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Oh hell naw

Perl does more.

Besides, the plan is to use both in my little project.

I'm reading 'Harvest Time'. It's a mile a minute read.

- Rexy

I'm still reading TKAMB, but just wanted to comment on what a dick Jem is in the last third of the book. Man, what a dick!

Reading Brave New world for school, great book, kind of an odd one, but for a book written in the 1930's, it had me hooked.
Other than that, haven't been doing nearly enough reading, but I have to start reading short stories for research so that I can write one.

Reading Pride and Prejudice for School.

BLEH.

Awesome book, why would the age of a book alter it's quality?

Idiot.

Some of the bullshit prose Shakespeare used also helps.

It certainly affects it's readability. anyone who's ever read Swift or Hawthorne (Or earlier) knows what I'm talking about.

Or Oscar Wilde. I didn't know that it was possible to use so many gigantic words to describe a lamp shade. I mean, I'm sure it's a nice lamp shade but shut the fuck up about the lamp shade.

Oscar Wilde trumps Jane Austen when it comes to flowery writing, fucking pooftah.

Yeah but my point is valid with regards to a 90 year old book.

I have fun reading Lovecraft. He's so up himself he calls a Flashlight an "Electric Lamp".

Seriously his stories are great, but the man himself was incredibly pathetic and racist and geeky.

Oh yeah. I hate H.P. Lovecraft with a passion. His books are good though.

I just watched a movie supposedly based on one of his works called From Beyond it was full of terrible acting.

Finished reading From Hell, fuck me. Talk about off the wall scary crazy shit in the last chapter where Alan Moore tried to tell us that the Jack the Ripper phenomenon repeated itself through history and its last incarnation was Peter Sutcliffe, I shat bricks when Ian Brady made a guest appearance.

Was a very very good intense graphic novel, may even of been better than V4V and on par with Watchmen.

I'm trying to get through Watchmen as quickly as I can before the movie comes out.

Possibly a bad idea. I'm planning on watching the movie fresh, and then reading the book, which will likely be the better (or at least, more detailed) experience.

I want to know the original work before the movie. I don't want to pick up any qualities that were soley the movie's and expect them in the novel. The novel is very cinematic. I hope the film's cinematography will try to follow it.

You fail to take into account the raping that Alan Moore works suffer in translation to film.

That makes even more justification to watch the movie first, enjoy it, then read the book and enjoy it moreso. Whereas if I watch the movie with knowledge of the book in my head, I can only be disappointed.

Righteously disappointed, and it stops true fans from facepalming when you say 'No, this isn't how it happens' when reading the book.

i am reading "Aleister Crowley the beast demystified"
its an interesting read :)

I’m reading the slides from a lecture I had last week. They make no sense. To estimate the number of species in a population, we divide the population in a number of classes. The classes themselves should be defined consistently, but the classes of two populations when share some classes and have other unique to them. The number of classes we define is S, and si is a sample of S. We then use a function of time to calculate S.

Wait, so, what’s the population size?

Reading fiction would be a luxury to me. The closest I can come to it is Steve Jones.

i don't normaly buy books that are non - fiction books, but the one i'm reading turned out to be good :)

you COULD spend more time in the fan fic section, or if that's not possible for some reason ... here's a little fiction for you.

There was a little mouse called jimmy.
and i destroyed him
The end.

We have a fan fic section? I'M LEAVING!

Reading The Interview by King Hurley. Terrible book.

What? I thought we needed to mix it up a bit.

Read Maus, both books again.

The ending didn't make me feel so crummy this time around.

So, that's nice.

It's one of those endings you cry at, but you cry good. Like Oedipus Rex or From Hell.

Am reading Beloved by Toni Morrison, it would appear Freud was right.

I'm just starting 'Barrel Fever' by David Sedaris. I feel like I'm gonna love it.

I just re-read "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell. Fairly interesting, and I can't say that things aren't going that way.

if i ever even see the book "Of Mice And Men" again i will die. we've been reading it through in school and i found it to be madening.


Also i have lost the game. sorry.

Sigh.

Did i upset you?

There are a lot of things wrong with this post.

A lot.

well you know i thought i'd make it fit in my streak of posting meaningless crap...

Reading Phaedra (OH GOD OH GOD THE MELODRAMA IT BURNS IT BURRRRRRRNS) and A Week Like Any Other as part of my literary course. Once I'm done with them I can try my hand at understanding Plato's Republic again. Yay!

I never realized how fucking crazy Greek philosophers were untill I started reading a book by the 'best' of them. Now I fucking hate ancient Philosophy, although it makes for a nice story.

Death on the installment plan.

Going through Neil Gaiman's Sandman 1-6 now. God I love these books. First graphic novel I read was Preludes and Nocturnes.