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Blimey, its Willy Wonka's factory

mcminty wrote:

globefish23 wrote:

Also, that house in the wood made a great CS:S map:

Or LEGO. I saw this last week.. lol.

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On another note, season 4 of Grand Designs is now being shown on TV here. Love that show.

I built one of these.. amazing stuff..until I realised 2 small pieces were missing.

The more I look at that one, the more gaudy it appears.

I never read touching the void. I did read a book about global warming once. I am glad to say "I have seen the evidence!".

From what I am told, Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a better movie than book. The same with Fight Club. One of my favorite movies but lousy book. It's a miracle that anyone decided to make a movie out of it. Everything was better on film except the lack of homosexual undertones. I wonder if the FC film would have won so much support from right wings types if the narrator met Tyler at a nude beach when he was making sand art like in the book.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I never read touching the void. I did read a book about global warming once. I am glad to say "I have seen the evidence!".

From what I am told, Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a better movie than book. The same with Fight Club. One of my favorite movies but lousy book. It's a miracle that anyone decided to make a movie out of it. Everything was better on film except the lack of homosexual undertones. I wonder if the FC film would have won so much support from right wings types if the narrator met Tyler at a nude beach when he was making sand art like in the book.

Palahnuik (i don't care to spell it correctly if im wrong) has a very acidic, biting writing style.  I understand what he's trying to put across, i just don't like it much.  I have a friend who writes and he went through a phase where he copied his tone and prose.  It was fucking terrible.

OFTCN is a better book than movie, IMO. Granted it's been a while since I've seen/read either.

this is the book thread now

What book should I read next

i cannot stand murakami.

i recommend 'the rings of saturn' by w.g. sebald. i always recommend this book to people to try and turn them on to literature.

it's just an old fuddy professor taking a walk around a pretty boring and ancient part of the english countryside, but basically he constantly goes on these huge digressions and starts talking about other things and it all links together in this incredible mind-map of a pretty, well, incredible mind. and everything in sebald is in some way about the holocaust, about the experience of being the son (and hence survivor) of the holocaust, personally and as a german national, and how that huge traumatic event cannot be discussed or figured or represented in any way by art/literature. pretty fucking enchanting read. plus it's short. and it's pretty easy to read, stylistically. you just need a little patience to follow this old guy as he starts talking about the european silk-worm trade in the 17th century or whatever. but every page bristles with a very human (and humane) intelligence.

right good shit, mate.

Last edited by uziq (2015-08-19 14:09:15)

you say Dickens like I'm supposed to defend him. there aren't many people in academic circles who will really praise Dickens as a writer. he is often sentimental and over-done.

also why don't you try something new instead of repeatedly carping on one of the most obvious examples of victorian literature? you almost bang on about hating Dickens as if he proves that 2,600 years of western lit are a giant sham. why not try and give 150 pages of someone else a go and stop being such a sad pathetic little man? you might actually learn – or feel – something new.

dilbert: "i disliked one author in school and I'm proud to say I've never tried reading anything since".

Last edited by uziq (2015-08-20 09:05:41)

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Back in 2002, my school took us on a winter field trip to see a Christmas Carol at a Broadway theater. It was nice. At the end of the play when Ebenezer Scrooge became nice, they sent a guy to give out candy to all of the little kids on the field trip. Everyone in my row of seats got a piece of candy except me. Guy looked right at me and kept going. Bastard.

Been burning libraries ever since.