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viewtiful_alan 10.21.2009 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
you [expurgated], that book is fucking awesome

you just have to get thru the beginning is all

if you wanna get into it furreal (not like some "classword assignment" shit), read georges bataille's "literature and evil". and then re-sink into it with more joy.

nobody should be forced to read shit they don't want to-- it kills the love of literature.

Nope. Its basically an eloquently written predecessor to the trash, throw-away romance novels of today.
But, while those have characters that some people get into, this book has characters so annoying and unrelatable that you can't help but hate them and not care what happens to them. Not to mention the annoying trait of saying every thought and feeling as if they were master poets, making everything unnecessarily long and drawn out, that all the characters seem to posess.

The plot is, at best, uninteresting and unsatisfying. Its artificially long, and imparts no lasting thoughts or emotions on me. Its basically a tale of immature assholes who try to use lost love as an excuse for you to pity them.
Bleh, shit.

jerf 10.21.2009 11:05 PM

Dream From My Father - Barack Obama

Sonic Youth 37 10.21.2009 11:06 PM

 

gualbert 10.21.2009 11:09 PM

^^ did you like it?

Sonic Youth 37 10.21.2009 11:16 PM

I'm 39 pages in. I'll update next week.

noisereductions 10.22.2009 07:35 AM

Nintendo Player's Guide: Gameboy (1989)

whorefrost 10.22.2009 11:51 AM

Almost finished The Trial by Kafka. Second crack at it, having much more success this time.

Crumb's Crunchy Delights 10.22.2009 03:53 PM

dont try too hard. lifes too frikkin short

Rob Instigator 10.22.2009 04:12 PM

Wuthering Heights fucking SUCKS man.
I hate that shit worse than Dickens.
Fucking honors English class making us read horrendous shit.

Crumb's Crunchy Delights 10.22.2009 04:13 PM

most books have been made into movies

fyi

Sonic Youth 37 10.23.2009 12:48 AM

I just read this today. It was pretty good.
 

Satan 10.23.2009 12:51 AM

lolita

Sonic Youth 37 10.23.2009 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Satan
lolita

I fucking love that book.

Conrad 10.23.2009 07:44 PM

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

_slavo_ 10.23.2009 07:49 PM

Phillip K. Dick - The Game Players of Titan

Lamont Cranston 10.31.2009 08:07 PM

Finished the Leigh Brackett collection Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherwordly Stories
Now finally James Ellroys Underworld U.S.A. begins

_slavo_ 10.31.2009 08:54 PM

Phillip K. Dick - Valis

pbradley 10.31.2009 09:13 PM

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

Dead-Air 10.31.2009 09:17 PM

Nothing currently. Just finished Frank Miller's Ronin in two days between funeral activities. Read The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock before that. Time to pick something off the shelf.

gmku 11.01.2009 09:07 AM

j. crew catalogs and Rabbit, Run.

Conrad 11.01.2009 11:33 AM

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland

!@#$%! 11.01.2009 12:50 PM

 

and
 

Sonic Youth 37 11.01.2009 12:52 PM

 

I'll be going back to Borders today to pick up something else as I have 40% + $10 off one item...but I have no idea what to get.

Kannibal 11.01.2009 05:34 PM

last night started to read some book about holy trees, people make signs there... but can't remember a thing since was rather drunk. shall try again.

gmku 11.01.2009 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

and


 


One of my faves tho last time I read it was 2 decades ago.

looking glass spectacle 11.03.2009 05:51 PM

 

gmku 11.03.2009 06:01 PM

Might take Tropic on my plane ride. EDIT: Damn, scratch that, the fuckng book's in Portland. Well, for the ride back then.

Seandi 11.03.2009 06:05 PM

 

automatic bzooty 11.03.2009 06:22 PM

shit for school:
macbeth
their eyes were watching god

shit for me:
galapagos by kurt vonnegut

Sonic Youth 37 11.11.2009 01:26 PM

Picked this up today:
 

Keeping It Simple 11.11.2009 02:25 PM

This. I got it for 10p from the local library.

 

shabbray2.0 11.11.2009 02:45 PM

^^fantastic looking cover

Toilet & Bowels 11.11.2009 04:29 PM

 

Keeping It Simple 11.12.2009 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by shabbray2.0
^^fantastic looking cover


It's the norm for books to feature different covers everytime they're reprinted, and I was lucky the library owned the 1972 reprint which features that striking looking cover. :)

Keeping It Simple 11.12.2009 03:55 PM

Talking of great covers, this has to be my all time fave.

 

phoenix 11.20.2009 07:14 AM

 

Keeping It Simple 11.20.2009 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by phoenix
 


Morrissey's been having trouble of late on his tour. He was performing in the Liverpool Echo Arena when he was struck on the head by a glass thrown from the crowd. He left the stage, refusing to return. The gig was subsequently cancelled.

Two weeks previously he collapsed at a show in Swindon which led to the cancellation of the following night's gig in Bournemouth.

And just recently Morrissey had a fan thrown out of his Hamburg gig for upsetting him over something the fan said.

phoenix 11.20.2009 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple
Morrissey's been having trouble of late on his tour. He was performing in the Liverpool Echo Arena when he was struck on the head by a glass thrown from the crowd. He left the stage, refusing to return. The gig was subsequently cancelled.

Two weeks previously he collapsed at a show in Swindon which led to the cancellation of the following night's gig in Bournemouth.

And just recently Morrissey had a fan thrown out of his Hamburg gig for upsetting him over something the fan said.



1 and 3 aren't anything surprising... aside from my not understanding anyone who pays to get into a show to heckle/throw shit. 2 ...:( Was this after being hit in the head?

fucking cunt better not have given moz a brain bleed.

I only love him more with years.

StevOK 11.21.2009 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by hypertonic
 


That ones really good! I read it a while back.

Sonic Youth 37 11.21.2009 12:30 PM

 

About 40 pages to go, then I'm on to this:
 


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