Yeah, I've heard a lot of good things about Brave New World. I started King Lear a couple times, but yeah, I definitely couldn't get into it. I'll try Shakespeare when I'm more seasoned at reading and whatnot. I've read 1984. I used to be a pretty big fan of George Orwell. I got most of the way through On The Road, and then I just sorta quit because it didn't feel like it was going anywhere. I'm pretty impatient with books, so whenever they hit a dry spot, I tend to put them down and not pick them back up. What's Stranger In A Strange Land about?? Sounds pretty interesting. I'd look up the Amazon stuff on it, but I'm more interested in hearing your take on it. @Duck So you're one of the people that doesn't dig LOTR. I'm going to pray to God that you aren't into Star Wars and all that. I'd hate to have to lose all my respect for you ;D ;D. I'm into all kinds of funky movies. Since I'm lazy and it's late and I'm tired, I'm just copying my list from Facebook. I like a lot of movies more for artistic merit and stuff than anything, so some of those on the list are mainly there for that reason. Definitely not all of them though. By the way, if you haven't seen any of them, watch them for sure. They're all amazing. I've impeccable taste, if I do say so myself American Beauty, Little Miss Sunshine, Into the Wild, Donnie Darko, What Dreams May Come, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Holy Mountain, City of God, Dazed and Confused, Drugstore Cowboy, Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, Mysterious Skin, No Country for Old MenShow all (26), Pan's Labyrinth, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, The Big Lebowski, The Wackness, Lord of the Rings Trilogy (film), Charlie Bartlett, The Darjeeling Limited, 300, Berkeley, The Shining
stranger in a strange land is perhaps the trashiest of all the trashy 1960's sci fi books out there, but it is fucking brilliant . it's very very long though, about 525 pages if i remember correctly? and of course you'd have to get the uncut version. the beginning is very boring, as it just explains the background of mike (the main guy) and how he was abandoned on mars as a baby and raised by martains and blah. it starts getting good once you get to jubal, this saucy old rich man that mike escapes to once he's back on earth with the help of this nurse named jill. the book is about mike's escapades, and how he teaches his earth friends about martain customs and the martain language. using the martain language you can do cool shit like make stuff disappear and levitate things, but in order to do that to something you have to "grok" it, which basically means completely understand it from the inside out. it's really really cool, as long as you can get past the extremely slow first 75 pages or so
Haha. That does sound pretty interesting, especially on the heels of reading a bunch of Ray Bradbury short stories that I did. Ever heard of The Stand? It's the EAF (epic as fuck) book that Stephen King wrote. He basically kill off 99+% of the world's population with a superflu, and then wrote about everything that ensued.
The original trilogy only. Everything else is crap - and the only thing the new trilogy is good for is the final line, which is the worst line in cinema history, though it's just a word =P I understand what you mean about the patience, most of the last few books I've read were very very very hard for me to get through, but they didn't get tough until much later in them, so I really didn't want to make the time I put in a waste. Ooh ooh ooh. http://www.amazon.com/History-World-10-Chapters/dp/0679731377"]A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes. Very intellectual, humorous, and creative. Good prose, plus it's set up almost like short stories, so it should be good for attention purposes. Plus, I always get that feeling like I've learned so much about life when I read his books, and I'd the same about many of those movies. Original post before I thought of that: =P Kudos on Little Miss Sunshine and Mysterious Skin. Such great films. From those, I very much recommend Fear and Loathing's book - and think you should avoid Fight Club's. This may sound strange since I just said don't read Fight Club, but you might want to try either Choke or Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. A lot of dark humor and the stories are both interesting.
Haha. Chuck Palahniuk. I've read a few things from him. Fight Club included. I didn't like the book all that much. Didn't think it was very well written. He's got a short story called 'Guts'. THAT is messed up stuff, if you haven't read it before. It's in one of his short-story collections, though I don't remember which. I've been told that the F&L book is a lot better then the movie. A friend of mine is reading it right now, and offered to lend it to me when he's done. Little Miss Sunshine used to be my most favorite movie. Even got me to take a vow of silence for a little while. I really dug Dwayne (Paul Dano) quite a bit . I'll put that History Of The World book on my Amazon wishlist. I'm pretty poor at the moment, but if I can round up some money, I'll order a copy. Along with the ones recommended earlier. If you've never read Isaac Asimov (I'm a huge fan of him), he has a book called The Roving Mind which is basically a collection of essays. I HIGHLY recommend it if you're into science essays and are looking for something to read.
Unrealisticness made that story really stupid to me, and it's in Haunted which is a novel made mostly of short stories, that is the worst thing I've ever read (and I of course did not finish it) It's at my library, but yeah. Little Miss Sunshine is one of my favorites as well =)
Have you seen all of the others on the list? Yeah. The story was really unrealistic. I don't like Chuck P. as an author. I think he tries WAY too hard. I guess it's good that he's trying something that hasn't been done before though. I respect that. If you want scary stories, there's a really old book called "Alfred Hitchcock's: Stories That Scared Even Me". I don't know if you can even get ahold of it anymore, but if you ever come across it, there's some very very impressive writing in it.
I have to get going though. I can't keep my eyes open, and I have school tomorrow anyways. I'll catch up on your posts then. Thanks for everything thus far though. See you around!
Ones I did not see: Into the Wild, What Dreams May Come, The Holy Mountain, City of God, Charlie Bartlett, The Darjeeling Limited, Berkeley But I want to see City of God and Into the Wild really bad. I don't get that. I don't think he's ever had an original idea =P Will look for it.
Watch fear and loathing in las vegas, then read the book. Johnny depp does a fantastic job of getting across the point of Raul Duke who is a dramatized version of Hunter Thomas. Just imagine duke saying the things in the book the way johnny depp would say them in the movie. It's very easy considering many lines in the movie are taken straight from the book, however the book is much more detailed and wildly entertaining. I think this may help jump start your reading, and help you to take the words off the page and bring them into a real scene. GOODLUCK.
books ah, stoners do read favorites: his dark materials trilogy (the golden compass, the subtle knife, and the amber spy glass) ,fahrenheit 451, be here now those are my top choices right now i am currently reading the tibetan book of the dead and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, and will follow that up by Well's The Invisible Man i can't wait to read the book about the grateful dead A Long Strange Trip i need to re-read a brave new world, i loved it, but it's been years since i've read that book. and i have to note my new book for crystal energy: The Book of Stones!!!
I was a huge fan of City of God. I don't know your feeling on torrents, but if you don't have a problem with them, that's probably your best bet of finding it. If you don't want to do that though, I can burn you a copy of the movie and mail it to you. I can send you any of those if you'd like, though the others aren't as hard to get ahold of. Into The Wild was pretty life-changing with me. The girl that is now my girlfriend recommended it to me the first time we started talking, and I watched it and was almost moved to tears by the movie. You don't know me or anything, but if you did, you'd understand that that doesn't happen. What Dreams May Come and The Holy Mountain are both really obscure movies. Especially the latter. They're both pretty interesting, though I wouldn't go out of my way to find them. The Darjeeling Limited is a movie by Wes Anderson. He's one of my favorite directors, easily in the top three. It's a really quirky movie, but I really really liked it. Wes Anderson also did Rushmore, The Life Aquatic and Bottlerocket. All of his movies are good and are worth going out of your way to see. I guess maybe they're not original. They're just more original than most things. Speaking of not original, the eight million multi-personality themed stories that flooded the world after fight club came out were just great Alright, I'll be sure and get that book from my friend when he's done with it. I've watched Fear and Loathing once or twice, but didn't really enjoy it at all. I'm going to watch it sober sooner or later though, which will help a lot, I'm sure. I read The Golden Compass when I was little. I freaked out about that kidnapping part. It made me incredibly paranoid and I basically walked around in fear of being stolen. It was a good time.
You've pushed me over the edge, if my library doesn't have them, I'll download as soon as I free up some space. I'll check them out if I see them about, but I didn't like Rushmore, and I liked The Life Aquatic but not especially. Found it very refreshing, but it's not a favorite by any means. Yeah, I mean, all his writing techniques are standard "how to become a writer" bullshit or trendy things that were once original - and just about everything in his books has been thought before - but he definitely does some strange combinations of things.
Rushmore was really strange. Even after watching it three or four times, I'm still not sure if I like it or not. I don't think that I do, but there's a part of me that is still drawn to the movie. The Life Aquatic was strange too. I don't think either of the two even begin to compare to The Darjeeling Limited. You'll have to let me know what you think about City of God and Into The Wild once you get a chance to watch them. I hope you like them!
