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unleashed

unleashed

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ah excellent books DAFT!!! im on book 8 of WOT i will be interested to know what you think of them. right now im reading Macabre Verhalen (macabre tales) by Lovecraft which is awesome but i only have it in the dutch version which is a hassle cause thats my second language so im not getting the most out of it but i am still really engrossed which proves that Lovecraft was pretty damn good!

illumination86; is anarchism and other essays good, tell us something about it?
 
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DafT

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I love the characters, and the series feels very different to other books I've read. I find that sometimes I have to push myself through some parts, but its always worth it :)
 
GreenEyedRedHead

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No Oil Painting,
If you haven't already, check out Karen Marie Moning books. The Fever series is my favorite. Darkfever,Bloodfever,Faefever,Dreamfever. They take place in Dublin!
 
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Alix Wilber on Amazon.com said:
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.

Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life.
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Deerhunter

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Finished Shutter Island last night, don't really know what to make of it. I enjoyed it up until the ending, I wasn't really feeling the twist. Started reading The Idiot today, so far so good.
 
illuminationSP

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unleashed said:
illumination86; is anarchism and other essays good, tell us something about it?
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Very insightful. It deals with her criticism of the way things are in society and politics, also mentioning her take of a better world, in different ways. Describes the true meaning of anarchism. Talks about a lot of different topics - rights, love, etc.
 
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unleashed

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DafT said:
I love the characters, and the series feels very different to other books I've read. I find that sometimes I have to push myself through some parts, but its always worth it :)
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yeah i have to push myself through too which is why ive been on book 8 for at least a year lol. definately will pick it back up soon.
 
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am not reading anything, I haven't read one single book for 3 years !!! everytime I start one, I just never finish. This is desastrous
 
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Deerhunter said:
Finished Shutter Island last night, don't really know what to make of it. I enjoyed it up until the ending, I wasn't really feeling the twist. Started reading The Idiot today, so far so good.
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am gonna see the movie next week, I've heard it's great; but didn't know the end was disappointing
 
Deerhunter

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bony666 said:
am gonna see the movie next week, I've heard it's great; but didn't know the end was disappointing
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Haven't seen the movie but hey the ending might seem better on film, Scorsese did direct it after all lol. I finished The Idiot today, what a depressing book, great, but very depressing. Has anyone else read it? I can't get it off my mind. It's one of those books I'm sure to read again.
 
Stacey89

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I'm rereading the harry potter series. All you guys seem to like really heavy interesting books and I come along and post a kids book ::p:
 
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