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Old 11-10-2009, 06:36 PM   #1991 (permalink)
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Pride and Prejudice, anyone know if it's good. I've started readingand so far it's alright, I'm just wondering if it drags or that?
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Old 11-10-2009, 07:18 PM   #1992 (permalink)
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn sums it up. Women swoon, blah blah blah. Thanks Jane Austen, so glad you're mentally engaging me and creating interesting philosophical questions to explore within your literature. Chick lit, hundreds of years old. Monotonous stories remain equally monotonous no matter how cute their bonnets are.
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Old 11-10-2009, 07:24 PM   #1993 (permalink)
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn sums it up. Women swoon, blah blah blah. Thanks Jane Austen, so glad you're mentally engaging me and creating interesting philosophical questions to explore within your literature. Chick lit, hundreds of years old. Monotonous stories remain equally monotonous no matter how cute their bonnets are.
I should have probably known that since its from 1813 . Well I've started now, so I will finish it. But cheers anyways.
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Old 11-10-2009, 07:27 PM   #1994 (permalink)
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Lanark... have been "reading" this thing for a couple months now, I've gotten as far as 2 chapters. sadly i haven't read regularly since high school..
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Old 11-10-2009, 07:28 PM   #1995 (permalink)
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Agreed, you should check out Wuthering Heights instead, at least some brutal **** goes down.

As for me, I'm just starting: Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami. It's weird because this is by far the least developed books I've ever read by him. It's lacking subtlety and is very much a casual narration. Still, it delivers the goods.
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how is it, CC?
so far it is pretty decent. some interesting thoughts and imagery, specifically a cool chapter about how manhattan would end up without people living on it. i'm about maybe 70 or 80 pages in, so not too far. where i'm at its talking a lot about evolution and how animals could move in and evolve in our place... talking a lot about past stuff about how we evolved. which is necessary obviously. still i'd like it to get back to the humans not existing stuff

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Eh. Video games and sci-fi movies have the potential to set up a valid universe to explorer in literary fiction. Unfortunately they do conform to the law that 90% of everything is ****. For example, Warhammer books are mostly a load of sci-fi war porn rubbish but there's the occasional magic with deeper plot lines and character development of Eisenhorn. It's not bad by necessity, as long as the author has the scope to not just write about gun fights and battlefields.
There are video games that would make great source material for films or books.

But instead of making books on games that could really benefit from an adaptation it's just the most popular stuff like Halo, Gears of War, World of Warcraft.

Why not something with more of an actual story? There's a lot of RPGs that could make a good film adaptation. Hell even a Metal Gear Solid adaptation could be cool.

Besides, anyone who would even bother to write a book or movie based on a video game probably has no talent anyway and would just take a huge steaming sh*t on the source material.
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Hell even a Metal Gear Solid adaptation could be cool.
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Director Hideo Kojima confirmed in 2006 that a film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid was in development.[107] He also hinted that the movie may be set in Alaska, the original setting for the game.[108] Despite pitching his ideas regarding the movie, the voice of Solid Snake, David Hayter, will not be writing the final script, appearing in the movie or directing the film. However, a petition has been started by fans to get Hayter involved in writing the script.[109] The movie's producers hoped to invite Kurt Wimmer to write the movie, but the final decision has not yet been announced[110][111], but DeLuca dismissed the claim. According to an interview in Nuts magazine actor Christian Bale is interested in playing Solid Snake in the film. [112]
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn sums it up. Women swoon, blah blah blah. Thanks Jane Austen, so glad you're mentally engaging me and creating interesting philosophical questions to explore within your literature. Chick lit, hundreds of years old. Monotonous stories remain equally monotonous no matter how cute their bonnets are.
And the drama is always about someone who dies (or was on the verge of dying) of flu after being touched by the rain...

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Agreed, you should check out Wuthering Heights instead, at least some brutal **** goes down.
That only felt like bad literature to me.
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Oh well, at least Kojima is actually involved with it, that means it could have potential at least.
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