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PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 7:48 pm 
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so yeah that French thing didn't work out for me.

finished The Alchemist, it's quite short. came strongly recommended by a family and friends, it's, uh, pretty crap. like the message, but the whole soul of the world heart of the world crap was really annoying.

started Cloud Atlas today, finished the first chapter (american guy sailing from New Zealand to the US), quite enjoyed it.

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Re-reading H.P Lovecraft's 'The Lurking Fear'. It's somewhat refreshing after so many stories about Cthulhu.


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Cloud Atlas - liked it a lot, connected stories were cool. loved the writing in the Frobisher and Cavendish bits. hated the writing in the middle section, but the story was good yes. been told the same author's The Bone Clocks is better, will check it out.

American Psycho - enjoyed it. sex scenes almost comically depraved. having previously seen the movie, i read it in Christian Bale's dry voice.

now reading Karen Russell's Sleep Donation on the kindle. i didn't like her novel Swamplandia! very much, although her prose was excellent, but loved most stories on her collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove. will try to find that other collection Home for Girls Raised by Wolves.

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American Psycho - enjoyed it. sex scenes almost comically depraved. having previously seen the movie, i read it in Christian Bale's dry voice.

Really love bouncing forth and between those two. They really work well together and separately are respectable works.

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Azrael wrote:
American Psycho - enjoyed it. sex scenes almost comically depraved. having previously seen the movie, i read it in Christian Bale's dry voice.

Really love bouncing forth and between those two. They really work well together and separately are respectable works.


I suppose I should really read that book since I watch youtube clips of the movie (particularly fond of the 'card game') all the time.


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i liked the movie, but rewatching it after finishing the book just the day before was disappointing.

also, Patrick Bateman is a huge Donald Trump fan. just sayin'.

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traptunderice wrote:
Azrael wrote:
American Psycho - enjoyed it. sex scenes almost comically depraved. having previously seen the movie, i read it in Christian Bale's dry voice.

Really love bouncing forth and between those two. They really work well together and separately are respectable works.


I suppose I should really read that book since I watch youtube clips of the movie (particularly fond of the 'card game') all the time.

The card game! I was once in a DC bar standing next to a table of people playing the card game. I kid you fucking not.

I'm a huge Christian Bale fan and so maybe my opinion is skewed, but I think they stand well together as separate works that both warrant respect. Like Bale's portrayal of the character is so hilarious, frightening, and intriguing all at the same time that I have no complaints whatsoever about the film. The book, however, is able to just do a lot more with monologues and grotesqueness that the film can't, culminating in a very different ending in a way that I think it is hard to compare the two. Separate, but equal in my book. What was disappointing about it? After reading the book was it just not over the top enough?

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"the card game"? you mean comparing business cards? if so then yes that scene is awesome.

i missed the monologues, it wasn't clear just how much he despised those around him, and they should've done the name mix-up thing more often. the dinner with Stash and Vanden could've been skipped, just like in the book. the summer where he was pretty much losing it would've also been cool to see.

Christian Bale was excellent, no faults at all on his performance.

EDIT - and wasn't the ending very similar?he confesses to the lawyer on the phone, he later meets the laugher who laughs it all off and says he has in fact been with paul owen in london.

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EDIT - and wasn't the ending very similar?
Yeah, I guess in the movie it might seem as if he actually liked one or two of the guys. I actually like when he goes on and on about the rainforests or whatever moral thing he rants about. The summer he loses it would probably be kinda hard to transfer to film given ratingsthe book ends with him marrying his secretary and I read the book as the murders being real

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looking back, i don't think he despised them, he was just aloof so much that it seemed that. he only seemed to truly look down on Carruthers (i read some theory saying that's because he is a closet homosexual), and to be jealous of Paul Owen.

I might have zoned out a bit during the conversation between him and Jean in the book :x

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Before They Are Hanged (The First Law #2) by Joe Abercrombie
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (current BBC TV adaptation is terrific)
Ovid - Metamorphoses


I started Mr. Norrell on thursday, actually! how do/did you like it? i'm just getting to page 200, it's rather slow-paced, but the prose is fun (for now - it is a long book, i hope it doesn't begin to wear thin) and the characterization is rich and vivid.

finished Fight Club. think i like the movie better. the guy's writing might not be up my alley. i mean, i remember reading Choke and liking it, but it was 5 or 6 years ago. you're in the middle of something happening and out of nowhere he drops a line like "on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero" and many others.

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I liked it a lot, although the ending was a bit of a let-down. It is pretty slow-paced, but an enjoyable read all in all!


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RIP Harper Lee

Hell of a one and done with To Kill A Mockingbird.

Note - I'm not counting Go Set a Watchman as a finished work. Nothing against the content itself (definitely a more nuanced take), but it's really just a first draft of Mockingbird.

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Umberto Eco gone too! Black day.


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