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Re: books to read
« Reply #1410 on: September 20, 2012, 11:59:08 AM »
Ya, it's definitely a literary ABD. Hemingway's ideal of masculinity is impossible to live up to anyway, no matter how much drinking and fucking you do.

Could be fun though...

Goddamn, I can smell your halitosis through the screen!  You don't deserve to read his books.  Tosser.

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« Reply #1411 on: September 20, 2012, 01:34:20 PM »


I wasn't completely happy with the ending, but really enjoyed the overall concept. It's basically Cabin In The Woods set in a corporate office.

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« Reply #1412 on: September 20, 2012, 03:09:40 PM »
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Ya, it's definitely a literary ABD. Hemingway's ideal of masculinity is impossible to live up to anyway, no matter how much drinking and fucking you do.

Could be fun though...
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Goddamn, I can smell your halitosis through the screen!  You don't deserve to read his books.  Tosser.

So, when do you start your bullfighting apprenticeship?

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« Reply #1413 on: September 21, 2012, 06:14:08 AM »
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I wasn't completely happy with the ending, but really enjoyed the overall concept. It's basically Cabin In The Woods set in a corporate office.
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Whoa, really?  Just that sentence has me very curious!

Replace teens in a cabin with employees in an office, and scary monsters with psychotic bosses, and the rest is very similar.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1414 on: September 21, 2012, 09:35:53 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1415 on: September 22, 2012, 12:44:13 AM »
Only 100 pages in but I'm loving it.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1416 on: September 22, 2012, 06:30:54 AM »
The movie(s) are great, the book is even better.

 You and the D00D have turned this thread into a horrible head-on-collision between a short bus full of regular kids and a van full of paraplegics.



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« Reply #1417 on: September 22, 2012, 11:53:00 AM »
Love this guy to death. (terrible pun)

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« Reply #1418 on: September 28, 2012, 01:27:56 PM »


Incredible, of course. Don't know why I'd never read Joe Conrad before this. What do y'all think about his other stuff? Any recommendations?

I've been into reading shorter novels and novellas lately. It might just be laziness, but I'll take a pared down, powerfully written novella over a fluffy, narcissistic epic any day.
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« Reply #1419 on: September 28, 2012, 01:37:21 PM »


Just finished rereading it.  Not the most challenging read, but one of my favourites by far.


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« Reply #1420 on: September 28, 2012, 10:27:23 PM »


Just finished rereading it.  Not the most challenging read, but one of my favourites by far.



Yeah, great book. 

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« Reply #1421 on: October 01, 2012, 10:40:16 AM »


Anybody have this? worth the $50?
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« Reply #1422 on: October 01, 2012, 11:58:59 AM »



Love the way he describes things!



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« Reply #1423 on: October 01, 2012, 09:31:00 PM »


just started

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1424 on: October 02, 2012, 12:37:33 AM »
finished this one yesterday. I thought it would be something like everything is illuminated, but a book that brings me closer being a vegitarian.



now I started this classic by hermann hesse, let's see how it turns out.

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« Reply #1425 on: October 02, 2012, 01:39:34 AM »
Currently reading this. It's good, but I can't seem to find the time to read bigger chunks of it, just get through 20 pages or so per day...
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« Reply #1426 on: October 02, 2012, 03:00:38 AM »


Incredible, of course. Don't know why I'd never read Joe Conrad before this. What do y'all think about his other stuff? Any recommendations?

I've been into reading shorter novels and novellas lately. It might just be laziness, but I'll take a pared down, powerfully written novella over a fluffy, narcissistic epic any day.

I have Lord Jim on the shelf but haven't seemed to be able to get into it. Supposed to be a good one, though.

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« Reply #1427 on: October 02, 2012, 03:03:10 AM »


I never read this when I was 16 like most do. Russell Banks is nice, though. I especially enjoyed the beginning of this. Bone rules!


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« Reply #1428 on: October 02, 2012, 06:41:34 AM »


Just finished this. Pretty gruesome stuff, but I loved it. It's interesting how McCarthy makes you feel compassion for such a depraved character. Interesting take on the anti-hero archetype.

Very curious to see what James Franco does with his adaptation.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1429 on: October 02, 2012, 08:53:28 AM »
I loved child of god. On one of James Franco's websites they are doing a bunch of behind the scene clips. I can't think of a film I've anticipated more than this one.

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« Reply #1430 on: October 02, 2012, 10:46:31 PM »
I loved child of god. On one of James Franco's websites they are doing a bunch of behind the scene clips. I can't think of a film I've anticipated more than this one.

Amen.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1431 on: October 08, 2012, 12:55:04 PM »
Not my books but I am on this. Giger is amazing. (It's a collection of his artworks.)

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« Reply #1432 on: October 08, 2012, 05:26:18 PM »
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but this plus the follow up are great. Havent read the third yet though.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1433 on: October 08, 2012, 05:27:47 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1434 on: October 08, 2012, 06:10:32 PM »



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Re: books to read
« Reply #1435 on: October 08, 2012, 10:52:28 PM »


Incredible, of course. Don't know why I'd never read Joe Conrad before this. What do y'all think about his other stuff? Any recommendations?

I've been into reading shorter novels and novellas lately. It might just be laziness, but I'll take a pared down, powerfully written novella over a fluffy, narcissistic epic any day.
I would recommend watching the movie "Apocalypse Now" and compare the themes in Heart of Darkness.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1436 on: October 08, 2012, 10:56:11 PM »


I wasn't completely happy with the ending, but really enjoyed the overall concept. It's basically Cabin In The Woods set in a corporate office.

Such a great recommendation!  I needed a book like this.  Highly entertaining, witty, and fun.  Thanks a mil!
Have you read his other two novels?

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1438 on: October 09, 2012, 12:04:46 AM »
Reading Georges Bataille's Guilty right now, as well as Michel Surya's biography of him. Guilty is written in a journal format, so it makes it hard to get super into, although it's interesting to read Bataille's thought-processes and see the beginnings of his themes and obsessions.

Both of them are taking me a while to get through though. I've read a lot lately (these are my fifth and sixth books for fun since the middle of June, not including extra readings while I was finishing schoolwork), so I think I might need a break or something quick and easy to read after these. Maybe I'll be get a copy of Colbert's new book and read that.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1439 on: October 09, 2012, 02:17:22 AM »
I should probably read better books but there is a new Halo book and I am reading it.