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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
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 Posted - 03/20/2006 : 12:18:28
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Originally posted by VoVat
I recently finished reading:
And I'm now in the process of re-reading:
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares."
good lord, the american covers of terry pratchett books are awful!!! you're really missing something if you've never seen the original josh kirby illustrations.
i'm started phillip pullman's dark trilogy again. i read it so long ago i can't remember any of it.
and, i know it's only a comic, but i'm currently re-reading Miniture Sulk by Jeffrey Brown, which i bought recently. it's so sad and funny and cute!!!
oh, and Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote to celebrate the whole movie shebang. marilyn manroe calls queen elizabeth a cunt in it!!! |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 12:47:56
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Jeffrey Brown is great, I've got Unlikely and some excerpts from Miniture Sulk. His stuff is so sweet and simple and at the same time so personal and painful. He did a video for Death Cab For Cutie recently.
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 12:56:11
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| i can totally imagine him doing a video for them. my friend couldn't understand what i saw in it, but the little wonky vignettes of ordinary life are so...addictive. i need more! i think i might be slightly in love with him... |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 16:16:37
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i really enjoyed reading the cover story about what it was like behind-the-scenes preparing for the April cover photo (in selfsame issue) |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 16:23:54
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Originally posted by floop
i really enjoyed reading the cover story about what it was like behind-the-scenes preparing for the April cover photo (in selfsame issue)
GEORGE: My mother had a Glamour magazine, I started leafing through it..
JERRY: "Glamour"?
Kramer and Elaine laugh
GEORGE: ..So, one thing lead to another..
JERRY: So, what did she do?
GEORGE: First she screams, "George, what are you doing?! My God!" And it looked like she was gonna faint - she started clutching the wall, trying to hang onto it.
KRMAER: Man..,
GEORGE: I didn't know whether to try and keep her from falling, or zip up.
JERRY: What did you do?
GEORGE: I zipped up!
I got some heaven in my head
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 03/20/2006 : 16:49:12
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It's like the old thing about reading Playboy for the articles....
 pas de dutchie! |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 16:59:14
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Originally posted by Carl
It's like the old thing about reading Playboy for the articles....
Thanks, Carl. You reminded me of something I meant to pass along to Sir Rock for his class -- the Nabokov interview in Playboy from 1964. Chock full o' good info your teacher's bound to love, Mike.
http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/NABOKOW/Inter03.txt
Also, Mike, consider waxing poetic in your paper on this idea (posited by Erica Jong in her essay introducing the 50th anniversary edition of Lolita): that Lolita wasn't so much about the love affair a man had with a little girl as much as it was about the love affair Nabokov had with the English language. It was his first chance to play with and show off his mastery of that non-native tongue. And Humbert's paranoid circuitous drives across America were a (excuse the pun) vehicle for Nabokov to write about Americana (the log cabin motels, the bobby sox-clad teens and their slang).
This geek moment is done. Sorry.
I got some heaven in my head
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 19:50:37
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I completely agree with that thesis.
The novel is so rich with witty word play and examination of American culture.
You run all kinds of red lights except the ones on the street.
When you run out of exits you can always count sheep. |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
4233 Posts |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 17:23:19
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This sucked.
I got some heaven in my head
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 17:39:05
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Reading a terrible book for my english class. As much as I respect Zora Neale Hurston and the entire Harlem Renaissance, I can barely read this
You run all kinds of red lights except the ones on the street.
When you run out of exits you can always count sheep. |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2006 : 13:06:09
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good lord, the american covers of terry pratchett books are awful!!!
Yeah, most of them are pretty bad. When I was reading "Lords and Ladies" with that cover, someone said it looked like "chick lit" (their words, not mine). A few of them are okay, but I think the decision to go with a different cover artist for the American editions was pretty lame. My "Mort" does have the Kirby cover. I like the work of Paul Kidby (who replaced Kirby) a lot, but we don't get it in the States (well, except for "The Last Hero," where they really couldn't avoid including the original illustrations).
I've just finished reading "The China Dog of Oz," another one by the somewhat controversial March Laumer. There have been a lot of fan-written Oz books, but Laumer was one of the first to write them, and his books are known to be more "adult" (but very, very far from pornographic, whatever some critics might say) than others.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2006 : 00:33:10
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I've met Terry Pratchett twice, but I haven't read a Discworld novel in years.
pas de dutchie! |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2006 : 14:12:33
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| i don't think paul kidby is all that. i was pretty distraught when josh died. |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2006 : 07:17:14
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2006 : 07:31:35
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I just love how every single fucking book in print has "bestseller" on its cover now. Do publishers really think that all readers are idiots?
The experts they file in by the roomful / Watching him dying young
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2006 : 21:29:43
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For about the millionth time.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
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