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Originally Posted by DontRunMeOver
I don't know about Romeo and Juliet not being as good, I think to an extent the story has had such a big impact on so much romantic fiction since then that a lot of the ideas in Romeo and Juliet almost seem cliched... when in fact they were borrowed from Romeo and Juliet in the first place. Depends upon your perpective.
I was reading 'Shalimar the Clown' by Salman Rushdie but I think I left it in Australia 
Oh, RIGHT-TRACK, now I've started reading 'The Wasp Factory'. You were right, 'tis mighty good and quite the oddity. |
Yeah, I read
The Wasp Factory a while back, that was a really good though thoroughly fu
cked up book.
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Originally Posted by Crowe
Boring? I don't know about that.
A Comedy of Errors and As You Like It are probably my favorites of Shakeypoo. Although I do have a soft spot for The Tempest -.^
Right nooowww I am reading Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs - Klosterman, a little late I'll admit... but I finished Killing Yourself to Live not too long ago. Concurrently, I am reading Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, and as soon as I am finished with the Klosterman novel I'll start on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - a book by Philip K. D!ck, who you might know as the author of A Scanner Darkly, and Blade Runner.
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Philip K. D
ick is one of my favorite authors, I only just finished
Ubik, which is probably my favorite of his as of right now. Also, it might be worth noting that he didn't actually write a book called
Blade Runner, but that
Blade Runner is an adaptation of
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
And I'm about to start on Camus'
The Fall. I've been wondering whether or not that's where the band got their name, that would be pretty cool, Camus is probably my favorite author.