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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 04/23/2005 : 14:13:17
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do you know Christopher Moore? I keep getting him kicked out as an amazon recommendation linked to Robbins
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 14:25:43
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No, I'm not familiar with Moore's writings. Perhaps I'll check him out. I just bought a book by Mark Haddon, so I'll be occupied for a bit with that.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 17:00:24
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just finished: (kinda slow, somewhat funny, great ending)
just started:
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 17:11:04
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This thread
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
4698 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 17:25:55
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already did that one, matey ;)
 Oh let it linger |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 19:04:58
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Sir Rock, I keep meaning to correct the lack of
Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker in your life,
and I will make good on my intention.
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3759 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 19:07:43
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 Highly recommend!!!
 No one can defeat the Quad Laser.
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 19:10:12
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Now that's what I call handsome!
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
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The King Of Karaoke
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3759 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2005 : 20:10:50
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The a female. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
Sounds like someones feeling a little bi-curious.
No one can defeat the Quad Laser. |
Edited by - The King Of Karaoke on 04/23/2005 23:28:25 |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 02:15:05
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Stick with Gravity´s Rainbow Mikeabye, it´s a wonderful and generous thing. By the Bye, I was looking for lyrics to that Camper Van song but the discography section of their website is down, can anyone post em?
Here for you Tre, I found a graphic novel of the first part of the Auster:
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"Here love," brakes on a high squeak, "it´s not backstage at the old Windmill or something, you know." |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 10:33:47
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From http://www.the-van.com/songs/index.php?artist=camper_van_beethoven&song=All+Her+Favourite+Fruit :
I drive alone, home from work
And I always think of her
Late at night I call her
But I never say a word
And I can see her squeeze the phone between her chin and shoulder
And I can almost smell her breath faint with a sweet scent of decay
She serves him mashed potatoes
And she serves him peppered steak, with corn
Pulls her dress up over her head
Lets it fall to the floor
And does she ever whisper in his ear all her favorite fruit
And all the most exotic places they are cultivated
And I'd like to take her there, rather than this train
And if I weren't a civil servant, I'd have a place in the colonies
We'd play croquet behind white-washed walls and drink our tea at four
Within intervention's distance of the embassy
The midday air grows thicker with the heat
And drifts towards the line of trees
When negroes blink their eyes, they sink into siesta
And we are rotting like a fruit underneath a rusting roof
We dream our dreams and sing our songs of the fecundity
Of life and love
Of life and love
Of life and love
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 10:42:23
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“I love being a judge. The intellectual challenges are exhilarating … But I am not only a judge. I am also living with Aids. I am still the only public office bearer in South Africa to have chosen to make public my HIV status. I felt I was called to witness. I felt called to account for my survival in a country in which hundreds of thousands were dying. I did not feel I should remain silent.”
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 11:30:40
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offerw, have you read "And the band played on," by the late
Randy Shilts, the first journalist to cover AIDS as a beat (for
the SF Chronicle)? Amazing, ground-breaking work, not
just because it was the first book about AIDS but
because it's a solid journalism book, period.
KOK, was that a lady Sasquatch I fell for? I thought it was a
boy Sasquatch, musta been all that facial hair. Never too
late to turn to lesbianism, I guess.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 11:36:29
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I haven't read the book Kathryn. I did see the film years ago at a film festival but it wasn't any good. I don't think it got a general release.
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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1758 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 11:55:57
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it's actually been a number of months since i last picked up the last one there.
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they were the heroes of old, men of renown. |
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Monsieur
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1688 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2005 : 12:32:21
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 08:59:58
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I´m liking this guy a lot at the moment:
I borrowed this from a friend in Spanish and then found out it had been translated from Engerlish, I´d always assumed it was the other way round with this fellow:
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"Here love," brakes on a high squeak, "it´s not backstage at the old Windmill or something, you know." |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 09:20:50
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I will never get through to you
But honey if I do,
I'll be singing all the way...
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http://prettycrabby.com |
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mosleyk
= Cult of Ray =
USA
607 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 09:26:50
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 10:03:45
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Just started this. Will probably finish it within a day or two. Really fun, fast read.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 10:09:14
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It is a sweet little story, but you're right that book takes very little time to eat.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 10:48:43
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I sent that to Mr. Mereubu for Christmas!
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I will never get through to you
But honey if I do,
I'll be singing all the way...
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http://prettycrabby.com |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 10:56:08
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quote:
Originally posted by ramona
I sent that to Mr. Mereubu for Christmas!
i didn't get a christmas gift  |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 12:16:58
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I told you a million times I would cut your hair. That could have been your Xmas present.
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I will never get through to you
But honey if I do,
I'll be singing all the way...
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http://prettycrabby.com |
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 14:07:55
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quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
It is a sweet little story, but you're right that book takes very little time to eat.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Um, Tre, I might be wrong here, but I don't think people eat books.
You tell me. You're the medical student.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2005 : 16:55:06
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I eat books I eat lots of books, I devour them one by one chomp chomp chomp
fucking beer
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 07:48:30
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Did we already do a favorite books thread? I think so. Well, this book was the last thing I read and LOVED. So interesting and beautiful. Lots about science, and history, and also a love story. I highly recommend it.
Oh, and this was great too although entirely different. Loved loved LOVED it.
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I will never get through to you
But honey if I do,
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http://prettycrabby.com |
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therewererumours
* Dog in the Sand *
Ireland
1240 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 10:36:56
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These are great as well Owen
Eightball 23 "The Death Ray" I found brillantly bizzare and awkwardly hilarious like most of Clowes stuff.
I've been reading The Cresent Moon by Francis Brett Young at the moment, a sort of Victorian story of mysticism and love in deepest darkest colonial Africa.
 Join the cult of Conrad/'cause he's a nob head. |
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 12:35:03
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Haven't started yet, but:
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
1972 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 13:06:54
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i'm so unhip.
Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago. |
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2010 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2005 : 15:08:07
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Down and Out is great.
I especially like this bit:
"If plongeurs thought at all, they would long ago have formed
a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But
they do not think, because they have no leisure for it;
their life has made slaves of them.
The question is, why does this slavery continue?
People have a way of taking it for granted that all work
is done for a sound purpose. They see somebody else
doing a disagreeable job, and think that they have
solved things by saying that the job is necessary. Coal-
mining, for example, is hard work, but it is necessary-we
must have coal. Working in the sewers is unpleasant,
but somebody must work in the sewers. And similarly
with a plongeur's work. Some people must feed in
restaurants, and so other people must swab dishes for
eighty hours a week. It is the work of civilisation,
therefore unquestionable. This point is worth
considering.
Is a plongeur's work really necessary to civilisation?
We have a feeling that it must be "honest" work,
because it is hard and disagreeable, and we have made
a sort of fetish of manual work. We see a man cutting
down a tree, and we make sure that he is filling a social
need, just because he uses his muscles;" |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2005 : 02:45:40
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Down and Out I love that book. Barcelon has a Plaza George Orwell but everyone calls is Plaza Trippy because it has a statue that looks inspired by hallucinogens but I have a theory it´s because no-one can pronounce George Orwell, it comes out like Chore Chorewell.
Tanks Barra, I´ll have a look for that.
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"Here love," brakes on a high squeak, "it´s not backstage at the old Windmill or something, you know." |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2005 : 03:09:54
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| hey KSR, are you reading or re-reading? |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2005 : 03:13:04
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asimov is hip!
i think
ah who cares if it isn't foundation is ace
(I've only read the first two :()
 when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2005 : 04:22:35
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first two as asimov wrote them or first two in galactic empire chronology?
that's why i was asking KSR. i read them in the order they were written starting with the the 3 pre-foundation G.E. books. pebble in the sky, the stars like dust, the currents of space. also, the robot novels tie in loosely. i would like to read them again in galactic empire order. |
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