I just got my copy of Seven League Boots back (an original printed in 1935) and I'm about to re-read it.
Richard Halliburton is basically a huge badass. He decided he was going to swim along the Panama Canal from the Atlantic side to the pacific side, but they wouldn't let him go through it because he wasn't a boat. So, he registered himself as the S.S. Halliburton and was charged 36 cents (they charged him based on his length and weight as if he was a boat) to swim through.
He travelled across the globe and sold stories about his exploits to make a living. He got busted trying to sneak into Mecca and bought a slave child in Africa. He also fucked anyone he could get his hands on (including Ramon Novarro).
He went missing (along with the crew) in 1939 while crossing the Pacific.
Pretty much the inventor of travel/adventure journalism.
Wiggin if you bailed on Catcher what book did you end up reading?
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Great book, but also one that's kinda hard for me to read.
It's about an autistic kid, and the way he thinks and writes is very similar to myself.
So you know
I really should look that book up.
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I'm reading that Black Man book by Richard Morgan at the moment. It's a bit better than his usual hardman storyline, although it is still basically a hardman storyline. It's almost philip k. dick esq in it's exploration of what it is to be human. Almost. What is hilarious is the 'romance' scenes in it. You are reading this fairly intelligent hard-nosed sci-fi novel and then suddenly Morgan slaps you in the face with a big, wet, floppy cheap and nasty hardcore porn scenario that lasts a couple of pages and you just read through giggling at how out of place it is all cuban tit-wanks and spitting on things to lubricate them and your just like 'Oh boy, Morgan has basically never had a romantic encounter outside of a Max Hardcore movie playing on pay-per-view in a motel.'
Sex scenes are like the hardest thing to write ever. If I ever have one in a story it's just gonna be a "fade to black" sort of thing where you know they did it but I ain't giving any running commentary on it.
Sex scenes are like the hardest thing to write ever. If I ever have one in a story it's just gonna be a "fade to black" sort of thing where you know they did it but I ain't giving any running commentary on it.
That would basically be appropriate. Unless you are trying to make a particular study of the character and how his/her love-making informs the reader of their inner psyche like maybe they are distracted or can't properly connect even when bonning or they are particularly into this because of how connected they actually in fact are. I'm not a prude but I really don't usually need all the wet and juicy details please especially when it doesn't actually serve to further the plot or the characters I essentially have a limited amount of reading time and I know what sex looks and smells like already.
It's like when they try to do fight scenes and explain with Defender-like detail all the particular locks and holds and triple punch dragon licks and whatever faggoty fuck and unless you are a martial arts schollar your basically just like, 'Yeah, whatever, did he kick the guys arse or not?'
man, richard k. morgan is notorious for writing the most goddamned awkward sex scenes ever
and all of his books got like at least 2 or 3 of them
i wonder if the dude is a virgin
It wouldn't surprise me. I kind of imagine him working late on his books and the TV is on in the background and the cat comes in and steps on on the DVD remote and suddenly it's Girls Gone Got Ding Donged playing and suddenly his brain is saying lets just start with the characters straight up fucking right here even although it's in the middle of a really inappropriate situation and oh yeah, that's good, I'll just touch myself right there, oh yeah, lets get some lube on there, uh huh...
Wiggin if you bailed on Catcher what book did you end up reading?
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Great book, but also one that's kinda hard for me to read.
It's about an autistic kid, and the way he thinks and writes is very similar to myself.
So you know
I really should look that book up.
Just don't read his second book
It's truly abysmal
He can't write well at all. The first book did well because its narrative style was unique and served a purpose. His new book is attempting to be regular fiction and is really quite atrocious.
Wiggin if you bailed on Catcher what book did you end up reading?
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Great book, but also one that's kinda hard for me to read.
It's about an autistic kid, and the way he thinks and writes is very similar to myself.
So you know
I really should look that book up.
Just don't read his second book
It's truly abysmal
He can't write well at all. The first book did well because its narrative style was unique and served a purpose. His new book is attempting to be regular fiction and is really quite atrocious.
that is too bad because i really enjoyed curious incident, i picked it up on a whim because i was staying at a friends place and needed something to read and it was the first book in the room to catch my eye.
i cannot understand how you can like something so much it makes you hate something else which is also good simply because it isn't what you like
but then
i guess i can't understand religious zealotry either
and they're pretty similar
You were spoiled as a kid and you're not obviously rich.
We must defend the things we can afford! We must convince ourselves that we made the right decision when we spent that last $500 dollars. Don't you see, Pony? Don't you?
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but then I guess they are classics for a reason
Richard Halliburton is basically a huge badass. He decided he was going to swim along the Panama Canal from the Atlantic side to the pacific side, but they wouldn't let him go through it because he wasn't a boat. So, he registered himself as the S.S. Halliburton and was charged 36 cents (they charged him based on his length and weight as if he was a boat) to swim through.
He travelled across the globe and sold stories about his exploits to make a living. He got busted trying to sneak into Mecca and bought a slave child in Africa. He also fucked anyone he could get his hands on (including Ramon Novarro).
He went missing (along with the crew) in 1939 while crossing the Pacific.
Pretty much the inventor of travel/adventure journalism.
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I really should look that book up.
So, you just went straight to the fucking?
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That would basically be appropriate. Unless you are trying to make a particular study of the character and how his/her love-making informs the reader of their inner psyche like maybe they are distracted or can't properly connect even when bonning or they are particularly into this because of how connected they actually in fact are. I'm not a prude but I really don't usually need all the wet and juicy details please especially when it doesn't actually serve to further the plot or the characters I essentially have a limited amount of reading time and I know what sex looks and smells like already.
It's like when they try to do fight scenes and explain with Defender-like detail all the particular locks and holds and triple punch dragon licks and whatever faggoty fuck and unless you are a martial arts schollar your basically just like, 'Yeah, whatever, did he kick the guys arse or not?'
"This is where I say something profound and you bow, so lets just skip to your part."
and all of his books got like at least 2 or 3 of them
i wonder if the dude is a virgin
It wouldn't surprise me. I kind of imagine him working late on his books and the TV is on in the background and the cat comes in and steps on on the DVD remote and suddenly it's Girls Gone Got Ding Donged playing and suddenly his brain is saying lets just start with the characters straight up fucking right here even although it's in the middle of a really inappropriate situation and oh yeah, that's good, I'll just touch myself right there, oh yeah, lets get some lube on there, uh huh...
CHAPTER 16
Chapter 16
If you think I'm going to tell you how the sex was, you're out of your mind.
Chapter 17
Just don't read his second book
It's truly abysmal
He can't write well at all. The first book did well because its narrative style was unique and served a purpose. His new book is attempting to be regular fiction and is really quite atrocious.
Or some cat litter.
Except not spastic at all.
And Aspeger's has absolutely 0 bearing on my opinion of a book so uh
I'm basically calling you an idiot here.
no
never had sex with her
she uh
she didn't really trust me or nothin
fuck I can't finish that
fucking a seriously, and they come out of nowhere. i think woken furies had the raunchiest ones.
that is too bad because i really enjoyed curious incident, i picked it up on a whim because i was staying at a friends place and needed something to read and it was the first book in the room to catch my eye.
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I loved that book.
You were spoiled as a kid and you're not obviously rich.
We must defend the things we can afford! We must convince ourselves that we made the right decision when we spent that last $500 dollars. Don't you see, Pony? Don't you?
Also, olol G&T!
I can't afford PS3
But I don't hate it.
I just rip on it because it's fun.
Why cant we all be more indecisive? I bet you those people get along with everyone, cant decide whether or not to like someone.
Just for MGS4.
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