[girlgun]

Originally Posted by alyasa

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

 

why did you like it?

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by alyasa

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

 

*splooge* Wouldn't mind marrying would you?

[SynthethicalY]

I have yet to get through it, I might read that next. I have at least three boxes of books that I need to get through. Last time I counted them it was at least 100 or so.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

I have yet to get through it, I might read that next. I have at least three boxes of books that I need to get through. Last time I counted them it was at least 100 or so.

haha I though I was bad with 4 books. How the hell do you get to that state!!

[girlgun]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Hmm I guess it just wasn't something you enjoyed. I was the same with Lord of the Flies for me. It was alright I guess.

Hey SynthethicalY, have you read grapes of wrath? If so what did you think?

i didn't like lord of the flies either.

[h8kurdt]

*high five* the group to overthrow over-rated books.

[SynthethicalY]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

haha I though I was bad with 4 books. How the hell do you get to that state!!

Go to salvation army or goodwill, when you are unemployed and buy their cheap used books.

[alyasa]

The utter grit of it, I would imagine... And the fact that the plot actually exists and isn't just a fantasy of the writer still locked up somewhere in the nether regions of his mind. And Rorschach, the ultimate (almost) anti-hero...

[girlgun]

Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

I have yet to get through it, I might read that next. I have at least three boxes of books that I need to get through. Last time I counted them it was at least 100 or so.

watchmen or a secret history?

[girlgun]

Originally Posted by alyasa

The utter grit of it, I would imagine... And the fact that the plot actually exists and isn't just a fantasy of the writer still locked up somewhere in the nether regions of his mind. And Rorschach, the ultimate (almost) anti-hero...

very interesting.

[h8kurdt]

Read it before the pissing film comes out.

[SynthethicalY]

Originally Posted by girlgun

watchmen or a secret history?

I don't know what I was replying to in the first part.

[floatingslowly]

Watchmen was one of the best comic books ever.

it's been about 18 years since I last read it though.

[5Against1]

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

[alyasa]

Originally Posted by 5Against1

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

That's dissenting...

[alyasa]

Originally Posted by Shaka Moloch

 

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami

I absolutely love Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami... Brilliant story, brilliant characters, and the sense of surreal and dense atmosphere is palpable, and yet it still remains witty and heartfelt. Amazing writer, amazing book.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky

[uhler]

 

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by total-trash

i need to read a few books over the rest of the summer. any suggestions for a good quick read?

patrick suskinds "parfum" is my absolute favorite novel. clive barker has some good ones as well. on my list to read right now is Survivor, though I am trapped under a mountain of ethiopian history books right now. damn historian's fancy.

[girlgun]

i tried to read welsh's if you liked school, you'll love work. bah.

i'm reading the historian. vampire story, but i really like it.

the most notable book to me i've read lately was devil in the white city. telling the story of "dr holmes" (sometimes referred to as america's first serial killer and had been suspected of being jack the ripper - but isn't) and the world's fair of 1893. SO GOOD.