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So have you heard about...

[kaijinscendre]

Sometimes you love something to death, but it seems no one else has ever heard of it! Maybe you just sit in your room and contemplate your loneliness or maybe you go to friends/family/followers and try and convince them that this thing is awesome! What are some of those things for you?

Mine would probably be the author Robert Cormier. I loved his books when I was in high school (I wrote my biggest AP paper on his works). But other than his biggest book (The Chocolate War) most people have no clue who I am talking about! Because most of the books have downer endings, they are not what most people want to read. :C

What is a show, book, game, movie, person, whatever that you wish more people knew about?

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

I can't even deal with The Chocolate War now or ever, so I am part of that problem. Sorry, kaijinscendre.

But have you played Fallen London? It's probably not obscure, but it is a lot of fun. fallenlondon.com.

Re: So have you heard about...

[sarillia]

Whenever I mention how much I love the 101 Dalmatians book I end up with a lot of people going "that was a book?" so I wish that was more well-known. And I wish people were more familiar with Dashiell Hammett. Most people only know what I'm talking about when I mention The Maltese Falcon and that's my least favorite thing that he's written.

And there are so many old movies that I wish I could talk about. There's one kind of obscure one called Home Before Dark about a woman who spent some time in a mental hospital and is trying to adjust to life back home, and I really want to hear some other opinions on it.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

Venus ni seppun. Which, I acknowledge is an absolutely, totally fucked up yaoi manga, which is the sort that makes some people hate the genre, but it seems to hit some of my kinks pretty hard. But, no way I'm mentioning this in real life to someone. And there's very little fan stuff online.

Re: So have you heard about...

[rubbertea]

robert penn warren isn't very famous for a critically acclaimed author. he's never mentioned in discussions about classics. this makes me sad because his book all the king's men is one of my favorite books and my biggest writing inspiration.

also, person of interest, though the internet is starting to realize it exists now that the third season is getting more and more praise. it's often been dismissed as "another boring cbs show for old people", but that couldn't be further from the truth.
and since i'm talking about a show he's in, michael emerson is criminally underrated as well. he's such a good character actor, but it seems like people barely remember he won two emmys.

Re: So have you heard about...

[fingalsanteater]

Err. A lot of the movies I stream I choose for this reason-- because I want people to talk about them with. The Puppet Master series, maybe? I could list a bunch more movies that I'd like to talk to people about. The Dark Backward? I streamed it once and it didn't go over very well.

As for shows, Earth 2 because it was a cool show, but it has a super small fan base.

I wish everyone loved King Missile's like I do. My SO got me into them and he doesn't even get it when I reference their songs.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

There's a ton of random pop-punk bands I kind of imprinted on in high school that I'm pretty sure no one else I know has ever heard of. But I don't know that I'd want more people knew about them, since most of them aren't particularly good. I do wish more of my friends were fans of Thrice and Motion City Soundtrack.

Also, Five Weapons is a fantastic comic that isn't getting enough press.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up on Crossgen Comics, and I'd love to talk to someone about them but I've never met anyone who has even heard of them. I figure they must have a bad reputation or something, but I enjoyed them so much. I've read most of the titles and liked almost all of them to one degree or another. With so many titles, I really feel that someone who likes comics would find something to enjoy. But maybe that's just me.

Re: So have you heard about...

[neonlovechicken]

I usually manage to manipulate people into watching movies I like with no problems at all, I just did even 2 hours ago, successfully.

Usually I go with, 'damn, this actress is hot though' to men, and 'damn, look how pretty this actor is' to women (yes they are easy like that). I just went with 'damn but Peggy looks fine, and also quite bad ass' to my bro over the phone because I had decided to watch the whole Cap America (FINALLY I MADE IT) tonight and had to inflict it on someone else.

Tomorrow I'll know if he hates me or not, he did not sent me death threats over the phone. (PS: after watching TWS I hated Cap 1 a lot less, but still it is an enormous ball of untapped potential to me... Evans is great though, but I knew that already).

Right now Political Animals is THAT THING that everyone, especially women, should watch and love. But no one knows about it. I was sad about this for like 2 weeks, now I seem to be over it.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

Film:
The Dark Crystal by Jim Henson (?) It was this weird 80s dark fantasy film using puppets.

Band:
Portishead. A 90s trip-hop band from Britian. If I had to describe their sound... it's like if you put LSD and the James Bond films in a blender.

Books:
Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve. YA dystopian steampunk-ish sci-fi.
The Edge Chronicles. YA fantasy novel with SKY PIRATES.

Re: So have you heard about...

[teaphile]

The Book of Air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber.

It sounds like mediocre urban fantasy, but it's really a good contemporary thriller. The friend who gave it to me called it "the thinking person's Da Vinci Code", and it is. The mystery is a lost Shakespeare play, and at no point in the book did I want to yell at the protagonist.

Re: So have you heard about...

[cushlamochree]

Most of the books that I read tbh, especially the fantasy & science fiction stuff. Jack Vance or Gene Wolfe or Patricia McKillip are kinda well known if you're into fantasy, for instance, but it's still pretty hard to find people who know them. But there's two authors in particular that I wish people knew about: James Blaylock and RA Lafferty.

I love James Blaylock because he's so good at writing atmosphere, whether it's creepy or comfy or strange, or some combination of the three which it usually is, and his combination of contemporary world + fantasy hits just the right balance for me.

And RA Lafferty is one of my favorite writers and NO ONE knows who he is and all his books are out of print, and also his stuff is kind of a hard sell even if you do find it because it's often surreal and doesn't even try to be realistic - the style of the prose and the plots is almost cartoon-like. It's neither comedic writing, nor standard science fiction and fantasy, nor standard literary fiction. But I think he's a genius and I love the way he draws on folklore and the way a lot of his fiction sounds like some incredibly shaggy-dog story that he's telling you and the complete willingness to try strange and unconventional things and how rooted a lot of it is in really specific parts of American 20th century life. And also he's quite funny.

Re: So have you heard about...

[asecretchord]

The Happy Hollisters. It was a book series back in the sixties and I must have read thirty of them. If it weren't for the fact that I actually still have a number of them, I'd think I'd imagined them.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

Journeyman.

Re: So have you heard about...

[cloud_riven]

Ha haha ha I am so constantly sitting alone in my room contemplating how lonely it is that no one in my direct fannish reach reads, or read, the Darkwing Duck comics by Boom! Studios. I watched the show as a kid, so it was as if it never left with these comics. And even the nostalgia is unnecessary because it is legit enjoyable as a standalone thing, or a gateway to Disney Afternoon mania

And Duck Draper in the mostly background while Darkwing continues to be the supremest 2D husbando.

Re: So have you heard about...

[badass_tiger]

I know lots of people know Pokemon - I even know some half dozen people irl who play - but nobody is ever into the metagame :( Even people who do know about it are usually very judgey about people who are into it. I just want to discuss great Pokemon strategies and teach people how to Toxic-stall because I can't believe not more people use that strategy, even on Pokemon Showdown!.

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[nightscale]

Kinda with Beatrix Potter, I love her books but I've never seen any discussion of them on the internet(granted I haven't started a discussion either) so it's more that I don't really know if they are popular. And it's not like they aren't know about over here it's just that they are very much seen as kids books and expressing like of them as an adult can get you strange looks(in the sense of 'Didn't you grow out of them?' which my reply is always 'Talking animals. Of course not!').

Closure

[feotakahari]

A platform game in which a mysterious figure (referred to as a demon in supplemental materials) explores the memories of three individuals lost in literal and metaphorical darkness. The story is told entirely without words--I always had an interpretation of what was happening, but I wasn't always sure it was correct, and I would have loved to bounce ideas off of other players. (Sadly, the shadow effects didn't interact well with my graphics card, so I was unable to finish it.)

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

Vienna Teng's music is some of my favorite, so lyrical and poetic...yet very few people seem to know who she is. Her songs are fuckin' poetry and she has a lovely voice

For writers, Elizabeth Goudge! To be fair to The World a lot of her works are out of print, so you might have a hard time getting them via used book stores and yard sales, but The Little White Horse (in my mind her best book!) and Linnets and Valerians are reprinted and it's a damn shame that more people don't know them. I think part of the problem is that the covers look like run-of-the-mill YA/childrens books, but they're from a time when children's books were damn well-written and aaaaah. They're just so deep and subtle and uplifting and give them all to me.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

The Almighty Johnsons. Yeah, I'm aware it's a cheesy, often sexist Australian soap opera with Scandinavian gods but it's so addictive! And the people who have actually watched it only did it for Anders / Dean O'Gorman - granted I did too at first, but I stayed for Mike who is the sexiest man on that bloody underrated show.

Re: So have you heard about...

[elaminator]

The Pendragon book series, though every time I mention it here on f!s someone comes along and says they enjoyed it too. I've been wanting to read those again but haven't found the time; I grew up with those books and hold a love of love and affection for them despite the fact the series doesn't have the best writing.

God, Saint Dane. ...So many wacky conversations were had about Saint Dane/Bobby. SO MANY. I still can't believe that series ended the way it did; I wasn't pleased, but I rarely am by endings. Regardless, those books were the shit. (And Loor was fucking amazing.)

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

China Mieville's books. I've only read two of them, but they were awesome enough that I already swear by him. He loves turning cliche tropes on their head, and his casts are very diverse (and full of women!). I'm loving Un Lun Dun because it plays with the trope of Chosen One and sidekick.

the manga +Anima. It's a long shot since it's old and already finished, but I want all the fanart.

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

I loved The Chocolate War and its sequel.

Re: So have you heard about...

[cakemage]

I apologize in advance for the disjointed tl;dr below.

Books: "The Mindjack Trilogy," by Susan Kaye Quinn. It's set in a moderately distant future Chicago where everyone develops mind-reading powers at puberty and those who don't are known as Zeros and are pitied at best. Kira thinks she's a Zero, until an incident with her best friend/crush causes a jerky classmate to reveal that she, like him, is a Mindjacker who can control the thoughts of others and can choose whether or not to let them hear her thoughts. At first she just wants to masquerade as a normal Reader who changed late, but then the jerk tries to initiate her into a secret Mindjacker society and she freaks out and they all get busted and sent to a Jacker internment camp. And then things start to go to hell. And that's the first book! It's not brilliant, but it is fun and engaging, and while the protagonist makes a lot mistakes and can be angsty and immature, she's also a determinator who cares deeply for the people in her life and can be counted on to make the hard choices to do what's right in the long run, even if it means she's going to suffer big-time as an immediate result. It's sort of like Hunger Games, specifically Mockingjay, because Kira does eventually become a political/combat leader in fighting for Jacker rights. At any rate, I love this series to death.

Also, Jim C. Hines books need a lot more love. Whether you start with the Goblin Trilogy, the Princess series or his as-of-yet unfinished Magic Ex Libris series, you really can't go wrong. He's a brilliant and funny writer who is worthy of love, and also is a pretty cool guy eh does sexy pinup photoshoots in skimpy attire and doesn't afraid of anything.

Videogames: The Bard's Tale (PS2), Project Eden (PC/PS2), Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force (PC/PS2), Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (PC), Dark Cloud/2 (PS2), The World Ends With You (DS) and I'm not sure if No More Heroes/2 qualifies, but I'm adding it anyway.

TV: Shark (CBS, 2006-2008). I admit I started watching for Jeri Ryan, but it was overall a really good show with a solid cast that had good chemistry. Also, the fandom was the best I've ever been in. Good times, good times.

Movies: Eulogy (2004). It's a black comedy about a dysfunctional family at their father's/grandfather's funeral. There's lots of cursing, pot-smoking and lesbians and cursing, pot-smoking lesbians and Ray Romano playing a total sleazebag and a twist near the end that basically sucker-punches the whole family and it ends with a make-shift viking funeral. Oh, and Zooey Deschanel is the only normal one. Well, normal-ish.

Also, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical never fails to fill me with happy.

"Yeah, you're not so tough!
You once had all the brains
Now they're just carpet stains
You're in no shape to fight
My bid to make things right
'Cause there's blood upon your necktie
Your corpus is delecti
And I have been delivered from the stuff!"

Re: So have you heard about...

[(Anonymous)]

I wish more people outside of Canada were Trailer Park Boys fans. I love that show but most people here in the US have never even seen it.