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~Dakine..HeX
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the simmons book has a lot of simmons' regular nonsense (HOLY SHIT THIS IS LIKE THAT SCENE IN BOOGIE NIGHTS WHERE BLAH BLAH)
but dude knows his shit about the history of the nba
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just read running with scissors. pretty strange, kinda funny.
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Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:46 pm |
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Lisa
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Originally posted by Biggs.
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Originally posted by Lisa
Nah that was just to make you guys read it if you haven't already read it. 
I am a huge fan of russian writers, specially Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky, but I really don´t see why people find Anna Karenina so amazing. I think it is overrated and way to cheesy, and for me to be saying that is a lot (Love in times of Cholera is one of my favourite books).
Those are 3 really big names, although I never read any work of Chekhov yet.
"flawless as a work of art" -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He shares the same opinion as me, I loooooooooooved Anna Karenina. I haven't read to many Russian literature but a few. Are you russian yourself? Do you know who Ivan Aivazovsky where?
I'm really into victorian female writters such as Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Anne Evans, and Jane Austen. I have a few 'my favourite book ov all time' but if I really had to chose one it'd be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. and i'm really into world war/holocaust books.
Right now i'm reading Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
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Jon;
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Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:37 pm |
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chaos
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seriously though if you need oprah to tell you that anna karenina is a good book and tolstoy is a good writer i just like...i don't even know what
story of ur life
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Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:40 pm |
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SarX
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Stephen Kings "Skeleton Crew"
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I don't think anyone has unlimited time, and that seems like a particularly strange conclusion to draw from about 20 minutes worth of posting on a message board. Hassan-i-Suckah
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Jon;
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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the girl next door - jack ketchum
i started reading and the opening sentence
"tied to a beam while a madwoman burns away her clitoris with a
laundry-iron."
i jizzed in my pants, will continue reading later.
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Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:35 pm |
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~Dakine..HeX
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quote:
Originally posted by Jon;
the girl next door - jack ketchum
i started reading and the opening sentence
"tied to a beam while a madwoman burns away her clitoris with a
laundry-iron."
i jizzed in my pants, will continue reading later.
damn bro ur so edgy and cool >_>
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MassiveAttack
Joined: 01 Jan 2006
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The Balkans by Mischa Glenny.
So far its pretty deep and starts from the first Serbian uprising and the liberation of Greeks from the Ottoman Empire all the way to the end of the 20th century.
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Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:12 am |
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Jon;
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quote:
Originally posted by ~Dakine..HeX
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Originally posted by Jon;
the girl next door - jack ketchum
i started reading and the opening sentence
"tied to a beam while a madwoman burns away her clitoris with a
laundry-iron."
i jizzed in my pants, will continue reading later.
damn bro ur so edgy and cool >_>
you're proof homo sapiens bred with neanderthals
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Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:19 am |
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Biggs.
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quote:
Originally posted by Lisa
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Originally posted by Biggs.
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Originally posted by Lisa
Nah that was just to make you guys read it if you haven't already read it.
I am a huge fan of russian writers, specially Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky, but I really don´t see why people find Anna Karenina so amazing. I think it is overrated and way to cheesy, and for me to be saying that is a lot (Love in times of Cholera is one of my favourite books).
Those are 3 really big names, although I never read any work of Chekhov yet.
"flawless as a work of art" -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He shares the same opinion as me, I loooooooooooved Anna Karenina. I haven't read to many Russian literature but a few. Are you russian yourself? Do you know who Ivan Aivazovsky where?
I'm really into victorian female writters such as Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Anne Evans, and Jane Austen. I have a few 'my favourite book ov all time' but if I really had to chose one it'd be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. and i'm really into world war/holocaust books.
Right now i'm reading Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Nope, I`m Chilean, I just like russian literature a lot.
Oscar Wilde is great too, I re-read dorian gray a couple of years ago and it seemed different than the first time I read it. I know this happens with almost every book, but it seemed more so with this one.
I haven´t read any of that victorian female writters but Jane Austen. I had to read pride and prejudice in english for school, so that wasn´t a nice experience. I prefer to read in spanish, and the version I read probably was a dumb down with basic english for non-native english students, so it is not probably the same book you read.
I haven´t read many books written by women, really don`t know why, just haven´t. Maybe it is because I was forced to read Isabel Allende`s books when I was in high school, and I didn`t like them at all. Quite a stupid reason I must admit. I will check out Jane Eyre as soon as I finish with Archipiélago Gulag from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. GN is probably going to call this book Capitalist Propaganda, but don`t bother, I haven´t started it yet so I don´t have an opinion.
It is nice to recomend books here, something useful for a change. I read Morel`s Invention by Casares because someone recomend it, and it was a nice read.
Do you like Latin American literature??
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Originally posted by Biggs.
I will check out Jane Eyre as soon as I finish with Archipiélago Gulag from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. GN is probably going to call this book Capitalist Propaganda, but don`t bother, I haven´t started it yet so I don´t have an opinion.
thats not totally true actually, its actually tsarist propaganda. solzhenitsyn was a tsarist, he literally thought russia was better off under the tsars roflll. and he loved putin too
that might might be okay if read as fiction, just be known that its political content is propaganda for tsardom and serfdom and that much of the book is outright lies. solzhenitsyn says insane things like "stalin had his own holocaust planned for the jews" with no evidence whatsoever, and the numbers and statistics in his book have been widely debunked by even anti-communist historians (who equivocate by saying the numbers aren't as important)
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:41 am |
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Biggs.
Joined: 04 Jul 2003
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Originally posted by hassan-i-sabbah
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Originally posted by Biggs.
I will check out Jane Eyre as soon as I finish with Archipiélago Gulag from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. GN is probably going to call this book Capitalist Propaganda, but don`t bother, I haven´t started it yet so I don´t have an opinion.
thats not totally true actually, its actually tsarist propaganda. solzhenitsyn was a tsarist, he literally thought russia was better off under the tsars roflll. and he loved putin too
that might might be okay if read as fiction, just be known that its political content is propaganda for tsardom and serfdom and that much of the book is outright lies. solzhenitsyn says insane things like "stalin had his own holocaust planned for the jews" with no evidence whatsoever, and the numbers and statistics in his book have been widely debunked by even anti-communist historians (who equivocate by saying the numbers aren't as important)
Ok, once I read it I will let you know what I think about it. I read books mostly for fun though, so my comments about it will probably be something like "it is a good book" or "it sucks" regardless of the rigurosity, if any, of the facts presented.
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hassan-i-sabbah
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thats fine, just don't be so stupid as to take it as a factual account of the gulag like so many other idiots do
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:28 am |
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Jon;
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An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, And Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:42 pm |
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Fast Luck
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i just read 3 ross macdonald books
he's a detective novel writer, but he owns, he's a damn fine writer.
best mystery novelist ever?
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$hazm
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Juggler of worlds. It was alright the constant jumping forward in time made it hard to get into. Fleet of Worlds was better and I am sure Destroyer of Worlds will also be better.
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:27 pm |
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hassan-i-sabbah
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shitty dork writer reads shitty dork sci-fi? shocking
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:45 pm |
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$hazm
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I learnt more of value from the last shitty sci fi novel than you have learnt from the last fifteen novels you read.
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:58 pm |
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Originally posted by $hazm
I learnt more of value from the last shitty sci fi novel than you have learnt from the last fifteen novels you read.
lol just going to quote this
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.
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Sappy
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I learnt more of value from the last shitty sci fi novel than you have learnt from the last fifteen novels you read.
Please discuss.
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Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:47 am |
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ChrisLui
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
i just read 3 ross macdonald books
he's a detective novel writer, but he owns, he's a damn fine writer.
best mystery novelist ever?
i haven't read many detective novels but i really like raymond chandler. just looked up ross macdonald and he sounds cool, thanks for mentioning him ^_^
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$hazm
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Well the way I see it, the books I normally read deal with higher ideals. Strength of character, honor, justice, perseverance, honesty, integrity, overcoming impossible odds, staying strong in the face of defeat, the kind of stuff that really defines us as humans, but that you rarely find examples of in the real world.
Sure, it's normally wrapped up in some pretty wild tales, but the tales are just there for entertainment. You have to look past them to see the real value in what I read.
To me, the kind of books ghostnuke talks about just spoon feed you a bunch of biased information that you could just as easily as far more accurately gain by simple observation of the world around you.
That's just how I feel about it. I know some people will read this and will have a bunch of questions and want examples to back up my claims and all that crap, but the truth is, like most of my claims, the only thing that will satisfy some people seems to be a 500 page essay with references and examples and a point by point walkthrough on how I came to such conclusions etc etc. It's what people are used to I guess, and it is completely beyond them to imagine that the proof is right there and can be gained by simple observation.
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:24 pm |
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quote:
Originally posted by $hazm
Well the way I see it, the books I normally read deal with higher ideals. Strength of character, honor, justice, perseverance, honesty, integrity, overcoming impossible odds, staying strong in the face of defeat, the kind of stuff that really defines us as humans, but that you rarely find examples of in the real world.
Oh wow overcoming impossible odds and staying strong in the face of defeat, what unique and character-building lessons. I remember when I learned those... in the Disney movie Mighty Ducks 
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:33 pm |
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Fast Luck
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quote:
Originally posted by Sentinel
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Originally posted by $hazm
Well the way I see it, the books I normally read deal with higher ideals. Strength of character, honor, justice, perseverance, honesty, integrity, overcoming impossible odds, staying strong in the face of defeat, the kind of stuff that really defines us as humans, but that you rarely find examples of in the real world.
Oh wow overcoming impossible odds and staying strong in the face of defeat, what unique and character-building lessons. I remember when I learned those... in the Disney movie Mighty Ducks
LOL
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:52 pm |
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$hazm
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And yet sadly the lessons of the mighty ducks was lost on you, since only the flippant attitude of a 13 year old child seems to have taken root.
edit - you make it into a joke, but only because it is over your head.
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:57 pm |
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hassan-i-sabbah
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Originally posted by $hazm
Well the way I see it, the books I normally read deal with higher ideals. Strength of character, honor, justice, perseverance, honesty, integrity, overcoming impossible odds, staying strong in the face of defeat, the kind of stuff that really defines us as humans, but that you rarely find examples of in the real world.
ahahahahahahhahaha holy fucking lolllll
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