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megg_inc Posted Sat 05 Nov, 2011 11:30 PM |
Sunny wrote:
I can't think of a film that was better than the book ... *ponders* ...
There are few. For me, 'Virgin Suicides' is a good example. Or 'Dead Poets Society', although in this case the book was based on the script so it's a completely different thing. |
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ricv64 Posted Mon 21 Nov, 2011 5:29 PM |
I learned how to read
Started this yesterday , 30 pages to go , Can't put it down |
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megg_inc Posted Thu 24 Nov, 2011 1:37 PM |
| I just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower - loved it. Now reading Post Office by Charles Bukowski - like it lots so far! |
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ricv64 Posted Mon 28 Nov, 2011 4:59 PM |
Megg and Bukowski ? MIND Blown ...Ham on Rye is another good one .
It was pointed out to me recently that Phillip k Dicks' , A Scanner Darkly was written and based on my neighborhood ....So I started reading it.Good so far |
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Peewee Posted Wed 30 Nov, 2011 12:18 PM |
Oh my goodness! Why have I not read this before now? Can not put it down. Brilliantly written! Great but strange book about a group of college students in Vermont. I can't give the storyline away but the imagery is amazing. |
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Peewee Posted Wed 30 Nov, 2011 12:24 PM |
ricv64 wrote:
I learned how to read
Started this yesterday , 30 pages to go , Can't put it down
Yikes...I tried to read this...got a few chapters in and it disturbed me so much I had to put it down!!! :-/ Good if you can stick it, just too disturbing for me. Have you seen the movie? |
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ricv64 Posted Wed 30 Nov, 2011 12:52 PM |
Peewee wrote:
Yikes...I tried to read this...got a few chapters in and it disturbed me so much I had to put it down!!! :-/ Good if you can stick it, just too disturbing for me. Have you seen the movie?
The brutality of his peers was harder to take then the blood...I saw the US version liked it |
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thewishlist Posted Thu 29 Dec, 2011 12:36 PM |
megg_inc wrote: I just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower - loved it.
read it over the holidays and loved it!!
can't believe it's a "first novel"!
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Thu 29 Dec, 2011 1:05 PM |
Re-reading all my Carl Hiaasen books at the moment, they are excellent, caustic and satirical. He really does have a knack for describing the scum of this earth.
On Strip Tease at the moment, seriously you should read this book it is so much better than the shitty film with Demi Moore.
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ricv64 Posted Thu 29 Dec, 2011 8:38 PM |
I liked A scanner darkly alot so I've read a few other Philip K Dick books . I made a point of picking ones I haven't seen as a movie
The Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
probaly start Valis next
reading this one now
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Peewee Posted Thu 29 Dec, 2011 9:56 PM |
Starting this:
Foreign Tongue by Vanina Marsot |
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mili Posted Wed 04 Jan, 2012 12:57 PM |
| Just finishing Graham Swift's "Wish You Were Here". I've read a few of his books before and loved them, this didn't disappoint, either. |
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Sunny Posted Fri 06 Jan, 2012 10:04 PM |
I stuck with it cos it gets decent reviews and wasn't too long, thanksfully, but Rose the protagonist drove me mad. Some parts were skillfully written; others were a bit meh. |
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rella Posted Sat 07 Jan, 2012 4:17 PM |
it is this book
so fantastic
http://smokygod.blogspot.com/
when I read I am making the journey to
can anyone show a picture? i wish to mais comment?
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ricv64 Posted Thu 12 Jan, 2012 11:35 PM |
I 'm reading ECOTOPIA....I feel like a filthy hippie for doing so
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia |
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