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01-31-2009, 09:54 PM
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Virginia, USA
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Brethren by Robyn Young.
If you're into the Crusades and **** like that, you'd love it. Pretty much if you're into any epic-battle books, The Lord Of The Rings, for example. It's for a lot of audiences. I love it though, I read around twenty pages every night.
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02-01-2009, 06:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Canada
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Currently reading Piercing by Ryu Murakami! Really excellent author. The book is definitely an interesting read and gives insight to a lot of in-depth human emotions... to the point where it really is scary. I originally started reading it because reviews were really, really good.
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." - Nietzsche numba one! last.fm |
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02-02-2009, 09:12 PM
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By Updike? I've never read it I've only read Rabbit, Run and Roger's vision as well as some essays and random things he did for magazine. I'm not a fan, Matt Taibbi did a little bit on him that sums my stance on the man up. I also did a little criticism of him for school earlier. I feel he's the most overrated writer ever and his prose is cheesy. He was also, if you've seen him as a critic, a pretentious and hypocritical person.
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02-02-2009, 09:22 PM
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I didn't like Rabbit that much, but I give the man a moderate respect for contributing to the art (as little as he may have done). But I was talking about the film "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam a classic surreal dark-comedy greatly inspired by 1984.
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02-02-2009, 09:31 PM
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isfckingdead
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I've never seen that actually. I've only recently (since about the new year) started watching movies regularly. Is it worth checking out?
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02-03-2009, 04:16 PM
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 One interesting thing I recently noticed is that Johnathan Pryce, who stars also played Mr. Dark in "Something Wicked this Way Comes." by Mr. Bradbury.
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02-03-2009, 03:40 AM
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Juicious Maximus III
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Scabb Island
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Brazil is amazing and one of my all-time favourites. For me, it was definetly best on the second viewing. I like Terry Gilliam quite a lot .. His movie "The Fisher King" starring Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams is also amazing, often overlooked and underrated, I think.
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02-03-2009, 11:30 AM
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Northern Virginia
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1984 is one of my favorite books! The fact that the characters are, most certainly, somewhat flat not only allows a vaster population to identify with the character but also fits perfectly with the story. Of course the characters are flat; free thought is all but banned and personal expression is not allowed. How could anyone have any definitive characteristics in this situation? They don't think enough to understand who they really are.
Also, just started a book called This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. Looks to be a fascinating read so far. |
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