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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: atomicfront on August 13, 2013, 12:33:46 pm
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So I am currently reading David Eggers "What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng". I am 115 pages in and it is very interesting. I don't get the whole why this is a novel by Eggers as it is an Achak Deng's story as child during the Sudanese Civil War. But it is definitely worth a read.
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I am debating between three books for my vacation to Bethany Beach next week: the sixth Dexter book, Game of Thrones, or Chuck P's Damned.
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Sadly, the best "Read" thread we had died in the last major BBoard crash. That one was like 20 pages....
But still:
http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=18137.60
http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=3681.0
We'll see how long this one lasts.
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?uestlove's memoir "mo' meta blues" is impossible to put down - roller skating w/prince, producing al green, can't give too much away.
Started clive davis' bio but it's due tomorrow.
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please kill me (http://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0802142648)
A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voices to this definitive account of that outrageous, explosive era. From its origins in the twilight years of Andy Warhol?s New York reign to its last gasps as eighties corporate rock, the phenomenon known as punk is scrutinized, eulogized, and idealized by the people who were there and who made it happen.
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please kill me (http://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0802142648)
One of my favorite books....in fact I think I still owe Hutch his copy back :-\
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
I got sucked into the Fifth Wave at the beach. Decent YA dystopia read.
The 6th GoT book is really good. My second favorite after the 3rd one!
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please kill me (http://www.amazon.com/Please-Kill-Me-Uncensored-History/dp/0802142648)
One of my favorite books....in fact I think I still owe Hutch his copy back :-\
i'm not too far past the "lou reed asked to shit on my face" moment. it's really an incredible read so far.
The 6th GoT book is really good. My second favorite after the 3rd one!
please explain....
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No spoilers though!
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No spoilers though!
Snape Kills Dumbledore.
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The 6th GoT book is really good. My second favorite after the 3rd one!
please explain....
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I just thought it had the suspense and plot developments on par with the third book. I had alot of trouble with the fourth book.
We're talking about the 5th book here...the 6th book isn't out yet.
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No spoilers though!
Snape Kills Dumbledore.
classic...
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No spoilers though!
Snape Kills Dumbledore.
classic...
I thought you had me blocked.
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No spoilers though!
Snape Kills Dumbledore.
classic...
+1
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No spoilers though!
Snape Kills Dumbledore.
I meant for the A Song of Ice and Fire books, but thanks.
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In my teens, 20's and 30's it was pretty much all fiction. Now it's mostly non-fiction. Mostly books I gedt for $10 a box at the library book sale clearance. Currently reading Home and Away by Scott Simon.
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Have you read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and/or The Lost City of Z? Both good.
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It's always been non-fiction for me, but I've been told that I have to turn it off on my next vacation. So I'm thinking of reading:
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. (http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21582240-satire-about-love-and-life-brooklyn-those-sad-young-literary-men) By Adelle Waldman
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I meant for the A Song of Ice and Fire books, but thanks.
Sorry. That was probably my favorite post of all time on this board, which I think was before your time (though perhaps you were a lurker).
Back in 05 or 06, we had a high school kid named flawd101 on the board who was nothing short of naive and AWESOME. In the original, now defunct "What are you reading thread?" the Harry Potter book had just come out and flawd posted:
Originally posted by flawd101:
any one of you read the new harry potter...i am a teenager so i did...long story short...
snape kills dumbledore...
A lot of people hadn't finished it yet. And I thought it was awesome.
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I meant for the A Song of Ice and Fire books, but thanks.
Sorry. That was probably my favorite post of all time on this board, which I think was before your time (though perhaps you were a lurker).
Back in 05 or 06, we had a high school kid named flawd101 on the board who was nothing short of naive and AWESOME. In the original, now defunct "What are you reading thread?" the Harry Potter book had just come out and flawd posted:
Originally posted by flawd101:
any one of you read the new harry potter...i am a teenager so i did...long story short...
snape kills dumbledore...
A lot of people hadn't finished it yet. And I thought it was awesome.
Great and I haven't read any of the Potter books yet. THanks flawd101.
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If it helps, Dumbledore makes him do it.
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That was probably in 2007, the year i registered on here (and the year the last book was published). That same year at Virgin Fest people were texting messages like that to be displayed on the screens between acts. But most were bogus (ie Harry dies) and i just laughed since I had already read it. But a lot of people in the crowd seemed less than amused.
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If it helps, Dumbledore makes him do it.
P.S. Dumbledore was gay.
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pps . . . so is harry potter
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ppps...so are adult men who read HP
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pppps . . . good one.
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I was going to say...this thread went nowhere fast. Two pages in and the major discussion is about mainstream teenage fiction.
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well i was reading some great doctor patient porn, then i got bored.
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well i was reading some great doctor patient porn, then i got bored.
Is that a new genre?
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Speaking of Porn.. I'm actually reading Porno right now. Irvine Welsh's sequel to Trainspotting, which I've had for years and am finally just getting to.
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Speaking of Porn.. I'm actually reading Porno right now. Irvine Welsh's sequel to Trainspotting, which I've had for years and am finally just getting to.
Let me know how it goes. I thought about getting this before but never got around to reading it yet either.
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Speaking of Porn.. I'm actually reading Porno right now. Irvine Welsh's sequel to Trainspotting, which I've had for years and am finally just getting to.
I enjoyed it
Did you see he just released a 'prequel' to trainspotting
Skagboys
http://www.amazon.com/Skagboys-Irvine-Welsh/dp/039334505X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376488234&sr=1-3
(http://www.amazon.com/Skagboys-Irvine-Welsh/dp/039334505X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376488234&sr=1-3)
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Ive been waiting for the movie adaptation (hopefully with same cast) of Porno for years now.... Speaking of Welsh, did anyone see the film adaptation of Ecstasy yet? Its been in my queue in Netflix for a while now... Same with Acid House (yeah i know its from the 90s, but i still havent seen it). Love Welsh, he is so much fun to read!
Speaking of sequels, ive seen a lot of shit talking about the sequel to Fight Club (graphic novel). I for one am extremely excited (I have a signed Snuff autograph hound on my desk at work, I LOVE Chuck and his books) for this and cant wait. But a lot of people are wary of a continuation of what they consider canonical. I wonder if the same people hate on Skagboys or Porno...
I feel like an author should continue their creations however they want.
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Ive been waiting for the movie adaptation (hopefully with same cast) of Porno for years now.... Speaking of Welsh, did anyone see the film adaptation of Ecstasy yet? Its been in my queue in Netflix for a while now... Same with Acid House (yeah i know its from the 90s, but i still havent seen it). Love Welsh, he is so much fun to read!
Speaking of sequels, ive seen a lot of shit talking about the sequel to Fight Club (graphic novel). I for one am extremely excited (I have a signed Snuff autograph hound on my desk at work, I LOVE Chuck and his books) for this and cant wait. But a lot of people are wary of a continuation of what they consider canonical. I wonder if the same people hate on Skagboys or Porno...
I feel like an author should continue their creations however they want.
I absolutely loved Trainspotting, both the book and the movie. I think it took me so long to read Porno because I was a bit nervous about what would happen to the characters and if it would ruin anything for me. That opinion has changed. It's Welsh's characters, he can do with them what he wants. As for the movie, from everything I've heard Danny Boyle say, he's definitely doing the movie and Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, and everyone else has agreed to do it, they're just waiting for them to get a bit older so that it fits with the timeline of the book.
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Ive been waiting for the movie adaptation (hopefully with same cast) of Porno for years now.... Speaking of Welsh, did anyone see the film adaptation of Ecstasy yet? Its been in my queue in Netflix for a while now... Same with Acid House (yeah i know its from the 90s, but i still havent seen it). Love Welsh, he is so much fun to read!
Speaking of sequels, ive seen a lot of shit talking about the sequel to Fight Club (graphic novel). I for one am extremely excited (I have a signed Snuff autograph hound on my desk at work, I LOVE Chuck and his books) for this and cant wait. But a lot of people are wary of a continuation of what they consider canonical. I wonder if the same people hate on Skagboys or Porno...
I feel like an author should continue their creations however they want.
It is their characters they can do what they want. If people don't like it don't read them.
I used to be judgemental on books. But now I think what makes a decent book is if I can read the whole thing without putting it down and being bored with it. If I don't like a book now I will just stop half way through and pick up something else. I got in this phase earlier this year were I read Halldór Laxness' "Independent People", Adam Levin's "Instructions" and David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". I hated all three books but I forced myself to get through the first two and kept trying on the third one until I said no more. Now if I can't get into it within the first 30 pages I put it down. If I am half way through and decide it is awful (Hemingways' "The sun also rises") I put it down and never pick it up again. Life is too short to read a book that you don't enjoy.
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Ive been waiting for the movie adaptation (hopefully with same cast) of Porno for years now.... Speaking of Welsh, did anyone see the film adaptation of Ecstasy yet? Its been in my queue in Netflix for a while now... Same with Acid House (yeah i know its from the 90s, but i still havent seen it). Love Welsh, he is so much fun to read!
Speaking of sequels, ive seen a lot of shit talking about the sequel to Fight Club (graphic novel). I for one am extremely excited (I have a signed Snuff autograph hound on my desk at work, I LOVE Chuck and his books) for this and cant wait. But a lot of people are wary of a continuation of what they consider canonical. I wonder if the same people hate on Skagboys or Porno...
I feel like an author should continue their creations however they want.
I absolutely loved Trainspotting, both the book and the movie. I think it took me so long to read Porno because I was a bit nervous about what would happen to the characters and if it would ruin anything for me. That opinion has changed. It's Welsh's characters, he can do with them what he wants. As for the movie, from everything I've heard Danny Boyle say, he's definitely doing the movie and Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee Miller, and everyone else has agreed to do it, they're just waiting for them to get a bit older so that it fits with the timeline of the book.
I think I have loved just about everything Ewan McGregor has been in except the Star Wars movies and Velvet Goldmine.