lostpunk5545
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What are you reading now? vers. "So I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress"
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I'm not reading it right now, but has any read Marching Powder by Rusty Young?? My fav book ever! Basically follows the true story ok a UK coke smuggler living in a Bolivian jail and how it's almost a whole new world inside the jail with its on economical structure and way of living
Benefit
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CHiLD-0F-THE-BEAT said:
Well, you know, as long as Chopsy is impressed. Everything else is pretty much unimportant.
Benefit
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wanted to read it before the movie came out. A guy ages backward! F. Scott Fitzgerald! What's not to love? It only took 30 minutes. The budget on the film is reportedly $150 million. I can't imagine how.
Love In The Time of Cholera
Wanted to read it before I watched the movie. Also I only read books written by Nobel laureates. None of that lower class stuff for me, thank you very much.
As I Lay Dying
A novel from William Faulkner about hilljacks who carry the decomposing corpse of their mother on a wagon across 40 miles to bury her in her hometown. Wasn't that good.
Wanted to read it before the movie came out. A guy ages backward! F. Scott Fitzgerald! What's not to love? It only took 30 minutes. The budget on the film is reportedly $150 million. I can't imagine how.
Love In The Time of Cholera
Wanted to read it before I watched the movie. Also I only read books written by Nobel laureates. None of that lower class stuff for me, thank you very much.
As I Lay Dying
A novel from William Faulkner about hilljacks who carry the decomposing corpse of their mother on a wagon across 40 miles to bury her in her hometown. Wasn't that good.
Busty St Clare
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Where The Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak
I've been really wanting to read this book before the Spike Jonse movie comes out later in the year. Thankfully it is double spaced and I got a real nice bookmark from my aunty for Christmas.
And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
I've been really wanting to read this book before the Spike Jonse movie comes out later in the year. Thankfully it is double spaced and I got a real nice bookmark from my aunty for Christmas.
And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
Benefit
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That movie is going to be absolutely awful and lose a lot of money.
Busty St Clare
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Yeah but if the book is any indication the DVD will give Busty Lazy-Daddy time come Sunday mornings.........
mmmmmmm lazy parenting...........
mmmmmmm lazy parenting...........
Benefit
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My mom took me once to an opera adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. It was so awful the only thing I remember is having this overwhelming feeling of despair and shitting my pants. (This was last year)
lostpunk5545
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Hannibal by Thomas Harris.
This guy deserves the Tom Clancy award for boring prose.
I'm only reading it because I stupidly payed money for it. Fucking terrible. Red Dragon was redeeming because it had a decent story and alright characters. SOTL and this just plain suck. I keep hoping Starling dies horribly but because I've seen the movies (much better than the books) I know it's not going to happen. So it's disappointing knowing there's no pay off to reading it.
This guy deserves the Tom Clancy award for boring prose.
I'm only reading it because I stupidly payed money for it. Fucking terrible. Red Dragon was redeeming because it had a decent story and alright characters. SOTL and this just plain suck. I keep hoping Starling dies horribly but because I've seen the movies (much better than the books) I know it's not going to happen. So it's disappointing knowing there's no pay off to reading it.
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wow 10 page thread on books
no waffle wairesses here
just read the theban plays by sophocles for school ( best bit is oedipus stabbing himself in the eyes, crying tears of blood)
reading kangaroo by dh lawrence, not greatly written, a bit of a yawn, but being from oz i like it for all the descriptions and references to 1920s sydney
no waffle wairesses here
just read the theban plays by sophocles for school ( best bit is oedipus stabbing himself in the eyes, crying tears of blood)
reading kangaroo by dh lawrence, not greatly written, a bit of a yawn, but being from oz i like it for all the descriptions and references to 1920s sydney
preacha said:
I'd be interested to know if Todd Lammle has started to give some more depth to his characters, I know personally in Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-003 the storyline was excellent but I was definitely left hanging at the end and really felt he could have used another hundred pages to flesh out some more background for the main protagonist.
CHiLD-0F-THE-BEAT
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I'm now reading a parting gift one of my besties bestowed on me before he headed o/s: Who Killed Channel 9? by Gerald Stone.
I'm actually really enjoying it. The prose is great and it's interesting to learn all about the man behind the station - and how he ultimately fucked it up.
I was a little dubious jumping into something that could be viewed as 'dry' but this is anything but. They're right when they say truth is stranger than fiction. :D
I'm actually really enjoying it. The prose is great and it's interesting to learn all about the man behind the station - and how he ultimately fucked it up.
I was a little dubious jumping into something that could be viewed as 'dry' but this is anything but. They're right when they say truth is stranger than fiction. :D
chopped_chimp
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I'm reading Scar Tissue, by Anthony Keidas.
WOW!!! What a wild ride! I had no idea he was such a junkie or even such a punk. He's really opened up and leaves nothing to the imagination and I doubt he's left anything out.
A very interesting read and very, very hard to put down. I'm about halfway through it right now. Sometimes I hate him and then other times I really respect the man. He's one person that has really pushed lifes limits in every way.
Highly recommended.
Also, I just finished BTK - Bind, Torture Kill. It's about Dennis Radar, the serial killer from Wichita in Kansas, USA. He killed 10 people over about 10 years and wasn't caught until 30 years after his first murders. The thing about his guy is that he liked to write letters to the local paper telling them about his murders. This meant the whole town was on edge and worrying about him for decades.
Such an interesting book as it follows the life of Dennis Radar as told by the notes he kept on each murder, and also of the detectives that chased him for 30 years and their relationship with the newspaper journilists.
I recommend this book to anyone that doesn't mind reading about psychos and how they kill people. If you get easily frightened then keep it on the shelf.
WOW!!! What a wild ride! I had no idea he was such a junkie or even such a punk. He's really opened up and leaves nothing to the imagination and I doubt he's left anything out.
A very interesting read and very, very hard to put down. I'm about halfway through it right now. Sometimes I hate him and then other times I really respect the man. He's one person that has really pushed lifes limits in every way.
Highly recommended.
Also, I just finished BTK - Bind, Torture Kill. It's about Dennis Radar, the serial killer from Wichita in Kansas, USA. He killed 10 people over about 10 years and wasn't caught until 30 years after his first murders. The thing about his guy is that he liked to write letters to the local paper telling them about his murders. This meant the whole town was on edge and worrying about him for decades.
Such an interesting book as it follows the life of Dennis Radar as told by the notes he kept on each murder, and also of the detectives that chased him for 30 years and their relationship with the newspaper journilists.
I recommend this book to anyone that doesn't mind reading about psychos and how they kill people. If you get easily frightened then keep it on the shelf.
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski. This is the type of book that you either find incredibly fascinating or painfully boring. It mostly concentrates on the paper clip and cutlery, where they came from, how they evolved into their present forms, how their use spread. There's a fair bit about design theory as well but none of it too difficult to follow from an outsider's point of view (like mine).
BREAKaBEAT
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I am reading (still) AHWOSG and Miranda July's - No one belongs here more than you, and Delta of Venus - Anais Nin, (those last two books are more like short stores so when Im in the mood
I open them where-ever and just read). I have also started seriously reading The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My country Right or Left 1940- 1943. This man is a fucking genius writer, why did I have to wait so long to discover him ? Why ? Anyways, throw in a dummies guide to Photoshop and the latest issue of harpers bazaar and Ive definitely stopped masterbating !
I open them where-ever and just read). I have also started seriously reading The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My country Right or Left 1940- 1943. This man is a fucking genius writer, why did I have to wait so long to discover him ? Why ? Anyways, throw in a dummies guide to Photoshop and the latest issue of harpers bazaar and Ive definitely stopped masterbating !
lostpunk5545
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BREAKaBEAT said:
You can't accuse me of not trying to make you discover him
BREAKaBEAT
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Hey ! Thats correct, although I was not in a listening to anyone about anything intellectual frame of mind! I was probably drunk... wait, you probably were too
vurtomatic
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Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself.