Topic: Literature Lately (Read 17008 times)

pbsaurus · « **Reply #25 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:35:58 PM »

Yeah so where are all of the 700 year old dudes today?

Well besides Enoch Root, of course...

ivan · « **Reply #26 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:37:19 PM »

I don't know. Ask me in 651 years.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #27 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:37:58 PM »

Will do :lol

Demosthenes · « **Reply #28 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:39:33 PM »

Quote from: ivan on July 25, 2006, 05:35:15 PM

I liked that part.

Gives one hope.

click

ivan · « **Reply #29 on:** July 25, 2006, 06:33:06 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on July 25, 2006, 05:39:33 PM

click

Oh, yes. I read that in my formative years.

And very formative they were.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #30 on:** July 25, 2006, 06:35:58 PM »

Yep, Lazarus kicks ass!

TRAHALD · « **Reply #31 on:** July 26, 2006, 01:14:05 AM »

I gotta side with David Cross on this one; when you read the Bible as an adult it's just the worst kind of middle school D&D bullshit ever. God, if there is a God, is a kid with a chemestry set at best, and a part-time dad at worst. I lean to the latter. Just look at the Old Testament, it's full of the kind of shitfits 9 year-old throw. WORSHIP ME OR I'LL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! Oy Vey!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #32 on:** July 26, 2006, 03:14:54 PM »

... and then might burn your house down anyway just for larfs.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #33 on:** July 26, 2006, 09:25:12 PM »

Quote from: TRAHALD on July 26, 2006, 01:14:05 AM

I gotta side with David Cross on this one; when you read the Bible as an adult it's just the worst kind of middle school D&D bullshit ever. God, if there is a God, is a kid with a chemestry set at best, and a part-time dad at worst. I lean to the latter. Just look at the Old Testament, it's full of the kind of shitfits 9 year-old throw. WORSHIP ME OR I'LL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! Oy Vey!

I've never conversed with anyone before who actually knew who David Cross was. I respect you.

I have major issues with the Bible, the main one being what a sick bastard God is depicted as. That guy, was it Abraham? Who God told to bring his son up on this mountain and kill him. And at the last minute he was like, "Oh noez, I was just kidding! Here's a goat!"

jeee · « **Reply #34 on:** July 27, 2006, 09:04:13 AM »

Ok, I got me a copy of Snow Crash, or The Babel Virus as it is called in Dutch. The genre is called "cyberpunk".

So if I like it I can add that to my C.V.

Sounds rather cool:

"What's your favourite literature ?"

"I read mainly cyberpunk"

Scheherazade · « **Reply #35 on:** July 29, 2006, 09:27:21 AM »

I like cyberpunk. I'm not sure if it's considered cyberpunk, but I just read Neuromancer, and it was pretty good.

dcrog · « **Reply #36 on:** July 29, 2006, 10:49:14 AM »

I think it may have been the original cyberpunk. Great book in my opinion.

But I ain't looking it up.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #37 on:** July 29, 2006, 10:51:34 AM »

I did just look it up...it is cyberpunk.

I haven't read Snow Crash yet, but I have it. Right now I have to focus on summer reading.

dcrog · « **Reply #38 on:** July 29, 2006, 01:52:45 PM »

I knew it was cyberpunk. I just wasn't positive if it was the first.

But I'll always believe it was, no matter what anyone says.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #39 on:** July 29, 2006, 02:23:20 PM »

Well how long ago was it published? It can't be that old, but then neither is the genre of cyberpunk.

TRAHALD · « **Reply #40 on:** July 29, 2006, 04:38:50 PM »

I must admit with some trepedation that I have not heard of this genre. But, alas, I suppose it is past time I broaden my horizons. What would you recommend as a good introduction in that world?

dcrog · « **Reply #41 on:** July 29, 2006, 05:38:35 PM »

The original of the genre.

http://wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/neuromancer.html

Why start any where else.

Oh and 1984 was when it was published.

Crystalmonkey · « **Reply #42 on:** July 29, 2006, 06:16:44 PM »

Quote from: dcrog on July 29, 2006, 01:52:45 PM

But I'll always believe it was, no matter what anyone says.

I believe the move you are looking for is:

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

dcrog · « **Reply #43 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:18:38 AM »

Quote from: Crystalmonkey on July 29, 2006, 06:16:44 PM

I believe the move you are looking for is:

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

That could have been true until I did look it up and Washington State University agreed with me.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #44 on:** July 30, 2006, 06:25:23 PM »

Quote from: TRAHALD on July 29, 2006, 04:38:50 PM

I must admit with some trepedation that I have not heard of this genre. But, alas, I suppose it is past time I broaden my horizons. What would you recommend as a good introduction in that world?

If you want to broaden your horizons, you should do what Randal did; start watching hemaphroditic pornography.

And in reference to the previous conversation about the Bible...

*gets into Mary Katherine Gallagher mode*

My opinions would be best explained in a quote said by Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects:

"Keaton always said, 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well, I believe in God -- and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze."

TRAHALD · « **Reply #45 on:** July 30, 2006, 07:05:51 PM »

So you're quoting someone... quoting someone? No offense, I just think my brain blew ~~a gasket~~... ~~gasget~~ up.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #46 on:** July 30, 2006, 07:35:08 PM »

Quote from: TRAHALD on July 30, 2006, 07:05:51 PM

So you're quoting someone... quoting someone? No offense, I just think my brain blew ~~a gasket~~... ~~gasget~~ up.

No, I'm doing an impression of someone quoting someone who is quoting someone. It really isn't all that complicated.

TRAHALD · « **Reply #47 on:** July 30, 2006, 11:19:00 PM »

Ummmmmm...
*BLAM!*

Scheherazade · « **Reply #48 on:** July 31, 2006, 08:10:36 AM »

Speaking of explosions, has anyone read Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll? I'm supposed to do a paper on the changes Disney made to the story, and I think I want to incorporate all that sexual innuendo/drug reference stuff. But I have to actually read the story, so I'd like to know what I'm in for.

dcrog · « **Reply #49 on:** July 31, 2006, 11:06:56 AM »

Go ask Alice.

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