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After recently finishing Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, and consequently receiving a right and proper skull fucking, I wanted to indulge some literary fluff. I'm starting to believe I made a mistake in my selection, however. When I read Girl with the Dragon Tattoo less than a year ago (for relief after completing Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner) I was vacillating between speedball binges and dope sickness. My theory is this somehow enabled me to overlook Stieg Larson's airheaded prose and redundant story telling. W/o gaining this perspective the first time, naturally I returned for more punishment and am now chewing on The Girl who Played with Fire. I'm going to need to find some better pop literature....
 
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.

Planning on breaking my Bukowski virginity afterwards. Thinking on starting with Ham on Rye (?)
 
ricardo08 said:
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.

Planning on breaking my Bukowski virginity afterwards. Thinking on starting with Ham on Rye (?)
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I saw Norwegian Wood in the bookstore, was thinking of getting it, any good?
 
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I just finished reading The Hunger Games....I resisted it for ages, but caught a bit of the movie a couple months ago and thought it looked kind of cool...

Verdict: The writing style isn't really great, and it's not really at all subtle or layered in any way, but the storyline was interesting enough, and I actually quite liked that Katniss has agency and doesn't just sit around batting her eyelashes and being a twat while guys move the action forward.

The only part I really thought was super hokey was
when the rest of the tributes come back as werewolves...it stretched suspension of disbelief way too far, and it cheapened any emotional impact that Rue's death had
 
Lonesome Traveler by Kerouac & Meditation in Action by Chongyam Trungpa
 
ForEverAfter said:
Carlos Castaneda. A yaqui way of knowledge. Crazy Mexican shamans people tripping so much they piss on dogs, dogs tripping so much they piss on people.
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Read those ten yeas ago - whole series! Hilarious, endearing, entertaining shit but...

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The bastard made it all up. It's make believe. Yaqui TROLLED



=D

xxxyyy said:
ah yes killing floor. never read james patterson, i usually really enjoy hard-boiled crime fiction, i thought that the premise of the story was just ridiculous (the whole dead brother thing) and the writing was subpar. never bothered with lee child after that.



one day, me and my nazi brethren will come marching into your house.
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Jugnis.

I'm on these Jerry lekkas side by the way, the old nafka a real red headed jew a real fabbissina!

In short: Future nazis = confused nazis.
 
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^ my favourite shakespeare play. the feature length movie version directed by roman polanski uses the original shakespeare as the screenplay and is excellent: macbeth.

alasdair
 
Some pretty heavy reading material on this thread....

I started this book about 8 months ago and am averaging 3-5 pages a month - as you can imagine I am getting nowhere fast, but it's a good book nonetheless

Karin Slaughter 'Broken'
 
White Buildings ~ Hart Crane

Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork ~ Richard Brautigan
 
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