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Books For The Recycling Bin

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Bear

08:29 / 20.02.02

quote:My nominations: Chariots of the Gods

Can I ask why Mordant?

<Runs out of the Books section>

Persephone

08:29 / 20.02.02

Ah well anyway, I've read it now. Il est O.K.

Spatula Clarke

10:15 / 20.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Saveloy:
I threw away 'Apocolypse Culture', about 1/2 a page into reading the interview with the charming Peter Sotos. More out of disgust than shock. I umm-d and ahh-d a bit, but it came down to the fact that I didn't want it in my flat.

Still not certain if that particular piece is serious or designed purely to elicit that kind of response. Pretty fucking horrible, whatever.

rizla mission

11:50 / 20.02.02

I weathered the whole of Apocalypse Culture II without taking particular offence at anything (disturbed - yes offended - no).

Though It'll be pretty worrying when - as will inevitably happen - well thumbed copies of it start getting passed around classrooms. The psychotic-ness of 12 year olds never ceases to amaze me..

..speaking of which, I'll join other posters in saying there are few experiences quite so unpleasant as reading through a big, dumb, fun SF/fantasy book and coming across an absurd, incongruous, thoroughly unpleasant violent sex scene .. I've got rid of one or two books for just that reason .. it's like ..er.. thanks for all the spaceships and daring do, but I really wish you'd kept that one to yourself, Mr. FatBeard Author..

Oh yeah, and I threw out my copy of Pride & Prejudice after finishing my GCSEs, vowing it'd be a cold day in hell before I read another fucking book like that again.

Ierne

12:30 / 20.02.02

Has anyone read Pauline Reage's The Story of O?

Hmmm...I threw that one into the recycling bin years ago. It seemed very clichéd to me, not at all arousing.

Baz Auckland

19:34 / 20.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Burning Man:
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis. More crap. If the protagonist is living backwards, why the hell is the observing consciousness going forwards? That one went into the dumper right quick.

[sheepishly]...just read it last week and enjoyed quite a bit....um....[/sheepishly]

Kit-Cat Club

07:06 / 21.02.02

Have you ever read The Sword in the Stone or The Once and Future King by T. H. White? In those books, Merlyn is living backwards through history while the Wart/Arthur and all the other characters live forwards... an interesting way of dealing with Merlyn's prophetic aspect, I thought.

Baz Auckland

20:03 / 26.02.02

Can't say that I have. It's on my bookshelf though. I'll have to check it out.

I think the main reason I liked Time's Arrow was because it had me thinking that everything around me was backwards for a few days after... lots of fun.

Utopia

01:07 / 30.04.02

A (female) friend of mine in my English class at college took such a strong objection to the poetry of Rochester, that she tore her copy of his poems in two and handed that in instead of an essay.

i'm sorry, but i just find rochester so funny in an unfunny way. this stuff needs to be around, just so we can say, "look kids, 'ren & stimpy' existed back then too!"

the only book i ever threw away? Hollywood v. America by Michael Medved. i needed a book to counter reference something for a college class once. was unaware at that point of Medved's claim to the position of the most christian-republican-joyless asshole on the face of the earth.

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