dude, what were those books about? I am intrigued.
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Posted 22 July 2007 - 1:59 PM
woke up early yesterday morning, couldn't get sleep, the girl was still sleeping, so decided to go pick up tickets for a film in the evening at a nearby mall, and noticed this huge store and the launch, picked up a copy for my girl - i'd read them back in 2001-2 upto book 4, so never bothered bout the hype since will never have time to do that much catching up.
the girl's been at it for 4 hrs straight since she woke up, since yesterday was my day.
gonna crank some music and light the sunday evening doobie and read fight club again after many years.
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Posted 22 July 2007 - 8:30 PM
so im standing at the front dorr in work yesterday, shop is fairly busy, talking to my manager and there's this girl with her 2 friends in the shop holding the new harry potter book in a special harry potter bag, she sees me look at the bag as she walks past me into the shop, so immediatly i say to my manager " here did you hear what happens in the end of the new harry potter? man harry gets killed along with loads of the others!!" que the worst look i have ever gotten in my life, as the girl storms out of the shop cursing under her breath, her mates just laughed at her......
i love being an utter utter cunt
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Posted 23 July 2007 - 4:07 PM
voodoo : have you read blindness?
He put on a turn-down collar, a black bow, and wore his Sunday tail-coat. As such, he looked spruce, and what his clothes would not do, his instinct for making the most of his good looks would.
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Posted 24 July 2007 - 1:57 AM
@glako, I have Blindness, but I lent it to a friend and haven't finished yet. I was on page 150 or so, but I was tied up in so much Saramago that I leant it to friend so that I could actually finish The Cave and TGAtJC. I also got the hardback of Seeing for $6 a couple weeks ago, but I'm waiting til I've finished Blindness to start on it.
@stash, ths gospel according to jesus christ is pretty hard to describe, but I'll save you the trouble of wondering and go ahead and tell you that its author is a cynical atheist and that the book's blasphemous as fuck (while still being absolutely amazing literaure). The Cave is a modern retelling of Plato's parable of the same name. It's kind of hard for me to communicate just how great Saramago's books are, look at amazon or something. You'll see that just about all the bad reviews are around one short paragraph long and either don't back up what they say with anything at all or just complain about how how his long sentences annoyed their stupid asses.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming of age story about a sheltered, schizophrenic, optimistic high school freshman learning to participate in his own life, and therefore getting into drugs, sex, punk and the like in the early 90s. It's much more simple and unpolished. it wouldn't stand up to much harsh criticism, but for what it was, I loved it too much to offer any.
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Posted 24 July 2007 - 4:03 PM
saramago is da man
really a V. creative writer
I want to read his work untranslated
He put on a turn-down collar, a black bow, and wore his Sunday tail-coat. As such, he looked spruce, and what his clothes would not do, his instinct for making the most of his good looks would.