09.24.2013, 09:03 PM | #3201 |
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What kind of book are u into forever? We can recommend something
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09.25.2013, 08:33 AM | #3202 |
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Finished the Houdini book and now starting this
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09.25.2013, 09:39 AM | #3203 |
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Gods Gangsters & Honour by Steven Macht
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10.08.2013, 12:25 AM | #3204 | |
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Not epically great, but decent enough to finally finish, and I haven't been able to stay motivated to finish 500 page novels in while. I'm glad I just read this one, it was all self-contained and really concluded the first two, so there is no need. I saved myself 1200 pages of reading to come to the same end. It was sort of Fargo dull, but yet exciting in some ways. Possibly the translation. Possibly just the Swedes. Either way a worthwhile read. I need to get that new Neil Gaiman..
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awesome. Just awesome.
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10.10.2013, 10:15 PM | #3207 |
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i borrowed game of thrones and read the first chapter. or is it the fucking prologue. you know, they go in the snow, the douche kid wers his black sable, asks graves or whatevr if he's "unmanned by the dark" or what not. nice little chapter. reads like a short story.
i've been afraid to move forward i think. if it turns to shit it will ruin it for me. can you write a novel as a series of short-stories? i guess that could be a thing. it's funny that it had never occurred to me before. alice munro said she was practicing for her novel and then realize she'd never make it. maybe she unwittingly did. the same way. btw a lot of coincidences today. |
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To be honest it can read like short stories if you want. Each character has its own chapter before it moves onto another. I'm enjoying them a lot.
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10.17.2013, 11:50 AM | #3209 |
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got this and the Kurosawa movie for my birthday
about 3/4 the way thru the book, will watch the movie after http://www.amazon.com/Dersu-Trapper-.../dp/0929701496 |
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10.17.2013, 11:52 AM | #3210 |
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Did I already post this?
Reading Charles Fort's books.
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thanks, yeah. i started another chapter and hated the dialogue. trying to muster the energy for another. it cracks me up that after a lifetime of compulsive reading i've become such a picky eater. ha ha ha. i'm forever ruined. books! |
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10.18.2013, 11:42 AM | #3212 |
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So are the GoT books worth reading if I've already watched the TV series, and if so why?
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10.18.2013, 11:58 AM | #3213 |
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found this in the library I work at. starting it at lunch today.
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That looks like one of those kinds of kick-ass obscure books that are out of print, were in limited press, and therefore can only be found at random public libraries until somebody steals it, then it appears on the "missing books" list at said libraries and pisses of folks like myself when the joy of finding it in the catalog is replaced with the angst that it is missing. Have you read this? Its pretty great, and while a lot of it is fanciful, wishful thinking, and stretched conclusions about the origins of Christian thinking an literature, the fundamental premise is soundly intriguing.
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10.18.2013, 01:01 PM | #3215 |
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OOOHH, I have not read that! I am 2 chapters into the De Rios book. fucking awesome.
I will have to dig up that Allegro book! BTW. on the book of Face, I tried to add this "Psychedelic Journey" book to my "Books I have read" list and it does not have a record of it. Dang. This is from the introduction by Wade Davis an ethnobotanist and anthropologist. "What I find odd is that when we consider all the ingredients in this historic recipe of social change that has taken place over the past half century, there is one contribution that is consistently expunged from the record: that of the untold millions of men and women, old and young, who willingly and with delight have lain prostrate before the gates of awe, having taken one of these remarkable magical plants. The opposition warned of dire consequences, insisting that these substances could irrevocably and permanently alter the mind and body of anyone exposed to them. What these people in their fear failed to understand was that this is precisely the point: we wanted to be transformed."
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Fucking shit look what I just randomly found!!! I'm too excited, I haven't read or seen this book in years!! [and can a motherfucker get some rep for this or what, y'all been skimping me mang, stop bogarting all the rep yo]
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10.25.2013, 02:28 PM | #3217 |
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Just started this. The De Rios book was good but it was sad as well, to see how quickly indigenous people's beliefs and practices are usurped by commercial interests.
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It is the nature of capitalism and commercialism to crassly sell for profit the deeper art of humanity and culture. This is what is symbolized in the story of i Jesus going through the Temple in Jerusalem with a nine-tailed whip, to chase away the profiteers who crassly exploit the inner child in us all, which is fascinated and awestruck by value and wisdom of culture. They have Zapatista tourist gift shops in Chiapas, and keep in mind, its the middle of a civil war there between the government and the EZLN. Does it negate the value of the EZLN? Hardly. It just makes the gift-shops look, well, touristy and all the shallow and pejorative connotations such a word contains..
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hey, T&B, mind telling us a little bit about that manga?
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