Ironboots
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posted on 5/9/2002 at 12:06 PM |
*read Catcher in the Rye last year for school*
What is so bad about it?!!!
And if they keep assigning it, so what?! Because then you already know it
and don´t have to read it!
But it seems my senior Literature class will be kickass. We´re going to
read Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, Heart of Darkness, and watch
Apocolypse Now.
Ain´t you feelin´ jealous! :razz: ____________________ Piggy's got the Conch! |
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Monolycus
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posted on 5/9/2002 at 01:16 PM |
I´m with you on the Shelley debate, Devin... but it isn´t just the 17 year
old girl factor (throw the Bronte sisters on my pile of recommendations...
I don´t care what anyone says, Wuthering Heights is goth as fuck!)... I
think that if you compare things that were written by ANYONE one seventy or
more years ago with things that are written for general consumption today,
you will come to the conclusion that we have, for the most part, lost both
the ability to write and to have something worth saying. (Let the torrent
of indignant protests begin!)
Okay, Kira. You came up with the idea, so you decide. Is it going to be
1984 or Frankenstein? I have a copy of each of these... just waiting for
you to give the word and to supply a time frame (i.e.; Does three chapters
per week sound fair?). ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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Comedian
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posted on 5/9/2002 at 01:17 PM |
Apocalypse Now Redux, or regular old Apocalypse Now? ____________________ Make way for the bad guy! |
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IamSquid
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posted on 5/9/2002 at 01:23 PM |
okay so like I said, I don´t read alot of fiction but I would love to
discuss books on Hermetics and philosophy. I´m on a yahoo group that´s
SUPPOSED to be dedicated to discussion of Crowley´s works (specificly
concerning, but not limited to, MTP) but NOOOOO, everybody´s there to throw
out 93s, BS, and the occasional round of Wiccan-bashing.
(yoo know what really pisses Thelemites off? When yoo yada yada yada "Do
what thou wilt...")
So I would like to read Crowley. I would prefer to discuss "The Vision and
the Voice" and follow it up with "The Book of Lies" but if fiction is a
must there´s always "Moonchild" or "Diary of a Drug Fiend." ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
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Kira
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posted on 5/9/2002 at 06:26 PM |
oi-kay. Heresawhattimgonnado.
Sometime tonight I´ll put all the viable recommendations in a hat and let
fate decide what our first read shall be. Since I hope this will be an
ongoing thing there should be plenty of time (if interest keeps up) to
eventually get through everyone´s picks.
So get those last minute suggestions in, kiddies...Many of us will be
making trips to the library, then I´d like to start reading pronto. I
think Monolycus´ suggestion of 3 chapters a week sounds good for most
books.
And I´d like to add in the Illuminatus Trilogy for good measure...I´ve
tried to read it many times and need moral support.
ps. Oh demigod and goddesses of Shmeng, I humbly ask you for our own place
in the Forum Index so we don´t crowd out all the other Pseudo-Intellectual
Fuckwits... ____________________ Wind me up and make me crawl to you, tie me up until I call to you. |
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Kira
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posted on 5/9/2002 at 08:53 PM |
And the winner, by totally random selection is:
A Clockwork Orange -
Anthony Burgess
The runner up:
Siddhartha - Herman
Hesse
Now go get your book(s) and start reading!
____________________ Wind me up and make me crawl to you, tie me up until I call to you. |
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Lenore
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posted on 11/9/2002 at 02:41 PM |
If you haven´t read it, then I would highly recommend "The Witching Hour"
By Anne Rice. Probably the best book she´s ever written. And also "Hedda
Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen. Not exactly goth, but definantly worth reading. ____________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate its contents." - H.P.Lovecraft |
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Monolycus
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posted on 11/9/2002 at 02:53 PM |
I´m on a low Anne Rice diet, although Ibsen sounds like something I´ve been
meaning to get around to. I wasn´t under the impression that our literary
picks were supposed to be goth... and anyway, I think Kira already fed our
suggestions into the Hat o´ Doom. (Glad to see this forum hadn´t been
forgotten! I was all on the jazzed side!) ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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Lenore
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posted on 12/9/2002 at 02:24 AM |
quote: I wasn´t under the
impression that our literary picks were supposed to be
goth...
That´s good. There are too many thrillingly
well-written books outside the goth-genre to be that selective. Wilbur
Smith has got some goodies too ____________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate its contents." - H.P.Lovecraft |
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dead-cell
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 01:15 PM |
Ok, I have a suggestion; How about The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. I
happen to be reading for class. Its cool, guy wakes-up as cockroach for no
reason. Then again Frankenstien is good too, or anything by Edger Allen
Poe. ____________________ co-worker: "Your gay!?"
myself: "Didn't you see my rainbow pin?"
co-worker: "I just thought you liked skettles."
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Monolycus
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 02:58 PM |
I think that "The Hunger Artist" is a better Kafka selection than
"Metamorphosis", but that´s just me. I wouldn´t see anything wrong with
throwing a few Kafkas and Poes into the lot at once as they are more
"short-storyish" than actual novels (except for Poe´s "The Gold Bug").
I agree with KatB, though, that beyond being good reads, any selections
would have to be discussion worthy. I have a lot of books that I have
enjoyed, but would have little to say anything about other than "Hey, man,
you gotta read this!" I suspect that the picks that I have proposed might
sound a little snobbish, but I chose them because I think that they bear up
well to discussion and analysis. In that respect, I think Kafka stories
might serve the purpose a wee bit better than the Poe would. Do not take
that the wrong way, I adore Poe, but his work has never really struck me as
saying much beyond what is on the page (NOT A CRITICISM!). There just
aren´t too many different ways to interpret what he has bared for the
audience (ie; if you have read it, you either get it or you don´t).
~Monolycus. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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