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The New Reading/Book Thread: With That Same Ol' Bad Taste!
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Seriously though, if you like the english language, you will love Ballad of the White Horse. Also, the White Horse Vale is a real place in Wales
I did really enjoy TMWWT
His speech a single one,
But his eyes were like an eagle's eyes
That is staring at the sun.
"Dig for me where I die," he said,
"If first or last I fall--
Dead on the fell at the first charge,
Or dead by Wantage wall;
"Lift not my head from bloody ground,
Bear not my body home,
For all the earth is Roman earth
And I shall die in Rome."
Oh my god.
That is fantastic
I want to read this
Added to my amazon wishlist, because I don't have money for books currently
http://www.amazon.com/Moby-Naxos-AudioBooks-Herman-Melville/dp/9626343583
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Some people have problems reading books online, but it is free at project gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1719
I don't have a problem with reading books online, but I do absolutely prefer physical copies
Partially because I know people with problems reading books online, and my pretentious library is a nice thing to have in circumstances like that
I want to click that spoiler so bad! Curssseeee youuuu!!
I'll be picking up the Ballad of the White Horse tomorrow after work.
I think I might pick up Infinite Jest, as well.
steam | xbox live | backloggery
Click it
It's worth it
Still though, that wedding. God damn, that was mean.
Steam | Fitocracy | leggomypaleo | XBL|PSN|WiiU::ninjafrizz
that is actually the Uffington white horse, in Oxfordshire, England (as if you care). There probably is one in Wales too. There are a lot of those things around Britain, bizarrely.
oh woops, that last one isn't a horse at all!
Keilson is a psychiatrist who survived the Nazi holocaust. He supposedly does a lot of writing on holocaust related trauma. He has a few fictional novels out, which have only just recently been translated into English.
This book is about a couple who take in a Jewish man, during World War 2. The Jewish man dies, and the couple is left to dispose of the body without being caught...
I've read 3 stories so far! Pretty good
edit: Although I think I was confused because I think that during the period the story takes place, there was no england as such and so everything is described as Welsh.
yeah this is spot on
apparently he thinks that beause he writes about animals he can write about some totally fucking horrifying shit?
It's kind of funny but in an "oh my god I can't believe that" kind of way
have you ever actually read brothers grimm?
they're about humans and still horrifying
Oh man, I just thought of a great idea for a party game.
I think it is pretty interesting that both the Grimm Bros and Tolkien were linguists first and then, secondarily, tale spinners.
thread killer - didn't mean to, btw
Saw this on this thread on Wednesday, picked it up Thursday, finished it today. The reporter story was pretty entertaining, but the weird culture of Japan was half the interest, too.
Also everyone savor your posts, because after this we have to wait forever to talk about books again.
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
Have you heard the story of Tolkien being given a recorder by a student?
The first thing he recorded was himself speaking the Lord's Prayer in Gothic in order to drive the "demons out of the machine".
Awesome.
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
the plot like, nearly always follows some trajectory that makes no sense and jumps to new central characters and stuff every few paragraphs
the moral of the story is basically always that woman are stinky and should just shut up and listen to their husbands
one is like, a three paragraphs long and is just about a woman disagreeing with her husband,
so he drowns her in a river
the end
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we can just make a thread about harry potter or some shit and turn it into the book thread
what are the odds that it is the worst thing ever
Maybe the first book will be decent then it will immediately plummet down a cliff
Ender's Game, anyone?
You can also find me on Twitter if you want to be inundated with my horrid opinions off the forums, too!
but Speaker for the Dead was the best one
after that though yes
like, I'm talking just the worst.
I havent read all of them though
Bale! buddy! can I grab some recommendations
I've been jonesin' to reread Neverwhere but I'd rather read new stuff