Showing posts with label goodreads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goodreads. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

319 Comedic Fantasy Books That Are Awesome

(Should've been at least 320...just sayin'...)

I found this list on Goodreads. It's user-generated and is the top 319 comedy fantasy novels of ever, at least to this user. There are definitely some inconsistencies (all the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books are listed, but so are the anthologies; same with Robert Asprin's MYTH books), but it's still a very solid wishlist of some of the best comedic fantasy novels ever written.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Hunter S. Thompson: The 20 Greatest Quotes


I joined the Navy at 17 and attended the Defense Information School (DINFOS) to become a military journalist. For the most part, there are two kinds of those: the uptight, stick-up-their-ass, by-the-book person who tends to gravitate towards TV or leadership within the public affairs ranks or the drunken, barely-in-uniform type who is usually the on-air radio guy or the writer.

I was the latter and as such, worshiped the ground Hunter S. Thompson walked on. HST, a fellow veteran journalist, lived the life that all my fellow drunken Sailor reporters wanted to live. A friend and I used to fax Woody Creek from our ship constantly, pledging our allegiance to him. Alas, we never heard back from him.

While he is no longer with us, he left much knowledge and direction behind. Here are his 20 greatest quotes, according to GoodReads.