welck12 Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Isn't that from the Bioshock game? I thought it was Bioshock as well
welck12 Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Currently working my way through this one... Last of the Coupland books i havent read, started off very well as always, just waiting for the strange plot twists to kick in
Master Fox Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 i would highly recommend instead of kerouac, for someone of your particular, um, tendancies to go for henry miller's tropic of capricorn Edit: ok, just noticed it is about him not by him - anyway, if you're into that period of american literature and you haven't already tried it, i'd still recommend miller: it's funny, very alcoholic and very very dirty.... Just bought On The Road
MC Prussian Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Just bought On The Road Hope you went for the "scroll" version - it's longer, bigger and better. And - it has all characters with their real names portrayed.
Master Fox Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Hope you went for the "scroll" version - it's longer, bigger and better. And - it has all characters with their real names portrayed. Damn, im sure not i did. arse
Lillehamring Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Isn't that from the Bioshock game? oh games don't look like that on my DS.... looks cool tho...
MC Prussian Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Damn, im sure not i did. arse Undo the order and get the real deal.
Finnegan Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 ha, good luck... i like joyce and enjoyed reading fragments of ulysses, but by all accounts, this is just literary noise......more importantantly, which manga is your sig from? It's just some Bioshock fan art. I got Finnegan's wake about three or four years ago in my first year at uni. I was feeling a bit pretentious and a bit curious and wanted something to impress fit student girls with read on the tube so I took the plunge. I'd read all this nonsense about how English scholars who had spent years studying literature had failed to read the whole thing and how there were idiots guides just to understand it. So, naturally, backing my own self proclaimed genius I fancied my odds on finishing it. Most I've ever read is about a chapter.
Lillehamring Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 It's just some Bioshock fan art.I got Finnegan's wake about three or four years ago in my first year at uni. I was feeling a bit pretentious and a bit curious and wanted something to impress fit student girls with read on the tube so I took the plunge. I'd read all this nonsense about how English scholars who had spent years studying literature had failed to read the whole thing and how there were idiots guides just to understand it. So, naturally, backing my own self proclaimed genius I fancied my odds on finishing it. Most I've ever read is about a chapter. hmmm, i'm feeling a challenge here have you read ulysses? i've read dubliners and portrait, so i kinda feel the need to do ulysses first, but i'm inclined to think i should read the 'original' before that!!!
Finnegan Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Narh I haven't. I've read passages for Eng Lit but not the actual book. Went straight for Finnegan's Wake like Master Fox all over disturbing fetish porn.
Lillehamring Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Dubliners is as much Joyce I could take. portrait is ok, i thought, apart from the seemingly endless chapter on hell, which was very hard to get through!
MC Prussian Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 portrait is ok, i thought, apart from the seemingly endless chapter on hell, which was very hard to get through! I'm much more a Steppenwolf fan. Hesse, mind you.
Flynny Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 it's not great Is it really not? That was the next purchase any time I had any money. Tits. I thought Weapons of Mass Destruction was lovely, pointed and ultimately painfully sweet. Bit of a shame to hear this one's not up to much.
stez Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Is it really not? That was the next purchase any time I had any money. Tits. I thought Weapons of Mass Destruction was lovely, pointed and ultimately painfully sweet. Bit of a shame to hear this one's not up to much. it's amusing, but the political stuff is being shoehorned in, it seems like she needed to rush the book out. i know she has sight problems and has to dictate to her daughter now, and maybe not being able to read-back at will is having a effect. if it's going cheap in the amazon market place, it could be worth a punt, just don't expect anything coming close to WoMD
BoneDog Posted 2 March 2009 Posted 2 March 2009 Weapons of Mass Deception is a good book if you're intersted in that stuff
Lillehamring Posted 3 March 2009 Posted 3 March 2009 it's not great great review - straight out of spinal tap...almost.
stez Posted 3 March 2009 Posted 3 March 2009 great review - straight out of spinal tap...almost. the sleeve notes are good
Lillehamring Posted 3 March 2009 Posted 3 March 2009 the sleeve notes are good yeah, i own this.... funny stuff
Finnegan Posted 3 March 2009 Posted 3 March 2009 Tap is legendary! To be honest I can actually quite happily sit and listen to the music, too. Stonehenge is a classic!
StanSP Posted 3 March 2009 Posted 3 March 2009 portrait is ok, i thought, apart from the seemingly endless chapter on hell, which was very hard to get through! Didn't think much of the portrait...not really my kind of thing. Reading Descartes' Meditations now. That's not my kind of thing either
The People's Hero Posted 3 March 2009 Posted 3 March 2009 portrait is ok, i thought, apart from the seemingly endless chapter on hell, which was very hard to get through! Portrait is good. Very good.
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