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| Lance | May 21 2011, 01:51 PM Post #181 |
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Next time you get bored of your lives, gimme a call and I'll come round and KILL YOU.
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Found a stack of old 2000 ADs, so I'm going through The Apocalypse War in anticipation for DREDD, the only comic book movie anyone should be excited about. |
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| March Haire | May 21 2011, 10:49 PM Post #182 |
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Who is playing Dredd? If it's not Stallone, fuck it. |
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| Lance | May 22 2011, 09:44 AM Post #183 |
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Next time you get bored of your lives, gimme a call and I'll come round and KILL YOU.
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The Stallone film was the worst adaptation of anything ever. Though truly the only way they could have made this work is to get Verhoeven and Arnie to do it in the 80s. And even then, Verhoeven owed a lot to Dredd, so it would still be a step down. |
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| March Haire | May 22 2011, 06:30 PM Post #184 |
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I'm well aware. |
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| Mutant Couch | May 23 2011, 03:08 AM Post #185 |
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I've already had to give up on this. It's pretty depressing how things with such a ridiculously awful title can be just flat out boring. Ghost writers should be banned from everything. I'm on a bit of a Russian kick at the moment. Right now I'm focusing on Chekhov, but any suggestions are totally welcome. Edited by Mutant Couch, May 23 2011, 06:18 AM.
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| Lance | Jun 30 2011, 09:43 AM Post #186 |
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Next time you get bored of your lives, gimme a call and I'll come round and KILL YOU.
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Your big swinging dicks are oviously Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Pushkin and Dostoevsky, with Gogol the patriarch. After that, you've got Bely (a Joyce forerunner), Blok, Herzen, Merezhkovsky and Sologub. I'm guessing nobody in the West needs to be reminded of Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov and Nabokov. I'm conflicted on them - in fact, I find Solzhenitsyn outright dull, yet many have called him the greatest writer of the 20th. Those people are arseholes though. I'm not big on their sci-fi. Stanislaw Lem is good, but he's actually not Russian, he's a Pole writing in the Russian style. Don't know whether Zamyatin counts. Russian literature is maybe the best literature anywhere, obviously. |
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| coolcool | Jun 30 2011, 07:10 PM Post #187 |
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Almost done with From Beirut to Jerusalem by Tom Friedman, which was written in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War. Just another case of a blatantly pro-Israeli book trying to seem neutral about the conflict. It's a shame that all we in the Western world can find on the conflict are books depicting Israel as the biggest victim, whereas it truly is the biggest aggressor, the source of Islamic extremism, and a practitioner of apartheid. Hezbollah and Hamas will never be the bad guys in the conflict. About to start reading Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!). I know I'm late, I bought the book years ago and never bothered to read it. Let's hope it's funny. The man lost his comical charm a few years ago, but I'm expecting this to be a decent read. Hope it's not obvious that he tries too hard. |
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| Mutant Couch | Jul 3 2011, 01:59 PM Post #188 |
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It has proven to be some of the most depressing shit I've ever read. I love it. Thanks for this, I'm adding it to my list. Unfortunately, I'm already onto a new kick. I plan to read one book released each month of this year. I'm far too ignorant of modern authors. It's pathetic. |
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| Lance | Jul 3 2011, 05:08 PM Post #189 |
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Next time you get bored of your lives, gimme a call and I'll come round and KILL YOU.
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I'm more or less the same. I keep up with Steve Aylett, Tom McCarthy and few others. Also whatever 3AM magazine recommends. |
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| March Haire | Jul 4 2011, 07:03 AM Post #190 |
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I'm awful with modern lit, but the people in my fucking writing program don't read anything older than 1960, so fuck 'em. |
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| Mutant Couch | Jul 21 2011, 05:05 AM Post #191 |
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I'm counting it as modern as it is. I'm reading The Meowmorphosis now. So, here's a blurb: "Meet Gregor Samsa, a humble young man who works as a fabric salesman to support his parents and sister. His life goes strangely awry when he wakes up late for work and finds that, inexplicably, he is now a man-sized baby kitten. His family freaks out: Yes, their son is OMG so cute, but what good is cute when there are bills piling up? And how can he expect them to serve him meals every day? If Gregor is to survive this bizarre, bewhiskered ordeal, he’ll have to achieve what he never could before—escape from his parents’ house. Complete with haunting illustrations and a provocative biographical exposé of Kafka’s own secret feline life, The Meowmorphosis will take you on a journey deep into the tortured soul of the domestic tabby." I don't understand my obsession with these books, but they're way fun. Plus, how can you turn down Gregor Samsa as a cute kitty? |
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| #LJB | Mar 8 2012, 08:03 PM Post #192 |
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Runaways: Pride & Joy by Brian K. Vaughan & Adrian Alphona The first book of the Runaways Series. Very nice artwork and story. Had plenty of metafictional fun with the Marvel Universe. The discovering of their superpowers/gifts was nicely done with the kid's reactions being scared/shocked to amazed, whether it be Gert discovering her pet Dino, Chase taking his parent's tech, Karolina discovering she is an alien or Nico believing she will die after being stabbed only to make a full recovery once the staff had been bled on. The parent's reaction to finding out that their children discovered their secrets is well done as well. At first, they took a "come home and lets talk about it approach". After that failed, it seemed as though they are now trying to kill them. One of the better parents v. children feuds in some time. |
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| March Haire | Mar 18 2012, 11:30 PM Post #193 |
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I have those as single issues. Vaughn is quickly turning out to be a special sort of comics genius. I really enjoy just about everything he's done in the medium, and issue #1 of Saga was fucking awesome, the kind of thing that'd actually make me stumble into a shop. I'm reading and teaching V for Vendetta at the moment, and am also plowing through William Castle's autobiography, since I'm stunned nobody has turned his life into a movie just yet. |
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| Mutant Couch | Mar 25 2012, 02:51 PM Post #194 |
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Dylan Dog and Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism![]() Oh, and rereading/skimming Paradise Lost for a class. |
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| March Haire | Apr 20 2012, 07:49 PM Post #195 |
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I've recently read All-Star Superman and Rachel Rising Vol. 1. Reading comics because I'm burnt out after grad school. |
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| #LJB | May 25 2012, 01:56 AM Post #196 |
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Runaways: Teenage Wasteland After running away from their parent's, the gang must fend for themselves, with no money, food and staying in a dilapidated hotel that sunk into a cave. They foil a robbery at a gas station and rescue a kid who was kidnapped (or so it seems). Turns out the kid was a vampire and his kidnappers were his sires. After Karolina uses her power to kill him, the Pride takes out his sires. Most enjoyed the part where the parents felt pride that their children can kill a vampire, the infighting between Nico and Karolina after both kissing Topher, and how Nico has to get her staff. That, plus the characters saying that they have never experienced people with superpowers because Spider-Man and the X-Men are too far away. Next on the queue: The Alcoholic by Jonthan Ames The Runaways: The Good Die Young and True Believers |
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| March Haire | May 25 2012, 01:00 PM Post #197 |
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Yup, the Runaways was an absolutely brilliant comic book. I'm reading The Marriage Plot. It's pretty good, so far. |
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| Mutant Couch | May 26 2012, 04:59 AM Post #198 |
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The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow I finished The Turner Diaries last night and I just wanted to get as far as possible away from it. Also, I've a bit of a thing for John Barth. |
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| March Haire | Jun 11 2012, 11:50 PM Post #199 |
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Brighton Rock! |
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