i'm halfway through pickwick papers and really enjoying it a lot! i feel sorta guilty about liking it so much because there's a lot of stuff i think would be a little gross if i analysed it too much (sam weller is a great character but "lovable cockney servant" is not something i wanna defend particularly) but i don't really care because the tone of the whole thing is so gleeful. i was kind of suspicious of dickens for ages partly because of the whole GREATS OF LITERATURE thing and partly because whenever i saw an adaptation of like a christmas carol or oliver twist or great expectations it always seemed very trite. i want to pick up more of his stuff now though. does anyone know if 'bleak house' is good because it sounds a lot more interesting than some of his other stuff.

also i read christopher isherwood's 'a single man' today and thought it was pretty great, although i have mixed feelings about the ending.

finished pickwick papers, still like it a lot. there's a lot of sentimental stuff but the other side of that is a real affection for the characters and humanity as a whole that i enjoyed a lot. i also read a book of julio cortazar short stories which was really good.

i just started 'the decameron' by boccaccio, it's this 14th-century book set during the black death which is basically a collection of 100 stories told over 10 days by people trying to wait out the plague. it's also raw as hell, i opened a chapter at random after i got it and it turned out to be a dirty story about a gardener and eight horny nuns who slept with him on a rota. the stuff about the plague is horrifying aaa. i am liking it a lot so far!

how do you like it? i'm at the beginning of the seocnd book (so around halfway) and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. what is the point of talking about every fucking woman killed every other page???i was

what is the point of anything

i just started 'the decameron' by boccaccio, it's this 14th-century book set during the black death which is basically a collection of 100 stories told over 10 days by people trying to wait out the plague. it's also raw as hell, i opened a chapter at random after i got it and it turned out to be a dirty story about a gardener and eight horny nuns who slept with him on a rota. the stuff about the plague is horrifying aaa. i am liking it a lot so far!

no fucking way. this is a pretty big book that got namedropped/we had to know about in our mother language classes (finland  ) but goddamnit if the teachers knew the content of that book what the hell.

wittgenstein... or wolfenstein? hmm, hard decicion...










WITTGENSTEIN 3D (SHOOT THROUGH BULLSHIT). it's just a joke! i don't read wittgenstein and i have been preparing this joke for the whole day!!

obama decepticons

is it because of the new southpark you phony!!!

let it overwhelm you bub. feel your own powerlessness as it keeps happening. it has been happening for years, and it could keep happening. and all you yourself can do is read it and be horrified. don't skip any of them.

what is the point of anything- and what is the point of the real murders ever happening

way to go. i am so lazy on forums 

you're all fat babies writhing around in your full diapers.

who needs literature........... when u have communism

been reading a ray bradbury collection of short stories called "The Golden Apples of the Sun". It's ok. Bradbury is not my fav but it's the only book I have currently.

Just got Building Harlequin's Moon by larry niven. gonna start it tonight i think.

yo read The Illustrated Man. you WILL like it.

can someone poast a link to the one thread steel made a while back with all those recommendations in it?

he didn't make it, but are you talking about: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=77211.0 this one? he posted in it alot (so did you i think). i read through it recently. maybe you are talking about a different one.