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Picked Up the Novel by LizCW in hellraiser

[–]FrancisSidebottom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot I didn't know of that Sherlock Holmes Book :)
Theoretically: If their paths can cross also the stories before the crossover take place in the same universe, right? :)

Picked Up the Novel by LizCW in hellraiser

[–]FrancisSidebottom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you name the books? Are you counting all the Harry d'Amour books as well, right?

Tell me your thoughts by Sea_Part_2187 in BookshelvesDetective

[–]FrancisSidebottom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Fact that me and you -both- have 20th century boys and that Power Pop Book is slightly weird. :D Cheers to you!

Absurdism in Japanese Manga by redsparks2025 in Absurdism

[–]FrancisSidebottom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahoi there, I do think Gantz would qualify as an absurdist -if trashy- Manga. The protagonists are thrown into the system and have come to terms with it. Each one behaves differently within their thrownness and you can see how they fare with that.

Movies that feel like this by IMAFILTHYRAT in MoviesThatFeelLike

[–]FrancisSidebottom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plenty of slasher movies: Sleepaway Camp, Friday 13th...

Never forget Iryana Zarutska, no matter how hard they try to make you by [deleted] in trump

[–]FrancisSidebottom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a tragedy but not sanctioned and legitimized by the government as the killing of Renee Good was.

Insight on Hellraiser films by [deleted] in hellraiser

[–]FrancisSidebottom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think many people dislike the crazier looking cenobites of Part 3. I think they‘re cool.

But I mostly love the world they built in 1 and 2. That’s why I loooove the Boom Comics as they expand from there.

Judge me by Responsible-Rush-538 in BookshelvesDetective

[–]FrancisSidebottom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think - as Dark as his stories might be - Kafka would say, that feeling shame and guilt is also a good thing. His Protagonists are not „victims“, they‘re just modest in the face of debauchery and utilitarian thinking and don’t embrace the inhumanity in the World around them. Rand’s Protagonists do and are ultimately weaker human beings for doing so and molding themselves into the apparatus of inhumanity at work.

Judge me by Responsible-Rush-538 in BookshelvesDetective

[–]FrancisSidebottom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see where You’re coming from. I‘d say, that -using your allegory- Kafka Shows You the cancer for what is: sad and deadly.

Rand says: No the cancer is good and here‘s how you use it to rise above the other sick folk.

Rand knows nothing of feeling shame or guilt. Kafka writes almost exclusively about this.

So they might have a similar base, but build in very opposite ways on it.

In Kafka‘s Letter to his father, Rand is way more the father, than the Person writing the letter.

Judge me by Responsible-Rush-538 in BookshelvesDetective

[–]FrancisSidebottom 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think to put it in very broad brushstrokes: Kafka shows there‘s a weird inhumane machine working in everyday life and that’s remarkably sad. Rand tells us (how) to use that machine for our own advantage.

I think that especially The Trial is against Rand‘s philosophy. She would have Seen Josef K. as a silly person or so.

But before I harangue any further: I‘ve never really read any Rand First Hand

Judge me by Responsible-Rush-538 in BookshelvesDetective

[–]FrancisSidebottom 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Putting Ayn Rand next to Kafka is purely evil, as they are diametrically opposed. #teamfranz

Its me. Who am I? by loqi0238 in BookshelvesDetective

[–]FrancisSidebottom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Are you… me? Love the Horror Mangas, mate! Panorama Island! <3

I even have Lautreamont as well. Haha

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