This & That 2

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Some of my fans seem so similar I wondered if they werent using alts, but correspondence with them makes me think theyre different people cut from the same bolt of cloth.

The other set of fans are my one-bombers, they read every installment, and rage.

The rest are story surfers.

The stats support my suspicion that the two groups balance, one gives me all 5's, and the other gives me all 1's. While my agenda is to increase the number of hardcore readers NOT appeal to everyone. You do that by increasing the power of the prose, and you do that with resonant experience and characteristics and description.

And to that end I make a profile of my typical female reader: dependent, conscientious, loyal, long suffering, low profile follower, black cock is her only sin.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The paper reports that a girl was killed by a lion out in California.

The incident validates what I always say when naifs rush in where the wise fear to tread: NATURE HATES FOOLS.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The financial writers are dancing in the streets about the DOW though its Obama thats buying all the stocks, and when he cant buy more stocks the price will crash. It has to. Theyre happy that 168K new jobs were created in February though new unemplyment claims were 4x that number, and 168K jobs is about 1/2 of what we need to cover new workers. People got shit for brains.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

OK! Read some short stories today and stole a plot idea from Chester Himes. His story is about a con and his wife. The conflict in this story is the wife isnt motivated to free her husband from prison.

So I thought about it and made a plot for a woman whose husband is in prison and she has to cope as best she can in a bad economy. His parole doesnt interest me, her coping skills do. The series starts with my character swallowing a bottle of pills.

Its more drama than I've used up to now, and maybe will be more interesting to my special readers.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Just learned that John O'Hara pared his short stories to 1000 words or so toward the end of his career. Read one of them. Kinda sorta erotic, nude girl lures an old man into her bedroom then gives him hell.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If youre stuck for a good read I suggest something by David Halberstam. I'm reading THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, his monument to the Vietnam War. He leaves no stone unturned. The diligence and completeness are his trademarks.

What I like about his style are the anecdotes about famous people, and how 'the system' works to destroy the good, and elevate the bad.

THE RECKONING is an old book about Detroit and the auto industry. He wrote it when Japan was kicking Detroits ass. Detroit wants to sell expensive land yachts. To this end it conspires to wreck cheap, lean, green vehicles.

 

[slyc_willie]

I've been on a vintage sci-fi kick recently. Asimov's early works, Jack Vance, Harry Harrison. I love reading the old stuff. So much more contemporary social commentary than you see in current sci-fi, or anything from the nineties on, for that matter.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I've been on a vintage sci-fi kick recently. Asimov's early works, Jack Vance, Harry Harrison. I love reading the old stuff. So much more contemporary social commentary than you see in current sci-fi, or anything from the nineties on, for that matter.

Gimme some recommendations, I know jack-shit about sci-fi

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Submitted the 1st installment of a new Loving Wives series. Wanted to capture the title before another wisenheimer grabbed it.

My email indicates that my fans are women, and my one bombers are prissy men.

 

[ishtat]

Gimme some recommendations, I know jack-shit about sci-fi

Try Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" a short story first published in 1941. Not the elongated novel written years later with Robert Silverberg.

"Nightfall" is a fine short story whatever one thinks of the genre.

Then most of Arthur C Clarke's writing.

Both of these writers started in the 1940's

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Try Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" a short story first published in 1941. Not the elongated novel written years later with Robert Silverberg.

"Nightfall" is a fine short story whatever one thinks of the genre.

Then most of Arthur C Clarke's writing.

Both of these writers started in the 1940's

Thank you! Will do!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm recently swapping emails with a reader who wants to try exposing herself but is too afraid.

So I thought about it, recalling incidents I observed where women exposed themselves safely.

Unbutton one button close to the breasts, and lean forward a lot.

Wear a short skirt driving, one that exposes you clearly. It also works well if you park close to a building with multiple floors, the folks above can look down and get a great view.

 

[WyldIce]

What exactly is this thread about as I can't find a common factor....

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What exactly is this thread about as I can't find a common factor....

Its about all the fucktards who inhabit Ozzie Land.

 

[WyldIce]

... Wow, aren't you a pleasant fellow.... So sorry for asking a question, sheesh

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

... Wow, aren't you a pleasant fellow.... So sorry for asking a question, sheesh

Its a vanity thread what did you think it was! Post something or move along before I turn the hose on you for loitering.

 

[WyldIce]

For fucks sake calm down! I just asked a question!! There was no description in the first thread like I usually see and all I can really see is you spamming the page so I just asked! So sorry for interrupting your "Vanity Thread"

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

For fucks sake calm down! I just asked a question!! There was no description in the first thread like I usually see and all I can really see is you spamming the page so I just asked! So sorry for interrupting your "Vanity Thread"

Say GOODNITE GRACIE,

 

[TxRad]

What exactly is this thread about as I can't find a common factor....

It's what happens when you talk to yourself for too long.

 

[slyc_willie]

Gimme some recommendations, I know jack-shit about sci-fi

The obvious Asimov choices would be I, Robot (the recent movie based upon it is nothing like the novel), the Foundation series, or the Naked Sun. Personally, I like a bit of campy fun, so I'd recommend David Starr, Space Ranger and the Lucky Starr series. Campy, but Asimov had a way of making campy intelligent.

Jack Vance has always been one of my favorites. He follows the vein of classic sci-fi writers like Welles and Hugo who use science fiction as a social commentary. He's won a few Hugo awards for his works. I'd say some of the best representatives of his work would be the Dying Earth series and the Demon Princes series.

Harry Harrison wrote some of the best in my opinion. It rode the edge between campy and provocative. His Stainless Steel Rat series is incredible.

Arthur C. Clarke was mentioned above, and he's written quite a few good novels. He sticks to "hard science fiction," in other words, use of technology that is or will some day be plausible. You won't find Clarke writing about warp-drive starships or funky aliens with three heads. Give Rendezvous With Rama a try.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It's what happens when you talk to yourself for too long.

Well, talking to myself is a heap better than listening to you talk out your ass.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The obvious Asimov choices would be I, Robot (the recent movie based upon it is nothing like the novel), the Foundation series, or the Naked Sun. Personally, I like a bit of campy fun, so I'd recommend David Starr, Space Ranger and the Lucky Starr series. Campy, but Asimov had a way of making campy intelligent.

Jack Vance has always been one of my favorites. He follows the vein of classic sci-fi writers like Welles and Hugo who use science fiction as a social commentary. He's won a few Hugo awards for his works. I'd say some of the best representatives of his work would be the Dying Earth series and the Demon Princes series.

Harry Harrison wrote some of the best in my opinion. It rode the edge between campy and provocative. His Stainless Steel Rat series is incredible.

Arthur C. Clarke was mentioned above, and he's written quite a few good novels. He sticks to "hard science fiction," in other words, use of technology that is or will some day be plausible. You won't find Clarke writing about warp-drive starships or funky aliens with three heads. Give Rendezvous With Rama a try.

My library has the Asimov books you suggest! Plus some of the Clarke books.

Thanks, I appreciate it!

 

[MichaelWest]

Gimme some recommendations, I know jack-shit about sci-fi

I still love Frank Herbert's Dune. The entire series is good, but if you only read the first book I think you have read a landmark work and will have his universe added to your imagination.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I still love Frank Herbert's Dune. The entire series is good, but if you only read the first book I think you have read a landmark work and will have his universe added to your imagination.

Thank you!

 

[TxRad]

Since you like thing that twist and turn, try "River World." My mind is a blank at the moment on the author. Joseph Farmer, I think.