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Go Ask Alice: The message is fine, but I don't think it was a true story. If you want to verify, check Snopes. I couldn't be bothered.

Stephen Forde

omfg wtf u guys on (mainly pointed at Aonghus)???


that is like the worst deffinition of a noob man i have ever heard......its not even funny. And ffs ive been here as long as u?????but i suppose ur obviously better than me.A noob is sum1 bad at whatever they are doing either gaming or using boards, and is only new to the concept of whatever it is they are doing. Basically if u can make head or tail of this!!!





OOH yea and books.Boy do i like a good read....roflmao.
Hmmm im recently in to the Terry Pratchett craze.....whenever i get around to staring a book and then trying to finish it.But once i start i cant stop reading.

Raphael

No stephen, thats a NEWB, everyone is a newb

A n00b is someone who refuses to learn anything, and generally acts the tit

Oh, and I'm currently reading the 11th darren shan book to review for my local bookstore

Joycey

What is the Ask Alice book about specifically? Is it just one trip or a whole series of them? What kinda dose did she take?

gigglingrat

Okay...


Go ask alice is the true diary...ok, the ''supposed'' true diary of a 15 year old girl. She has a pretty normal life up until she goes to a party and her drink is spiked with LSD. She has a good trip, and so does it more and more... The book follows her as she totally ****s up her life.

Correct me if I'm wrong with any of that. I haven't read the book in a few years.

Joycey

ah ok... It sounds good enough i might get it. Where and when is it set?

Raphael

Amazon.com

There you go Joycey, should give you everything you need to know

Joycey

thanks there

davethetrucker

alrite joyce,

yeah the bbok is about this girl who takes acid and trips out and then cant stop doing it. she injects speed and smokes lots a dope. starts to deal lsd, acid, mdma, xml, and what have you. runs away- goes to san fran opens a shop takes gear and mayb coke (cant remeber). then comes the bad trip. that be-ach put me of for a long time.

its ****ed up but she describes the trips really well.

good book. read it.

Joycey

class. Will do. Will i be able to get it in my local bookshop or will I have to order it online? Is that spiky(hot ) dave ya?

nosmo

just finished Cryptonomicon. Again.
Now I'm moving onto something a bit heavier, Egyptian Mythology by Geraldine Pinch, along with another stab at Michael Smith's Java book.

Mystic Fibrosis

Currently rereading the Odyssey in a way, it's a different translation, and also finishing off The Confusion. Arr.

Awayindahils

ok most of what im going to mention has probably alreayd been said, so take it as im 2nd-ing or 3rd-ing or etc-ing you books. im to lazy to go find them all and quote.

the secret history- donna tart that was brillaint but for a sort of 'lighter version' as such the basic eight is the secret history meets gossip girl.

the secret garden- that is my absolute favourite book ever well 1 of two the other is the other is Beyong the Rainbow by christina-marien fraser. very junvinile compared to what most of you would read now but i 9 when i first read it and when im low now i go and read sections. ( i think i might have the author wrong im terrible about things like that)

adrien mole- just go read them if you havnt
ross o'carrol kelly pails to insignifcance beside them well in my opinion

when stars stop spining and all other books by the same author

i should probably add others but im cant really think of much at the moment.

Undergod

Mystic Fibrosis wrote:

...finishing off The Confusion. Arr.

nosmo wrote:

just finished Cryptonomicon. Again.

Aaah Cryptonomicon...
Neal Stephenson nerds... I love you all. It's like a big family

Raphael

"No ****head, you kill him because he's got a ****ing sword! You ever had someone running at you waving a ****ing sword?"

Undergod

Just to make you feel at home, I'd considered loading Asherah into your brain. But then stuff like ethics, and arrest, and the effort involved got in the way.
<raises arm for a moment and then lets it drop>

whatever.

Undergod

But to keep this on topic, I'm considering reading "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Have the new Gibson "pattern recognition" knocking around somewhere gotta read that, and I'm looking for bad, easy books about pirates and swashbuckling and stuff. I like pirates.

Shiney

Don't read Piratica. Its about pirates hence the title. Its crap.
My friend wrote a book on Pirates. Well, she's on the first draft. She's gonna lend it to me. She's gonna try to get it published.

the_only_Ali

anyone ever read The Poisonwood Bible? Its amazing, about this american family that are taken to live in the Congo by their crazy father who feels its his job to convert everyone there to christianity. Its told from the point of view of the daughters and his wife and it is soooooo good!!!

what about the Lindsay Davis series about Marcus Didus Falco? He's this detective dude that has to solve all these murders in ancient Rome. Theyre brilliant.

And anyone, anyone at all ever heard of Gerald Durrell or read anything by him?
He wrote "My Family And Other Animals" and generally books about his crazy journeys to crazy places which he undertook to study the local wildlife and save it from extinction. So he was a pretty cool guy as well as a great writer. And barely anyone seems to have read anything by him!!! This tragic state of affairs must CEASE.

Matthewthebig

A great book is "Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them" its a looka t the media in America and it is abso****inglutely brilliant

gigglingrat

Weird, I was going to buy that yesterday but then I didnt.

Oh, the places you'll go!
Dr. Suess

'Nuff said.

davethetrucker

Joycey wrote:

class. Will do. Will i be able to get it in my local bookshop or will I have to order it online? Is that spiky(hot ) dave ya?

yeah its spikey dave, you can get it any where

davethetrucker

yeah man i saw some guy reading that on the train and i was all like "nice name for a book".

is it good?

Matthewthebig

If your talking about the lies book yeah. It really funny in some parts. Whats annoying is that some of the points are lost on us peoples because we're not American

Undergod

Is it an honest investigation or just a rant at American Society? Yank-bashing loses its appeal so quickly.

That said, I have been known to listen to nothing but RATM for three weeks on end.

In any case i've heard good things about the "Lies... &c." book.

And to continue the pirates/swashbuckling thing, I got out the sequels to The Three Musketeers from the library, and I was the first person to get them out since about a decade ago...

hannahC

"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" is written by Al Franken, a former Saturday Night Live writer/performer (Stuart Smalley). He is also extremely democrat and has a 2 hour radio show on Air America (liberal radio network). I'm not saying they're really liberal just b/c I don't agree, even they admit it. While Franken does have some good points, he mainly concentrates on FOX news. I'll readily admit that FOX is conservatively biased, but he completely ignores the rest of the media, which is liberally biased. I know most of you probably don't know the exact situation simply b/c you don't live here.

Anyway, to get back on topic, I like the Artemis Fowl books and the Redwall series is pretty good. I read a lot but for some reason I can't remember most of my favorite books.

PS. What's RATM?

Tiriel

I loved that book. it was so well written.. really got u into the person of the kid that was talking. honestly really worth reading.. it was so easy going and simply but at the same time deep and meaningful. think it is one of the most touching books I have ever read

Raphael

Redwall series rocks, Artemis Fowl books are ok.

And RATM is Rage Against The Machine afaik

mentalimplosion

i read invisible monsters again, and it's still the best BUT it is being made into a movie with jessica biel (of all people!) in the lead role sometime next year

Undergod

Artemis fowl is pretty fun. not a fan of redwall.
But, my ultimately favoristic books of all time are:
- The Invisibles (Grant Morrison)
- Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
- Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
- Wasp Facory (Iain Banks (same person, but there's a good reason for it))
- Gibson in general
- Stephenson in general (possible exception of Interface)

Matthewthebig

American Psycho its a legend book but seriously messed up

PurpleFistMixer

I can't imagine Inivisble Monsters translating into a movie too well. There are so many flashbacks and time jumps it'll be HELLA confusing.. and... yes, images to be shattered. ;.;

Stephen Forde

Matthewthebig wrote:

American Psycho its a legend book but seriously messed up

Is that also a movie?
Cos i saw a movie called American Psycho 1 and the sequel and to be frank they sucked ass. Really bad movies dont watch em if u havent already!! :eek:

Or is it a good book that was just fcuked up by a movie?

Plunky

Recently bought the "underworld" novelisation, it's so brilliant! And has a couple of scenes of vampyre sex in there, which, of course, rocks! Go get it, it's almost as good as the film!

mentalimplosion

the guy who wrote american psycho (which i haven't read),bret easton ellis, is my favourite author EVER sometimes. less than zero and the rules of attraction are sooooooooo good

Matthewthebig

Stephen Forde wrote:

Is that also a movie?
Cos i saw a movie called American Psycho 1 and the sequel and to be frank they sucked ass. Really bad movies dont watch em if u havent already!!

Or is it a good book that was just fcuked up by a movie?

I've only seen a bit of the movie but it paled compared to the book. you should read it. it kinda manky in parts though

It wasn't me!

MMMM...... RATM. Seriously though. If you ever plan to communicate sensibly with a member of society don't listen to RATM for more than a few days at a time. Otherwise everything just becomes a psychotic political anti-Republican rant. It's fun but it scares people.
/Goes off to listen to RATM for eighth day running.

Matthewthebig

Oh dear lord Daves becoming insane

It wasn't me!

**** you I won't do what you tell me!

Matthewthebig

Some American dj played that in the middle of the day not knowing about that part

Raphael

Matthewthebig wrote:

Oh dear lord Daves becoming insane

Becoming?

Matthewthebig

good point. Ok he's becoming more insane than he once was.

It wasn't me!

I'm not insane, I'm just misunderstood. By the way, this coming from the man who screams Monty Python songs at five in the morning and talks to himself in a scottish accent while in the jacks?!

Raphael

Dude, when did I EVER claim to be sane

Matthewthebig

my 200th post. Yeah Go me. we're all weird can we just agree on that

pinkpimp

I was told I was scitsophrenic, but i dont know if i agree...
I'm in two minds.
(Cue recorded laughter)
No, wait,
(Cue ridiculous recorded laughter)

PurpleFistMixer

(Cue geeky correction on how schitsophrenia is so commonly mistaken with Multiple Personality Disorder, and that multiple personalities is only a sometimes occuring symptom in schitsophrenia.)

pinkpimp

Also, i spelled it wrong. I know i did it. I knew i was doing it at the time, but you go to the trouble of looking it up, especially for that joke.

Matthewthebig

multiple personality disorder is not even a proven condition it is a belief among some people that people just use it as an excuse

gigglingrat

I'm reading East of Eden at the mo...its so good. Read it! You should. Tis Steinbeck. Theres this one girl, Cathy, and she like evil, personified...I keep finding myself rooting for her.

And ok, I only posted to stop my thread from being swept away..into limbo...