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Acid-Hippo said:
Also have to read Kafka's The Trial and Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (amongst other Joyce works, and some Conrad) too for uni, which'll be good as I've been meaning to read them for aaages and it'll give me an excuse.
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Ohh yeah I remember someone had a picture of Kafka as their avatar a while back, we read parts of the trial for english lit in AS

Acid-Hippo said:
Yeah Rum Diaries is a biggie, pretty good! Yeah, think Depp's in it?

Anyone read Naked Lunch? It's a bit like Fear and Loathing times a million. Not read it all, only parts, extremely hard book to follow!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rum_Diary_(film)

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard?!

:o :o
 
Your book threads taking off.. here <diva>

Only stuff I read is stuff by Simon Kernick, got into his stuff back in the days of Family Holidays.
 
Any Orwell fans too? My mates brother is only like 12 and he's got his entire works, and has read them all. Several times. Makes me sad, I was never reading that much at his age. The kids mental.
 
Gutierrez's Right Boot said:
Ive just read the Adrian Mole book got the whole series
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Read Adrian Mole sitting by the pool in Barbados. Had my back to a hedge to avoid the sun and a sun hat on but woke up the next morning and couldn't put my feet on the ground. The refection off the pool had given me major burns to my legs and feet and the sister had to burst the blisters (the whole length of the shins) and the floor was flooded with what came out.
 
Acid-Hippo said:
Yeah I know haha, it's meant to be one of those rites of passage type books. But nahh, we never did it. We did stuff like Frankenstein, Dracula, Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies etc. All still fantastic books too. But I just never got round to reading Catcher in the Rye 'cuz I was busy reading everything else first.
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Aye you did the same as me and we didn't study Catcher in the Rye, but To Kill A Mockingbird instead. The lower tier did Catcher in the Rye though. Still not got round to reading it myself.
Cba to double quote so aye AH, The Great Shark Hunt is a real easy read as it's just a collection of articles, thoughts and letters he wrote. Documents a lot of his life though through them and shows how he met the British Illustrator, Ralph Steadman, who went on to do the illustrations for all his future works including Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
 
Acid-Hippo said:
Any Orwell fans too? My mates brother is only like 12 and he's got his entire works, and has read them all. Several times. Makes me sad, I was never reading that much at his age. The kids mental.
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I hate Orwell with a passion like no other. A whole two years of English lessons on Animal Farm and 1984 have worn away any nice thoughts and have given rise to a hatred so powerful that I want to hack the computer with an axe just for typing his name...
 
Agent Bruce said:
Read Adrian Mole sitting by the pool in Barbados. Had my back to a hedge to avoid the sun and a sun hat on but woke up the next morning and couldn't put my feet on the ground. The refection off the pool had given me major burns to my legs and feet and the sister had to burst the blisters (the whole length of the shins) and the floor was flooded with what came out.
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Had the new one to read on holiday only lasted 5 days couldnt put it down
 
Acid-Hippo said:
Yuhuh, that was me haha. This picture! Love Kafka. And yeah, I remember! I remember being rather jealous of that too ha.

And yeah, that's the one! Sounds good, can't wait. Depp does some fantastic films.
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Totally envy Depp for his relationship with Hunter; Hunter himself was known to consider Depp as one of his soulmates!
 
ToonSi said:
Aye you did the same as me and we didn't study Catcher in the Rye, but To Kill A Mockingbird instead. The lower tier did Catcher in the Rye though. Still not got round to reading it myself.
Cba to double quote so aye AH, The Great Shark Hunt is a real easy read as it's just a collection of articles, thoughts and letters he wrote. Documents a lot of his life though through them and shows how he met the British Illustrator, Ralph Steadman, who went on to do the illustrations for all his future works including Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Never did To Kill a Mockingbird myself. The lower tiers in my school did Kestrel for a Knave... over and over again for 2 years apparently <laugh> Felt rather sorry for them.
Sounds amazing. Absolutely loved Fear and Loathing and Rum Diary, must read more! I'll get around to buying a large chunk of his works when I've got some more money. (eBay is the place to be for books. Bought Less Than Zero for 99p + free postage <diva>)

Gogledd Cymru Toon said:
I hate Orwell with a passion like no other. A whole two years of English lessons on Animal Farm and 1984 have worn away any nice thoughts and have given rise to a hatred so powerful that I want to hack the computer with an axe just for typing his name...
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<laugh> Bless ya. Aye, doing books repetitively in schools does take the enjoyment out of them! We only did Animal Farm in school, read 1984 in my own time. Still loved reading Animal Farm though. Did it in like year 9 and I knew a lot about Soviet Russia and such already so I just found it all extremely interesting. A girl in my class (who is now my current girlfriend...) asked me once how and why I knew so much about it <laugh>
 
Gogledd Cymru Toon said:
I hate Orwell with a passion like no other. A whole two years of English lessons on Animal Farm and 1984 have worn away any nice thoughts and have given rise to a hatred so powerful that I want to hack the computer with an axe just for typing his name...
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I read Animal Farm and 1984 at school and loved them. But I do know where you are coming from. I also had to read a book called The Autobiography of a Supertramp by WH Davies and I bloody hated it, it almost put me off reading.

Funny thing is I found a copy at a jumble sail about ten years ago and bought it, thinking i'd thumb through and see if I still hated it as much. But to my surprise I thought it was brilliant. Incredibly interesting story and I really don't know why I hated it the first time around.
 
Donkey Toon said:
I read Animal Farm and 1984 at school and loved them. But I do know where you are coming from. I also had to read a book called The Autobiography of a Supertramp by WH Davies and I bloody hated it, it almost put me off reading.

Funny thing is I found a copy at a jumble sail about ten years ago and bought it, thinking i'd thumb through and see if I still hated it as much. But to my surprise I thought it was brilliant. Incredibly interesting story and I really don't know why I hated it the first time around.
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I think it's a case of actually HAVING to read that puts you off reading. Well, that's what it's like with me anyway <laugh> I've actually read MORE since I finished this uni year. I like reading what I want, at my own pace, rather than having to read this book this week, then that book the next week, and so on
I'm probably doing the wrong subject <laugh>
 
Agent Bruce said:
How many girls are there in your class? You seem to have a different girl from your class every week. You're not a sex maniac are you?
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girl, boy, what's the difference <whistle>





(i'm joking, of course, just playing along :bandit:)
 
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