I just got done reading Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and I'm really pissed I didn't read it sooner. It is awesome, his satire is great. One of my favorite passages:
"Dwayne appreciated Patty Kenne's brand-newness, even though he was not sexually attracted to women that young, She was like a new automobile, which hadn't even had its radio turned on yet, and Dwayne was reminded of a ditty his father would sing sometimes when his father was drunk. It went like this:
Roses are red, and ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.
Another
1492, The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.
Read any good vernacular lately, as in books?
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 01:18 AM
I've been reading a lot of Christopher Moore lately. Right now I'm reading a book called "Practical Demon Keeping". I just started it so I don't know what it's going to be like yet.
Other books include:
Lamb
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you dont. Trust me, I was there. I know.
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didnt look much like the pictures you've seen of him. His eyes were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes.
"Unclean! Unclean!" I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
"He just found his wife hanging in the dining room, Vance," Theo pronounced over the heads of the EMTs. He was six-foot-six, and even in his flannel shirt and sneakers he could loom large when he needed to assert some authority.
"She looks like Raggedy Ann," said Mike, the other EMT, who was in his early twenties and excited to be on his first suicide call.
"I heard she was Amish," Vance said.
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Dirty Jobs
Charlie had held baby Sophie for a few seconds earlier in the day, and had handed her quickly to a nurse insisting that someone more qualified than he do some finger and toe counting. He’d done it twice and kept coming up with twenty-one.
“They act like that’s all there is to it. Like if the kid has the minimum ten fingers and ten toes it’s all going to be fine. What if there are extras? Huh? Extra-credit fingers? What if the kid has a tail?” (Charlie was sure he’d spotted a tail in the six-month sonogram. Umbilical indeed! He’d kept a hard copy.)
“She doesn’t have a tail, Mr. Asher,” the nurse explained. “And it’s ten and ten, we’ve all checked. Perhaps you should go home and get some rest.”
“I’ll still love her, even with her extra finger.”
“She’s perfectly normal.”
“Or toe.”
“We really do know what we’re doing, Mr. Asher. She’s a beautiful, healthy baby girl.”
“Or a tail.”
There are a lot more, but I don't want to give it all away.
Other books include:
Lamb
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you dont. Trust me, I was there. I know.
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didnt look much like the pictures you've seen of him. His eyes were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes.
"Unclean! Unclean!" I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
"He just found his wife hanging in the dining room, Vance," Theo pronounced over the heads of the EMTs. He was six-foot-six, and even in his flannel shirt and sneakers he could loom large when he needed to assert some authority.
"She looks like Raggedy Ann," said Mike, the other EMT, who was in his early twenties and excited to be on his first suicide call.
"I heard she was Amish," Vance said.
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Dirty Jobs
Charlie had held baby Sophie for a few seconds earlier in the day, and had handed her quickly to a nurse insisting that someone more qualified than he do some finger and toe counting. He’d done it twice and kept coming up with twenty-one.
“They act like that’s all there is to it. Like if the kid has the minimum ten fingers and ten toes it’s all going to be fine. What if there are extras? Huh? Extra-credit fingers? What if the kid has a tail?” (Charlie was sure he’d spotted a tail in the six-month sonogram. Umbilical indeed! He’d kept a hard copy.)
“She doesn’t have a tail, Mr. Asher,” the nurse explained. “And it’s ten and ten, we’ve all checked. Perhaps you should go home and get some rest.”
“I’ll still love her, even with her extra finger.”
“She’s perfectly normal.”
“Or toe.”
“We really do know what we’re doing, Mr. Asher. She’s a beautiful, healthy baby girl.”
“Or a tail.”
There are a lot more, but I don't want to give it all away.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 01:48 AM
QUOTE(overindulgence @ Dec 6 2006, 02:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've been reading a lot of Christopher Moore lately. Right now I'm reading a book called "Practical Demon Keeping". I just started it so I don't know what it's going to be like yet.
Other books include:
Lamb
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you dont. Trust me, I was there. I know.
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didnt look much like the pictures you've seen of him. His eyes were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes.
"Unclean! Unclean!" I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
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Other books include:
Lamb
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you dont. Trust me, I was there. I know.
The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. Just the tail end and the hind legs were visible on the outside; the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didnt look much like the pictures you've seen of him. His eyes were like dark honey, and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes.
"Unclean! Unclean!" I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well.
.........
Oh, I love Christopher Moore. Practical Demonkeeping was amusing, Lamb was just awesome. I loved The Stupidest Angel, and Bloodsucking Fiends. I haven't gotten around to the others yet, because I can never freaking find them in this town.
The most recent things I've read (that I hadn't already been through numerous times) have been:
Candles Burning - Tabitha King & Michael McDowell
Danse Macabre - Laurell K. Hamilton
Dark Forces (short stories, various authors)
Otherwise, I'm re-reading Dan Brown - Angels & Demons; and Anne Rice - Taltos.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 01:51 AM
You should check out Neil Gaiman's "American Gods". It's one of the best books I've ever read.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 03:02 AM
Sadly, I cannot read.
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I read the Holy Bible on a daily basis.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 06:31 AM
Exit to Eden or the Sleeping Beauty series....all by Anne Roquelaure (Rice). If it ain't sexual in nature, it's a waste of time.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 09:57 AM
We need to talk about Kevin: "Courageous book which will resonate with everyone who has had children or thought about having one". It's no joke people, this book scared the shit out of me.
Intoxication: Lovely collection of drug inspired short novels by more or less well known addicts such as Irvine Welch and Elizabeth Young. An entertaining read at the very least.
Intoxication: Lovely collection of drug inspired short novels by more or less well known addicts such as Irvine Welch and Elizabeth Young. An entertaining read at the very least.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 10:08 AM
Yesterday I read Night by Elie Wesiel. Its a must read for everyone. Its a very short, fast read; but its very powerful.
I'll quote something when I get home.
I'll quote something when I get home.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 10:13 AM
QUOTE(HolyRoller @ Dec 6 2006, 10:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yesterday I read Night by Elie Wesiel. Its a must read for everyone. Its a very short, fast read; but its very powerful.
I'll quote something when I get home.
I'll quote something when I get home.
Great book, read it many times.
I just finished reading Junot Diaz's Drown and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker.
I'm almost done with Albert Camus' The Plaque
QUOTE(Cracky-chan @ Dec 6 2006, 06:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I read the Holy Bible on a daily basis.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 10:21 AM
QUOTE(overindulgence @ Dec 6 2006, 12:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You should check out Neil Gaiman's "American Gods". It's one of the best books I've ever read.
I need to pick that book up. I read through Anansi Boys rather quickly recently, but I loved it. Apparently he's writing a book called The Graveyard Book which is more or less The Jungle Book but set in a cemetery and with zombies instead of animals. I'm definitely looking forward to that one.
A few weeks ago, I finished Stephen King's Cell, which was entertaining for the most part, but it rang a bit hollow towards the end...almost as if he didn't know how to end the book because he was afraid of making it cliched.
I'd like to see some more suggestions. I'll be spending a lot of time on a plane/train in the next 2 months, and aside from prepping for the LSAT on these trips, I'm going to need something to stimulate my brain. I'm definitely picking up American Gods, but I read pretty fast, so I know I'll need more.
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Errr... are these books all written in vernacular? Because that refers to a very specific type of writing.
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Mine weren't, I replied because of the sub-title "as in books" as well as made a comment that wasn't as obvious as yours.
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Posted 06 December 2006 - 10:55 AM
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Mine weren't, I replied because of the sub-title "as in books" as well as made a comment that wasn't as obvious as yours.
all my books are written in an obsolete vernacular.
The world doesn't make sense anymore. Oh no I have gone crossed eyed.
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QUOTE(Jer @ Dec 6 2006, 12:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Mine weren't, I replied because of the sub-title "as in books" as well as made a comment that wasn't as obvious as yours.
Sometimes I just forego subtlety in the name of snobbishness.
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