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brrrr |
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American Psycho is the funniest book ever. |
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jeez, am i glad you live in oman renting body double for the how manyth time tonight? or just having some prostitutes over? or going out to check bono's dick? what'd'ya think of the new phil collins btw? |
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American Psycho is entertaining until half-way, when it becomes repetitive to the max |
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I... love... the *gasp*.. part in 'Body Double'... where the ... girl.. gets drilled... in the head... I have to see your sneakers |
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If it was 10 million pages long, I'd still be happily reading it! |
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best thing was you had to wait to page 180 or so to just get one homeless dude blind. then you so much want more blood that you suck up everything that comes later on. i read in a review that there actually is progression in the book, i didnt realize that, but it's that he tells about how he only sodomized this girl till she cant have children anymore *shudders* a year before the actual story and at the and of the book he's slashing whore's by the the dozen: he gets worse. *shudders* i was blown away by the kiss he got from his secretary and all the rage, anger and hate disappears for a second. i thought that was an important moment in the book, but the review (it was a summary book for students or schoolkids) didnt mention that. i missed the satire point, might have to read it again. whoopies did you know bret left the killing parts open till after he finished the book and then all wrote them, with two bottles of vodka, getting sicker all the time. it must have been in his head for a longer time though: he must have done some research on anatomy. |
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PATRICK I'm into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends. WOMAN Do you like it? PATRICK Umm... yeah, sometimes. I guess so. Why do you ask? WOMAN Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don't really like it. PATRICK That's not what I said. |
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Yep :) |
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I re-read Glamorama when I was holiday (3rd time) - I enjoyed it far more this time around - plus that has a death in it worse than any of the bits in Psycho, partly due to the execution (pun intended) and partly because of attachment to the character. |
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The one right near the end? That's a damn fucked up one. |
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Forgot to mention that it's a superb book. |
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For shor! "...she dies in my arms, making gutteral animal noises as torrents of blood and intestines fall to the floor..." Blearrugh. |
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Woah definatly some great books ... I love The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, 1984... |
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anyone read Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden? I love the Japanese culture, is this book as good as it's made out to be? |
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erm... just searching the internet and it appears that the writer of such amazing films Batman & Robin, Lost in Space and A Time to Kill is writing the script. What idiots make these kind of decissions?? |
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Ellis intensively studied police reports of real psychopaths, which were gruesomely detailed in what they had done to their victims. he actually thought he was going insane himself while writing the book and had quite some extensive therapy after finishing it. he now says (or at least a few years ago in the interview I read), that he would cut out most of the violence now, as it deterred from his point, so to speak. he did think the book is too long. he always expresses how well a book has turned out in a percentage - how well the book corresponds to the generative idea for the book. "american psycho" only ranked round 50% in his own little system. the best ranked book was "The rules of attraction", which to this date, the press have hated most. I love "The rules of attraction". it's so much more subtle than Am. Psy. much more painful. |
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Read: 1984 - George Orwell The BFG - Roald Dahl Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Animal Farm - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Dune - Frank Herbert Great Expectations - Charles Dickens The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Lord Of The Flies - William Golding Matilda - Roald Dahl Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen The Twits - Roald Dahl Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson Ulysses - James Joyce Watership Down - Richard Adams The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame There aren't many there which I intend to read in the future though Future Reads: Philp K Dick: The Man in the High Castle & Ubik H G Wells: The Time Machine (again) Andre Malraux: La voie royale Some Dostoyevsky > recommendations? American Psycho' - Bret Easton Ellis (a must) |
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Well Marlowe, I nearly cried when I saw dear old Kafka was left out. Not to mention P.G. Wodehouse... |
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why is p.g. wodehouse not anywhere on this list? |
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and for that matter, why is this list so eurocentric? |
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Because the people of my country are for the most part, tasteless dolts. :P I agree- I really thought wodehouse would of made it... I imagine his large number of books and lack of a "stand out" one means people probably voted for different wodehouse books and hence no single book got enough votes to make the list. Whereas someone like George Orwell who only has 3 really "popular" books stands a much better chance. Personally I'm quite annoyed that Henry Miller isn't in there... fantastic "literature" and as riveting as trainspotting etc. |
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no Kafka. not nice. and no Raymond Carver. :( on Wodehouse - he seems to be mostly popular with an older audience, I think. |
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i didnt read all of your posts so this may have been discussed but where is withnail and i by bruce robinson and no dr suess (im not j/king) |
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i'm going to read War and Peace after i've finnished 1984... wish me luck :) |
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