TheFlamingDead_ Escribi�:

you're misunderstanding me, im making fun of the fact that every one of her posts is around half a page long

Fair play to her, there allways good to read.



Taking of reading i really wanna read that book by Dan Brown about Christanity and how he thinks alot of it is rubbish. There was a programm on that basically proved what he had written wrong on tv the other day.

I read a lot ,not so much fiction thought my brother is a reading machine he also writes a lot.

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

TheFlamingDead_ Escribi�:

you're misunderstanding me, im making fun of the fact that every one of her posts is around half a page long

Fair play to her, there allways good to read.



Taking of reading i really wanna read that book by Dan Brown about Christanity and how he thinks alot of it is rubbish. There was a programm on that basically proved what he had written wrong on tv the other day.

you mean the Da Vinci Code?



It's a bunch of trash. he stole all the christian stuff in there from a book called Holy Blood Holy Grail, that was basicly a giant hoax, and then he added a Tom Clancy plot line. He really made a lot more money than he deserved.

i dont read much, the only book ive ever read fully is the DJ Bible, 'How To Dj Properly'



im currently reading the DaVinci Code cos i reeeeally want it to be true, also, having watched the tv program, i noticed a flaw in the religion that they didnt talk about in the program.

Liquidfunk Escribi�:

i dont read much, the only book ive ever read fully is the DJ Bible, 'How To Dj Properly'



im currently reading the DaVinci Code cos i reeeeally want it to be true, also, having watched the tv program, i noticed a flaw in the religion that they didnt talk about in the program.

If it were true that would be great because that would weaken the factual basis of the religion so possibly i could tell my christian parents that im really agnostic without being disowned :D

ha ha yer, im hoping its true, i just really wana rub it in the face of all my 'christian' friends, that thier whole life has been wasted believing in a false deity!!

that would be the biggest "PWND!!!11" of their life. X-D }:-) X-D }:-)

the problem is that the 'Truth' doesn't matter to those kind of people... they have 'Faith' and faith is stronger than truth any day of the week... it wouldn't matter if you found a mummified Jesus sodomizing a mummified Judas, while Mary Magdalene was giving him a Cleveland Steamer, the people who 'Believe' wouldn't change what they believe in... I've always thought it was interesting that the word 'believe' was built around the word 'lie'.... like, if it wasn't for lies, you wouldn't need belief.

Now, THAT is truth, my friend.

wow, someones been paying attention in Philosophy lessons, thats a great way to look at it, but are you saying the chems track is a lie :?

also, i woukdnt mind if people still believed in god, actually, take that back, i would cos its the cause of 90% of wars!! but aslong as i knew i was right when i say to people there is no god, that would be satisfying.

I dont necessarily believe there is no "god", i just believe that you wont ever be able to tell ever (possibly when you die, but who knows)

yer true, its just like the whole praying thing, i meen its clearly pyschosymatic, and the bible, dont get me started! the bible contridicts its self so much!

and worst of all, and most importantly i think..

christians worship 'God' and 'Jesus', but doesnt the bible say that all people are equal?? if everyones equal, why the fuck are they worshiping people as highers!!

anType Escribi�:

I think books are even bigger waste of time than PC games...

Books and games (especially graphical adventure games from 80s and 90s) are two reasons why I'm able to communicate with you in English. (not the only two, but very important ones)



I mostly read fiction for entertainment but I could mention Douglas Coupland and his Generation X and Microserfs, very interesting stuff.

Liquidfunk Escribi�:

but are you saying the chems track is a lie :?

bwahahahaha.... no, chems tracks are as close as I got to religion... no god just religion...

my chems cd collection is my own personal jesus..esp TPPR. i worship them everyday and make sure everyone in my family bowes to the chem poster outside my room everytime they walk by it.

How do you play religious roulette?



You stand around in a circle and blaspheme and see who gets struck by lightning first.

irvine walsh is cool, porno was def a return to form. i thought filth was pretty cool as well, if a bit bizarre!!



theres a book called house of leaves thats supposed to be really good - very post-modern, its like a story within a story within a story - sounds wicked, gonna have to check it out.



the da vinci code - yeh, badly written book, not that lucid at all. but the plot was really gripping and it was annoyling addictive!! had to get to the end as quick as possible to find out the outcome!!



ian banks is pretty cool, a lot of his writing is quite far out - lots of twists and turns and subtexts.



i would also recommend:



his dark materials trilogy by phillip ullman: the northern lights, the subtle knife, the amber spyglass - works of genius i tell ya!! kids adventure books really but can be read on so many levels. i nearly cried at the end of the last one (but i didnt coz im so tough grrr) - seriously, everyone should read these - i think they're being taught in schools now as english texts. instant classics!



-captain corellis mandolin by louis de bernandes. superbly written, well good, not at all like the film



-life of pi by yan martel - geezer gets castaway with only a hyena, an orangutang, a zebra with a broken leg and a 450lb adult bengal tiger. sounds cack, but is in fact ace,



cheers



mips

I recommend the 4-book "Hyperion Cantos" by Dan Simmons:



Hyperion

The Fall Of Hyperion

Endymion

The Rise Of Endymion

Reading is a sick, sick addiction that can never really be cured except by having your eyes removed with hot pokers.



Irvine Welsh: Glue is his best by far, but obviously Trainspotting, Porno, and Filth are great as well. Need to read Ecstacy again.



Currently slowly making my way through War and Peace in between uni assignments. Really liking it so far.



Recently read Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, a history of the DJ as a musical and social icon. Excellent read.



Religious scholarship fascinates me, so I'm spending far too much time with the Bible and related reading. Not enough time spent on my Chemistry work.



A number of South African books caught my attention a year or so ago, esp. Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart and Andre Brink's A Dry White Season, both of which are excellent.



Kevin Trayner's The Beer Drinker's Handbook changed my life over the summer. :D



I really need to head to a used bookstore next week on Spring Break....

Oh yeah, almost forgot: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Fantastic book with a high degree of literary invention for a mass-market novel. Satire at its best, if a little heavy-handed at times. Required reading at least once a year.



L'Etranger (or, in English, The Outsider) by Albert Camus. I've read it in both its original French and (with a great deal more understanding) in English and it is a thrilling existentialist read. If you read it you will either be absolutely incensed at Meursault or you will become every bit as apathetic vis-a-vis the meaning of life as he is.



Other, obvious reads: 1984, Kafka's The Trial, and especially Solzhenitsyn's A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich.



And I can't recommend more highly Tim O'Brien's short story anthology [/b]The Things They Carried and his novel [b]The Nuclear Age.



Final recommendation for tonight, the highly poetic Vietnamese account of the aftermath of the war, Bao Dinh's The Sorrow of War.



We'll see what I remember tomorrow.