's 60's series THE MAN IN ROOM 17, Richard Vernon Michael Aldridge,Denholm Elliot as police investigators solving baffling cases by never leaving their room in Scotland yard
Finally food ; good breakfast,cream crackers with peanut butter and tea , not fattening quite filling.
Come-on any recommendations for anything?

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Music: could have gone for some rare 70s' stuff, but instead I went for a band I saw just before Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEYUFgLveY

Books: a SF author you've never read - Edmund Cooper. Start with Prisoner of Fire, then Transit, then onwards

TV ... When the Boat Comes In - post WW1 historical. Superb writing, great acting.
Edge of Darkness - the TV series NOT the movie
The Lost Room - a cute mini-series
Threads - TV Movie. The most depressing tv I ever did see

Food: Bacon ... served with more bacon

Booze: I go to Belgium 3 times a year, so beer



Balotelli...Aguerooooo! I swear you will never see anything like this ever again!

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Books: a SF author you've never read - Edmund Cooper.

The father of my first girlfriend was friends with him.

This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant being drowned

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Oh, and The Lost Room was great! "Look out, he's got the comb!"

This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant being drowned

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I read Van Vogt's short story "Far Centauri" - I didn't realise he'd gone on to incorporate it into a novel.

Other books:

Stephen Baxter's Xeelee series. Some of the early ones (notably the Vacuum Diagrams collection) have the feel of Hartnell era.

Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller chronicle. Doorstop-sized fantasy novels that only occasionally focuses on worldshattering events, but it's all gripping anyway.

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series. He was the one who wrote Remembrance of the Daleks and Battlefield. These new books aren't connected but they're darned good. He can't resist dropping in occasional references to a TV series about a madman with a box though.

This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant being drowned

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Books: I recently started reading The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith(J.K.Rowling's nom de plume.) I am only half way through, but it is a very enjoyable read. If you read the Harry Potter series, it has the same energy but more mature and centering around the murder of a supermodel and a down on his luck detective.

The Amelia Peabody series. This mixes an Agatha Christie(another recommended author) murder mystery with Egyptology in the days of Queen Victoria and later King Edwards. Colorful characters and a little intrigue thrown in. Headstrong Amelia and her equally headstrong archeologist husband who seem be magnets for various murder plots to the point that their foreman Abdullah says, "another dead body" in each book. Amelia's son Ramses is a fun addition when he comes in. I recommend the audio books as the reader Barbara Rosenblat handles most of the books and her reading is stellar.

Good authors, Stephen King and Mercedes Lackey.

Television: A little known show called Star Trek. They had a few spinoff series that were moderately successful. You might have heard of it. :)

I have been Watching and enjoying Game of Thrones lately. Season five seemed to jump the shark though.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 has long been a favorite of mine. It is not for most people, but if you like the idea of a bunch of guys in space making fun of cheesy movies, check it out.

I am going to go out on a limb here and also say I REALLY enjoyed the first four seasons of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I still watch the show, but they seem to be struggling finding good writers to replace the outgoing old ones(much like Doctor Who when it struggled finding new writers who understood how to write for the show.) Here is a clip from the hundredth episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdqG4YKjx3w

Side thought on TV, the PBS Newshour has been my nightly news program for some years now.

Favorite movie from 2016: Love and Friendship.




It has been fun fellow message board users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YgdrhrCM8

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