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8:41 pm
August 3, 2009
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Rabidbadger
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Not your Fave book, not the funniest, or funnest. The one that changed your life?
Mine is "illusions" by richard bach. (amazon link)
Not a good book, not even close. But meant a LOT to me when I was a teenager. Most probably saved my life. Can't explain why without writing my own book, haha.
Fave fun book, though: Geek Love. (not about computers, about circus folk)
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12:21 am
August 5, 2009
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Danberg
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Post edited 4:52 am – August 5, 2009 by Danberg
Favorite Novel: The Perks of Being a Wallflower – A perfectly fucked up sort of coming-of-age story of a teen dealing with social anxiety.
Close Second: The Green Mile – Leaps and bounds better than the film.
Favorite in Any Printed Media: Preacher (Vertigo Comics) – Long story short, Preacher follows the travels of a man named Jesse Custer, who is possessed by the unholy spawn of an angel and a devil, on his quest to hunt down GOD HIMSELF. Brilliant character development, amazing storyline, tons of suspense and violence… OH! And his best friend is an Irish vampire!
They have been screwing around with adaptations for a long time. Kevin Smith was attached to direct ages ago and even did some test makeup, and then HBO was going to turn it into an issue-by-issue maxi-series, but I think its currently in limbo.
For the record, I have no problem with an adaptation as long as they do it justice like they did with The Watchmen. If I get a version of Preacher that sucks as bad as Wolverine, I’m gonna go apeshit.
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8:29 am
August 5, 2009
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danhauk
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Oh man that's a tough one. I haven't done much reading in the past few years (not since early years of college probably).
The most important book I've ever read, off the top of my head, might be To Kill A Mockingbird or Dead Man Walking. Even though it's been probably 10 years or more since I read them, these two books really had an impact on the way I think about some ethical and social issues like racism and the death penalty. Before these two books I had an idea of how I felt about them, but these books really finalized my views.
I really need to get into reading more. There's probably tons of books I would really enjoy, and if it's a good book I enjoy reading. Maybe I'll pick something up soon.
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5:19 pm
August 5, 2009
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Rabidbadger
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Danberg said:
Favorite Novel: The Perks of Being a Wallflower – A perfectly fucked up sort of coming-of-age story of a teen dealing with social anxiety.
Close Second: The Green Mile – Leaps and bounds better than the film.
Favorite in Any Printed Media: Preacher (Vertigo Comics) – Long story short, Preacher follows the travels of a man named Jesse Custer, who is possessed by the unholy spawn of an angel and a devil, on his quest to hunt down GOD HIMSELF. Brilliant character development, amazing storyline, tons of suspense and violence… OH! And his best friend is an Irish vampire!
wallflower sounds interesting, and familiar. I think someone else recommended it to me before, so I'll check it out.
and the Preacher ref makes me think you might like Geek Love. Not so much DanH, though. But you seem to prefer the weird.
Geek Love is about a Carnival couple, who breed kids to be genetic freaks, the main one becomes a Cult hero, and oddly enough is a very poingnant, thoughtful story. I'd love to see a movie made, but it would take today's tech to do it, Or an "adult animation" at the least. (not that kind of "adult" just not kids stuff)
Not enough animation made for the over 18 crowd these days.
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7:18 pm
August 5, 2009
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Danberg
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Post edited 9:25 pm – August 5, 2009 by Danberg
Rabidbadger said:
wallflower sounds interesting, and familiar. I think someone else recommended it to me before, so I’ll check it out.
and the Preacher ref makes me think you might like Geek Love. Not so much DanH, though. But you seem to prefer the weird.
Geek Love is about a Carnival couple, who breed kids to be genetic freaks, the main one becomes a Cult hero, and oddly enough is a very poingnant, thoughtful story. I’d love to see a movie made, but it would take today’s tech to do it, Or an “adult animation” at the least. (not that kind of “adult” just not kids stuff)
Not enough animation made for the over 18 crowd these days.
I looked up Geek Love and it looks really interesting… I may pick it up…
As far as "adult animation" goes, you are right. Cartoons and animated films gear toward the 18+ crowd are few and far between, unless you count anime, but that doesn't have a terribly wide appeal. Rob Zombie has a film coming out this fall called "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" which has a couple characters from "House of 1000 Corpses" and "Devil's Rejects" that looks really good. The animation style is very similar to Ren and Stimpy, but its not done by John K. (thankfully).
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7:32 pm
August 5, 2009
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Danberg
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Also, I miss The Maxx cartoon on MTV. They had it on when I was WAY too young for the subject matter, but I effing loved it. That and The Head.
I dunno… I guess I get my fill of this sort of thing from comics and graphic novels like Preacher, The Boys, and Fables. I had gotten into The Walking Dead, but it became too much for me when the 7th or 8th main character was killed off.
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9:11 pm
August 5, 2009
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Katie
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I'm pretty much half asleep right now, can't really keep my eyes open and my brain is pretty much dead. But anyway, yeah, Perks of Being A Wallflower is a great book. Other books that have really stuck with me over the years are uh, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins, Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (dude, this book is sick as fuck, totally one of my favorites EVERRRRRRRRRRRR, I don't care if you've seen the movie and you thought it was kind of weird and boring, the book is absolutely COMPLETELY different from the book in so fucking many ways), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley… I think I'll stop there. I'm tired of thinking.
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1:16 am
August 6, 2009
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briancraig
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every couple of years, i re-read "ishmael" by daniel quinn.
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8:04 am
August 6, 2009
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danhauk
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Everything is Illuminated was an awesome movie. I loved it, but didn't realize it was adapted from a book (even though most movies these days are either adapted from a book or a horrible remake). I might have to read that. Plus it helps that I'm big on WWII era stuff, video games, movies, TV shows, etc.
I think I'm going to have to add Brave New World to my list as well as Lord of the Flies and Fahrenheit 451. I haven't read A Clockwork Orange, but I've seen the movie and really liked it. I'd like to read the book at some point.
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10:23 am
August 6, 2009
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Katie
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Post edited 12:28 pm – August 6, 2009 by Katie
danhauk said:
Everything is Illuminated was an awesome movie. I loved it, but didn’t realize it was adapted from a book (even though most movies these days are either adapted from a book or a horrible remake). I might have to read that. Plus it helps that I’m big on WWII era stuff, video games, movies, TV shows, etc.
I think I’m going to have to add Brave New World to my list as well as Lord of the Flies and Fahrenheit 451. I haven’t read A Clockwork Orange, but I’ve seen the movie and really liked it. I’d like to read the book at some point.
The movie is literally only one third of the book. Not even kidding. It’s a really quick read, only like 170 pages or something, but the movie is seriously only one third of what you read. And not even my favorite third of the novel. The book is kind of divided into three writing formats, kinda… One third is a letter written from Alex to Jonathan, another third is what you see in the movie, Jonathan’s trip to Ukraine, narrated by Alex, and the other third is the book Jonathan is writing about his family and the shtetl of Trachimbrod that he is sending to Alex for him to read as it’s being written, kind of. I think. It has been years since I’ve read it, I don’t really remember, but I’m pretty sure that’s it. It’s so fucking awesome. The story Jonathan is writing about his family is definitely my favorite part.
Brave New World is AWESOME. If you read that you should follow it up with Island (also by Aldous Huxley). And Clockwork Orange is a GREAT book. A little confusing at first, but you’ve already seen the movie, so it shouldn’t really be confusing. I thought Lord of the Flies was boring, but I had to read it for school, so that made it a pain in the ass because I was most likely trying to read another book at the same time. And I just picked up a copy of Fahrenheit 451 from a thrift store a few weeks ago. Haven’t read it yet. Well, I mean, I’ve read book before, but I haven’t read thiissssss copy.
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11:55 pm
August 6, 2009
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Danberg
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I read A Brave New World and The Martian Chronicles for school… both of which were pretty awesome.
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10:45 am
August 7, 2009
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briancraig
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speaking of graphic novels, DB, "jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth" was absolutely beautiful to look at and a heartbreaking read. i highly recommend it.
also, i agree with the comments on "everything is illuminated". i also really liked jonathan safran foer's "extremely loud and incredibly close".
another book that was very important to me was the reference book "baseball uniforms of the 20th century". that book was right next to my bed for pretty much the duration of my childhood, and finding it again recently brought back lots of great memories. if you consider yourself an amateur baseball historian or you just love those awesome polyester uniforms of the seventies and eighties, this book is a must-have. i'm going to suggest keeping it right next to your bed. (similar memories exist for the 1989 guinness book of world records, but i don't think you'll be able to appreciate it the same way.)
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