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« on: September 22, 2004, 12:48:36 AM » |
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Okay, okay, you highbrow forumsters. Here's your new playground.
I forgot who we decided was moderating this... anyone?
Was it Marke? Or Seth?
I think you can't be the moderator of 2 forums, so if it was seth, you're gonna have to choose man.
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unknownperson
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2004, 06:35:49 AM » |
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I bet Redear would do it...
know what I mean?
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unknownperson
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2004, 06:39:11 AM » |
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If mark wants it he is more than welcom though.
Book to read... humm... A Prayer For Owen Meany
Not ever goint to be made into a film, even though the authors more well known books have been. EG Cider House Rules.
Book I found interesting and a little riskie... Lamb
Book to skip, The Secret Lives of Bees.
The last one is sort of a very chick feel good book. So there you are.
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Iris
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2004, 03:17:01 PM » |
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"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver. Read it, I tell you! Remains one of my all-time favorites!
Another good one I've read recently is (and I think Seth will agree with this choice) "Hey! Nostradamus" by Douglas Coupland.
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hazyz
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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2004, 03:54:09 AM » |
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Breakfast of Champions. Vonnegut summed up in this, "once i understood what was making america such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, i resolved to shun storytelling. i would write about life. every person would be exactly as important as any other, all facts would also be given equal weightiness, NOTHING WOULD BE LEFT OUT." read it. there is nothing left out
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rcjohnso
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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2004, 09:41:21 PM » |
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The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. Three interlocking novels by a real magician, wise and charming and funny as hell. Yay! Lit forum! Yay!
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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2004, 09:49:52 PM » |
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Book to read... humm... A Prayer For Owen Meany
Not ever goint to be made into a film, even though the authors more well known books have been. EG Cider House Rules. Actually... http://imdb.com/title/tt0124879/Though the 'suggested by' credit makes the connection a bit dubious. According to the trivia snippit, Irving didn't think the book could be turned into a film either, and sold the rights under the condition that the movie not carry the same name as the novel... And to FULLY and properly inaugurate this forum by being the first to veer wildly off-topic, the movie version of The Cider House Rules is one of the main reasons I've never found the time to sit down and read a John Irving novel. What a poopsicle. |
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marke
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« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2004, 01:54:49 AM » |
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whoa, i turn my back for one minute and i'm a moderator. hee hee. yes, yes, i accept. but i just want to say this is really only the icing on the cake. awards are nice and i appreciate it, but i want to make it clear that i do this for the art. if someone had told me one day i would be receiving the "Artist of the Millenium" award i wouldn't have believed it, it just goes to show. and i really want to thank my lord and savior, and definitely, definitely all the fans!!! i love you all, thanks so much!! here is a good book. and it is only sort of about architecture. seriously, this is good. you will like it.  |
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...and then I stabbed him.
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Nathan
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« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2004, 09:32:14 AM » |
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Marke, welcome, welcome and enjoy!
Maybe now we should start a contest for who is the BEST MODERATOR.
By the way, that book looks great. I'll keep an eye out for it at Borders.
And by the other way, how come all the cool girls always work at the Border's Starbucks?
Or is that just here in Bournemouth?
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« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2004, 04:35:34 PM » |
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Marke, welcome, welcome and enjoy!
Maybe now we should start a contest for who is the BEST MODERATOR.
By the way, that book looks great. I'll keep an eye out for it at Borders.
And by the other way, how come all the cool girls always work at the Border's Starbucks?
Or is that just here in Bournemouth? You are just love starved. Congrads Marke. Glad to have you in the ranks. |
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Zooey
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« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2004, 08:58:04 PM » |
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If you don't have very much money for books, I would suggest going to Roosevelt Island's thrift store, where I just bought Bruno and Boots: Go Jump In the Pool for twenty five cents. Except I just bought the last copy, so you might as well not go.
Marke: A new reason for me to visit soon is so that I can look at Content. They multiply by the minute, these reasons, I swear to God.
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« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2004, 01:42:48 PM » |
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Zooey: Jump on the China Town bus whenever you feel the need. We're here...waiting.
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Rainfall
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« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2004, 05:40:15 AM » |
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the othere night when i didn't go and see collateral or shaun of the dead, i stood in the bookstore gazing at The Deptford Trilogy, humming and hawing over buying it. normally when i go to a bookstore i just read the book there, but every now and then there's this weird thing that happens btwn me and the book (this happened with me and catcher in the rye....it was a very strange affair, a three month magnatism of pull and repel, pull and repel) and i can't quite read it without buying it. it could perhaps be a respect thing, but often i have very little information on the book and really no reason to give it such worship (with the deptford trilogy, i have only rc's brief suggestion, and yet such power it held over me that night in the bookstore, bizare). So instead, that night, i stood there looking at the spine of my desired reading material, and then I pulled it out from it's fellows...slightly. And then i pushed it back in. And stared at it some more. Then I walked away, only to come right back. And then i waited, and then i took it down off the shelf and read it's back cover. and then i put it back.
i finally left, but i went back the next day, and took up my position of the night before. low and behold, i could do nothing, for amongst the other Davies books instead of my desired there was a dark sliver of about and inch and a half. a space, a gap. nothing but air and the back of the bookshelf. the depford trilogy was gone. now i must find another bookstore in which to stand, humming and hawing.
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« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2004, 07:43:27 AM » |
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Jeez, didn't mean to cause all that angst, Rain. You can borrow my copy, just name a street corner in the city and I'll do a 3am steel-suitcase handoff between speeding limos. :ph34r:
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Rainfall
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« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2004, 04:59:03 PM » |
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mmm, angst...that's a word that would go on my not-so-favorite-for-reasons-i-can't-explain list (actually, probably can explain in the case of this particular word).
as for this hand off...yipee! But a 3am meet would interfere with my secret career in cat burglery, and having never been to downtown LA my knowledge of apropriate street corners is low. I am somewhat familiar with Hollywood and it's surounding sprawl though...and have this wednesday and friday evenings free.
and would you be needing anything as collateral against the borrowing of your book?
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