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Offline srlinfca

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« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2005, 03:50:15 PM »
Shadow Divers - it's the story of these scuba divers who found a sunken German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey. Very interesting!
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« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2005, 05:13:29 PM »
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currently also reading...

heart of darkness - joseph conrad
mother courage and her children - bertolt brecht
mrs dalloway - virginia woolf

and re-reading the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

ah the joys of studying english...


how are you managing to read 4 books at once ?  :nono:

Casbah - have you heard of The Dark Tower by CS Lewis ?
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« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2005, 05:16:06 PM »
I'm re-reading 'Walk this way' by Aerosmith for some reason. Great book.
Before that it was 1984. Wasn't impressed.
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« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2005, 05:17:11 PM »
I want to read 1984. Why not impressed ?
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« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2005, 05:27:29 PM »
The idea for the story is great but...it was slow as hell and the dialogue was poor. Just didnt live up to the expectations  :(
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« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2005, 06:38:11 PM »
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Casbah - have you heard of The Dark Tower by CS Lewis ?


No I haven't.. and I probably should have because I live just up the road from CS Lewis's house. ;)  Is it something similar to King's Dark Tower story or completely different?
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« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2005, 11:22:11 PM »
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The idea for the story is great but...it was slow as hell and the dialogue was poor. Just didnt live up to the expectations  :(


Alright. Uh ... K.
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« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2005, 11:26:14 PM »
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Casbah - have you heard of The Dark Tower by CS Lewis ?


No I haven't.. and I probably should have because  Is it something similar to King's Dark Tower story or completely different?


well, that would depend on what Stephen King's Dark Tower is about.  :huh:

CS Lewis was writing it at the time of his death, so it's actually unfinished ... and was put among a collection of short stories he wrote.

But in the 3 chapters of The Dark Tower he created something unbelievably brilliant and REALLY creepy.

If you get a chance, you have to read it, although it would probably annoy you not having an ending or even a middle. It's still an amazing story, makes you th.ink. It's about alternate Universes.
There is a commentary afterwards by the person who salvaged the story from incineration and got it published after Lewis' death, and it gives you an idea of what could have happened next, so it's not all bad.

I live just up the road from CS Lewis's house.


 :O that's banging !  :rockon:
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« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2005, 08:13:48 AM »
how can you not be impressed by 1984. its fucking brilliant.

before i was paranoid, but i didnt know what about. Now i know what to be paranoid about - everything. even my thoughts aren't safe.
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« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2005, 08:31:54 AM »
is that a quote from the book or your musings ?
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« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2005, 10:24:14 AM »
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The idea for the story is great but...it was slow as hell and the dialogue was poor. Just didnt live up to the expectations  :(


Alright. Uh ... K.


1984 is basically a complete rip-off of "we" by yevgeny zamyatin, read it instead, it's much better
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« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2005, 01:46:24 PM »
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is that a quote from the book or your musings ?


Just my paranoid ramblings.

[quote"nemo"]1984 is basically a complete rip-off of "we" by yevgeny zamyatin, read it instead, it's much better[/quote]

Never even heard of we. And there was me thinking it was just a barve new world rip off.
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« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2005, 07:14:02 AM »
the shining-steven king.
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« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2005, 08:45:25 AM »
I hated how that book only started to get interesting about 3/4 the way in.
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