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Post by Vendaval Este on Apr 25, 2010 11:30:20 GMT
What's your latest book buy or book-related memorabilia? Feel free to post it here.
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Post by zombi1978 on May 27, 2010 15:01:55 GMT
Hunter S. Thompson - Generation of Swine
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Post by zombi1978 on Jun 15, 2010 16:49:33 GMT
 Yeah, let´s make this thread bigger.  Hell´s Angels on the right is my fifth book of Hunter Stockton Thompson at this time. By the way this man was a genius in journalism(!). |
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Smithee
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Post by Smithee on Jun 15, 2010 17:08:15 GMT
(!) means sarcasm, right?
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Post by zombi1978 on Jun 15, 2010 17:42:14 GMT
It actually used as a hint.
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jun 18, 2010 9:24:48 GMT
I'd love to just read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Post by zombi1978 on Jun 18, 2010 14:23:04 GMT
It was my first book of HST. After I´ve watched the movie for the first time I bought the book the following day - and I was through with it only 3 days later. IT´S JUST DAMN EXCITING AND APPEALING! And also very daunting (=usage of massive loads of LSD and it´s aftermath).
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jun 18, 2010 16:31:03 GMT
I love the movie, but it seriously wears on the eyes and the brain with how fucking mental it is, I'd love to see what the book is like though if it's still as effective.
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Post by zombi1978 on Jun 18, 2010 17:34:18 GMT
Of course the book is a bit different than the movie. There are lots of parts that are so funny, but haven´t made it into the movie because there would have been too much running time in the end. (Harassment of a burrito shop and other people not shown in the movie; very weird stories about hippies being held in prison with hundreds of thousands of dollars in their trousers; even more terrifying flashbacks considering politics and their mistakes; etc.) And also only in the book our two "heroes" really find the "American Dream".  |
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Post by Vendaval Este on Jun 22, 2010 12:58:23 GMT
There's quite a few Twilight parodies out here, such as "Twishite", slightly interested in what they're like.
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loadrunner81
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Post by loadrunner81 on Nov 17, 2010 12:46:00 GMT
The last books I bought were The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and a Blade graphic novel compilation from Marvel.
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Post by zombi1978 on Nov 26, 2010 12:45:54 GMT
I think it's plaintive to see how sparse (young) people read nowadays. Yeah, most argue "they have less time", but fuck, nobody seems to care about some good books anymore if they do have spare time left.
I recently bought Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust and now I'm trying to get my hands on a translated version of Jules Michelet's La Sorcière.
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Post by Krieg on Nov 26, 2010 17:04:02 GMT
Jonathan Littel - The Kindly Ones. Awesomely GRIMDARK novel about a SD officer (features incest, homosexualism, violence and holocaust)
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Post by Krieg on Jan 30, 2011 16:15:34 GMT
Osprey - Gallipoli 1915: Frontal Assault on Turkey
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Post by zombi1978 on Mar 18, 2011 14:08:44 GMT
"Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontane and "Die Verwandlung" by Franz Kafka.
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Hell´s Angels on the right is my fifth book of Hunter Stockton Thompson at this time. By the way this man was a genius in journalism(!).
