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i know i'm behind the "fad" but i guess thats the whole reason why i picked it up and started reading it...sorta after the hype!
Anyways, like 10 more pages of Da Vinci and I have Angels and Demons right after =P
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I was trying to read it couple of years ago, but didn't finish. So I'm reading it once again. :]
I like reading several books
I'm currently reading:
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Dante Club
Digital Fortress by Danny Brown
The Republic by Plato
The books I want now: The final Harry Potter and that's about it.
Oh and I HATE Freak O Nomics I highly recommend burning it.
It wasted my time, thank god it was given to me as a gift, i didn't waste money on it 
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| Originally posted by Iyrlk The Dante Club |
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| Originally posted by l�cid i just finished that one not too long ago... loved it. have you read Running With Scissors? |
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| Originally posted by Protege I just found out they are doing a movie on this, like a big movie with some pretty big names. goddamn, its gonna be crazy. They should make a movie out of a David Sedaris book next. |
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| Originally posted by l�cid i disagree. i mean it's a great concept in theory, and i always get excited when i find out that one of my favorite books is being made into a movie... but 9 times out of 10, they just suck. especially when you consider authors like Augusten Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis (with the exception of Rules of Attraction - i thought that movie was brilliant), Chuck Palahniuk, David Sedaris, James Frey, etc... they don't necessarily write stuff that is easily adaptable to the screen. for the most part, the plot and character development is just too deep, too random and non-linear, for a film... and the best parts about their books are the small details that usually have nothing to do with the overall story, the things that make you laugh out loud, the things you don't notice until you go back and read it a second time. unless the director and cast are amazing, i'm usually just really unimpressed by movies based on books. too many of them get the "Hollywood" treatment and they just lose the feel of the original story. i'm just a book snob. |
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| Originally posted by Protege all too true. Im definitely put off by the fact the Gweneth Paltrow is playing Hope and Evan Rachel Wood is Natalie but I like Brian Cox as Dr. Finch and Annette benning as his mother. Watch the trailer when Dr. Finch is going "its a miracle" haha thatll be a good scene. |
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| Originally posted by l�cid oh shit, Annette Bening will probably make that movie worth seeing. it definitely looks like it's getting the Hollywood treatment, though. i bet there won't be one mention of Augusten's homosexuality. |
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| Originally posted by Protege I dont know, isnt gay the "in" thing for hollywood to do right now? Might be why they chose that book in the first place. |
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| Originally posted by l�cid well... i guess i shouldn't assume anything just from watching the trailer, as i believe trailers can be pretty deceptive. it just seemed like if they were going to give him a "love interest" in the movie, it would be Natalie. even if they do touch on his homosexuality, it won't be anywhere near as detailed as it is in the book! btw, do you know when the movie is being released? |
. Im also curious to find out how involved Augusten was with the production and the script.
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| Originally posted by Protege October 11th, limited. That could mean its an Oscar contender being released around Oscar season. And they definitely wont show/tell anything on that one chapter about Augustens and Bookmans first time having sex. That was like whoa . Im also curious to find out how involved Augusten was with the production and the script. |
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
fiction based on the true story behind the murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947...aspiring actress who moves to CA, and is found in a vacant lot, tortured and cut in half
, inciting one of california's largest manhunts...easy read, very engrossing and entertaining overall...film version due out at the end of this year...hopefully itll do some justice to the novel, although chances are hollywood will ruin it
Freakonomics.
What do you think about it Demoted?
(Levitt & Dubner)
http://www.freakonomics.com/
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| Originally posted by l�cid cool, thanks for the info. here's an interview between Augusten and the director of the movie... http://www.augusten.com/blog/ pretty interesting. it looks like it could be good. |
Whatever you do don't read 'Airport Fiasco' it sucks.
Almost done with this -> http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images...SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Then it's on to book III, I'm a D&D nerd, who would have thought?
for the 3rd time.. never gets old
Kind of a complex read. At first I was lost, but now that i'm half way through, it's starting to make sense. He goes over the same points over and over and gives diagrams and examples and it makes the concepts much easier to understand. This is a must read for people like me who are planning to become transpersonal psychologists, which is a mixture of psychology and psychotherapy, with philosophy and spirituality, particularly a thing called "integral" spirituality and psychology that Wilber was a pioneer with. Still trying to grasp it, but it is really western and eastern spirituality mixed in with psychotherapy and psychological theories, and this is what he begins to explore with this book (he wrote it at 23). Yeah i'm into this stuff...haha.
Jeez, the end of "The Eight" was shit.
Got myself this one yesterday:
Will start reading it asap.
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