And the drama is always about someone who dies (or was on the verge of dying) of flu after being touched by the rain...

That only felt like bad literature to me.

Oh well, at least Kojima is actually involved with it, that means it could have potential at least.

are you kidding me? Heathcliff is one of the best characters in the canon, let alone the whole of literature.

I just hate the stereotypical driven by revenge characters, they drive me to disgust more than passion or sympathy. Revenge isn't necessarily a turn off for me, I was even rooting for Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo. It's just when the characters are "blinded" by something that I just get annoyed (hatred, love, revenge ...) , the characters just become bunch of craving animals driven by their instincts, not much to work on.

Tho nothing is worst than the novel Kane and Abel, where we have two revengeful protagonists ...

dont be knocking the Wuthering

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Went looking for a different book and couldn't find it, so I gave up and got this instead. Seems pretty interesting from what I've skimmed through so far.

who's there?

a TWAT

did you just edit Janszoon's post, so you can make your joke work?
:nono:

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I started reading this a few months ago but then I got the flu real bad and it was just too dense for someone whose eyes hurt to move. Just picked it up again, trying to re-remember the names and details, it isn't the optimum way to read a book. Enjoying it, but it's a bit heavy to be a page turner.

tuck everlasting by natatlie babbit
awesome book sucky movie.
story about a family that lives forever

The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts

I concur.

I saw a book in a music shop recently called Pride and Prejudice... and Zombies. Now that looked like quality literature.

Just ordered these...

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Simon Reynolds was one of my favourite writers for Melody Maker back in the day so these should be good.

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Like a lot of anthologies I've read, it's a case of the truly inspirational bits being outweighed by a whole lot of pretentious drivel so far.

you won't regret picking that up, i bought it for a music student as a birthday gift and it inspired the topic of their dissertation; it is just compelling and somehow he manages to cover everybody without dwelling too long... the concepts behind the art laid bare

I'm trying to get hold of his first book Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock which is basically a collection of his 80s Melody Maker essays, put out in 1990 on some small publisher.

Thankfully it's not as in demand as something like Julian Cope's Krautrock book. $30 for almost mint copy sounds pretty reasonable to me.

yeah he's a great writer, if you can get hold of the 'Energy Flash' book about rave/dance music that will destroy all your preconceptions (assuming you have them)... be wary though because I got the new edition last year and unlike the 1999 one it didn't come with the CD.. being able to hear the music (and preferably to have eaten some E at some point) is sort of integral, maybe.
Actually Kayleigh should be reading that one.

Reynolds' blogs, one of them contains scans of old articles.

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It's pretty good so far. I just finished up Misery last week and saw the movie.

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This has been on my list to read for a very long time, finally I decided to pick it up and start it.

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

****ed up yet brilliant book I tell ya. About a futuristic dystopian world where humans are mass produced and conditioned, Henry Ford is considered God, and eight-year-old's have orgies.
Incredibly verbose and difficult to read, but behind it all is a great book.

I think I was around your age when I first read that one too and it really struck a chord with me. All my other "future dystopian" books were ones like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and A Clockwork Orange that painted the feature as this fascist state where freedoms were repressed. Brave New World however wasn't like that, it was vastly different and that's what made it stand out and started to make me think that even in a perfect world, there's always going to be evil.

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Onto the final part of the trilogy now.

Currently reading "Water For Elephants" .. just started last night, but I like it so far. Also re-reading "Night", which I read in high school but never really felt it. So second time's a charm.

Bought Trainspotting instead of reading it online, and Cecelia Aherns new book. I read her stuff religiously.

I'd go with the doner if I were you.

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Could never really get into DH Lawrence before today. I always found his stories to be a bit slow, or just totally uninteresting. I'm starting to see the light now though.

That chicken burger would be nice, without salad ofcourse.

i had a McDonald's chicken burger a few weeks ago and... someone needs to do a channel 4 documentary on them or something, it was MAXIMUM 5% reconstituted chicken, nakes those Rustlers microwaveable ones look like gourmet dinner. Just wrong, wrong, wrong. This is now the chicken burger thread

75% under man. Rustlers taste like rubber. McDonalds isn't so bad, much better than Rustlers or Feasters anyways. Rustlers are wrong. And Mcd's mayo is wrong.

Did you read that somewhere?

Ofcourse... :)

yeah definitely i'd say the mayo was the main offender there. The thing is if you just take some cooked chicken off the bone and slap it between some buns it would be pretty dry and tasteless anyway, you can't win

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I just started this after hearing great things about it. So far it's been really interesting and I like the style of writing a lot.

^^^
I just borrowed this from a friend, and I'm really excited to start reading it.

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Ever read The Road? Might I say that Fahrenheit 451 is terrible.

Lovely writing, but there is a limit to the bleakness I can take...