RES: [UA] Books, freetime and new UA campaign (OT)

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Patrick: ok, i will check. :) Tahnks. :)

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Gary:

>Here's some stuff we're recommending to the players in our upcoming UA
LARP:

How the UA LARP will be set? What you guys planning?

>Comics - The Watchmen, The Preacher, The Invisibles

Watchmen is damn amazing and an inspiration to anything, just because is so
well written. :)

I hate preacher. I really dont understand its success. Is just a character
that uses foul language all the time, and the others characters follow. Is
that so good? The childish profanity doesnt help also. The best profanities,
btw, are like Peter Blatty did, in other words, not "make believe
profanities", but ones that is in the right context of the religion. :)

The Invisibles is great, but a little "x-files" formula in the aspect of
"lets just throw everything crazy stuff on it. pll will think is cool, no
matter what".

There is other very UAble comics, like The Nazz (almost perfect example of a
over-sized Godwalker), Sandman, or even Hellblazer. Those last two may not
fit UA if you stick too much with the mythological concepts on its roots,
but those things can be worked out. I have other comics i could recomend,
but im terrible with names, and most of my "good stufF" is with my girl
friend right now.

Btw, Ghost Rider is certanly UAble, just use a Demon as obssessed for
"Revenge" and you got him. And the name sticks even more perfectly in a UA
story. :)

>Books - Anything by Haruki Murakami (especially 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and
>the End of the World, 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicles' and 'A Wild Sheep
>Chase'), Anything by James Ellroy (especially L.A. Confidential and Black
>Dhalia), Roger Zelazny's 'A Night in the Lonesome October'.

Never heard about Haruki, but i will take a look, thanks. :)
I really need to read James Ellroy, but didnt found anything of him yet. And
yes, Lonesome October is on my wish list for a long time, and you just one
of the few that considers it a very good book. Two friends have already
recomended it to me. :)

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Hi James McGraw. :)

I loved The Golden Compass...and what ruined the trilogy to me was exactly
what you liked on it: the theological overtones...it became just a
theological TOME in the end, and he was doing great just whithout it.

Catch 22 is great. Is insane also. :)   I didnt read Something Happened, but
i will check. :)

I will drop John Irving. :):)

[]s,

   Haroudo Xavier


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