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Books etc.
So last night my computer decided to die. Completely. Just turned off and wouldn't turn back on. Looks like the motherboard is fried, so now I'm borrowing my sisters laptop. Funny thing is, there's no much to do at 2 in the morning for an insomniac with no computer, so I decided to start working through the books that I haven't read yet. I thought that I would start a thread for people to post their favourite quotes from books that they are reading/have read recently. Here's mine:
'Natalie summed it up best. "Jesus Christ. My cunt looks like it's been brushing its teeth. It's just foaming at the mouth." - Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs.
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Ok so total chick book, but it's one of the best selling books of all time:
Valley of the Dolls Anything by David Sedaris If you like Fantasy/celtic type shite.. My favorite Series (and really its more like 3 series) is The Deverry Series by Katherine Kerr. It's a crappy website, but the books are so amazing, i've read some of them twice. It's about different incarnations of characters, and how their past lives effect their current/future lives and relationships with each other. And a lot of "elemental magic" type of crap. *shrug* i love it. Also, anything by Poppy Z Brite. Like Anne Rice, but 100 times better. |
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for baseball fans: "feeding the monster" by seth mnookin--excellent story about the building of the 2004 redsox, and theogate that followed.
for current event folks: "The looming tower" by lawrence wright--gripping story of the formation of al qaeda and the road to 9/11 for folks in a fictional mood: "digging to america" by anne tyler--a great novel about belonging in a land that is not your own anyone read these yet? |
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"Oh, it's nothing at all," she cried with a sudden shrill note in her voice, and she wiggled, and squirmed, and threw her head back, and her teeth rested on her glistening underlip as she half-turned away, and my moaning mouth, gentlemen of the jury, almost reached her bare neck, while I crushed out against her left buttock the last throb of the longest ecstasy man or monster had ever known. |
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william, should you be quoting the book of revelations here on the forum? i love vlad the nab too! |
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Sorry. But Terry Goodkind is quite the hero amongst my circle of friends. I've read up Temple of the Winds (Book 4), but most of my friends are on the newest one. If any of you havn't read any of the Sword of Truth books, definitely good stuff. |
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Above I posted a passage from Lolita. What makes it is not the entire paragraph, beautiful as it may be, but rather those last lines, those words that completed the thought:
the last throb of the longest ecstasy man or monster had ever knownNabokov’s brilliance in allusion rings true throughout the entire novel but here in particular you see the Master at work. A younger reader may miss out on what is implied. Similarly, earlier in the novel he writes, When I first read it I missed the "scepter of my passion." This reminds me of his homage and allusion to Poe and Annabelle Lee. Once past the forward, Nabokov introduces Lolita with one of the most beautiful openings ever: In a princedom by the sea. Poe, who loved a 13 year old girl… Sometimes your mind plays great passages over and over and later they echo themselves in your work, your style, your cadence. I deliberately echoed William Kennedy’s Ironweed when I wrote about the fall of the Towers. Kennedy: And my homage:
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