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Read this: Read it, then tell me it's macabre (the rabbits don't count). |
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"(the rabbits don't count)" Xeron Read this you ignoramus: yes they do count as macabre. I find it extremely twisted that the character of Frank finds it amusing to put explosives in rabbits dens and then mutilate the dead carcasses for no particular reason. By the definition I gave you, that is macabre! |
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i'm gay |
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Right. |
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Xeron wrote this by hijacking my computer, the bastard. b7 |
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your obviously going through an emotional period, coming out like that must have been hard. I don't really reccommend you read on. |
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oh and it's alright to be gay, no need to feel ashamed. |
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Paul Watzlawick - Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? |
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I'm reading Madame Bovary. It's fun, really. |
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I've thought about reading that on several occasions - let me know what you thought once you've finished it please, fabien. |
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'A Tour of the Calculus' by David Berlinski |
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no logo |
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I'm re-reading "His Dark Materials" for like, the 11th time. Pantalaimon would appreciate it. Everyone needs to read 'The Golden Compass'. |
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i read the first one then i read the second one and either was bored or confused and never read the 3rd one. |
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Well the second is boring because its more of a hiatus. Read it all the way through, you'll be prostituting yourself for the third one by the time your finished. |
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in the last two weeks i've finished ulysses by james joyce, six characters in search of an author by luigi pirandello, murder in the cathedral by t. s. eliot, selected essays by t. s. eliot, the plague by albert camus, the latest issue of the paris review, and a clockwork orange by anthony burgess. the last one i didn't really like as much as the others. currently i'm reading lolita by vladimir nabokov. i have two books borrowed, mrs. dalloway and the secret agent, as well as a rebours to read afterwards. |
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and i just made this topic a favourite. |
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a dark and hungry god arises, by steven donaldson |
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i'm reading "the selfish gene" by richard dawkins. |
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Dracula by Mr Stoker - it's rather good.. |
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pity you didn't like a clockwork orange as much as the others. what was it that you didn't like? i found it enthralling, especially the use of language. burgess is a genius. |
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for use of language i look to joyce. overall the clockwork novella seemed amateurish to me, from its awkward structure to the unsubtle themes. i think it wouldn't be out of place in the bible. but while i didn't like it as much as the others, i did in fact like it. the experience was just disappointing. today i finished lolita. *that* is a book that makes good use of language. while a cliche, nabokov was, and forever will be, a master of the english language. now i'm beginning mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf. |
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When did you finish 'How To Be A Pompous Oaf' by I. M. Upmasell |
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why do you want to know what everyone else is reading? |
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The Magus by John Fowles - headfuck so far. |
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It's interesting and also you can ask people's opinions on the matter - similar to joining an XLT messageboard and discussing elextronic musics |
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if anything i said was made out to be an attack then please be aware that it was unintentional. my bible comment was not a snipe but rather a mere observance, with some small relevance given burgess's background. |
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you'll need a shot of some sedatives first of course |
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Sorry I was more or less kidding :] |
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if only that were true |
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Is that your 14 points worth of experience speaking, Gob? |
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Is that your 16858 points worth of conceited bullshit speaking, marlowe? |
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Yes, that's right - I'm glad you've spent the time to read all 16859 of them |
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century With a title like that you know it's gonna be a charming little lighthearted read. Very likely predictions though when you understand peak oil. |
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As for fiction, most recently I read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Which was brilliant, and not a million miles from the other book. |
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Family Outing by Chastity Bono. My girlfriend lent it to me, she's trying to help me "come out" to my parents :( |
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the zombie survival guide by max brooks and exquisite corpse by poppy z brite (again) |
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HEY YOU'RE HOT! TSSSSSSS |
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ew. shutup. |
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oh come on, if you're going to hoare yourself on a message board, at least be honrest about it, you slagheap |
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first of all, what's a slagheap? are you going to call me a muppet next? and second....what's a hoare? |
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Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly "Ubik" left me with mixed feelings; i liked it and found it captivating in the middle, but annoying because of too much "futuristic" terms in the beginning, and deceiving in the end... this other one starts better already. i'll see how it turns out. |
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cosmic trigger volume one by robert anton wilson... |
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Great! Read the whole trilogy - number 3 is my favourite! :] If you're reading #1 I guess you've read the Illuminatus! trilogy? |
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i've actually already read all three, i'm rereading volume one. i last read it in 1998. i've never actually read any of his fiction, but many of his others. however, a coworker has just lent my wife the entire trilogy in one volume, so i'm not so sure i should let such a coincidence slip away unacknowledged... |
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His other major work of fiction is the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy, but I didn't enjoy that half as much as the Illuminatus! trilogy |
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how do you guys have the time to read thru books ? it must be will |
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On the first 80 pages of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: While I do not feel like I am retaining as much of the airy plot information as I should, I find the characters to be lovingly crafted and the text to be written in a very relaxing manner. It's like an adult bedtime story. With this I have a renewed appreciation for published women's literature. |
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I finished Mrs. Dalloway. It's about a single day in a woman and a man's life -- Mrs. Woolf was reading Ulysses during the time of its inception. However, she forgoes any Greek allegory, or an allegory of any kind, for a more humanistic and yes, more womanly approach to the matters at hand. It's 212 pages long but structured as a short story. It's not a novel, not a novella, but a short story. I said that I found the characters to be lovingly crafted. This still holds true, but the character with the least amount of substance and overall the least memorable character in general is Mrs. Dalloway itself. Anyway, I've begun reading The Secret Agent, A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski. |
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I read some trendy books about politics and stuff, some about the New York zine scene in the late 80s, and the new Harry Potter. Books are RAD, look I'm READING, like most every other fucker does on the planet without having to make a messageboard thread with an imaginary big arrow saying "i'm special" pointing at their cunting heads. |
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