TOO POOR TO AFFORD ANY OF THIS ANYWAY, but we can always just look!

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Oh man, I keep losing it at 1:16 - and by losing I mean just crying man. Oh my god.

I just spent the evening reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. An excerpt from the summary is as follows:Unstuck in time, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five -- an unforgettable Everyman named Billy Pilgrim -- is never sure what part of his life he is going to have to act in next ( Read more... )

St. Stephen's by Sky Gibert is arguably one of the best books I've ever read. It's also one of the worst.

Some explanation might be in order for that one.

See, reading St. Stephen's is like sitting on the back porch shooting the shit with a friend who's kinda fucked up if you think about it. You know you shouldn't be friends with this guy, but ( Read more... )

From foofighter0234:
What Sarah Means
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A beautiful excerpt from St. Stephen's by Sky Gilbert:
I had this teacher at university. He was one of my best fucking teachers-a real old fart, but really smart. Anyway, he said that literature was all about reading something, then living again, then going back to the text. In other words, you have to slip some living in between those books and ( Read more... )

From walking-atnight:
Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarassing.
Step 3: Uhh...
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

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Recently finished Flight of Aquavit: A Russell Quant Novel. Summary is as follows:
At the dead end of a desolate country road, a late night meeting suddenly becomes an ambush. Gay private detective Russell Quant is faced with personal threats he can't ignore, a friend who may be a foe and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back. As ( Read more... )

I'm actually reading another Russell Quant novel: Flight of Aquavit, and I'm only on the 52nd page...but there's this part where Quant lies to this bored theatre worker, tells her his name is Rick Astly and lists off these Astly songs as "productions" that he, as an actor, has been involved in. However, the following sentence made me think of ( Read more... )

Summary for Bafflegab by Stan Rogal is as follows:
Stan Rogal's second novel is the story of one writer's journey through the urban wilderness. Taking the form of a writer's journal, Bafflegab is a gross collection of entries, observations and letters to the editor; a scatological scrapbook of philosphical musings, literary meanderings, quotes, ( Read more... )