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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (12168)	1/15/2004 12:05:31 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14610

Maybe you and Laz should talk about whose daddy is better and stronger -g- Frank Herbert has written six Dune books that I know of. The rest must be stuff his son wrote (yuck). Meanwhile, Neal Stephenson's "Quicksilver" is out. It is brilliant, as expected. Also very VERY long, again, as expected. Meanwhile, did you see last month's Wired, with the cover story of how Hollywood discovered Philip K. Dick? I look forward to see his "Paycheck" in the cinema when it arrives in my little village -g- Wired article says some big studio is in the process of filming "A Scanner Darkly". I would be very interested to see that film, but I have the funny suspicion that it will have little resemblance to the book - a drug-induced voyage of paranoid schizophrenic delusions, built on how an undercover police is given the assignment to watch ("scan") himself. A brilliant book. Very, very dark. No pretty girl for the good guy to get at the end. Drug use, weird conversations through altered states of drug use, etc. He ends up with his brain burnt, in some psychiatric hospital, but does, inadvertently, find the source of this new and dangerous drug.