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What Are You Reading?
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Invisible Monster's was great. I think some people on this forum should definitely read it. My copy is signed by Chuck himself, btw. He is so down to earth and cool in person. I didn't like Diary at all, though.
I am simultaniously reading Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Heller's Catch-22. One of my grad school classes is Literature and War Experience. Catch-22, talk about sick - I love it.
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I`ve heard about this writer and he is very popular among russians. Does it really worth reading the book?
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Yes. It pwnz0rz.
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Sorry, I didnt get what you wrote...
What exactly is sick about it? I'm more than half-way through.
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Has anybody read Glamourama? I think I might try to read it again when I finish Survivor. I read it years ago, but found it oddly confusing.
Saturnine-I like Palahniuk's writing style and bizarre subject matters. You simply must read Invisible Monsters, my fav of all his books. Diary is my least fav, but still very good.
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[/quote]Glamourama, Bret Easton Ellis, right? I've read American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction. The latter is the only film I've seen that has been better than it's book.
I like his writing style, but his endings are always so disappointing for me.
Palahniuk does have bizarre subject matters. I love how you pick up so many random facts from his books, ie, how to make a bomb out of orange juice.
I'm working on reading them all.
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Sorry, I didnt get what you wrote...
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It means "it owns", which means "it rules". Misspelling "owns" is a commong slang on the internet forums (if i interpreted this correctly).
Originally posted by saturnine@Sep 5 2004, 06:28 AM
What exactly is sick about it? I'm more than half-way through.
Glamourama, Bret Easton Ellis, right? I've read American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction. The latter is the only film I've seen that has been better than it's book.
I like his writing style, but his endings are always so disappointing for me.
Palahniuk does have bizarre subject matters. I love how you pick up so many random facts from his books, ie, how to make a bomb out of orange juice.
I'm working on reading them all.
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Well, if I tell you, Chris will kill me for spoiling the book for him
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i just finished "after you'd gone" by maggie o farrell, and "girl walks into a bar" by strawberry saroyan.
Along the streets that lead away from the apartment he can never see anything through the concrete and brick and neon, but he knows that buried within it are grotesque, tiwsted souls forever trying the manners that will convince themselves they possess Quality, learning strange poses of style and glamour vended by dream magazines and other mass media, and paid for by the vendors of substance. He thinks of them at night alone with their advertised glamorous shoes and stockings and underclothes off, staring through the sooty windows at the grotesque shells revealed beyond them, when the poses weaken and the truth creeps in, the only truth that exists here, crying to heaven, God, there is nothing here but dead neon and cement and brick.
Robert Pirsig, "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Faust, I read this book a while ago because a wise friend of mine recommended it to me, however, I just could not seem to get into it. That paragraph sounds so moving to me though.
Nearly finished Survivor, and haven't found it sick as such, or any more than Palahniuk's other works. Do you mean the, uh, religious connotations, and perhaps slander? 
Robert Pirsig, "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Faust, I read this book a while ago because a wise friend of mine recommended it to me, however, I just could not seem to get into it. That paragraph sounds so moving to me though.
Nearly finished Survivor, and haven't found it sick as such, or any more than Palahniuk's other works. Do you mean the, uh, religious connotations, and perhaps slander?
Originally posted by saturnine@Sep 6 2004, 06:47 PM
Along the streets that lead away from the apartment he can never see anything through the concrete and brick and neon, but he knows that buried within it are grotesque, tiwsted souls forever trying the manners that will convince themselves they possess Quality, learning strange poses of style and glamour vended by dream magazines and other mass media, and paid for by the vendors of substance. He thinks of them at night alone with their advertised glamorous shoes and stockings and underclothes off, staring through the sooty windows at the grotesque shells revealed beyond them, when the poses weaken and the truth creeps in, the only truth that exists here, crying to heaven, God, there is nothing here but dead neon and cement and brick.
Robert Pirsig, "Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Faust, I read this book a while ago because a wise friend of mine recommended it to me, however, I just could not seem to get into it. That paragraph sounds so moving to me though.
Nearly finished Survivor, and haven't found it sick as such, or any more than Palahniuk's other works. Do you mean the, uh, religious connotations, and perhaps slander?
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I guess the superbowl thing really killed me. I was rolling on the floor laughing. And also the whole thing about how they manufactured a celebrity out of him. Zen is an incredible book, but it's not light reading. It took me 3 months to read it the first time. It's not something you read, it's rather something I studied. There is an incredible amount of intellectual food to digest and I refused to move to the next page until I analyzed the page before. I think it was all worth it though, because there is the most useful lesson to be learned from the book - finding meaning and beauty in the things that seem not so meaningful and not so beautiful at first.
Saturnine--Yes, Glamourama is by Ellis. It's his typical style, but incredibly confusing because there are 3 things happening at once and double characters. I didn't like Rules of Attraction on the screen at all, but loved the book. Still haven't seen AmPsycho since the book pretty much painted the picture too vividly, I didn't want to spoil it.
Faust--I skipped your last post, so you didn't ruin it for me......
Faust--I skipped your last post, so you didn't ruin it for me......
