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al-gazal el viajero de los dos orientes (the traveler of the two easts) by jesus whatever his last name is.

about the time spain was dominated by the muslims. quite interesting actually. i'm gonna be reading that harry potter book as fast as i get it.

Mortalis- R.A. Salvatore

Just finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince... Fuck ya. Am now reading Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon.

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Yet besides that I'm reading 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse' by Robert Rankin. Funny shit.

YEAH! Is that a new one, haven't heard of it before?

Henry Miller - Tropic of capricorn

'Tis his latest, although it's nowhere near as good as 'Waiting for Godalming'.

It's about a guy who loves getting into car accidents and starts setting them up on purpose.

Ballard was a sick, sick man.

the Cronenberg adaptation for this book was disturbingly good.. a sick movie for a sick book... :twisted:

I refused to see it after the way he butchered Naked Lunch... maybe I'll try this one out.

Thanks for the tip.

well, I refused to see Naked Lunch because there's no way it can be adapted properly to a movie...

but Crash is worth the try... let me know what you think of it...

rightn ow i just finished re-reading the book my UN came from. The dream quest of unknown kadath.

reading the new HP tonight...
just finished dreamcatcher by stephen king, not his best.

By 'not his best' you mean 'this fucking sucks,' right? Because that's what it does. That was probably the second worst book he ever wrote besides Cujo.

I hate Stephen King. He overwrites the fuck out of everything, is a freakish pedophile (IT, Dreamcatcher), and has only really written maybe six actual books in his lifetime, and then rewritten them a whole assload of times. Needful Things was one of the few good books he ever wrote, along with Misery, The Green Mile, and maybe one more, but the rest... ugh.

Sorry if that offended you, but I've been pissed off at King since he fucked up the Dark Tower series.

T.I.E. - You'd be right to skip Naked Lunch, you should only watch it if you want to brag to people about how you've watched it.

The only King book I've read was Misery, and it was good. It got pretty ridiculous, like for instance when

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she killed the cop with the lawnmower, but it was consistently enjoyable.



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Some of the best 'train of thought' writing I've ever seen was contained in the first few chapters.

I'll have to start doing that if I'm going to do a spoiler!

Misery's good, very tense.

Yes, it's probably the sickest most shocking movie I've ever seen. And somehow it's still a good film. But as far as Cronenberg goes, I'll take Spider over Crash anyday.

It was a pointless attention whore of a film. B grade shit on a stick.

I finished Chocolate Bunnies and am onto Boethius' 'The Consolation of Philosophy'. If anyone is interested in delving into the classics this might be a better place to start than say Plutarch or Sophocles. It is a very sad book; Boethius was awaiting to be executed for being allegedly involved in a conspiracy against Alfred the Great, and he wrote this book as a means of moving beyond despair and accepting his fate.

I know the many disguises of that monster, Fortune, and the extent to which she seduces with friendship the very people she is striving to cheat, until she overwhelms them with unbearable grief at the suddenness of her desertion.

Well halfway through Beothius turned into a damnable christian preacher :evil: .

Anyway I finished it anyway and am onto 'The Aeneid'. It's an offshoot to 'The Odessey' by Virgil. So far it's pretty cool.

Memoirs of a Geisha.. great book but soon coming to a mediocre movie near you.