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30th October 2002, 1:28pm
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#1 | | Who Cares?
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Shitwork Central
Posts: 7,094
| Your fav books
Red Harvest: Dashiell Hammett
The Chill: Ross MacDonald
Eight Million Ways To Die/ A Dance At The Slaughterhouse: Lawrence Block
Every Dead Thing: John Connolly
Black Ice: Michael Connolly
Darkness Take My Hand: Dennis Lehane
Waylander: David Gemmell
Micheal Moorcock's Elric stories | 
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30th October 2002, 1:30pm
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#2 | | From Myth To Laughter
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Whitby, Ontario
Posts: 4,005
| Lanark - A Life In Four Books : Alasdair Gray.
Best book I've ever read. | |
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30th October 2002, 1:39pm
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#3 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 365
| Disco Bloodbath:a fabulous but true tale of murder in clubland
by James St. James
A pretty horrible true story ... but told in a really funny way.
and
The fermata
by Nicholson Baker
I really like this author, and have enjoyed most of his work ... except "Double Fold" which is the most boring read i've ever had in my life !
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems like i have everyone fooled.
Everytime i say something they find hard to hear.
They chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear. | |
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30th October 2002, 2:41pm
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#4 | | pretty in pink
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Circled by sharks.
Posts: 2,962
| Lulu on the forum?? Wow!!!
How'v u been honey?
Oh, my fav book is...... actually, I dunno, I like silly science fiction, like the 5 books in Robert Rankins Brentford 'trilogy'. I also like my boyfriends pretty design books, they have lots of nice pictures.
xxx
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Self-help for the Post-hip
Number 197. Accessorize your rebellion.
Number 212. Expose the codes by which corporate meanings become our own.
Number 364 Continue to think | |
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30th October 2002, 3:02pm
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#5 | | gaf
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow, right smack-bang (steady) in the red-light district
Posts: 7,039
| My fave author is probably Roald Dahl, for his creepy weirdo adult stories and his kids books too.
One of the first books I read after being freed of having to read shite uni text books, was Watership Down by Richard Adams. The most beautiful book I've ever read. (and it's not sad either, the film is responsible for that particular myth).
__________________ "That sounds dead deep and intelligent, but once you think about it, it's a pile of shite, isn't it?:0Ž "
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[movel]All that I know most surely of morality and the obligations of man, I know from football (Albert Camus) My wings are like a shield of steel (Batfink)[/movel]
[mover] JUNK [/mover][movel] IT![/movel] http://www.alternativenation.net/pho...needaboost.JPG | |
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30th October 2002, 3:44pm
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#6 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 365
| Lulu on the forum?? Wow!!!
I know ... shock horror !
Got bored of being nice to all the students and felt like a wee play on the forum
How'v u been honey?
Been very well thanks sweetie, working way to much overtime ... but plan on making up for it this weekend !
You still living in married bliss with your fancy Merchant city flat ? 
By any change are you and your beloved off to the Lapsus/snapped gig on thursday?
Oh, my fav book is...... actually, I dunno, I like silly science fiction, like the 5 books in Robert Rankins Brentford 'trilogy'. I also like my boyfriends pretty design books, they have lots of nice pictures.
Thats really weird ... i never thought you would be into science fiction stuff , allways thought you would like non-fiction...
Lu.
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems like i have everyone fooled.
Everytime i say something they find hard to hear.
They chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear. | |
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30th October 2002, 3:46pm
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#7 | | dis-member
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Glasgow City Ce
Posts: 7,022
| Lu did u make me that card hunny? | |
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30th October 2002, 3:47pm
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#8 | | the quintessential outlaw
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: rollin' deep
Posts: 7,614
| probably Generation X by Douglass Coupland, or the Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky, or On The Road by Jack Kerouak for me
__________________ arms my only ornament my only rest - the fight | |
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30th October 2002, 4:03pm
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#9 | | gaf
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow, right smack-bang (steady) in the red-light district
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| Ever seen Douglas Coupland talking? If there's a more nervous, softer-spoken author alive I'll eat my socks.
I quite like Microserfs, though I expected it to be some sort of critique of Microsoft (not having a clue about it when I picked it up, in school I think) and it's closer to being a kind of love story. Guid though, it is, nice.
__________________ "That sounds dead deep and intelligent, but once you think about it, it's a pile of shite, isn't it?:0Ž "
(Richey_Lives)
[movel]All that I know most surely of morality and the obligations of man, I know from football (Albert Camus) My wings are like a shield of steel (Batfink)[/movel]
[mover] JUNK [/mover][movel] IT![/movel] http://www.alternativenation.net/pho...needaboost.JPG | |
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30th October 2002, 4:18pm
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#10 | | I hate your band SuperMod
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Slacktivism
Posts: 33,996
| There was an astoundingly good short story by Douglas Coupland in one of last years' issues of Adbusters...
My favourite book is Needle in the Groove by Jeff Noon. I believe I've said that in this forum somewhere before.
Noon's Nymphomation is also pretty darned good.
I'm a big fan of Robert Rankin's Brentford Trilogy (see above, lol).
I like the Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd...
I adore Vox by Nicholson Barker, and Going Postal by Stephen Jaramillo. Also Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman.
Design Writing Research by Ellen Lupton and J Abbot Miller changed my life... As did John Maeda's Maeda@Media, but they're design books, not novels...
I got a fantastic book on logo and branding theory called Los Logos this week too. Mmmm... design books...
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30th October 2002, 4:22pm
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#11 | | gaf
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow, right smack-bang (steady) in the red-light district
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| is that a design book with a puntastic reference to the spanish group who had a hit with 'La Bamba'? *genuine question*
__________________ "That sounds dead deep and intelligent, but once you think about it, it's a pile of shite, isn't it?:0Ž "
(Richey_Lives)
[movel]All that I know most surely of morality and the obligations of man, I know from football (Albert Camus) My wings are like a shield of steel (Batfink)[/movel]
[mover] JUNK [/mover][movel] IT![/movel] http://www.alternativenation.net/pho...needaboost.JPG | |
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30th October 2002, 4:24pm
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#12 | | I hate your band SuperMod
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Slacktivism
Posts: 33,996
| I think it's a combination of that top punnage with a tip o' the fedora to the Latin logos...
I'm inclined to believe that the intention is for the pun on Los Lobos to force you into pronouncing log-os instead of low-goes - which is the way you would pronounce the Latin... Making sure you think of logos/knowledge/etc instead of just thinking of company logo world.
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The interval between birth and death is fractal. Any given moment is infinitely deep and rich, and therefore one lifetime is quite enough for me. | |
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30th October 2002, 4:25pm
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#13 | | gaf
Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Glasgow, right smack-bang (steady) in the red-light district
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| ah... you're more well-read than I, clearly.
__________________ "That sounds dead deep and intelligent, but once you think about it, it's a pile of shite, isn't it?:0Ž "
(Richey_Lives)
[movel]All that I know most surely of morality and the obligations of man, I know from football (Albert Camus) My wings are like a shield of steel (Batfink)[/movel]
[mover] JUNK [/mover][movel] IT![/movel] http://www.alternativenation.net/pho...needaboost.JPG | |
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30th October 2002, 4:32pm
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#14 | | I hate your band SuperMod
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Slacktivism
Posts: 33,996
| Nah, I'm just a pretentious design geek.
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30th October 2002, 5:11pm
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#15 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: glasgow
Posts: 3,215
| mine are proberly
Rage by Stephen King
The Virgin Suides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Girl Interupted by Susanna Kaysen
riding in cars with boys by beberly donofrio
and Bridget Jones Diary | |
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