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Just bought it today. Haven't started it yet.
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My interest in the Casino Royale movie sent me back to re-read the book. So far the movie's better.
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why do you hate him? he's got an awesome ear and a way to put pictures in my head that's just extraordinary. |
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That doesn't hurt. But honestly everything about the movie is far better--plot, dialog, pacing, even characterization. The book is dull by comparison.
What's great about the movie is you could take Bond out of it & it would still work. |
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well they are shit books with terrible prose. what did you expect? |
yeh, i'd forgotten. i read them as an impressionable pre-teen.
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I'm reading Mickey Spillane's Return of the Hood. Thought it would be Chandleresque, but it's not:( .
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About the same, 5 months or so, but all I've read in the past two is 10 pages. Only 90 to go though. I'll finish it this week, I've decided that I should. After that it's Portrait of the Artist as a young man and Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. at the same time. |
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hey, pendelho, welcome back. good picks there. ignore the last 1/2 of the birth of tragedy where all he does is kiss wagner's ass. or when you're done, instead, read nietzsche contra wagner. he insults him-- call him an "actor". can you think of anything worse to say to a man? |
thanks on both counts.
well, now to be fair, mr. nietzsche was just pissed he didn't get mrs. wagner... |
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we are all "actors" that is a charge that can be levelled at every single living and dead human being. |
no, tom stoppard writes that "actors are the opposite of people."
of course "all the world's a stage" implies that we are all actors. the only logical conclusion can be that there are no people. |
if everyone has a facade, a mask they wear in the world outside, a mask that, however it is similar to their perceived "true" self still is a mask, then we are all actors.
george peppard said "I love it when a plan comes together" |
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not everyone loves the stage & being in front of crowds asking for their admiration. some people like to work in silence. |
shut up already.
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Sounds like you've been reading Camus, or maybe Shakespeare. My head has been in these lately: Kierkegaard - Either/Or Part II St. Augustine - Confessions Thich Nhat Hanh - Understanding Our Mind Hey, I've realized I've lost my Songs of Innocence (Blake), leaving me only with Songs of Experience. Feels appropriate. |
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