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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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

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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!

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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.

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Guest BROWNer
Originally posted by Cracked Ass

Imajica (Clive Barker)

 

that book was quite ill. i think i liked weaveworld better though.

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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."

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Guest Plaid Fill-ins
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.

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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)

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Guest KING BLING
Originally posted by Elwood

but his other shit is completely gay.

 

because he is gay?

 

Read:

 

Hermann Hesse's Fairytales

 

Kurt Vonneguts's Jailbird

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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.

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Guest Plaid Fill-ins
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.

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Guest Plaid Fill-ins
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.

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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...

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