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Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:26 pm
by Megatron
do you read army training manuals like kill or be killed?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:35 am
by Ernesto
Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:I didn't mind Fight Club as a novel but I doubt i'd read his books because of it. It wasn't a great book so why the hell would I read his other ones.
Plus its not my style of reading to start with.
Fight Club wasn't my first Palahniuk book. I read Choke first, then Diary. After that, Lullaby, Survivor and then Fight Club. I thought Choke was pretty funny and his style was pretty interesting and Those were probably tthe two main factors in me becoming a fan of his work. A lot of his books read exactly the same so for some people it gets tiring.
Ima one mang army
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:03 pm
by Subhuman
He's gay?
Also, update: I found a copy of The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis at a used bookstore yesterday. So far: Whee, sex!
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 8:48 pm
by S4ur0n27
Yeh, read American Psycho.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:14 pm
by Ernesto
Don't the first 150 pages of American Psycho bore people to death?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:30 pm
by Kashluk
I haven't read it completely, just a few "chosen" paragraphs my friend told me to read to get the hold of that book... That friend of mine was all crazy about it, he thought it was the best book in the universe. I'm not so sure about his mental state, though, because he really seemed to like the part when the guy kills a 9-year old kid with scissors...
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 10:29 pm
by Nicolai
I thought that he killed the chap with a knife?
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:05 pm
by Ernesto
I guess knife in Finnish means scissors. lost in translation [/sofie]
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:39 am
by Subhuman
The movie was ass. And apparently it left some of the really gory stuff out, so I might still read the book.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 3:10 am
by Cuthbert Allgood
If anyone reads dark tower series see Kings Tower topic for discussion
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:53 pm
by S4ur0n27
The movie was awesome.
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:17 pm
by Kashluk
Ernesto wrote:I guess knife in Finnish means scissors. lost in translation [/sofie]
I thought it was something like taking scissors out of his pocket, sticking the scissors in a random kid's neck and then pushing the kid into a trash can?
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:29 pm
by Kizmiaz
Ernesto wrote:Don't the first 150 pages of American Psycho bore people to death?
Yes.
I never got throuh it. And the movie was also lousy, IMO. What a lame ending.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 8:56 pm
by Lazarus Plus
Read "Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century AD to the Third" by Edward N Luttwak.
Amazing book. Recommend it wholeheartedly.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:20 am
by Dr. Crispy
I recommend Stephen King's The Stand. Great book. Long, though. Post-apocalyptic theme.
Also, I recommend Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
Read Eats Shoots and Leaves the other day, interesting book.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:21 am
by Blargh
Dr. Crispy wrote:Great book. Long, though.
Given the former, shouldn't the latter also be a 'good thing' ?
BAH.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:16 pm
by Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD
Blargh wrote:Dr. Crispy wrote:Great book. Long, though.
Given the former, shouldn't the latter also be a 'good thing' ?
BAH.
Not at all. If you can get past the amounts of copious swearing and generalized bullshit characters, I would assume the story would be good. I never finished the fucking book because it was extremely boring.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:21 pm
by Megatron
American Psycho is a good book. It's all in the details and the character of Bateman, how he analyzes things. Plus he kills people, so that's fun to.
In the darkness of the penguin habitat – Edge of the Icepack is what the zoo pretentiously calls it – it's cool, in sharp contrast to the humidity outside. The penguins in the tank glide lazily underwater past the glass walls where spectators crowd in to stare. The penguins on the rocks, not swimming, look dazed, stressed out, tired and bored; they mostly yawn, sometimes stretching. Fake penguin noises, cassettes probably, play over a sound system and someone has turned up the volume because it's so crowded in the room. The penguins are cute, I guess. I spot one that looks like Craig McDermott.
A child, barely five, finishes eating a candy bar. His mother tells him to throw the wrapper away, then resumes talking to another woman, who is with a child around the same age, the three of them staring into the dirty blueness of the penguin habitat. The first child moves toward the trash can, located in a dim corner in the back of the room, that I am now crouching behind. He stands on tiptoes, carefully throwing the wrapper into the trash. I whisper something. The child spots me and just stands there, away from the crowd, slightly scared but also dumbly fascinated. I stare back.
"Would you like… a cookie?" I ask, reaching into my pocket.
He nods his small head, up, then down, slowly, but before he can answer, my sudden lack of care crests in a massive wave of fury and I pull the knife out of my pocket and I stab him, quickly, in the neck.
It's a lot better than Chuck Palaphiuk write the same story about secret subculture thats obsessed with sex terrorism death anarchy whatever.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:31 pm
by Smiley
Recommend:
Dean R. Koontz
Tick Tock
because it's weird. I like weird.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:31 pm
by Subhuman
Rules of Attraction update: Halfway through, not very good...and yet, oddly compelling. But not nearly enough mansex.