Q over D creative writing version ;) heh

[erisesoteric]

If it communicates what it is meant to, it is valid. If it makes you think, it is valid. Hell, even if it just makes you giggle maniacly, then again, it is valid...

Never written a play. Plots required this thing I've heard about? It's called an attention span?

Stephen King: Good writer?

[Branflakes]

Yes! Reason I'm such a fan of his? His characters are very real. While their situations are quite fantastic, the way the characters react and act are always very true. And, the endings are always appropriate, if not the one you sometimes want.


Should any book ever be banned?

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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
I walk the path, trying not to get pulled into the weeds.
God never gives us more than we can handle.
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."

[jones]

i can't think of any book i'd want banned outright. but if were, say, a librarian, i would probably not keep the following books on the shelves:

the bell curve, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray
the turner diaries, andrew macdonald
beyond good & evil, friedrich nietzche
anything by swedenborg
katherine hepburn's me

ever had something you wrote be completely misinterpreted?

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[Dano]

Yep. My dad read All Stories Are True and accused me of writing porn.

I've written a play. Not so good. Let's not go there.

No, no books should be banned by the government, but individual libraries should definitely be able to have opinions on this subject. As far as I'm concerned, it's no different then a restaurant choosing to not offer a particular menu item.

My favorite telling of the legend of Arthur is probably this book I read in HS, the title and author of which I can't remember. It had a green cover though. Paperback, really long (400+ pages with itsy-bitsy typeface).

I can't think of a good question, so I'll as a bad one... What is the book you remember earliest having read yourself?

[Tyler Durden]

Ha, funny Jones should ask that question, I just posted somehitng that will probbaly be misinterpreted.

I love Beyond Good and Evil. Neitzsche is a frickin genius. I recomend The Anti-Christ and Twilight of Idols.

The earliest book I remember reading is Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Unbelievable book even for a childs story.

What story scared you the most? What story made you laugh the most?

My answer for both is American Psycho. But I have to say Catcher in the Rye is pretty godamn close to being a runner up.

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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)

[Branflakes]

Scared me: The Sun Dog by Stephen King. To this day I can't reread that story (novella in his Four Past Midnight collection).

Laughed: Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe. Funny, funny book.

Earliest book: my memory is kinda fuzzy, but one of the Nancy Drew ones, I think.

What's the shortest book you ever read?



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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
I walk the path, trying not to get pulled into the weeds.
God never gives us more than we can handle.
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."

[dwim]

The man and The Sea by Hemingway.

Note on neitzche: i saw a bumber sticker where it went
God is dead
-Neitzche
Neitzche is dead
-God

I was laughing. it made my day.

What's the cheapest you've ever paid for a book?

[Tyler Durden]

34 cents.

I bought a copy of 1984 from a vintage book store, and it was half off for all books. The book was a really old copy (When I buy classics I buy old editions of them, force of habit) and it was normally 64 cents. Great deal huh?

Have you ever read a book that was extremly difficult to find?

I had a rough time finding Fight Club, American Psycho, and The Anti-Christ (Neitszche). Godamn censors.

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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)

[erisesoteric]

My Strangers in Paradise TPB were the hardest to hunt down. It took me MONTHS to complete the collection. And me an addict. Torture.

Short stories or novels, or does it depend and why?

[jones]

don't know the name. don't even have a single favorite. i guess it would be whoever writes all those silly bondage porn stories i find on deja-news.

btw: anybody ever heard of "slash fiction"? it's a little known genre of fan fiction in which amateur writers produce stories about their favorite male tv characters having sex. it actually got its start back in the seventies when bored housewives (slash fiction writers are almost exclusively female, believe it or not) started writing about homosexual encounters between kirk and spock and publishing them in fringe trek zines. when similar stories began circulating on the net, they were identified to those "in the know" with "K/S" in the header. nowadays, kirk/spock stories are still a mainstay but have been supplanted from primacy by stories involving (get this) agent fox mulder and fbi assistant director walter skinner (swear to god i'm not making this up). encounters between mulder and krycek occupy the number two spot.

but the real reason i'm posting is to tell crazy a that the book he's thinking of is called tales for the midnight hour, which (now that i remember it) is probably the first book i ever read. other stories in the book include "the velvet collar" (about a woman who gets her head cut off) and something about a museum guard who falls under a spell and seals himself inside a sarcophagus... or something like that. damn, i wish i still had my copy. it had a skeleton on the front and everything.

i will now do the dance of the lonely skeleton.

what's your favorite book of the bible?

(mine's Job, followed closely by Ecclesiastes -- beautiful poetry in both)