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King of Loss 
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I have to reread Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback for school (which starts in like 7 days). I really like this epic American story, but however, it does get sh*tty when you have to read it for next year's classes. I'm dreading my return!
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maani
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 16:18 |
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Danbo: The first film of the Chronicles of Narnia ("The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe") comes out this Christmas. I got a sneak peak at the trailer, and it looks really awesome! BaldFriede: Lem has always been a favorite. The Futurological Congress is great. However, I'm shocked (! Other great sci-fi-ers: Asimov, Heinlein, Van Vogt, Clarke, LeGuin, Bester. However, my new #1 fave is Philip Dick (who Lem called "his favorite writer"). The guy didn't know how to write a bad novel - or short story, for that matter. Among other things, he wrote the original short stories on which the following films were based: Screamers (not a particularly good film), Imposter (a good film), Paycheck (a much-better-than-I-expected film), Total Recall (a great film), Minority Report (another great film) and, of course, Blade Runner (perhaps the greatest film of the 80s - and one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time). All that said, I just finished reading Daniel Quinn's trilogy (Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael) and James Redfield's trilogy (The Celestine Prophecy, The Tenth Insight, The Road to Shambala). If anyone wants a serious eye-widening re humanity vis-a-vis history, anthropology, psychology and psycho-spiritualism, these six books will make your head spin. Peace. |
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BaldJean
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 16:24 |
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Dick is excellent too. I also recommend the brothers Strugatzki (Arkadi and Boris), if you like SF. |
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 17:31 |
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Sadly the only thing of Lem's I have read is Solaris. |
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 05:21 |
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Possibly the lack of vowels in my username? |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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jitu
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 05:25 |
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outsider-colin wilson
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Matti
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:09 |
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I'm into science fiction again: Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man (1953). I was wondering if the film called "Demolition Man" is based on it... but luckily no (Stallone & Wesley Snipes |
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BaldFriede
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:18 |
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Reminds me of a joke: A Pole goes to an ophthalmologist. He shows him a
table with the letters CZYWRETNOSKI from top to bottom, getting smaller
all the time, and asks him if he can read this. The Pole answers: "Can
I read this? I know that guy!"
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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maani
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:59 |
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BF:
Or the Polish terrorist who was told to blow up a car and burned his lips on the tailpipe... Peace. |
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Tony R
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:26 |
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Naughty..........
There was a flood in a village.
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 18:36 |
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BF: my wife is Polish (a bunch of CZKYs in her mother's maiden name) and she loved the opthalmologist joke. Thanks! |
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Peter
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I read a book once; it was green, I think. Has anyone else read that one? I think green books are the best -- though I suppose blue could be good too.... |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 14:46 |
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When I was a young man in the U.S. Air Force I went to my first formation at my new base after basic training. My supervisor, MSGT Herbert, walked up to me, read my name tag, laughed and walked to the front of the room. He grabbed a chair and sat down. He called me forward, in front of 40 other Airmen, ordered me to parade rest (leg slightly apart and hands behind the back), and lifted a briefcase unto his lap. He opened the case and withdrew a thick pile of papers. They were the old dot print matix sheets. He held them up and, holding the top sheet, let them unfold. About twenty pages total. They were Polish jokes. For twenty minutes, he read each one, giving space for the collective group to laugh and howl. After he restored order and dismissed the other Airmen, he pulled me aside and told me his mother was Polish and personally loved Polish jokes. He broke the ice for me. I was instantly "okay" with the other guys.
Why did they close the Polish National Library?
Someone stole the book. |
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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Posted: August 30 2005 at 14:55 |
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Mircea Cartarescu - Orbitor :The Body
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:36 |
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Right now reading Post Office by Charles Bukowski
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Cygnus X-1
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last book i read was really a triology by Bernard Cornwell. The Grail Quest. All there books are awsome. It's about an english archer being put on a quest to find the supposed holy grail while avoiding death from the french and english and of course the scotts!
Read it!! |
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Ricochet
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Sylvia Plath:Ariel and other poems...
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 book BTW i live in San Pedro his adopted home in Los Angeles. |
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Posted: September 10 2005 at 17:19 |
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I just finished Ben Bova's Orion. What an awesome book. An amnesia and time travel story rolled into one, where the lines between good and evil (god and satan) become very blurred.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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) that you didn't mention his masterwork: Solaris. Among the best sci-fi novels ever written. And the original film - not the remake (which stank!!) - was brilliant.
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One of my two main choices as well. I was going to ask if you'd read them in the original language, but I see you're from the UK. How did I come to think you were Polish? 
Enough of those Polish jokes, you swine.