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01-29-2009, 11:35 PM
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i don't like the dark tower series either, in fact i don't like stephen king

h.p. lovecraft is enough to satiate all my horror needs
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Jem was a man.

You are thinking of Scout.

In before Team Fortress 2 jokes that I myself will provide.
Yes, that.

They were kinda interchangeable in my head.
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Oh and also they took out the part where Bob Yule spits in Atticus' face. I love that part because of how he explains to Scout that he wouldn't fight back because he feels sorry for him and is worried about his kids, I know they couldn't include everything in the movie but they removed a lot of scenes that put me in awe of Atticus and how wonderful he was. Now I feel like reading the book again, oh you know what the movie has a great soundtrack!
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Are you kidding me? I loved the Dark Tower series. The last book kept me up at night after reading what happens to Roland.
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Are you kidding me? I loved the Dark Tower series. The last book kept me up at night after reading what happens to Roland.
Take it back. Oh, my god. Please take it back. Worst ending to a book, ever. No exaggeration. And it wasn't just the awful punch out ending. I could have lived with that. It was the way they dealt with the final enemy. So fucking stupid. I wanted to curl up in a ball and die.

Plus, he writes himself into the books.

HE WRITES HIMSELF INTO THE BOOKS!
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Take it back. Oh, my god. Please take it back. Worst ending to a book, ever. No exaggeration. And it wasn't just the awful punch out ending. I could have lived with that. It was the way they dealt with the final enemy. So fucking stupid. I wanted to curl up in a ball and die.

Plus, he writes himself into the books.

HE WRITES HIMSELF INTO THE BOOKS!
I'm not going to try to justify it. I'm just going to say I enjoyed the books.

Fuck you, response by non-compliance. I'm like the Amish, except I won't use words instead of guns/bombs/knives/vehicles/WMD.
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HE WRITES HIMSELF INTO THE BOOKS!
And lets not forget that Roland is also an admited author insertion even before that.

Reading From Hell by Alan Moore, I have a constitution of steel when it comes to horror and crime fiction but Dr Gull gives me nightmares D:.
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Read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

I felt my political affinity shifting more right as I read it. Less regulation! Let the geniuses prove themselves!

Still a fantastic book.
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My own literary exploits are teaching me a great deal about the evolutionary management of the biological resources involved in the growth of the horns of dung beetles. Absolutely fascinating.
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Learning Perl. Otherwise known as the Llama Book.


Seriously, how can you not like a textbook with a Llama on the cover? Or one where the authors tease each other (and Perl's creator) in the footnotes?
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Read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

I felt my political affinity shifting more right as I read it. Less regulation! Let the geniuses prove themselves!

Still a fantastic book.
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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!
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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.
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Reading Pride and Prejudice for School.

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

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

Idiot.
Some of the bullshit prose Shakespeare used also helps.
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Awesome book, why would the age of a book alter it's quality?

Idiot.
It certainly affects it's readability. anyone who's ever read Swift or Hawthorne (Or earlier) knows what I'm talking about.
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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.
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Oscar Wilde trumps Jane Austen when it comes to flowery writing, fucking pooftah.
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Yeah but my point is valid with regards to a 90 year old book.
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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.
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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.
I just watched a movie supposedly based on one of his works called From Beyond it was full of terrible acting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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