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16th August 2008, 9:43am
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#91 | | =^.^=
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| Re: What Did You Just Finish?
Drug addiction and casual instances of child abuse is light these days.
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16th August 2008, 11:18am
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#92 | | Deadly
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Indeed, when one considers the detailed accounts of abuse and other traumas proliferated by the current trendy Mis Lit, Brand's book is like a journey to a sweetshop. | |
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16th August 2008, 1:08pm
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#93 | | Al Queda Pish
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Family Guy is more important to CURRENT POP culture than Animal Farm.
In broad cultural terms, Family Guy has yet to have a major impact on literature, films, art and so on.
Speaking of silliness, I just finished reading Russell brand's 'My Booky Wook'. I have always disliked the guy but actually really enjoyed the book. A very funny, light read, and in that category it gets 4/5 from me. | Yer an idiot.
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16th August 2008, 1:10pm
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#94 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre
Shite, he keeps writing the same book and people lap it up. | |
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17th August 2008, 11:11am
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#95 | | Deadly
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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL Yer an idiot. | Kind of hypocritical.
You can't on one hand espose the cultural merits of 'Family Guy', then turn around and criticise an individual's taste.
Sort of contradicts your whole post modern ideology. Perhaps get your own mind set (and vocabulary) straight first eh? | |
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17th August 2008, 11:14am
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#96 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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Wow, these are all new and exciting points. | |
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17th August 2008, 11:32am
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#97 | | Bring the heid o' charlie Editor
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Originally Posted by MarkMono A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre
Shite, he keeps writing the same book and people lap it up. | the man's a turd
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19th August 2008, 11:05am
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#98 | | The one and only
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Just finished Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer  | |
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19th August 2008, 11:23am
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#99 | | Al Queda Pish
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Originally Posted by Esme Kind of hypocritical.
You can't on one hand espose the cultural merits of 'Family Guy', then turn around and criticise an individual's taste.
Sort of contradicts your whole post modern ideology. Perhaps get your own mind set (and vocabulary) straight first eh? | Go away.
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20th August 2008, 12:57am
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#100 | | Al Queda Pish
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Anyway. I just finished All Families are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland. Load of shit. Dunno what I was expecting, something a bit more rooted in reality, with less wackiness but I didn't enjoy this (partly my fault of course). A fairly terrible wacky races type 'find the golden' ticket plot with shreds of maternity, mortality and identity themes through-out (though without going into any of the themes with any real sense or purpose or insight). I really disliked this book, though it was only 300 pages and very easy to read (plot heavy). 0/5.
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27th August 2008, 2:04am
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#101 | | Al Queda Pish
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Quite good this. Really what Chuck should be if he wasn't so obsessed with nihilism and Easton-Ellis-esque understated gross-out. Fun, quirky, disturbing read this. Quick too. 5 out of 6.
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12th September 2008, 9:01pm
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#102 | | Al Queda Pish
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Dame to Die for (Sin City) - Frank Miller
I think that was it's title. Nice graphic novel I guess. Didn't really care about anything in it. Meh. 2.5/5.
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12th September 2008, 10:43pm
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#103 | | corky
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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Quite good this. Really what Chuck should be if he wasn't so obsessed with nihilism and Easton-Ellis-esque understated gross-out. Fun, quirky, disturbing read this. Quick too. 5 out of 6. | it's great. | |
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18th November 2008, 12:00pm
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#104 | | we hope that you choke
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I just finished "The Time Traverler's Wife", by Audrey Niffeneger. I get the impression it's one of those books EVERYONE has read, I loved it though. Very convincing for a love story about time travel.
I also just read "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. It was great if slightly unrealistic/ overcooked at the end, but I found it really interesting as my Gran gave birth to a Down's child in the 60's and can vouch for a lot of the attitudes at the time.
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9th December 2008, 7:46pm
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#105 | | Nothing to add
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Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Didn't quite do it in one sitting as recommended. Started last night (sitting in the freezing cold at work) and finished this afternoon (with the wee one asleep on my lap). Couldn't have picked better places to read this.
A tale of a father and young son struggling almost pointlessly through a barren, freezing America after some kind of (never explicitly described but most probably nuclear) global disaster. Escaping cannibals, trying to find good people but trusting no-one. Some really devastatingly powerful moments of intimate beauty and extreme terror (Steven King would get hit by a truck to write terror like this). Some absolutely desperate choices to be made on occasions too especially for a father.
Emotionally exhausted and totally drained now, exactly the way I want to feel after finishing a good book.
They should be reading this in schools alongside Steinbeck's The Pearl. | |
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