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I did get through Rev Jen's book in two days flat, couldn't put it down. What can ya do? |
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On AC/DC, it is a stupid move. "Maximum Overdrive" was a pile of shit, but at least their music was done specifically for the movie. I remember a lot of horror movies from the 80's that had unpublished new songs from metal/hard rock bands. I dont get the re-hashing of old stuff. Plus "Iron Man" already looked silly. Seeing him flying around with guitar solos would be even more stupid. |
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There are cool subversive writers that actually made not boring books like Terry Southern or Tom Robbins. But the stuff they slam in your head in schools has always disappointed. PS: Oh, i dont get William Gibson. But an electro spaz friend of mine says that you have to be in the right state of mind to get it. Does that mean High? I cant read when i'm high. |
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I don't get him either! Supposedly he does all of his writing on a typewriter, never touches computers. I think that fact is more interesting than his novels. And by interesting I mean, "fucked up!" |
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I think I know why Stephen King thought he'd do a great job on his directorial debut. That was filmed during his coke years:
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Philip K. Dick, for example, is a good example of a cult influential writer that wrote incredibly readable books.
Even his most hard to decipher stuff, like "A scanner darkly", it's just fucking aces. |
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The thing with King is that his books start from an idea that might sound silly but then leave it completely and evolve in their own way. "It" wasnt about a killer clown (which appeared in one or two pages but more about a bunch of kids fighting some evil (female) entity that ate theior sould scarring them forever. And facing it again as broken adults. "The stand" begins as the story of a bad cold and turns into a faithful description of armageddon (the biblical one). Shining isnt much aboput a writer that gets cabin fever and swings an axe but much more about an hotel where so many horrifying things happened that it becomes a haunted and insan ity inducing place. People give him less credit than he deserves Hist last book "Under The Dome" is a masterpiece |
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The book is extremely funny, and it's majority characters have no recognizable souls, true, but it's a book about the insanity of war, and maybe we just can't relate to the insanity. I do think your soul and it's rationality as a human fills in the cracks of the pages, and allows you to have this stellar context and contrast. I bring this book up way to much. It might even be my favorite book as of late. Desert Island book for sure. |
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