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Post by Miss O'Jenny on Jun 2, 2008 19:03:23 GMT
And would you be willing to lend them to me? I will have to purchase them at some point, but I don't get paid or have an actual residence for about a month, so buying them at the moment is a bit out of the question, but I really need to start them. They are the books I have to read for class next year, and there are about twenty of them. Since I want to finish them before the end of the summer, the aim is to read one every four or five days, so I shouldn't be borrowing them for too long. Ben Jonson – Volpone Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace JMCoetzee – Slow Man Tibor Fischer – The Thought Gang Linda France – Sixty Women Poets Art Speigelman – Maus Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting Nabokov: -Speak Memory -Pnin -Pale Fire -Ada -The Gift -Lectures on Literature -Collected Stories Mary Shelley - Frankenstein H. G. Wells - The Island of Dr Moreau Anne Williams - Three Vampire Tales (Dracula and ‘Carmilla’ Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James - The Turn of the Screw Sarah Waters - Affinity Thank you.
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Post by kitty on Jun 2, 2008 21:11:32 GMT
I have Trainspotting (it is awful and you will call everyone a doss cunt after reading it), Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and the Turn of the Screw and you are most welcome to borrow them.
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Post by Miss O'Jenny on Jun 3, 2008 13:11:37 GMT
Thank you, honey Yeah, I had a teacher in High School who said that everyone wanted to do Trainspotting, but that "there's no literary value in swearing all the time". Unfortunately, I've decided to actually put some work in next year, so I gotta read it.
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Post by Someguy on Jun 3, 2008 18:50:50 GMT
Well, don't let Kat fool you about the quality of Trainspotting as a text. It's a great book if you give it a chance and let it's speech rhythms flow over you. It might help to watch the film first too, though, just to give you a more solid base to work on the sometimes abstract plot from.
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Post by kitty on Jun 4, 2008 13:13:00 GMT
There is no K in my name!
And the film is miles better than the book which is bad.
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Post by Someguy on Jun 4, 2008 14:22:14 GMT
There's no 'K' in MY name either but you don't hear ME going on about it!
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Post by Miss O'Jenny on Jun 4, 2008 14:53:05 GMT
I don't want to watch the film I tried once, got to the dead baby bit. Not even the roof crawling bit, just the dead baby, and I had to turn it off.
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Post by kitty on Jun 4, 2008 14:59:42 GMT
I don't continuously misspell your name now do I?
Dead baby is pretty grim, if you can get past it though it's totally worth it.
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Post by Someguy on Jun 4, 2008 15:56:22 GMT
Begbie in the pub is one of the great comedy performances of modern times. Everything from his crap story, the pint glass being tossed casually over his shoulder, up to and including the meeting between Begbie's foot and large man's groin had me in stitches.
And here's a double whammy of an annoyance: Kathy.
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Post by Miss O'Jenny on Jun 4, 2008 22:51:03 GMT
If you pretend not to be annoyed by it, he might stop? They say that if you don't rise to the bait then they just get bored... But High School teachers never said anything that actually worked when it came to bullying.
It's so gutting, 'cause there are all these movies and books that I always wanted to see and read (like Trainspotting) but then as soon as I started them, I just hated them. I have to study Pulp Fiction next year too, but I couldn't watch that movie either.
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Post by mojojojoe on Jun 5, 2008 0:59:04 GMT
How the hell can you NOT watch Pulp Fiction?
And I'll give you Maus when Ross gets back from Germany and actually gives me it. Also, who the hell has my copy of Watchmen and my dvd of Brick? If they're both in Ross' hands I will not be pleased.
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Post by Miss O'Jenny on Jun 5, 2008 22:40:01 GMT
I gave you the watchmen back! I just... got really bored of Pulp Fiction? It's a classic, and something I thought I would like, but at the time, I didn't. Of course, having to study it means I'm going to have to watch it, so you never know. EPIPHANY!!!! Guess what. I told the woman in the storage place about Maus, 'cause we were bantering, and she actually took a note of it down so she can look it up. Lulz. And Stewart, could you please remind me that I have your dvd next time you think we will see each other? I'm moving, so it'll go in with my other dvds, but just remind me and I'll bring it
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Post by Someguy on Jun 6, 2008 11:47:14 GMT
No worries. I'm not really in a rush to see it again. Just concentrate on getting your stuff in order for the move (when I flitted to Gallowgate the very first time, some photo frames shattered turning every box into a wonderful box of broken glass-filled delight.)
By the way, Joe; how can you like Pulp Fiction and not The Big Lebowski? I mean, there's hardly 'a point' (your given reason for not liking the latter) to Pulp Fiction, now, is there? Both films are more or less the same; great dialogue and befuddling plot that comes together at the end.
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Post by Miss O'Jenny on Jun 6, 2008 17:58:26 GMT
Stuff is moved! Thankums, Josephine. My room feels empty and it saddens me. *sniff* Not that I'm really that sad to leave it or anything, but camping out at other peoples homes isn't exactly my idea of fun. Well, not when it's for 3 weeks at least. And thanks, Stew It's just 'cause somehow whenever I move, I end up with like, 3 dvds which aren't mine and I feel bad about it, so I just don't want it to happen again.
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Post by kitty on Jun 6, 2008 22:26:35 GMT
There is something just so perfect about seeing Jigglypuff above Sexy like a punch in the face.
I am insanely happy at this moment.
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