shoekeys Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 It seems as though people love it or hate it with a passion. What makes you hate the 'ish'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.yuck Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 it's about some kid who was sent to live with his moms psychiatrist who looks like santa, they eat valium like candy, and when they get bored they have a shock therapy chair to provide entertainment. Or so the book jacket says. I'm gonna read it. I'll let y'all know whats really up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Originally posted by shoekeys It seems as though people love it or hate it with a passion. What makes you hate the 'ish'? well, at first i hated it because it was so talked about by these losers I knew. Then I read it. I'm sorry, but I can't remember a whole lot of it. I just remember hating it. Although I do remember a couple of kids who read it saying how we should go back to the hunter gatherer system. You know that show on History Channel "History Bites"? The dude Rick Green dissed up Quinn and Ishmael on that show once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Originally posted by KING BLING I've read a lot of these and I cant help thinking damn what a bunch of cliche kids we all are but.... i always think that as well.. whenever one of these threads is started, you know you'll see kerouac (sp? not tha i care), vonnegut, fast food nation, ishmail, siddartha... on a side note.. i'm also reading a website called 'a sociological tour through cyberspace' which is basically a basic sociology text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effyoo Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Originally posted by Vanity on a side note.. i'm also reading a website called 'a sociological tour through cyberspace' which is basically a basic sociology text. link please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 i forget... i always jsut use google. it's kind of an old site, but it's still chock full o trivial knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoekeys Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Originally posted by Weapon X well, at first i hated it because it was so talked about by these losers I knew haha so true. Its definitely one of those books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven.13 Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 the labels of hienekens when im laying on the beach. actually i just finished "sellevision" and started reading once there was a war by stienback, and also started the lonesome traveler by everyones emo favourite kerouac. (this is ttboy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
test pattern Posted May 27, 2003 Author Share Posted May 27, 2003 Originally posted by KING BLING I've read a lot of these and I cant help thinking damn what a bunch of cliche kids we all are but.... Test - if you like prachett and gaiman than pick up GOOD OMENS. Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Trial by Kafka Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach i've read good omens it's really good! one i suggest if you want a clever laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SukiSukiNow Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 I just got The Teammates by David Halberstam, so far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Why did the Chicken cross the road? LA Police Department: Give us five minutes with the chicken and we'll find out! Einstein: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move under the chicken? Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Pat Buchanan: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American. Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on the chicken. Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road and that was good enough for us. Bill Clinton: Because in a lapse of judgement I mislead the chicken. However Kenneth Starr's report on the matter was uncalled for. Colonel Sanders: Did I miss one? Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road. I don't know any chickens. I have never known any chickens. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. Ronald Reagan: What chicken? Bill Gates: I have just released Chicken Coop 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook, and Explorer is an inextricable part of the operating system. Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway? Oliver Stone: The question is not, Why did the chicken cross the road? Rather, it is, Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing? JFK: Ask not what your road can do for your chicken - ask what your chicken do for your road! Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads. Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. Buddha: Asking this question denies your own chicken nature. Moses: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road". And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing. Hamlet: To cross or not to cross, that is the question! Kindergarten teacher: To get to the other side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracked Ass Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 American Psycho. Anything by Mario Puzo: Godfather, Fools Die, Sicilian, Fourth K, Omerta, etc. Imajica (Clive Barker), or any of his others but don't die before you read Imajica, that would be a shame. "Summer reading" is kind of a funny concept when you get older. I like to be out painting in the summer, and holed up reading in the winter. But I'm not in school so that's why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BROWNer Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 Originally posted by Cracked Ass Imajica (Clive Barker) that book was quite ill. i think i liked weaveworld better though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted May 27, 2003 Share Posted May 27, 2003 All right, a genie walks into a bar. The bartender says "Look, we don't serve genies here." The genie says "I'm not a genie, I'm a drunk!" A hooker says "I'd hold this pencil between your ass cheeks to get a drink." So the genie shouts "I was talking to the the hooker." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KING BLING Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 a bump for literacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Plaid Fill-ins Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Originally posted by Elwood Poetry by Allen Ginsberg. ..nevermind, I like "Hadda be played on a jukebox" by him, but his other shit is completely gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krook Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Album: Get Rich or Die Tryin' Song: Like My Style (feat. Tony Yayo (G-Unit)) [50 Cent] (Uh huh) I know you like my style (Uh huh) You like how I break it down (Uh huh) I know you like style (Uh huh) You like how I break it down I know you like my style (Uh huh) You like how I break it down Wanna get rich I'll show you how Wanna get rich I'll show you how On ya mark, get set, let's go, switch the flow Teach ya how to turn yayo in to doe The original don dada nobody bomb harda Ya heard what I said boy, I'm hot, I'm hot The hoodrats they say "He so crazy" The snitches they say "He tried to spray me" That's what you get for tryin to play me The Aftermath and my wrath is so SHADY No matter how you try you can't stop it I catch ya stuntin in the Bentley Coup cockpit If you a pimp why ya hoes stay outta pocket Front and find out how my P-40 glock hit "50 you need some help" chill yo, yo I got this Where I'm from the D's tryin to knock us They swear to God that it's me sellin the choppas Man I ain't give them lil niggas no product [Chorus: 50 Cent] (Uh huh) I know you like my style (Uh huh) But how much do you like my style (Uh huh) You like how I break it down (Uh huh) Wanna get rich I'll show you how (Uh huh) I know you like my style (Uh huh) But how much do you like my style (Uh huh) You like how I break it down (Uh huh) Wanna get rich I'll show you how [50 Cent] The birds they say I got a way with words I be like "baby girl I like them curves" If ya not busy tonight then we can swerve I'ma bachelor baby, fuck what you heard From the tellie in ten minutes I'll make you a believer Tongue touch ya'll have ya shakin like you havin a seizure I make hits about what I do in my leisure G unit gang, can't another clique out to see us Niggas lip sync the lyrics cuz they wanna be us Groupie hoes from the hood they be tryin ta G us Try ta holla at the kid, e'ery time they see us Girlfriend quit pretending I'm the nigga ya love And I ain't got to say nuttin you know that I'm thugin Wit my hands on dat ass and ya say that I'm buggin We family baby, kissin cousins Now look what the riff raff done drug in For the cheese my degrees is hotter then ya oven I'ma New Yorker but I sound southern And we sip DP till the Don stop bubblin After we play, ok, got to ya husband [Chorus: 50 Cent] [50 Cent (Tony Yayo)] Em said you gone like my style Dre said you gone like my style I said you gone like my style (Uh huh) You gone like how I break it down [Tony Yayo] You're not really, really ready (ready) The drama will have ya ass in trauma BOY! You're not really, really ready (ready) My knife flip open and then I gets to pokin You're not really, really ready (ready) Them shells start poppin and bodies get to droppin You're not really, really ready (ready) You think ya ready, ya not (ya not) Really really ready (ready) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KING BLING Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Originally posted by Elwood but his other shit is completely gay. because he is gay? Read: Hermann Hesse's Fairytales Kurt Vonneguts's Jailbird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshy Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 just finished life of pi and now i am toe deep into ratners star by don delillo. i read a short story by murakami on the newyorker the other day which makes me wish for him to translate another damn book into english already. i am looking for vangough's letters to his brother, and this book, letters to father fly by james agee. its supposed to be pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Plaid Fill-ins Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 Originally posted by KING BLING because he is gay? Read: Hermann Hesse's Fairytales Kurt Vonneguts's Jailbird Nah its just that i found out about him because of that poem that Rage covered by him. I was in the book store and picked up one of his books to find that poem and on the next page from that poem there was a disgusting poem about how he liked men and i had no idea. Maybe hes got some other good stuff but i dont like gay poetry, at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAMPS Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 you must read "venus on the half shell" by Kurt Vonnegut! it is the best book ever! DO IT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Plaid Fill-ins Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 Originally posted by KING BLING because he is gay? Read: Hermann Hesse's Fairytales Kurt Vonneguts's Jailbird Nah its just that i found out about him because of that poem that Rage covered by him. I was in the book store and picked up one of his books to find that poem and on the next page from that poem there was a disgusting poem about how he liked men and i had no idea. Maybe hes got some other good stuff but i dont like gay poetry, at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathoræ Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 Speaking of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf is also a good book by Herman Hesse. Kafka is good. Poetry-wise, Ferlinghetti (sp?) and the other beat writers are good. On the Road was good, but somehow I expected more out of it. People build it up more than it should be but it's still pretty cool. Franny and Zoey by JD Salinger is good, but I haven't read anything else by him. My brother is really into Nick Hornby (the guy who wrote High Fidelity)... For the moment, I'm working on Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves but this summer I plan on tackling more of the classics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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