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hates LOTR films
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| Intentionally Wrong wrote: |
Yeah, I picked up Lolita because of something Tim wrote. |
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Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama is the last thing I really remember reading. I went into it expecting another American Psycho, and that's sort of what I got. Glamorama is perhaps less satire and more disorientation, but I'd recommend it heartily to anyone around these parts. The first 200 pages are boring, but they set up something special! And I liked the cameo by Patrick Bateman a lot. At that point I knew this was going to be a great book. I know this lacked any summary of the plot, but it's not the type of book that you can easily sum up in a few sentences... unless you hate it.
I just remembered I read The Genocides by Thomas Disch last week for a paper I never bothered to write. The book is basically a green postapocalypse.
next insert credit/select button book meme: Coin Locker Babies
I'm surprised Tim hasn't already name-dropped this for his new-games journalism Reading Rainbow racket he has going on here. It'd fit right in splendidly. But don't take my word for it... |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:50 am |
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| Just watch the movies, and if anyone tries to corner you with differences between the book and movie, just laugh it off and continue. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:07 pm |
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| GcDiaz wrote: |
Just finished rereading 1984 for the umpteenth time. I can't get enough of it. Now I'm reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood. Haven't read them in nearly a decade, so the stories are basically new all over again.
Hey, it's literature to me. |
What's there to get out of Nineteen Eighty-Four? I've read the book once or twice and it's hard to see justification for cult of personality surrounding this book. It's not prophetic in any meaningful way. Everything is so distorted and one-sided that it comes off as some libertarian adolescent's nightmare wrapped up in some nice prose.
Is this good? I got a hardback copy at a free bookstore a few years ago and I feel like I ought to read it. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:34 am |
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I know it's not literature, but Cards As Weapons is one of the greatest books I have ever read.
I don't want to alarm you guys, but I could probably kill all of you with a deck of cards now. It's a tad pricey, but the knowledge is worth every penny.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:38 am |
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In something of a malaise I purchased Love In The Time of Cholera and I'm enjoying it so far. Story of unrequited love spanning five decades in South America. Reading it makes me hopeful.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:08 pm |
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Of course he couldn't throw the cards hard enough. The learned elders would never show the true power of card throwing to the unwashed masses.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:01 am |
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I am reading Infinite Jest. The font on the front cover is the same colour as tennis balls.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:30 am |
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I don't think that Holden couldn't or didn't want to change himself, just that he was too depressed to even attempt to tackle the "machine" of phonies. It was just too built up and he couldn't handle it. So he just went along with it grudgingly and acting indignant along the way.
So I basically agree with you guys.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:02 pm |
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| Ayn Rand wrote: |
| "[The Native Americans] didn't have any rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using.... What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent." |
There was another great quote by her where she called some guy a faggot and threatened to shove a coke bottle up his ass among other things. It's interesting how she has all but been dismissed by academia yet Atlus Shrugged is dangerously high on some lists of most influential works of the 20th century.
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:20 pm |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| So I'm reading Snow Crash - for the first time. I know, right? Yeah, it's exactly as good as everyone always says it is. |
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Read Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller instead.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:27 am |
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I finished Infinite Jest. I'm not sure if I can recommend it or not. I can't even imagine what the original 2,000 page draft would have been like.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:20 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| The Bible, followed by The Very Hungry Caterpillar, in that order. |
You would recommend The Very Hungry Caterpillar, wouldn't you.
Children's literature needs more collectivist overtones. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:55 am |
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| Is a rainbow fish not entitled to the gleam of his own scales!? |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:08 am |
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| The sparlking, shimmering of the redistributed scales probably attracted sharks and all the volk were eaten. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:21 am |
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Does Gravity's Rainbow ever come together and become a "regular" book or is this going to be more like Infinite Jest (by that I mean many subplots that overlap here and there but no real central plot)?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:07 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| Also, I have just never been able to read Infinite Jest. Seemed too much of an attempt to just combine Pynchon and Vonnegut, an attempt I never felt needed to be made. |
You should! It is a blast to read.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:23 am |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| Also, I have just never been able to read Infinite Jest. Seemed too much of an attempt to just combine Pynchon and Vonnegut, an attempt I never felt needed to be made. |
You should! It is a blast to read. |
Really? I mean, most of what I have heard of it sounds OK, but kind, i don't know, I guess obvious would be a good word. The year of the SPONSORSHIP and such. ehh. |
Honestly, the Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment isn't really a theme or particularly important, it's just there. Who can say no to French-Canadian wheelchair assassins and roaming herds of feral hamster?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:09 am |
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Well it's not a serious book, but that's not to say that it's not affecting.
Dark Steve could probably explain why it's a good book better than I can.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:44 am |
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It's half zany, half almost-overlong passages on the mundane; one-hitter marijuana pipes, tennis serves, football kicks, tattoos & those who wear them etc. Half the book, easily, is about AA and substance abuse, leaving the other half to the Tennis Academy where most of the zany takes place. I don't think it's overdone though.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:51 am |
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Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East is just barely worth reading.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:30 am |
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I am going start Against the Day.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:41 am |
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| I am going start Against the Day. |
What a fool I was for thinking I could read this book.
I just finished The Shock Doctrine. It was much better than No Logo. Man, Milton Friedman's followers sure messed up a lot of countries! :oops:
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:55 am |
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| dark steve wrote: |
The Shock Doctrine boils down to the idea that the entire world at every level is run by a shadowy cabal of villainous jewish bankers economists and corporate interests who personally engineer every single war or disaster that has ever occurred in order to spread free trade (free trade being, as every good marxist academic knows, the single most evil thing in the universe). |
Yo Dark Steve I forget I posted in this thread, but saying that the Shock Doctrine reduces everything to a shadowy cabal conspiracy theory of economists is misleading.
I'll read that New Republic article when I get up this morning and probably edit this post.
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