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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
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 Posted - 06/21/2004 : 14:38:17
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Originally posted by GypsyDeath
What douglas coupland book you reading shine? I love DC. hes definately in my top ten. and ive met him.
CP i really like too. I loved lullaby, and choke was pretty sick.funny.
And yeah, if youre gonne read irvine, you defo need to read them in that order. I didnt, and wish i had. altho you can pick up most things if youve watched trainspotting (recently). but its much better in order.
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
sorry GD, didn't see this earlier. I'm almost finished Polaroids from the Dead. when/where did you meet him? i see him sometimes but i'm too shy to approach, i think i know the house he lives in and i've written him letters but i've never sent them, it's weird we kinda have the same passion for our home town, i would like to have lunch with him. i saw this cool short film last summer called "mon amour, mon parapluie" (my love, my umbrella). an artsy black&white 10 minute affair, at the very beginning there is a scene where they pan through a coffee shop and doug and william gibson are having a cup 'o' joe.
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 06/21/2004 : 16:29:07
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Originally posted by Tre
....... which I liked better than 1989 ((Orwell)) ........
Was this the sequel to 1984? Maybe we should all read this! 
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GypsyDeath
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 04:18:41
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Haha, yeah I saw that too...as you said Tre..you must of really been concentrating on that book.
Maybe it wasnt Orwell at all...maybe you read just a book called 1989? hmm. you should try 1984..its quite good ya know!
Shine - oh cool, you live in his town!!!! I would love to live any where near him!!!
I met him when he did a tour, he was at Borders(book shop..obviously...) in Brighton, and I went to hear him read some bits of his new book. He actually spent the entire tinme making simpson references. he was really funny.
Did you know he designed the most popular style cots when he was younger? he's real pissed at not getting any of the share of profits from his design. haha.
Thats so cool about the film thing..heh.
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 09:54:21
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I was really really really really tired... I have been working shifts no excuse though... going to go edit it and make you all look really silly. *grump*
can't get into anything these days. Always on the peripheral. Always terrified, exhausted, annoyed, pissed, anxious, out of it-out of the loop, out of my mind, out of time.
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GypsyDeath
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 11:03:24
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Yeah, go Ramona go.
Evberyone seems to show an interest in contemporary fiction...maybe something along the lines of will self? like quantim theory of insanity? (i cant actually remembe r the title, so that may not be it...)
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 11:21:50
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thats is it I think.
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 12:56:49
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My library lets me have books for three weeks (two weeks for new releases) so let's say Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self - read by July 10?
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 13:00:19
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Done and done
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 13:02:16
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Okay, cool. Let's roll, readers.
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I replace you easily, replace pathetically,
I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way.
But how I needed you. When I needed you.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 14:58:48
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Frickin wordy Will Self. If I can, I'll join in.
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 15:03:18
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wait, wait, wait..........I just googled Will Self and that book is a book of short stories! Are we cool with that?
"Here today, Guano tomorrow" |
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GypsyDeath
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 16:24:26
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Well ive already bought the book now, so we have to!!! haah
ON your marks, gets set...go!!!
Ive read bits of self shorts before, they are really good...Ive always been put off by shorts before, because i like to get stuck in to a book...
But i think to start us of this is a good idea, nice and short, and despite cheesemans worries, hes always a good read.
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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GypsyDeath
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Posted - 06/22/2004 : 16:26:25
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oh, yes, ti is that book, the title being ' the Quantity Theory of Insanity'
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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NimrodsSon
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1938 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 21:14:24
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No copies at my library so I won't participate. Have fun!
ˇViva los Católicos! |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 11:56:10
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Originally posted by bumblebeeboy2
homers, shouldn't you finish "Where's Spot?" before you start getting other books?
I am my only god, ha ha ha ha ha ha
They found spot. You were humping him when the RSPCA paid a visit to your house.
Listen to Nine Black Alps. |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 11:58:32
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Er, yeah... cool. 
Sooooo, short stories are fine with me. The next book after this will be Cowboys are my Weakness by Pam Houston. Short stories by a girl and one of my favorite books ever. Because I say so, it is true! 
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I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way.
But how I needed you. When I needed you.
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 13:36:12
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So, how is everybody enjoying the book? I'm jealous, I'll have to wait for the next one.
Happy reading!
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GypsyDeath
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Posted - 07/02/2004 : 15:04:10
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Its really good...or was...I think I may have lost my copy on a very long train journey home...but im not positive yet!
Just thought I'd throw that in there... |
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Little Black Francis
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 07/03/2004 : 23:55:13
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I ain't got mine yet, but count me in...
giocare al golf? |
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Leah
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
314 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2004 : 10:12:02
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Can I play please?
I promise I won't mention Kinky Friedman or Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen?!
Hmmmmm. And in no way shape or form am I going to suggest that you are clearly quite mad for not mentioning The King Of Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson...
Every choice human being strives instinctively for a citadel and a secrecy where he is saved from the crowd -
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/04/2004 : 12:11:32
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Holy shit, Tre. The Wasp Factory was the book I was going to mention, too. That's an incredibly twisted book. The band Lusk had a video for their song Backworlds which was clearly lifted from the book (the sea mine murder). That's actually how I found out about the book, someone said the video was taken directly from the Wasp Factory. Wow, not many people know that novel.
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/04/2004 : 12:13:05
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Oh, Tre, read any other Iain Banks? Anything worth reading? I see Complicity in a lot of bookstores.
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2004 : 09:26:24
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The Crow Road is a good´un.
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 07/06/2004 : 05:54:37
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An Iain Banks novel turned into a TV series? That's crazy!
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 13:11:49
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How'd it go? Did everybody finish?
"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeee!" |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 13:16:51
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Did anybody finish?
"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeee!" |
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NimrodsSon
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 08/15/2004 : 12:45:17
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What happened to this?
ˇViva los Católicos! |
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Posted - 08/15/2004 : 13:08:07
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I didn't but the book, I have two bloody will self books that I so cannot be arsed with at the moment, I think the bookclub died.
Since it started I have read some good ones though, I read the Bill Hicks Biography, I re-read Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (I really really recommend this to everyone - the guy has a tube station called Fuck Station Zero in it for fords sake) I read the Bridge (Iain Banks) er,Jeff Noon, some pynchon, some hunter s thompson, loads, can't remember it all...
TarTar - I have read the bridge, the crow road, walking on glass, complicity, the wasp factory (the best of them all imo), The business, whit and song of stone
The only two I haven't read yet are espedair street and dead air, It's a bit hit and miss with banks, I did love the bridge but I think he struggles to finish them in a satisfactory manner sometimes
 I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 08/15/2004 : 14:31:44
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i am currently reading great apes, will self. i liked the business better than complicity, those are the only two banks i've read.
maybe we should change this to 1-book-a-month-club and we can post what each month's book will be and anyone who wants to read it has a full month. this would work thusly - in august we talk about july's book and what book we will be reading for septamber, that gives us a month to decide and discuss each book? how does this sound?
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Posted - 08/15/2004 : 14:45:13
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Sounds good. Read the Wasp factory btw, it'll blow your mind!
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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klikger
= Cult of Ray =
693 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2004 : 01:08:27
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| I'm about to start several textbooks. Anybody wanna join me? :) |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
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Posted - 08/16/2004 : 08:30:22
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Originally posted by klikger
I'm about to start several textbooks. Anybody wanna join me? :)
that could very well be the nerdiest thing ever....a book club choosing to read a text book!
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klikger
= Cult of Ray =
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Posted - 08/17/2004 : 01:45:50
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| I'll let you know the title of my new Securities textbook in a couple of weeks. :) I'm sure everyone will love it. |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 08:52:52
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hehe, i read a securities textbook just so i could pretend to know my exes job better than she did, it was funny for a while, now we're exes......
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Forum Book Club?
