hello hello hello. i am.... in search of some sort of really really trippy book, like if donnie darko or momento or some jazz like that was in book form. or if you've seen the movie "old boy" something like that, which was amazing by the way. i have this fear that books are lame and will never surpass movies and such. mmm hmmm.. ooor recommend some book that is very funny, i mean laugh out loud funny. there's this book i'm reading on and off entitled "never hit a jelly fish with a spade". it's not a story book, just a collection of paragraphs about this and that, but it's the few times i've ever laughed out loud reading something from a book that wasn't a comic. i want something like that... mm, thanks. also , anyone ever read "stranger in a strangeland"? just wondering.
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Posted 21 June 2006 - 10:22 AM
Donnie Darko is weird...
I read The Last Book In The Universe (Rodman Philbrick), and it still stands as my favorite. But I read it years ago, and it's for younger-ish readers, but it's still fawesome.
Of course, Hithhiker's Guide is a favorite, too!
Have you read Ender's Game? Try it.
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I read The Last Book In The Universe (Rodman Philbrick), and it still stands as my favorite. But I read it years ago, and it's for younger-ish readers, but it's still fawesome.
Of course, Hithhiker's Guide is a favorite, too!
Have you read Ender's Game? Try it.
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Posted 21 June 2006 - 11:04 AM
i wached old boy last night.
fucking wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd mate.
fucking wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd mate.
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I am somewhat of a cross between Dr Who and Dr Seuss, I stroll the length of time and space, with a hat on my head and a smile on my face.
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Posted 21 June 2006 - 11:10 AM
i love chuck palynuck or how ever its spelled, hes the writter of fight club, he has great books.. Id suggest reading choke and or invisible monsters
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Posted 21 June 2006 - 11:20 AM
The little train who could!!!
my most favoritiststs book evar!!
my most favoritiststs book evar!!
"We, the unwilling,
led by the unknowing,
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for the ungrateful.
We have done so much,
for so long,
with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything
with nothing."
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led by the unknowing,
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Posted 21 June 2006 - 02:17 PM
QUOTE(Ink @ Jun 21 2006, 12:10 PM) 
i love chuck palynuck or how ever its spelled, hes the writter of fight club, he has great books.. Id suggest reading choke and or invisible monsters
i have this aversion of trendy fads and i register chuck as just that so i've never read one of his books. i here all of them are basically the same character.
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Donnie Darko is weird...
I read The Last Book In The Universe (Rodman Philbrick), and it still stands as my favorite. But I read it years ago, and it's for younger-ish readers, but it's still fawesome.
Of course, Hithhiker's Guide is a favorite, too!
Have you read Ender's Game? Try it.
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yea i have read ender's game. i've also read the second book in the series, which was a bit different. i like all of it in general, the only thing i find hard to believe is his siblings like, pratically ruling the world, you know what i mean? that and um, i don't think kids really talk and do the things they are portrayed to do in the books. i get around that and suspend my disbelief by imagining that they are future kids who are probably bred for smartness and have been altered somehow from "normal" kids.
QUOTE(Robo @ Jun 21 2006, 12:04 PM)
i wached old boy last night.
fucking wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd mate.
get out of here! seriously? what are the odds of that? i love that movie, it's so - different. the continous shot fight scene is awesome and the ending is spectacular, yay retribution and gore!
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Posted 21 June 2006 - 02:40 PM
Tom Robbins.
Look him up.
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Look him up.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 12:07 AM
QUOTE(poisoned_frog @ Jun 21 2006, 03:40 PM)
Tom Robbins.
Look him up.
i was at the book store today and i saw his name! hah, that's about it. i saw it and i thought "tim robbins" cos i love him as an actor and then i was like "hey, this is TOM robbins.... lame.." and i didn't check out the book but i will on amazon.
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kurt vonnegut
he writes crazy books right? my room mate told me something about deformed twins who become super smart when they put their heads together and they become president or something... sounds pre-tty weird to me. the book covers are nasty.
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 07:32 PM
QUOTE(smallyelp @ Jun 22 2006, 01:07 AM)
i was at the book store today and i saw his name! hah, that's about it. i saw it and i thought "tim robbins" cos i love him as an actor and then i was like "hey, this is TOM robbins.... lame.." and i didn't check out the book but i will on amazon.
He writes some really weird stuff.
I love it, though.
You have to have a taste for it, and a lot of times it gets kind of deep, but it's still really good.
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Posted 28 June 2006 - 04:07 AM
If you want a weird book... read Storm of the Century by King.
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Posted 28 June 2006 - 06:19 AM
you want a book that has a little bit of everything?
read the dictionary.
read the dictionary.
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Posted 01 July 2006 - 05:47 PM
Good call.
I have actually done so.
Weekends get lonely around here...
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I have actually done so.
Weekends get lonely around here...
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Posted 03 July 2006 - 01:51 PM
I read love stories..i don't think i can help.
But you shouldn't judge a book by wether it's a fad or not. You could be missing out on some really amazing stuff if you do that. Besides fads don't become fads because they suck.
But you shouldn't judge a book by wether it's a fad or not. You could be missing out on some really amazing stuff if you do that. Besides fads don't become fads because they suck.
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Posted 03 July 2006 - 11:16 PM
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"Fads don't become fads because they suck"
Except for Hoop Skirts.
Those suck.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 06:16 AM
oooh! Read the bible. It's very moral.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 06:45 AM
Yes, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is very good. 
I could quote those books until we're all ill.
What sort of comics do you read? If you like manga stuffs, I have some good suggestions.
Laughing my arse off in the middle of a bookstore whilst I'm reading the shit. Good times, good times.
I could quote those books until we're all ill.
What sort of comics do you read? If you like manga stuffs, I have some good suggestions.
Laughing my arse off in the middle of a bookstore whilst I'm reading the shit. Good times, good times.
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People are rarely happy. Most the time, they are unsatisfied because they want something. When people get what they want, they are happy for a short time. Then they become used to it and are merely content, until they want something else, whereupon they go back to being unsatisfied.
*note* most of my avatars come from livejournal or some such place.......I do not know who did make them, but I do not take credit for making them myself.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 11:44 AM
Manga make me mappy.
Which is happy with alliteration purposes.
Which is happy with alliteration purposes.
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 03:24 PM
QUOTE(poisoned_frog @ Jul 3 2006, 10:16 PM)
Except for Hoop Skirts.
Those suck.
i've never heard of those...i don't think
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Posted 05 July 2006 - 05:01 PM
QUOTE(Red @ Jul 5 2006, 04:24 PM)
i've never heard of those...i don't think
On the outside...
But on the inside...
Metal caging.
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