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Franz Schubert wrote:
boxy brown wrote:What ever happened to Harrison Solo saying, "Nothing beats a good blaster" ?
Han was wrong... he got his ass kicked by Vader, remember?

Vader hax
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Other Voices... Other Rooms...


also, Han shot first.
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Currently reading Dave Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest after having been recommended it by some of the chaps from the pynchon-l mailing list. Mark Danielewski meets Pynchon. Results in a literary holocaust. Definitely worth checking out. :rofl:
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Am reading Gao Xinjiang's Soul Mountain. Great, great, great.
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Post by johnnygothisgun »

I just started Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, it's very :vietnam:. To me it feels almost nauseatingly paranoid and lonely, so it's a fun read.
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norman mailer is a good man.

started reading "the divine invasion", second in philip k. dick's VALIS series. so far, so gut.
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Dick's writing is a bit too space for my taste, though I liked The Man in the High Castle.
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Flow My Tears the Policeman Said is the novel of our time :salute:

And speaking of Sir Mailer, I've been rereading his finest work An American Dream and it's a lot better the third time through :)
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Dostoyevsky - The Devils
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Naked and the Dead ain't bad, but I liked Tough Guys Don't Dance and Executioner's Song better.

I'm reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, am I the only one who isn't slightly amused by it? I see no reason to keep reading it.
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Cimmerian Nights wrote:Naked and the Dead ain't bad, but I liked Tough Guys Don't Dance and Executioner's Song better.

I'm reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, am I the only one who isn't slightly amused by it? I see no reason to keep reading it.
Rent the BBC dvd- not the new film.

Better than the books.
(Which were supposed to be just 1 book, but then the publisher thought "whynottriplethemoney?".)
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i thought it was rather shite as well. a fine example of why people shouldn't assume british things are funny, or intelligent, or articulate, or anything, really. :salute:
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I read some Terry Pratchett before I read Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams pales in comparison. Hitchhiker Guide is indeed rather bland.
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Naked_Lunch wrote:Flow My Tears the Policeman Said is the novel of our time :salute:
I still like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," though Flow My Tears the Policeman said is probably the best written. It's very :Dickian:
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what about a scanner darkly? yeah or meh?

edit: this belongs to sticky movies or the wasteland. very sorry about any inconvenience that may have occurred.
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Canoe = GAH. :drunk:
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vx trauma wrote:what about a scanner darkly? yeah or meh?
dick is in fine form on that one. :joy:

the movie looks a bit chit though. if that's what you were wondering about.
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Port of Saints by William S. Burroughs. Nothing short of faux-orgasmic. Discuss.
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never read it. :(

i finished downloading audiobook torrents of naked lunch and junky, though. burroughs has a good voice, it's quite a pleasure to hear him reading his own work D:
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It was pretty sweet find actually. I was prowlin' through Borders and I found a beat-up old-school ghetto copy of it and I was like :party:

audiobooks sound pretty B). Hook me up with da linx
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