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>> No.615391 [DELETED]  [View]

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vBHXcMfQ2foy5yMN6

background noise. ew.

>> No.561845 [View]

Crichton has always been one of my favorite writers. The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Prey, Congo, Eaters of the Dead, and Airframe are his best, I think, in that order. His screenplays are amazing too. ER is probably one of the greatest shows to air.

I have Pirate Latitudes in my pile of books to read, has anyone read it yet?

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>>555458
YOU HEARD ME.

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>>555398
Your argument is correct but you're fucking retarded.

>> No.551749 [View]

I usually average 6-8 a month, but if it's something easy to read and very good, I'll read a book a day, and I've been doing that a lot lately. I've already read 6 this month.

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>>550978
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMR_enUS335US335&q=book+about+a+pilot+sort+of+in+
world+war+ii+i+guess+and+maybe+also+a+young+woman+who+rides+a+sleeper+train+that+might+be+a+classic+
or+something&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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>>546362
Where the fuck do you live?

>> No.546368 [View]

On the Creation of Niggers
by H. P. Lovecraft

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

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>>543096
Also. Aside from examples like that, I do think it's kind of stupid to force yourself to read a bunch of shit that you don't like just because they're "classics".

>> No.543096 [View]

Generally I'll ask someone who enjoys that particular author what the feel their best work is, and make sure I finish at least that. I can't stand Twain, but my husband loves him, and won't let me dismiss him outright without rereading Huck Finn outside of a high school setting, and reading Puddnhead Wilson. Even though I can't stand anything I've tried with Twain, I'll finish those.

>> No.543031 [View]

Intelligent viewers will discuss and analyze a television show in the same way they would a book. A passive reader gets no more from a book than he would a TV show. If you're passive and an idiot, it doesn't matter which you do, you won't get anything from either medium. An intelligent person seeks to broaden their horizons through any medium, and doesn't dismiss one thing or another as less worthy of their time without fully exploring it. Television is constantly changing and therefore can never be fully dismissed, just as new literature shouldn't be dismissed before it's investigated either.

tl;dr if you're stupid it doesn't matter. if you're smart both are good.

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>>542546
This. Being Jewish isn't just a religion, it's a ethnicity, and by Jewish custom and law that's passed down through the maternal line because there's never any doubt who someone's mother is. So I'm Jewish by ethnicity, but because my grandmother and mother both married Catholics, and raised their children in Catholicism, to my husband's orthodox relatives it doesn't matter, because I've fallen away from the faith or whatever. They're also the sort of Jews who don't believe in showing your elbows or shaving your beard, and the rest of his family (who are reform jews) thinks they're nuts and like me just fine, but that doesn't stop extended family gatherings from being delightfully awkward.

>> No.542280 [View]

Catholic. I was raised that way, stopped going to church around 14, and returned at 23 after a miscarriage, and found a lot of help there.

I'm married to a Jew, though, and am technically Jewish via my maternal grandmother. His orthodox relatives still think I'm a dirty, dirty shiksa though.

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>>535551
I'm Catholic anyway, so that works out just dandy. That's about St Francis (kinda) isn't it? I've heard of it, but haven't actually talked to anyone who's read it. I'll check it out.

>> No.535540 [View]

>>535529
He sends him a note, invites him to the shack where his daughter was murdered, and they hang out for a weekend.

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Thoughts?

I loved it, but then again I'm a sentimental, idealist fuck and a bit of a christfag. Young is an awkward writer, but that didn't keep me from enjoying what he had to say.

>> No.533820 [View]

pudd'nhead wilson

>> No.524360 [View]

>>524346
Tarantino wrote and directed his first screenplay in 1987. It was not Reservoir Dogs. Also, he has been chummy with Lawrence Bender since the 80s.

Make friends in the business, OP, it's really your only chance to make it big. If you just want to see it acted out, get some friends and a decent camera.

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>>524257
Pretentiousness isn't a "nice" quality in any human being, and I didn't mean that he's a nice guy because he's pretentious. He was very personable when I met him, which is a nice quality.

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The more pretentious shit I read about this guy the more I absolutely fucking love him. I have yet to actually read any of his books, but I have met him. He's a nice guy, and knows how to make middle aged housewives swoon IRL.

Pic related, it's the mansion their money built him in New Bern.

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>>523803
Dohoho. There are 16 of them.
http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html?cid=600

>> No.523785 [View]

>>523770
Julius Caesar or Romeo and Juliet

>> No.523782 [View]

>>523735
Not sure if serious.

>>523747
Basically. It's kind of ridiculous how little those writers know about racing, though. Then again, I know NASCAR fans who can string together more than two or three coherent sentences are few and far between.

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