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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
 Posted - 05/21/2004 : 20:31:08
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I am reading no less than three books right now, THE LITTLE FRIEND (which is fiction and I could tell you the author but that would mean I would need to get off my butt and walk to my nightstand. Not gonna happen.), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (which I know I will like, I am just having trouble committing to it) and A NOONDAY DEMON (which is about depression and I have been reading it for awhile, it's very involved). I am also reading the current issue of Vogue, but that is just for the more material moments I have...
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2004 : 20:40:13
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Originally posted by Little Black Francis
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Originally posted by apl4eris
Are you a Scrabble addict, LBF? How's the book?
I heard one of our local Mockingbirds today. I'm still waiting...
No, not an addict anymore. I was for a couple years, that and chess. I was over at a friend's house the other day, and her mother and I used to play all the time, and she lended me the book to read. WE're supposed to start playing again.
The book is okay, but it's not written very well at all. It feels like it was written by a junior in college, very scattered and confused and weird tangents and no real cohesion, yet the guy is pretty interesting, and it gives you a peak into a world you never knew existed. His character descriptions are pretty good. It's a quick read for sure, despite being 250 pages or whatever.
And I was listening to my mockingbird too the other night, I need to record and maybe Dean will let us upload it on the FTP site... if we say pretty please...
Bring it Apl! : )
Sah-weet! You got a deal, buddy -and just throw me an email when you're ready, I have another way we can host the files if need be -don't want to be crowding up the ftp server now- I'm sure my Mockingbird's gonna take up at least a Gig! 
You've inspired me to play a game of chess *and* Scrabble with my husband this weekend. I only hope we both survive.
If the only tool you have is an elbow macaroni,
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Chip Away Boy
= Cult of Ray =
914 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2004 : 22:26:10
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Noone here gets out alive
Jim morrison biography, good readin'.
Five to one baby, one in five
Noone here gets out alive |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2004 : 03:45:23
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I think 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of the best books I've ever read, Em. Really do give it the time, because its just amazing.
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2004 : 08:41:30
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I will! I am going on vacation this summer and I plan to bring a big pile of unread books with me. I will be laying on a dock for a week, so a lot of reading is sure to be done.
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2004 : 15:50:52
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I too am re- reading To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Also re-reading 1984. (one of he best books ever)
and (again) One of Will Selfs ( one of the best contemporary writers) finest, - How the Dead Live.
and picking up Cultural Represention in The Media every nown again. Which is great. All about subtle things the media does to represent particular groups...I could go in to more detail, bu i just wrote an esay on it, and am a bit bored of writing right now!
I love you for what I am not,
I did not ask for what I have got.
You will get used to me.
Welcome to your new joy. |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/22/2004 : 16:31:22
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I haven't read any of Will Self's novels, though I can imagine. Very wordy. Wordy Will Self.
I see his movie reviews in the paper sometimes, and I almost always find myself disagreeing with him totally. Its like he has a Morrisey complex, maybe if he criticises everything and everyone, they won't criticise him. He's always unneccessarily negative as well, I've never seen a positive review by him, I don't think.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by X-Wing" |
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Itchload
= Cult of Ray =
USA
891 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2004 : 16:35:07
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2004 : 16:55:29
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Sex-ay. Did you see that Seinfeld episode about that book?
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2004 : 18:04:59
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Originally posted by Itchload
I'm reading Tropic of Cancer. That's right!
one of my favorite books of all time.
if you don't want to move to Paris and become a writer (and sleep with hundreds of women) after reading it, something is wrong with you. |
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Adnan_le_Terrible
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1973 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2004 : 18:06:47
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I live in Paris, I sleep with hundreds of women, so I think I can afford not to read that book.
I keep feeling like people are just looking at screens and web sites all the time, but do they ever do anything? Or go out and say anything to anyone? I'm not so sure anymore. |
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
3648 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2004 : 23:58:42
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something is wring with me, all I want to do is be on that same dock with ramona when she is on vacation
was that too bold? |
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ivebeentired
- FB Fan -
USA
66 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 06:50:18
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Bruce Campbell-If Chins Could Kill
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I
think I've forgotten this before."
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 11:09:58
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
I haven't read any of Will Self's novels, though I can imagine. Very wordy. Wordy Will Self.
I see his movie reviews in the paper sometimes, and I almost always find myself disagreeing with him totally. Its like he has a Morrisey complex, maybe if he criticises everything and everyone, they won't criticise him. He's always unneccessarily negative as well, I've never seen a positive review by him, I don't think.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by X-Wing"
Yes, hes very wordy. No, hes not very positive. but his fictions are some of the best writing i have ever come across. CHeck him out. go, now now now. available at you local waterstones.
I love you for what I am not,
I did not ask for what I have got.
You will get used to me.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 11:13:33
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Don't you be telling me what to do, missy. I think my next purchase at a bookshop will probably be a Calvin & Hobbes anthology.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by X-Wing" |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 11:14:02
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Originally posted by Little Black Francis
something is wring with me, all I want to do is be on that same dock with ramona when she is on vacation
was that too bold?
Nope.
But, you should know, my mother will be there as well. That may (or may not, who knows?) effect your decision.
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 11:15:08
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Don't you be telling me what to do, missy. I think my next purchase at a bookshop will probably be a Calvin & Hobbes anthology.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by X-Wing"
Well dont you be calling me missy, mister!
I love you for what I am not,
I did not ask for what I have got.
You will get used to me.
Welcome to your new joy. |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 11:27:58
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Don't start with me mush, I'm having self-empowerment lessons! You're wrong I tells ya!
I just don't know what about yet.
Maybe you're just wrong in general.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by X-Wing" |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 12:00:59
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Rereading Confederacy of Dunces, The Magic Christian and Thomas Pynchonīs V and for the first time The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, Don Quixote, Black Spring by Henry Miller, Once A Winter Nightīs Traveller by Calvino, Sixth Sense by Stuart Wilde, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt, Amplication of the Battlefield by Michel Houllebecq, Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rablelais, Rabelais And His World by Bakhtin, these first ones are for beach/bedfluff and the last two are for work, tho the Kundera one ties in neatly with them too. Not that it feels like work, Rabelais is probably my alltime favourite.
COF - I had the same trouble with Quixote, having bought a fiftycent version and the translation was so godawful it wasnīt even the same book. I had recommended to me the Tobias Smollett translation, and got about 150 pages and found it a bit meh then started it in Spanish and I know this mightnīt be of much help but all the translations blow IMHO (tho if I had to pick one itīd be Smollett).
Apl4eris - I got tuned onto the Godel Bach Escer from a book on deLillo by Tom LeClair and its high on my list should I come into contact with English books that arenīt my own, looks fascinating.
Ramona - What brought you to read the Little Friend and Mockingbird together? From my POV itīs an interesting coincidence cause I found them quite similar.
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 12:28:03
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i'm reading "everything is illuminated" by jonathan safran foer, and just finished up "our band can be your life" by michael azerrad (FANTASTIC), "the subject steve" by sam lipsyte (OK), "the last picture show" by larry mcmurtry (GOOD) and "join me" by danny wallace (GREAT). I was on vacation with ms. broken face, and we both are voracious readers - we looked like such nerds in the airport both of us with our faces in books. ah, nerd love
-brian
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 12:38:43
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Just finished rereading Subject Steve, I thought it was okay first time though a few passages kept me coming back to it and I enjoyed it quite a lot the last time.
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 12:40:56
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i bought the subject steve for 99 cents at a 99 cent store in San Diego, CA. worth every penny
-brian
- "I joined the Cult of Frank / And they tried to cut off my nuts and make me put on a blue jumpsuit"
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 12:47:36
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Why is everyone on the boards reading "A Confederacy of Dunces"? I think that book is terrible.
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Broken Face
-= Forum Pistolero =-
USA
5155 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 12:55:13
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i never read a confederacy of dunces, but would like to eventually
why, pretell, does it suck?
-brian
- "I joined the Cult of Frank / And they tried to cut off my nuts and make me put on a blue jumpsuit"
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2004 : 13:18:16
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| hey owen, what job do you have that you get to read all this high quality Literature? i was a Lit Major in undergrad.. that reading list brings back good (and bad) memories. |
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faulkndj
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Posted - 05/24/2004 : 23:07:48
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| A Pray for Owen Meany, by John Irving. Quite a captivating tale so far... |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 07:36:53
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Iīm a writer. Iīd been writing short stories for the last three years and am working on a novel now.
P.S. Hey realmean, Iīd be interested in knowing what you felt sucked about Dunces. Iīm not fanatic about the book, Iīve read it five or six times and loved it the first time and remember feeling distinctly underwhelmed the third and fourth time.
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 08:13:02
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Owen and Ramona, are you guys talking about Donna Tartt's Little Friend? I've been told it is horrible and I shouldn't read it. I enjoyed her first novel, The Secret History, very much and I'm fairly sceptical about the advice I've been given.
Right now I'm reading Glamorama again.
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 08:24:44
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That's what I am talking about. I read some more last night, and I really liked the beginning but now (in the middle) it is getting into another story and I am so bored. I skipped about six pages and I was still bored. We'll see.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 08:26:13
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I didnīt think much of The Little Friend either. I used to love Secret History but after constant readings it lost its shine (like why did she make the main character male? Thereīs a scene where he sez he dislikes a dormitory-mate: īHe loathed her laugh and lolloping spaniel-like walk.ī Can you picture a guy saying that ever?). Thereīs no way to describe my grand disappointment with Little Friend without ruining the book, tho I did find passages of brilliant light to sustain interest. While itīs not exactly Grady Trippīs second novel, it starts well, then just spreads.
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sloy
- FB Fan -
France
93 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 12:04:52
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the notice of my game cube
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 13:13:02
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Originally posted by Newo
While itīs not exactly Grady Trippīs second novel, it starts well, then just spreads.
-Owen
Y
You've read Wonderboys recently? We've been on this topic before but I think you said then you've only read the short stories (which I've received in the post this week!)
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 05/25/2004 : 13:46:58
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I am about to start 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami.
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 01:13:27
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
I think my next purchase at a bookshop will probably be a Calvin & Hobbes anthology.
That would be an excellent choice. I hardly ever read comics but I own several Calvin and Hobbes anthologies and love them to bits.
Sorry if you were being ironic there.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 05/26/2004 : 08:30:54
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I read it after I saw the film, Wilhelm, soon enough I think for the slick and sickly ending of the latter to feel cloying.
Aitch Pee Em, Windup Bird Chronicle was the first of his I read, I did nothing but lay about and read the thing.
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