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For movies, let me recommend Stalag 17 by Otto Preminger. Quite possibly the most realistic war movie ever made.

Daniel Keys Moran:

  • Emerald Eyes: The story of the Castanaveras telepaths begins in Occupied America, more or less directly ruled by the Peace Keeping Force of the Unification government of Earth.
  • The Long Run: Trent, the greatest thief in 2069 Occupied America, suspected of being a Castanaveras telepath, makes the longest, fastest getaway ever.
  • The Last Dancer: 2076, the Tricentennial of (Occupied) America. The last of the Castanaveras telepaths discovers a lost origin of humanity.

Also:

  • Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta. This play was the Animal House of Elizabethan England.
  • Rudy Rucker: Software, Wetware, Freeware trilogy
  • Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns. The Batman movie Hollywood is too terrified to make. And the movie of Sin City, while you're at it.
  • Dave Sim: Cerebus the Aardvark
  • Casablanca
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Godfather I & II
  • Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • John Boorman's Excalibur
  • The Lion in Winter
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • A Bug's Life has the best villain of any Pixar story.
  • David Lynch's Dune, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart
  • Scorsese's Casino
  • Michael Mann's Heat
  • Suspiria, terrible ending, but pretty amazing up till then.
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Local Hero
  • Purple Rain
  • Falling Down
  • The Maxx
  • American Beauty
  • Fight Club
  • Topsy-Turvy, most Victorian.
  • Ouran High School Host Club, a surprising heart.
  • Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken, an otaku gets married.
  • KonoSuba
  • Shin Gojira, best since the original.
  • Gabriel DropOut, a slacker angel gets into trouble.
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, an utter paean to the virtues of domesticity.
  • Youjo Senki, aka "The Saga of Tanya the Evil". Best war movie ever.
  • Ishuzoku Reviewers, bawdy, un-P.C. sex farce.
  • Midway, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, A Bridge Too Far
  • James Clavell's Shōgun (book or mini-series)
  • Clive Barker, first three Books of Blood, Weaveworld, and the movies Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions
  • Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age
  • Neal Stephenson et al. The Mongoliad
  • Matt Groening, Life Is Hell
  • Robert L. Aspirin, Another Fine Myth series
  • Azumanga Daioh, manga or series
  • Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • John Varley, Titan, Wizard, Demon series
  • Anne McCaffery's Pern series
  • Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International
  • My Side Of The Mountain
  • Anything by Niven and Pournelle
  • Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (porn, but amazing porn)
  • Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic only)
  • Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, the Across Realtime series
  • Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain
  • John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley's People
  • Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  • Gore Vidal, Creation, an historical novel about a Persian diplomat in the reign of Darius
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
  • Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller
  • James Branch Cabell, Jurgen
  • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The First Edition 1855
  • Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi and The Innocents Abroad
  • Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light and the Chronicles of Amber (original pentology)
  • Ryuta Amazume, Nana to Kaoru comic
  • Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist and There Are Doors
  • Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
  • Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man and The Glass Key. Yes, the Coen brothers improved the plot for Miller's Crossing (replacing a Senator's daughter with a brother and sister pair of petty crooks), but the lack of attribution is just... pathetic.
  • Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff
  • R. F. Laird, The Boomer Bible (a devastating put-down of boomers)
  • Aristophanes, The Complete Plays
  • J. G. Ballard, The Day of Creation and The Unlimited Dream Company
  • Josh Stanton, The Gnoll Credo
  • Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream, The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde, The Void Captain's Tale
  • Leigh Brackett, The Jewel of Bas
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree
  • Donna Tartt, The Secret History
  • Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
  • Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell
  • Richard Adams, Watership Down

Only ever get the subs for the animes.

3 years ago
1 score
Reason: addendum

For movies, let me recommend Stalag 17 by Otto Preminger. Quite possibly the most realistic war movie ever made.

Daniel Keys Moran:

  • Emerald Eyes: The story of the Castanaveras telepaths begins in Occupied America, more or less directly ruled by the Peace Keeping Force of the Unification government of Earth.
  • The Long Run: Trent, the greatest thief in 2069 Occupied America, suspected of being a Castanaveras telepath, makes the longest, fastest getaway ever.
  • The Last Dancer: 2076, the Tricentennial of (Occupied) America. The last of the Castanaveras telepaths discovers a lost origin of humanity.

Also:

  • Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta. This play was the Animal House of Elizabethan England.
  • Rudy Rucker: Software, Wetware, Freeware trilogy
  • Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns. The Batman movie Hollywood is too terrified to make. And the movie of Sin City, while you're at it.
  • Dave Sim: Cerebus the Aardvark
  • Casablanca
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Godfather I & II
  • Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • John Boorman's Excalibur
  • The Lion in Winter
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • A Bug's Life has the best villain of any Pixar story.
  • David Lynch's Dune, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart
  • Scorcese's Casino
  • Michael Mann's Heat
  • Suspiria, terrible ending, but pretty amazing up till then.
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Purple Rain
  • Falling Down
  • The Maxx
  • American Beauty
  • Fight Club
  • Topsy-Turvy, most Victorian.
  • Ouran High School Host Club, a surprising heart.
  • Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken, an otaku gets married.
  • KonoSuba
  • Shin Gojira, best since the original.
  • Gabriel DropOut, a slacker angel gets into trouble.
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, an utter paean to the virtues of domesticity.
  • Youjo Senki, aka "The Saga of Tanya the Evil". Best war movie ever.
  • Ishuzoku Reviewers, bawdy, un-P.C. sex farce.
  • Midway, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, A Bridge Too Far
  • James Clavell's Shōgun (book or mini-series)
  • Clive Barker, first three Books of Blood, Weaveworld, and the movies Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions
  • Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age
  • Neal Stephenson et al. The Mongoliad
  • Matt Groening, Life Is Hell
  • Robert L. Aspirin, Another Fine Myth series
  • Azumanga Daioh, manga or series
  • Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • John Varley, Titan, Wizard, Demon series
  • Anne McCaffery's Pern series
  • Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International
  • My Side Of The Mountain
  • Anything by Niven and Pournelle
  • Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (porn, but amazing porn)
  • Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic only)
  • Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, the Across Realtime series
  • Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain
  • John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley's People
  • Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  • Gore Vidal, Creation, an historical novel about a Persian diplomat in the reign of Darius
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
  • Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller
  • James Branch Cabell, Jurgen
  • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The First Edition 1855
  • Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi and The Innocents Abroad
  • Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light and the Chronicles of Amber (original pentology)
  • Ryuta Amazume, Nana to Kaoru comic
  • Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist and There Are Doors
  • Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
  • Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man and The Glass Key. Yes, the Coen brothers improved the plot for Miller's Crossing (replacing a Senator's daughter with a brother and sister pair of petty crooks), but the lack of attribution is just... pathetic.
  • Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff
  • R. F. Laird, The Boomer Bible (a devastating put-down of boomers)
  • Aristophanes, The Complete Plays
  • J. G. Ballard, The Day of Creation and The Unlimited Dream Company
  • Josh Stanton, The Gnoll Credo
  • Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream, The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde, The Void Captain's Tale
  • Leigh Brackett, The Jewel of Bas
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree
  • Donna Tartt, The Secret History
  • Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
  • Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell
  • Richard Adams, Watership Down

Only ever get the subs for the animes.

3 years ago
1 score
Reason: Original

For movies, let me recommend Stalag 17 by Otto Preminger. Quite possibly the most realistic war movie ever made.

Daniel Keys Moran:

  • Emerald Eyes: The story of the Castanaveras telepaths begins in Occupied America, more or less directly ruled by the Peace Keeping Force of the Unification government of Earth.
  • The Long Run: Trent, the greatest thief in 2069 Occupied America, suspected of being a Castanaveras telepath, makes the longest, fastest getaway ever.
  • The Last Dancer: 2076, the Tricentennial of (Occupied) America. The last of the Castanaveras telepaths discovers a lost origin of humanity.

Also:

  • Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta. This play was the Animal House of Elizabethan England.
  • Rudy Rucker: Software, Wetware, Freeware trilogy
  • Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns. The Batman movie Hollywood is too terrified to make. And the movie of Sin City, while you're at it.
  • Dave Sim: Cerebus the Aardvark
  • Casablanca
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Godfather I & II
  • Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • John Boorman's Excalibur
  • The Lion in Winter
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • A Bug's Life has the best villain of any Pixar story.
  • David Lynch's Dune, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart
  • Scorcese's Casino
  • Michael Mann's Heat
  • Suspiria, terrible ending, but pretty amazing up till then.
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Purple Rain
  • Falling Down
  • The Maxx
  • American Beauty
  • Fight Club
  • Topsy-Turvy, most Victorian.
  • Ouran High School Host Club, a surprising heart.
  • Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken, an otaku gets married.
  • KonoSuba
  • Shin Gojira, best since the original.
  • Gabriel DropOut, a slacker angel gets into trouble.
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, an utter paean to the virtues of domesticity.
  • Youjo Senki, aka "The Saga of Tanya the Evil". Best war movie ever.
  • Ishuzoku Reviewers, bawdy, un-P.C. sex farce.
  • Midway, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton,
  • James Clavell's Shōgun (book or mini-series)
  • Clive Barker, first three Books of Blood, Weaveworld, and the movies Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions
  • Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age
  • Neal Stephenson et al. The Mongoliad
  • Matt Groening, Life Is Hell
  • Robert L. Aspirin, Another Fine Myth series
  • Azumanga Daioh, manga or series
  • Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
  • John Varley, Titan, Wizard, Demon series
  • Anne McCaffery's Pern series
  • Larry Correia, Monster Hunter International
  • My Side Of The Mountain
  • Anything by Niven and Pournelle
  • Anne Rice, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (porn, but amazing porn)
  • Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic only)
  • Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep, the Across Realtime series
  • Michael Moorcock, The War Hound and the World's Pain
  • John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Smiley's People
  • Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  • Gore Vidal, Creation, an historical novel about a Persian diplomat in the reign of Darius
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
  • Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller
  • James Branch Cabell, Jurgen
  • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The First Edition 1855
  • Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi and The Innocents Abroad
  • Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light and the Chronicles of Amber (original pentology)
  • Ryuta Amazume, Nana to Kaoru comic
  • Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist and There Are Doors
  • Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
  • Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man and The Glass Key. Yes, the Coen brothers improved the plot for Miller's Crossing (replacing a Senator's daughter with a brother and sister pair of petty crooks), but the lack of attribution is just... pathetic.
  • Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff
  • R. F. Laird, The Boomer Bible (a devastating put-down of boomers)
  • Aristophanes, The Complete Plays
  • J. G. Ballard, The Day of Creation and The Unlimited Dream Company
  • Josh Stanton, The Gnoll Credo
  • Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream, The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde, The Void Captain's Tale
  • Leigh Brackett, The Jewel of Bas
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree
  • Donna Tartt, The Secret History
  • Fritz Leiber, The Wanderer
  • Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell
  • Richard Adams, Watership Down

Only ever get the subs for the animes.

3 years ago
1 score