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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
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 Posted - 10/19/2004 : 12:26:18
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| Inspired by Newo's new thread. I'm half way through 'Skinny Legs and All' by Tom Robbins, and I'm loving it. This man is some sort of whacko-genius. I've been meaning to read him for years, and I finally exchanged books with a friend (I gave him Mordechai Richler's 'Joshua, Then and Now'). Skinny Legs... works on so many levels, hits so many targets, and is so all encompassing yet small and relatable, it really is a startling work of fiction. And yet there is so much factual historical information. To even begin to discuss what it is about and how it is about those things would be a small novel of it's own. I'm really blown away, and I'm not even finished yet. |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
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Posted - 10/19/2004 : 12:34:27
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This sounds like a book report I once wrote for a book I never read. :P
 "Join the Cult of Frank 2.0 / And you'll be enlightened (free for 1.x members)" |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 10/19/2004 : 12:40:34
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| Hey, when I do a report on book I've never read, it kicks ASS. See: 1st year univeristy, William Gibson's "Neuromancer". (I've since read it, and it's terrific. So is his latest, "Pattern Recognition", which Sonic Youth wrote a song about, on their new release, "Sonic Nurse"). |
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 10/19/2004 : 12:53:51
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Yeah, I asked a friend of mine to lend me their copy of that, but...
Your Neuromancer book report is a classic and should be published somewhere as an example to others.
"Join the Cult of Frank 2.0 / And you'll be enlightened (free for 1.x members)" |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 10/19/2004 : 12:55:07
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| Hey, my sister took it to E-town, nothing I could do about it. When she gives it back, you can have it. |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
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Posted - 10/19/2004 : 12:59:23
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I used to just brush up on themes of the book when I hadn´t read them, though our English teacher pulled a sly one on us when giving us an exam on Jane Austen´s Emma: I had to go buy the book during my lunch hour and rub the edges along the walls going back to school to make it look read, did some minicrams on ´Love/Loyalty in Emma etc´, and the only question on the paper was What happens at the end? I got 2% for guessing Emma scores Mr. Knightley.
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Jódete, tío,
Que se joda tu hermana,
Que se joda tu hermano,
Que se joda tu madre,
Que se joda tu tía,
¡Porque soy policia!
Que se jodas, currante,
Que se joda tu perro,
Que se joda tu hijo,
Que se joda tu amante,
No me pidas razónes,
Soy el Hombre ¡cojones! |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
3581 Posts |
Posted - 10/19/2004 : 13:03:39
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| One of the options for our paper was to pick a scene in the book and imagine it as a movie. So I choose the scene on page one and put Harrison Ford on the big screen as the hero of the Neuromancer, retitled "the Matrix" (this was pre-Wachowski, mind). Since our prof didn't really look at our books, I didn't have to do any wall rubbing fakery. |
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Skinny Legs And All
