What are you reading right now?

NumberNineDream · 12-04-2009, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Oooh what is this about in more detail? I hear of it often and it always catches my eye because the name Virginia Woolf is in the title... I always wondered what it was all about.

**Btw I meant "I saw the movie last year ..." that sentence above didn't make any sense.**

That said, well I was really curious to watch it because it said "Virginia Woolf" in the title, tho it doesn't have a thing to do with her (maybe there would be a meaning to it to be found in a deep analysis). It's a recurring joke about something that happened in a party before the movie starts.
I don't think there is much of a "plot", with actions and stuff, everything is in the dialog, but damn good dialog, with the greatest couple to ever appear on screen, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
I guess it can be summarised as "The greatest domestic querel in between four walls".
Just watch it lol.

mr dave · 12-05-2009, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ElephantSack

By the way. MY mom just enlightened me to the factoid that the lead vampire in Twilight is supposed to be a fucking vegetarian??! Fuckin' kids will buy anything.

it's based on the idea of drinking animal blood over human blood.

it insults my intelligence / doesn't make any sense to me either, but it came from my 10 year old niece, so i didn't crush her spirit. i would have verbally demolished your mom though haha

as for my current reading, i've been horribly slack, got some lined up for some time off during the holidays. thinking of revisiting some old favourites, Neuromancer, A Scanner Darkly, and Lord of the Flies.

ElephantSack · 12-05-2009, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

it's based on the idea of drinking animal blood over human blood.

it insults my intelligence / doesn't make any sense to me either, but it came from my 10 year old niece, so i didn't crush her spirit. i would have verbally demolished your mom though haha

as for my current reading, i've been horribly slack, got some lined up for some time off during the holidays. thinking of revisiting some old favourites, Neuromancer, A Scanner Darkly, and Lord of the Flies.

What's so wrong with crushing a child's spirit? It's good fun! I make time for it everyday! In fact. Where's a child? I'ma crush their spirit right now!

But, I don't know how my moms found out that load of horseshit; nobody in my family goes near that steaming pile that passes for pop culture.

ElephantSack · 12-05-2009, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by NumberNineDream

I read Fight Club, Survivor and Snuff. Personally Fight Club is by far my favorite. He sure has very repetitive style that he kind of respect in all his books (well the ones I already read, but it seems like he's doing the same kind of thing in all his novels). I have to say tho, that this writing style perfectly works in FC.

I think I'll only read the other books I own by him, but I don't think I'll purchase any others. As for his style, in few words: The same reply recurs slightly changed every 3 pages. The narrator is the lead character talking in the first person. The character usually knows a lot of cool stuff that he keeps noting, like some kind of life trivias, but each book its subject.

Fight Club was great for this, these kind of replies added tension to the book. In the others i just liked the cool info I'm reading, nothing else, nothing adding to the story. Snuff on the other hand, didn't have the main character as narrator, he followed a very different approach in that one. However, it has got the weakest story.

Snuff! I knew I was forgetting one.

NSW · 12-05-2009, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by storymilo

I'm pretty much copying NSW, rereading it cause I never finished it the first time. After that I'm gonna start:

Yeah! I'm almost done with it myself. Amazing read.

~~Flower Child~~ · 12-07-2009, 08:47 AM

I'm not much of a reader but this book is fantastic. I'm just at the beginning but so far, I'm loving the seriously psychotic scenario of it all.

Don't manipulate mother nature, the result will not be good.

ElephantSack · 12-07-2009, 10:23 AM

^ That was our main book project when I was a senior in high school. The story still remains with me to this day. Particularly the last line of the book. You'll see.

TheBig3 · 12-07-2009, 10:30 AM

intensely detailed. i'm eating it alive.

simplephysics · 12-07-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Engine

It's been over 20 years since I read Genesis - and now I have a reason to again.

this looks.. awesome beyond measure. was it hard to find?

LoathsomePete · 12-07-2009, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught

this looks.. awesome beyond measure. was it hard to find?

That particular version may be, but last year I checked this out of the library

And yes it was printed back to front.

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