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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2005 : 12:27:04
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It´s brilliant. Normally I forget what I´m reading in the bathroom and bring another book in with me but not here.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I demand to see the manager." |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2005 : 08:22:40
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Not to keep pounding "Prep," but it spoke to me. Two quotes:
"Before and after I was involved with him, I heard a thousand times that a boy or a man can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true."
"Life is clearest when guided by ulterior motives."
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2005 : 08:23:12
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Brian, have you read "Friday Night Lights"? I loved the book; the movie was good too. I'm about to start "3 Nights in August," also by Buzz Bissinger. Any thoughts?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1615 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2005 : 14:46:24
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Already halfway through Superluminal. I'm glad I found Metaplanetary at the library. No way I would have been able to follow this one without reading the first book.
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
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Mass Pleeze
- FB Fan -
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2005 : 17:10:07
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____The Portable Jack Kerouac_____
Bought it at City Lights in SF while Ferlinghetti was still alive. Columbus St. is such a gas.
Did you exchange? Can you Mr. Grieves?
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 06:18:28
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This is my first of hers, though I did see a film of one years ago. I have Alias Grace at home but it´s hardback and I don´t like hardbacks. I´m digging the bitty chapters so far.
My mother gave me this last week, I´m finding it fascinating. It´s got stories from all over the world from Tacitus up to refugee-smugglers in the Pyrenees to some fellow in Marrakesh with the Rolling Stones.
For research purposes and I am going to finish it this time:
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Never fuck a gift horse in the mouth. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 06:39:58
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Tin Drum will shock you, Owen. It freaked me out to read that book.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Llamadance
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2543 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 08:30:21
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I'm reading three or four books at the moment, one on how to concentrate your efforts. ;) Mostly, I'm reading this:
________________________________________________________________________________ No power in the 'verse can stop me
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 15:16:15
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I have just ordered The Dice Man from Amazon. I only just read about it the other day but it sounds very promising. A cult book apparantly.
I'll start ti when I have finished me Bill Hicks book.
Don't believe the type!
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 19:56:04
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oryx and crake was really good owen, enjoy. definitely one of atwoods best.
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2005 : 20:47:49
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Definitely one of her best, Oryx and Crake. Frighteningly good.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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klikger
= Cult of Ray =
693 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 02:18:39
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Reading Walden currently. Just finished The Prince by Machiavelli and Chuck Dugan is AWOL by Eric Anderson among other books. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 03:41:13
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I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2005 : 04:42:30
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Book of Illusions is great Tre, I´ve read it three times and might read it again soon.
I´ve read this a load so this week I started reading it backwards, not line for line but from the top of each page, I´ve got some really pleasing dissonant connections so far.
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Never fuck a gift horse in the mouth. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 08:05:05
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"Citizen Girl," the sophomore effort by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus ("The Nanny Dairies"). Totally mindless entertaining summer reading.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 08:52:03
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Finished this last night, by a journalist who lives in Wickler, Ireland about psilocybin and shamans, was quite good.
This is kind of an allyear-rounder:
This afternoon I read The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft printed off after finding it here: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 08:55:30
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What did you think of the Lovecraft Owen?
I finished Book of Illusions yesterday, I wanted to get the Banks novel out of the way before I read that one because the other book was bloody tedious and annoying, but the book of illusions was marvelous, I ate it up in one afternoon and was very sad when it finished, I wanted to start it again there and then.
and you're questioning the sciences and questioning religion you're looking like an idiot and you no longer care.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 09:02:36
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I liked it a lot cause in the last three years I´ve gotten interested in ancient Sumerian accounts where he drew a lot of it from. That website has a load of his stories too, Í forgot he´d be public domain by now.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-
United Kingdom
6370 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 09:11:54
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I only have very few of his books (another haul lost at the end of a relationship, damn it) I have the omnibuses and this one:
but I do so love them. Sigh. Wow that site does have a lot on there, I think I might have to go to the library tomorrow and abuse the printer...
At the moment re-reading Observatory Mansions before it has to go back to the library. I think the next couple of weeks will be taken up reading the books Kathryn kindly sent to me, thank you again Kathryn x
and you're questioning the sciences and questioning religion you're looking like an idiot and you no longer care.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 09:20:22
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Your library has a printer wow, work that baby. What did Kathryn send you?
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martha_promise
= Cult of Ray =
USA
398 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 15:51:35
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I'm about half way through "John Adams" by David McCullough. It's very, very, good.
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 16:10:50
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Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa: The Adventures of "Talking Heads" in the 20th Century
I'm not usually in to books on bands and I've only just properly dented the text, but I'm really enjoying this.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2005 : 18:17:15
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I'm still reading Wizard And Glass, and loving it. |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2005 : 05:00:07
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Just finished this, you´d read it in half an hour. sooooooooooo good.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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Mass Pleeze
- FB Fan -
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2005 : 22:30:10
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quote:
Finished this last night, by a journalist who lives in Wickler, Ireland about psilocybin and shamans, was quite good.
Peyote or mescaline anyone.......hmmm?
Bailey, can you ghost dance??
Was Bailey the dancing bear? |
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Mass Pleeze
- FB Fan -
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2005 : 22:40:51
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Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac, King Beat
"-Hold still man, regain your love of life and go down from this mountain and simply be - be - be the infinite fertilities of the one mind of the infinity, make no comments, complaints, criticisms, appraisals, avowals, sayings, shooting stars of thought, just flow, flow, be you all, be you what it is, it is only what it always is- Hope is a word like a snowdrift- This is the Great Knowing, this is the Awakening, This is voidness-"
Can you be Lankavatara, Bodhisattva?
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 10:14:54
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I'm reading Cold Mountain. Not enjoying it very much. Mostly because I'm not reading it for my own pleasure, but because it was assigned.
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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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 12:16:45
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Ugh, sorry Mikeabye. I used to buy the books - Jane Austen and the like - and scuff them up to look read and before I´d realise it was better for my selfesteem to just ride out the low grades.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 12:17:51
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This morning I finished Pride and Prejudice. I read it every summer, it seems. Owen, I bet you have books that you return to for yet another read.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 12:25:10
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I think if the book is any good at all there´s no point in just reading it once. Gravity´s Rainbow, V, Crying of Lot 49, Confederacy of Dunces and a few o Auster´s like Leviathan, Moon Palace and Music of chance are the ones I´ve read the most, and Bulgakov´s Heart Of A Dog too makes me laugh out loud. I have an omnibus edition of three Raymond Carver storybooks as well has had a thorough goingover.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 12:30:31
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quote: Originally posted by Newo
I think if the book is any good at all there´s no point in just reading it once.
Words of wisdom.
I perpetually start, finish and start anew Possession.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 12:43:35
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I read one of Byatt´s stories in anthology a few years back about a white S Arican farmer who´d mistakenly shot a black farmhand, I remember liking it. I´m always reading a Pynchon of some description.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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Sir Rockabye
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1158 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 12:57:20
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quote: Originally posted by Newo
Ugh, sorry Mikeabye. I used to buy the books - Jane Austen and the like - and scuff them up to look read and before I´d realise it was better for my selfesteem to just ride out the low grades.
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish.
I wish I could just give up on it. If it weren't for that paper I had to write afterwards, I would.
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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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 13:04:31
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Wait a sec it´s almost August, what´s with the academia?
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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to corner the fish market and marvel at the small acts of philanthropy he commits while depriving most of the world of fish. |
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
15320 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2005 : 13:06:51
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quote: Originally posted by Newo
I read one of Byatt´s stories in anthology a few years back about a white S Arican farmer who´d mistakenly shot a black farmhand, I remember liking it.
Weird. That doesn't ring any bells. I have all her short stories but I can't remember that one.
It sounds very J.M. Coetzee-ish.
Another perennial fave: Ethan Frome. Such a girlie thing to adore that book.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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