[demonrail666]

Just bought it today. Haven't started it yet.

 

[gmku]

My interest in the Casino Royale movie sent me back to re-read the book. So far the movie's better.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

eccchhhhhhh faulkner.

why do you hate him? he's got an awesome ear and a way to put pictures in my head that's just extraordinary.

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by gmku

My interest in the Casino Royale movie sent me back to re-read the book. So far the movie's better.

because it has eva green in it.

[gmku]

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.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by gmku

That doesn't hurt. But honestly everything about the movie is far better--plot, dialog, pacing, even characterization. The book is dull by comparison.

well they are shit books with terrible prose. what did you expect?

[gmku]

yeh, i'd forgotten. i read them as an impressionable pre-teen.

[Cantankerous]

oh yeah also this

 

[Pookie]

I'm reading Mickey Spillane's Return of the Hood. Thought it would be Chandleresque, but it's not .

[Sonic Youth 37]

Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Ulysses for the last 6 months. I feel smart when I hold it and dumb when I read it.

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.

[Rob Instigator]

Robert Anton Wilson - NATURAL LAW (don;t put a rubber on your willie)


Robert Anton Wilson - QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY

 

[m1rr0r dash]

 

and

 

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

 

and

 

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?

[m1rr0r dash]

thanks on both counts.


well, now to be fair, mr. nietzsche was just pissed he didn't get mrs. wagner...

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

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?

we are all "actors"
that is a charge that can be levelled at every single living and dead human being.

[m1rr0r dash]

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.

[Rob Instigator]

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"

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

we are all "actors"
that is a charge that can be levelled at every single living and dead human being.

not everyone loves the stage & being in front of crowds asking for their admiration.

some people like to work in silence.

[m1rr0r dash]

shut up already.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

we are all "actors"
that is a charge that can be levelled at every single living and dead human being.

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.