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Started by Jessie, April 05, 2005, 07:40:07 AM

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Gamplayerx

#50
April 20, 2005, 07:32:25 PM
QuoteThe Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories.

Sounds interesting.  I'll check it out.  Thanks, kelbel!

kelbel

#51
April 20, 2005, 07:38:04 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 07:32:25 PM
QuoteThe Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories.

Sounds interesting.  I'll check it out.  Thanks, kelbel!

If you want I can send you my copy.
:)

Gamplayerx

#52
April 20, 2005, 07:40:35 PM
That's very sweet of you!  If the library doesn't have it, I just may take you up on that.

ignom

#53
April 20, 2005, 07:41:17 PM
I don't read books written by women, who do they think they are?
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Beefy

#54
April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

Gamplayerx

#55
April 20, 2005, 07:51:13 PM
There's a new King Kong coming?

kelbel

#56
April 20, 2005, 07:52:18 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

This is not a bad ass book. No action like King Kong.
:)

Beefy

#57
April 20, 2005, 07:57:25 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:52:18 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

This is not a bad ass book. No action like King Kong.

Peter Jackson did the fantastic film Heavenly Creatures, which was also not an action film.

kelbel

#59
April 20, 2005, 08:03:09 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:57:25 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:52:18 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

This is not a bad ass book. No action like King Kong.

Peter Jackson did the fantastic film Heavenly Creatures, which was also not an action film.

Well that is good to hear. I just couldn't imagine him doing this book.
:)

Beefy

#60
April 20, 2005, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 08:03:09 PM
Well that is good to hear. I just couldn't imagine him doing this book.

I recommend watching Heavenly Creatures.  It's good, dark, and very well done.  And, frighteningly enough, a true story.

It's also the film that brought Kate Winslet into the mainstream film world.

kelbel

#61
April 20, 2005, 08:07:51 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 08:03:09 PM
Well that is good to hear. I just couldn't imagine him doing this book.

I recommend watching Heavenly Creatures.  It's good, dark, and very well done.  And, frighteningly enough, a true story.

It's also the film that brought Kate Winslet into the mainstream film world.

I will have to get my boyfriend to rent it this weekend.
:)

ignom

#62
April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Gamplayerx

#63
April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

kelbel

#64
April 20, 2005, 08:14:50 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

Well said.
:)

Jessie

#65
April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

ignom

#66
April 20, 2005, 09:28:16 PM
Quote from: jessie on April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!

He DOESN'T though.  Male authors are just plain better. Who was the last female writer to win a fiction pulitzer?
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Jessie

#67
April 20, 2005, 09:33:58 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 09:28:16 PM
Quote from: jessie on April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!

He DOESN'T though.  Male authors are just plain better. Who was the last female writer to win a fiction pulitzer?

He might.  You don't know.
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

Number 6

#68
May 28, 2005, 12:53:58 PM
some books that changed and shape the person i am.....

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade
Mother Knight by Kurt Vonnegut
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
People of the Abyss by Jack London
Might is Right by Raganard Redbeard
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Spring Snow(Sea of Fertility 1) by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses(Sea of Fertility 2)  by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility 4) by Yukio Mishima

the Sea of Fertility series is...to me....the most important work of fiction ever

dazie

#69
May 28, 2005, 12:56:57 PM
Quote from: Number 6 on May 28, 2005, 12:53:58 PM
some books that changed and shape the person i am.....

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade
Mother Knight by Kurt Vonnegut
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
People of the Abyss by Jack London
Might is Right by Raganard Redbeard
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Spring Snow(Sea of Fertility 1) by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses(Sea of Fertility 2)  by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility 4) by Yukio Mishima

the Sea of Fertility series is...to me....the most important work of fiction ever

There are times when you make me feel like the dumbest person EVER.  I havent' read ANY of those.  I've only heard of two of them.   :-\
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?

eo000

#70
May 28, 2005, 01:38:58 PM
the Valachi Papers, by Peter Maas.

Gamplayerx

#71
May 28, 2005, 04:06:13 PM
Quote from: dazie on May 28, 2005, 12:56:57 PM
Quote from: Number 6 on May 28, 2005, 12:53:58 PM
some books that changed and shape the person i am.....

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade
Mother Knight by Kurt Vonnegut
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
People of the Abyss by Jack London
Might is Right by Raganard Redbeard
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Spring Snow(Sea of Fertility 1) by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses(Sea of Fertility 2)  by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility 4) by Yukio Mishima

the Sea of Fertility series is...to me....the most important work of fiction ever

There are times when you make me feel like the dumbest person EVER.  I havent' read ANY of those.  I've only heard of two of them.   :-\

I've only read East of Eden and Invisible Monsters from his list, the first for school, the second for the TF book club. 

nishi

#72
May 30, 2005, 12:30:18 AM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 09:28:16 PM
Quote from: jessie on April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!

He DOESN'T though.  Male authors are just plain better. Who was the last female writer to win a fiction pulitzer?

um - marilynne robinson, for 2005, with Gilead.
"we left the motherland to settle a colony on Juntoo.  hats with belt buckles."
-catchr

<- this is a prankapple.

nishi

#73
May 30, 2005, 12:36:31 AM
p.s. to ignom.

i know you were just being a shit. but that was too perfect a setup to pass by.

you didn't know she'd won the pulitzer, did you? who was the last one before her, carol shields? and that was several years ago.

gilead is good. i didn't finish reading it and think "pulitzer", though.

of course, there were no tentacled monsters with too many consonants in their names, so that's understandable. it would have been better if cthluhu had been in it. right at the end.
"we left the motherland to settle a colony on Juntoo.  hats with belt buckles."
-catchr

<- this is a prankapple.

meredith

#74
May 30, 2005, 02:24:31 AM Last Edit: May 30, 2005, 02:37:26 AM by hattmoward
Quote from: nishi on May 30, 2005, 12:36:31 AM
it would have been better if cthluhu had been in it. right at the end.

typo (transposition) forgiven. :)

Really, what isn't better with a touch of his sunshine?
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