its offical, i need something to do.

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inorder to understand, you need to know a few things about me.

then you will see just how sad my life is.

1.) i smoke, i like it, so shut up bitches.
2.)i read a shit ton.
3.)my husband wont let me smoke inside, thus i must do it on the back porch.
4.)i like to combine the two things i enjoy, reading a smoking.
5.)seeing as i cant smoke inside i must

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[erron3000]

it's not really pulp, but i just got my hands on fragile things, neil gaiman's most recent collection of short stories. so far i'm enjoying it immensely.
and you can read what i've got written on my dystopian cyberpunk parody of american consumerism, except i have a feeling you wouldn't like it. basically it's about the plight of ordinary people (fast food employees, waitresses, clerks, and other unskilled laborers) who are outsourced by robots, and the utopian society that develops among the ruling class (the ones who profit from the cheap robot labor) contrasted with the hardships the [not]working class must endure, and how bartenders are the only working stiffs who'll never be replaced by robots. and it has hackers in it too. and yeah, i like it, but it's portrayal of capitalism probably wouldn't appeal to you.

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ive read Fragile Things, about 5 months ago when sara first moved in with me, it was nice, but i dont like short stories, they always end right as im getting in to them.

and chris no offense but if im ruling out Kurt and Orson i think i'll stay away from any other social commentary. i know how i feel and im happy with it, and most importantly i know im right, so i just dont feel the need to go spending time deviling in to more satirical commentary.

maybe when youre done ;)

(if all the fast food employees are out of a job along with all the other lower class, then who the hell is even eating fast food??) :P

[erron3000]

i'm not writing it to be social commentary, i'm writing it because we were assigned to write a parody, and i'm parodying a short story called 'the donkey market,' and it happens to be social commentary. i really like the characters, though, and i'll probably use them in something else.
i mean, come on, a dude named deuce x. mckenna who always seems to pop up at the most unexpected places? i'm not too modest to call that clever.
(one of the literary devices in 'the donkey market' was a deux ex machina, so, yeah.

[first_star_]

social commentary is social commentary, regardless of how important that is as a motive for writing, it is what it is...and that would mean its hardly pulp.

im sure the liberal commie teachers will love it though, so grats a head of time on that :P

[valentine_blues]

Read any Raymond Chandler? You and I have very different taste in... Well, most things... but you might enjoy his work.

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I'm pretty sure ive read one of his books...that or seen a movie of it...it was a long time ago...like maybe 6 years but i think ive read "Trouble Is My Business" and i think i liked it? heh ive read so much...working in a book store messed me up because i recognize all these titles and authors, but im not sure if i recognize them because ive read their work or because i stocked and priced a lot of their books.

however if memory serves correctly i did read him, and i liked it and i forgot about him, so i will be promptly finding more of his work.

thank you :) you are so much more useful than Chris :P heh

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different tastes, yes, but we both love the coc---------

nevermind

*cough cough*

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[shiftybob]

Damn, I was gonna suggest Raymond Chandler too. But for that noir detective sorta genre I think I prefer Dashiell Hammett. Oh! and David Goodis too! I love David Goodis. The dude is nuts, it's pulp, but written in a streaming sort of paranoid prose.
I have a few books by an Australian pulp writer, where the detective is an aboriginal dude named Napolean Bonaparte. That guy's pretty fun, but nigh impossible to find, his name's Arthur Upfield.
I've been reading H.P. Lovecraft lately. That's a good bit of fun pulpyness too. Unfortunately he writes mostly short stories aswell, but there are a few novellas, and the novellas are far awesomer.

Pulp for the win!