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youthoftomorrow 03.18.2007 03:15 AM


 


 




 



 

HECKLER SPRAY 03.18.2007 05:14 AM

Battlenech... I knew the game. What about the books ? Interesting ?
It speaks about robots, isn't it ?

Katy 03.23.2007 01:43 PM

"My Cousin My Gastroenterologist" by Mark Leyner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Leyner

SynthethicalY 03.23.2007 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swa(y)
the fuck up.

ive already read it once a hile back, good book though. think i might start on it again.

sorta reads like a more modern day "catcher in the rye", even though it takes place in the early 80s.



Read that book. Loved it. Might buy other books by him.

Bunbury 03.23.2007 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katy
"My Cousin My Gastroenterologist" by Mark Leyner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Leyner


That sounds really good, i'll have to add it to my list.
tell me what you think of it when your finished please.

EMMAh 03.23.2007 02:16 PM

The Fasting Girl
It's a medical mystery type deal about this girl in Victorian times who claimed to have no eaten for about 12 years. There's a lot in it about anxiety, hysteria, and the likes.
It's been interesting so far, bought it for like $6 so if it turns out to be crap it's not big deal.

king_buzzo 03.23.2007 05:24 PM

the silmarilion.

!@#$%! 03.23.2007 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
That sounds really good, i'll have to add it to my list.
tell me what you think of it when your finished please.


that book was hilarious. might be a bit dated now but still.

hotbutterknives 03.23.2007 05:32 PM

marquis de sade- 120 days of sodom

this is very fucked up shit

!@#$%! 03.23.2007 05:38 PM

very!

Iain 03.23.2007 09:14 PM

I have just finished Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon which was pretty much like his other books and thus pretty good I thought. now I don't know what to read next. Possibly Q by 'Luther Blisset'

Alex's Trip 03.23.2007 09:17 PM

I just started Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.

Norma J 03.23.2007 09:21 PM

I've been shit with reading lately. I do that though. Read intensely for a few months and then don't read at all and vica versa.

Cantankerous 03.23.2007 09:22 PM

sort of flipping through this Dada book i bought at the art museum.

Toilet & Bowels 03.23.2007 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iain
I have just finished Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon which was pretty much like his other books and thus pretty good I thought. now I don't know what to read next. Possibly Q by 'Luther Blisset'


is luther blisset aware of this whole "luther blisset" thing do you know?

nomadicfollower 03.23.2007 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by king_buzzo
the silmarilion.




A long, rather difficult waste of time.

Iain 03.24.2007 05:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
is luther blisset aware of this whole "luther blisset" thing do you know?


Yeah, I think so. I think he's a bit bemused by it.

noumenal 03.25.2007 08:13 PM

Gaddis

Pookie 03.25.2007 08:15 PM

I was halfway through Elizabeth Bowen's Death of the Heart when I had my bag stolen (with book inside).

So I'm moving on to Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned, by Walter Mosley.

nomadicfollower 03.26.2007 07:02 PM

The Catcher in the Rye, again, but only because I needed a short, quick read. About a year ago, when I first read the book, I found myself, somehow, mesmerized by Holden's story. Now I find it almost, uh, phony. It seems like Salinger wrote the book for a chance to poke fun at kids like Holden, or that's how it comes across to me. Holden is almost as repulsive as the 'phonies' he finds himself surrounded by.

something 03.26.2007 08:24 PM

just finished post office by bukowski its pretty good its easy too not like the celine im also reading

Dead-Air 03.26.2007 10:47 PM

Finishing Redemption Ark by Alistair Reynolds. I'm a bit of an unapologetic major SF geek. Next I'm going to read Empire the new novel about a near-future American Civil War by Orson Scott Card as part of this book group reading for April/Spring at this Science Fiction Message Board that I'm one of the admins at.

Bunbury 03.27.2007 09:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by something
right now im reading celine's journey to the end of the night kinda been on a french kick that started with nausea


my dear, endeavours of the tragic and ridiculous are liiiiiiiiike totaly 1950's and out of stijl. stop.
why would you want more Existentialism and angst in your life? stop.
i put sARTre down along time ago. and you should to before you waste away into nothingness(illus.1).stop.
nothing good comes out of any of it.stop.
your justing going to end up with those pesky questions like what is the meaning of life?stop.




---illustrations--
1.
 

Iain 03.27.2007 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
my dear, endeavours of the tragic and ridiculous are liiiiiiiiike totaly 1950's and out of stijl. stop.
why would you want more Existentialism and angst in your life? stop.
i put sARTre down along time ago. and you should to before you waste away into nothingness(illus.1).stop.
nothing good comes out of any of it.stop.
your justing going to end up with those pesky questions like what is the meaning of life?stop.




---illustrations--
1.


 


I don't know...reading Nausea didn't put me on a 'what's the meaning of life' trip or anything. I liked it but it didn't make me want to wade much deeper into the waters that the other French existentialist dudes did. Remeber, "Camus can do but Sartre is much smarter" hurhur.

Iain 03.27.2007 09:58 PM

I seem to remember Nausea being quite funny. It's been a while since I read it though..

I'm reading some HP Lovecraft short stories which is sort of like the equivalent to Jackie Collins for pseudo-intellectual geek boys.

Toilet & Bowels 03.27.2007 09:59 PM

must i be peered at by my own face?

Iain 03.27.2007 10:00 PM

Yes. You can rest your chin on your hand and gaze wistfully at your past self frozen in time forever.

Bunbury 03.27.2007 10:03 PM

your my ICON.

Toilet & Bowels 03.27.2007 10:04 PM

my your ICON?

Iain 03.27.2007 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunbury
your my ICON.


Oooh, potential double meaning. Sassy.

Why is it most enjoyable posting on this forum at about 4am? What a pain in the arse. I'm going to bed. Goodnight chaps.

Bunbury 03.27.2007 10:07 PM

Good Night.

Toilet & Bowels 03.27.2007 10:35 PM

check my sig out:

SynthethicalY 03.27.2007 10:48 PM

It needs the dots.
If I wasn't a queer I would date her.

sonicl 03.28.2007 08:29 AM

A biography of Primal Scream (the band, not the therapy). It's okay, but I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.

demonrail666 03.28.2007 11:21 AM

Dominic Sandbrook's White Heat, a history of Britain from 1964 - 1970. For 'study' purposes.

whorefrost 03.28.2007 02:20 PM

JG Ballard- High Rise
very impressive novel

demonrail666 03.28.2007 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by whorefrost
JG Ballard- High Rise
very impressive novel


Wow. I just the other day finished reading that. Excellent book. It reminded me a lot of David Cronenberg's film Shivers.

whorefrost 03.28.2007 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Wow. I just the other day finished reading that. Excellent book. It reminded me a lot of David Cronenberg's film Shivers.


Yeah, I thought of Shivers too!

jon boy 03.28.2007 04:18 PM

the secret history by donna tart

something 03.28.2007 04:26 PM

journey to the end of the night-celine


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