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Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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backwards7 said: Today I began reading The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs. Although he never wrote seriously until he was in his 30s, Burroughs was a natural with language, able to vividly describe a scene with just a few well chosen words.
The Wild Boys opens with a Mexican street scene, centred around the balconies of an apartment building. The queer - Joselito shaves his chest, singing discordantly as his silky hair floats upwards and settles on the food laid out on the balcony above. His mother, Dolores, runs a newspaper kiosk and possesses latent magical powers. On evil eye days she causes her customers to go mad or give birth to stillborn children. When she has the sweet eye, she puts the newspapers away and sells flowers instead. Tio Pepe attempts to spread accidents and misfortune using the power of suggestion, either by standing in the middle of crowds muttering phrases such as “charred bodies” and “fire of unknown origins” or by whispering into the ears of sleeping drunks while kicking them repeatedly in the groin. Tio Mate is an old assassin who shoots a vulture every independence day. By the end of the chapter Pepe and Mate are individually plotting to kill the dog which the blind lottery ticket seller - Tio Gordo – uses to sniff-out torn or counterfeit notes.
William Burroughs was such an original and individual writer and thinker. His work has made great ripples in popular culture that many people aren’t aware of. Together with Brian Gyson he developed the cut up style of writing and recording, whose influence can be seen in the magnetic fridge poetry kits that you can buy in bookshops today and even in the culture of sampling in music. He coined the term ‘beat’ to describe the generation of counter culture writers he is commonly associated with. He also came up with the expression: ‘Heavy metal’. The makers of the film – Blade Runner purchased the title from Burroughs, who had been using it for an unrelated screenplay. I noticed Warren Ellis borrowed his concept of Heaven and Hell as two siege engines for an early issue of Planetary.
Burroughs is really good. I have a cousin that used to loan me books to read and she got these big compilations books from this book club she was in. One of the comps was a Burroughs book that had Junkie, Queer, and Naked Lunch compiled together. Another was for Kerouac, and had On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and The Subterraneans. Good stuff.
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Anything by Douglas Adams.
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'Confessions of a Shopaholic' is pretty funny. But I doubt any man would be caught reading it.
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Finished Sharpe's Gold.
I can't tell which of the two Sharpe novels I've read was better. Anyone who has seen Kelly's Heroes will enjoy the basic plot line -- the British army is out of money and needs a pile of gold currently in Portugal. Of course...no gentleman officer would dare rob these landlords of their gold...so send in Sharpe.
While the basic plotline is fairly simple (get the gold), like in Sharpe's Eagle, you are introduced to variety of men and women, each fighting the way in their own (dysfunctional) way. Men who like very very very independent women will enjoy Teresa. Sharpe certainly did. Like the previous novel, one of the themes is that birth and money means shit next to sense and determination.
As soon as I wrap up Return of the King I'm reading Sharpe's Rifles. This is where things get confusing. The order that the novels were published was Eagle, Gold, and Rifles. However, Rifles was a prequel, so when the Sharpe movies were made in the early 1990s, Rifles was the first. No big deal, but I want to read Rifles before the DVD I ordered comes in.
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I'm currently reading the back of a box of Lucky Charms.
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I was gonna read Bubba Ho-Tep, but I found myself in Virgin Megastore last night, just killing time, and ended up buying Reverend Horton Heat's new album and All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman. I love horror flicks and B-movies, so I'm diving into this first. More info to come...
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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"The Pauline Vision of the Resurrected" - Chapter Five of Eric Voegelin's fourth volume of Order and History, titled "The Ecumenic Age".
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Working on finishing up Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holston Lopez. About man's relationship to wolves through the years.
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Okay, I've been looking and looking and looking for a copy of Simon Maginn's The Sheep without any luck. Any. I think the book is out of print in the US. Anyone in the UK read it or know where I can get it?
Oh, and I finished Return of the King. I rushed through The Lord of the Rings about six months before Fellowship came out, and I regretted speeding through the books. I take back every mean thing I ever said about Tolkien (okay, I took everything back a long time ago, but oh well). I even read the Appendixes this time. I had no idea some of the stuff from the movie was originally from the Appendix.
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I assume you've read The Hobbit and/or The Simarillion? They're almost certain to be movies themselves in the future.
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Rough Justice by Lisa Scottoline. I've read several of her books. They're legal dramas about an all-woman law firm in Philadelphia. The thing is, for all the drama, half the time I'm laughing out loud. Maybe it's a girl thing. 
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TK-069 said: I assume you've read The Hobbit and/or The Simarillion? They're almost certain to be movies themselves in the future.
Read The Hobbit sometime in high school. I bought The Simarillion, but my mother took it and hasn't returned it. I think the movies have made her quite the Tolkien-fanatic. She bought all the DVD versions (which angered my dad) the Risk version of the game (really angered him) and wants to get a chocolate Lab named Strider (as opposed to a yellow female named Maggie). I swear, if these movies had come out before I was born, my name would have been Eowyn.
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Does she listen to Led Zepplin as well, Eowyn?  I wonder what name I'd have...
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Joe Mama said: ...All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman. I love horror flicks and B-movies, so I'm diving into this first. More info to come...
I polished this off. Good book. Some funny anecdotes. Some interesting stories. Lloyd goes all over the place in his narrative, but that's what I'd expect from Troma and Troma's public face. I probably will pick up his second book, Make Your Own Damn Movie!!!, but first I'm actually gonna read Bubba Ho-Tep and a couple of authors I saw at the Sci-Fi convention that came to Boston a couple of weeks ago...
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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Finished Bubba Ho-Tep. While it's not my favorite short story (that'd probably be On The Far Side Of The Cadillac Desert With Dead Folk), it was still a great read. I also enjoyed reading the script, which really was 95% loyal to the story. And both intros (to the story AND the script) were enjoyable, though Joe's was much better.
I'm diving into two books now:
Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green. It's apparently the first of his "Nightside" series (British posters, can I get a confirmation on that?). So far it's decent, but I'll finish it before I do a full review.
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore. This is his newest and it's not published yet. I have an Advanced Reading copy because my gal and my best friend both frequent his boards. Thus, I have an "in" with the man. I'll actually be starting it tomorrow and my gal says I'm gonna love it. I've liked all his books, so I'm sure this'll be great. For those of you unfamiliar with him, let me STRONGLY recommend Practical Demonkeeping, Bloodsucking Fiends, or Lamb. All are hilarious and well-written.
Uschi said:I won't rape you, I'll just fuck you 'till it hurts and then not stop and you'll cry. MisterJLA: RACKS so hard, he called Jim Rome "Chris Everett." In Him, all porn is possible. He is far above mentions in so-called "blogs." RACK him, lest ye be lost! "I can't even brush my teeth without gagging!" - Tommy Tantillo: Wank & Cry, heckpuppy, and general laughingstock
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I’m reading a biography of Jimmy Stewart, very slowly because I just don’t give myself enough time to read. I’m also reading Tarzan and the Castaways. I wanted something for my car as I often find myself sat waiting for something in it and I wanted something I could pick up and put down fairly easily. Then I spotted this old Tarzan book on my shelf that I hadn’t read for years.
I’ll probably read some more George Orwell next. I recently read 1984, mainly because I thought I should. Various terms from it get bandied round a lot (big brother state etc) and I thought I ought to read it. I expected it to be okay if a bit dated, but I really enjoyed it.
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just finished Bentley Little's The Association on recomendation of a friend and loved it!
Will be reading more of his stuff in the future!
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Will be reading more of his stuff in the future!
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Yeah, I like Bentley Little's books. Check out The Policy--you may want to read the fine print on your insurance papers.
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Now I'm to Sharpe's Sword and The Archer's Tail (the beginning of the Holy Grail trilogy).
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The Insects - An Outline of Entomology
Because I've read lots of books on particular insect species but I don't have a good overall text on the subject.
The book covers a lot of ground and goes into as much detail as you'd probably want, unless you're a professor of Entomology.
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Will be reading more of his stuff in the future!
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Yeah, I like Bentley Little's books. Check out The Policy--you may want to read the fine print on your insurance papers.
Ive heard good things about THE STORE too...
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Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green: He seemed cool at the con I went to, so I picked up this book, in hopes of getting into the series. It was decent, with a lot of interesting concepts and ideas, but the actual narrative left something to be desired. As far as I'm concerned, he committed three major sins:
1) Needless exposition. At random times, he'd offer insights into supporting characters that either weren't necessary or weren't wanted. Example of the former: one character, Suzy Shotgun, goes into a long history of her sexual abuse to explain a dream she had and her hatred of being touched by men. If this was done during a quieter time, I'd be fine. But it comes during an action scene, so all I wanted was for the story to move along. Example of the latter: the character who is in possession of the "Unholy Grail" goes to lengths to explain why he isn't a snivelling shit but, rather, is a misunderstood and lonely collector (think comic book geek amped to 11). I don't like the character, I'm unsympathetic towards him, and I just want to get to the upcoming "final battle" at this point. The explanation for why he went on this rant is lame, too.
2) Deus Ex Machina: Characters are randomly introduced specifically to die for or help out the main character, then disappear. I hate that. It's lazy writing.
3) Beating A Dead Horse: The last line of dialogue from the novel sums up my point: "But, please, don't come back. You guys are just too disturbing. Even for the Nightside." The Nightside is where this novel takes place. It's a section of London where it's always 3am, weird creatures live, and weird things happen. And the reader gets bludgeoned with this info. The Nightside - no mortal could ever visit. The Nightside - where demons and vampires and other creatures dwell. The Nightside - a darker section of the Twilight Zone. The Nightside - where Nowhereman and LLance can consummate their love. You get the idea the first couple of times you read it and, by the halfway point, you wanna scream "OKAY! I GET IT! THE NIGHTSIDE IS A SCARY WEIRD PLACE! SHUT UP ALREADY!!!" And it happens in other places, with other topics, like the main character's mother.
Of course, it didn't help that I figured out who the mysterious client is the moment he was introduced. I'll try a second novel, just to see if he hits his stride. I want to like this series. But we'll see.
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I have about a dozen books by Peter David and Max Alan Collins each to read. Working on The Pearl Harbor Murders by MAC right now. It features Edgar Rice Burroughs investigating a death at Pearl Harbor the day before the Japanese bombed it. It's part of a whole series of disaster books that he's written casting famouse authors solving mysteries while things go to shit around them. There's a Hindenburg book, Titanic book, Lusitania book and another one too that I keep forgetting about. Plus, I've got seven CSI books by him that I'd like to pop out. Also have 2 Knight Life books, 2 Road to Ruin books, 2 Star Trek books and Howling Mad all by Peter David sitting in a stack. Plus I found all his Psi-Man books laying around too. Then I've got Larry McMurtry's last three novels in the Berrybender narratives plus I've always got a stack of Louis L'Amour novels too. Someday I'll actually read a real book... 
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I have about a dozen books by Peter David and Max Alan Collins each to read. Working on The Pearl Harbor Murders by MAC right now. It features Edgar Rice Burroughs investigating a death at Pearl Harbor the day before the Japanese bombed it. It's part of a whole series of disaster books that he's written casting famouse authors solving mysteries while things go to shit around them. There's a Hindenburg book, Titanic book, Lusitania book and another one too that I keep forgetting about. Plus, I've got seven CSI books by him that I'd like to pop out. Also have 2 Knight Life books, 2 Road to Ruin books, 2 Star Trek books and Howling Mad all by Peter David sitting in a stack. Plus I found all his Psi-Man books laying around too. Then I've got Larry McMurtry's last three novels in the Berrybender narratives plus I've always got a stack of Louis L'Amour novels too. Someday I'll actually read a real book... 
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rufie I read the Titanic one...it was OK not up to his Heller novels...neither is the firs tElliot Ness one I read (although Heller hass a cameo).
Didnt know he was involving writers in all of the disaster one unique concept!
In the middle of Doctor Who TIME ZERO....quite nice....
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i just finished another copy of Penthouse Letters, and I must say Bravo to the Frank Drabik fellow! that is fine writing!
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hes got nothing on James Farrell....hes the King of Porn!
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I hace the collected works of Farrell in leatherbound....just the way he likes his wimmens!
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But what of the bondage collection by Jerry Davis?
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no but i'd like to have Kobe Tai's box set on me!
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Didnt you see her at a club once?
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