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I don't really prefer one over the other. It's pretty much a case of which one I'm in the mood for.
Scared the most: I don't remember the title, it was in a book of scary stories for kids. A person was putting a very old jigsaw puzzle together at night. Gradually, he sees that the room in the puzzle picture is his room, he's in the puzzle and he has a terrified expression while looking at the window. The LAST PIECE of the puzzle is what's outside the window LOOKING IN.
Laughed the most: Either Andy Rooney's first book or NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN by Bukowski.
Longest book: MUSASHI by Eiji Yoshikawa. 970 pages in hardcover.
Your favorite writer of erotica?
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Revelations and Psalms and Luke are all tied for first. I like the apocylyptic stuff about the future. ( I almost wrote tales but how will that be proven?) Psalms because they sound like songs and well written poetry. (I'm trying to remember if you saw the movie "Micheal" which one Micheal wrote.) Then Luke because it's a real nice story of a man who can heal the sick, give blind back the sight, and raise the living dead... just to be betrayed by his peers and hung on the cross. What a cool guy that was...
Question: on this note... who's your fave character from the bible? Mine is Job and Jesus
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I'd have to go with Jesus, the man himself. There's just something about him that was just so utterley amazing. I think it was his nature and his bravery. The way he was willing to forgive people even the ones that betrayed him. And as for his bravery, he knew he was going to die because of who he was, he could have easily said "I give up. I don't want to be the Messiah, I want to grow old with a family," to the priest and Pilot when he was on trial (and what a mockery that was). But he didn't. He had a path and he had to follow it. I wish I could only be that brave and compassionate.
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What was the worst "classic" you had to read for school and why was it horrible?
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The Great Gatsby
I hate that friggin book. I hate the style I hate the lauguage and I hate the story.
What is the worst film adaptation of a book you've ever seen and why?
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In the near future, you can imagine every big evening will begin hours earlier with you getting sucked on by different appliances, each of them making some part of you bigger for a few hours. The whole evening will then be a race to get naked and accomplish some lovin? before your parts snap back to their original sizes. -Oragami Lips
"Buona femina e mala femmina vuol bastone"- Nietzsche
(Good and bad women want a stick)
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few people would dispute that the demi moore version of the scarlet letter is a complete betrayal of mr. hawthorne's masterpiece, so that's my #1 answer.
#2, however, would be the film adaptation of logan's run. that movie completely alters the concept of the book and injects laughably stupid plot and scenario devices ("renew! renew!" what the fuck?). now i could understand all this if it was done in the name of a simpler plot to deliver more action for the buck. but it doesn't even do that. the book contains great action sequences that would look amazing on-screen (dare we hope for a remake?). the film is downright boring. all it really has going for it is the lovely jenny augutter parading around in skimpy flannel for two and a half hours. granted, that's no little thing -- so long as you look at her from the neck down and ignore her makeup-caked features. as charlie brown (god rest him) used to say "AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGH!!!"
favorite biblical character: well, jesus of course, especially when he's smarting off to the pharisees. but also jonah (the one character to have a completely human reaction when called to be a prophet: turns tail and runs) and job (vive le dissatisfaction, misery and doubt). i like god too. he can always be counted on to hold up his end of a deal (provided you've got papers and everything).
in the climax to a romantic plot, do you like it better when the lovers are together or parted?
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I think it's in the more realistic way if they parted. It's what happens in real life anyway...
Your favorite hemingway novel? for me I couldn't get into The farewell to arms but I just got into the moveable feast.
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There's loneliness in the radios...
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I can't get into his novels. Though I must admit that he did live an incredible life.
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What is the most overrated novel and why?
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speaking of Hemingway...
The Old Punk n the Sea. (aka the old man and the sea) HATED it. i don't understand how it became a classic. the story is: boy is friends with man. man hasn't caught fish in a long time. man is poor because of this. man goes out fishing. man catches giant fish. fish drags man out to sea. man defeats fish. man starts sailing home. along the way, other fish eat the captured giant fish. man returns home with a skeleton. man is still poor.
it's not that i don't get the significance or anything...i just don't think it's a classic. it's not like the whole human experience (in my opinion) boils down to a man and a fish.
however, my favorite Hemingway story is "Hills Like White Elephants." maybe it's becoz the first time i read it i was in the middle of relationship problems and didn't know up from down, but still. *that* story should be a classic. not the old punk n the sea.
what story/novel/tale/pome do you think most relates to your life?
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Sometimes i think everyone on this board is crazy. The rest of the time i'm sure.
-Dan :)
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Oh The Violin by Anne Rice....I read that and cried....that woman is me....read it and you will know me so much...much more than my family. I know it's fiction and that there is the angel thing in it, but that book made me realize how sad and lonely I am...*sigh*
Does it seem easier to write when tragedies happen?
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Stripped down and from the gut. I'm not a fan of "flowers & fluff".
Is there something you've read, possibly a "classic", that, deep down, you KNOW you could've done a better job if you had written it?
