Weirdest Book(s) You Ever Read

[Alt+Ctrl+Del]

Originally posted by SiOMs
Alt+Ctrl+Del tnx... if and IF the mood strikes and i decide to read catcher in the rye again, ill gladly take into consideration yung explanation mo

another uhh unusual book, is wuthering heights (what can i say, im a sucker for classics)

for those who've read it already, any comments?

p.s. i find the book unusual kasi it's too dark parang ang laki ng galit ni emily bronte sa mundo ng sinulat nya yun... yun ***

Holy ****--whatta coincidence. Our Student Council shall be having a film showing, and this film 'Wuthering Heights' comes up out of nowhere. Tungkol saan 'yung book? We still don't know what movie to show: 'Wuthering Heights, Dracula, or Talong.'

[clone18]

a porn novel. damn that got me hard for weeks!

[SiOMs]

Originally posted by Alt+Ctrl+Del


Holy ****--whatta coincidence. Our Student Council shall be having a film showing, and this film 'Wuthering Heights' comes up out of nowhere. Tungkol saan 'yung book? We still don't know what movie to show: 'Wuthering Heights, Dracula, or Talong.'

wuthering heights is about a passionate love affair between heathcliff and catherine, parang sbrang love nila yung isa't-isa to the point of violence... parang ganun or sumthin...

Student Council ng what sch? panood naman ako!!! when n where?

[Alt+Ctrl+Del]

Originally posted by SiOMs


wuthering heights is about a passionate love affair between heathcliff and catherine, parang sbrang love nila yung isa't-isa to the point of violence... parang ganun or sumthin...

Student Council ng what sch? panood naman ako!!! when n where?

Dammit. The film was changed to Red Violin. They added this stupid anime Rurouni Kenshin. Oops. I think I've offended otakus out there. I mean, everyone knows about Kenshin, why bother showing it if all of us has watched the OAV?

[MsEerie]

so far i haven't encountered any weird books...disturbing maybe but i don't think they're weird.

Foucault's Pendulum...happy to say i was able to finish it and somehow comprehend it but it is NO easy read! Para akong nag ma-marathon habang binabasa ko yun. Dapat gumagana talaga isip ko.

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by ^^XTC®^^
Hmm...weird...one word: Irvine Welsh....

trainspotting.

it made me think in scottish for weeks after reading the book.

[sextonfurnival]

read a robert cormier book.

the chocolate war, fade, or i am the cheese.





and if you're a practicing catholic, read the chocolate war. i think you'll find it an interesting read; and if you're open-minded enough, you might even like it.

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by Alt+Ctrl+Del


Dammit. The film was changed to Red Violin. They added this stupid anime Rurouni Kenshin. Oops. I think I've offended otakus out there. I mean, everyone knows about Kenshin, why bother showing it if all of us has watched the OAV?

rurouni kenshin oav is pretty good, actually. better than the tv series.

[Whirrled]

The Chocolate War

excellent book!

All the while I thought it was so unpopular that no one else has read it . . .

sextonfurnival did you get to read the sequel already (Beyond the Chocolate War)?

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by vijdaq
I' ve read Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before and finished them all...very taxing, but very enjoyable. You get a real feeling of accomplishment upon finishing them.

wow. you read eco. and lots of other stuff.

wow.


[ i have a a copy of Name of the Rose, but i haven't finished it because i purchased satanic verses, which i haven't finished yet because i got a copy of a heartbreaking work of staggerring genius. he-he.

there goes the bookshelf.


ah well...

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by SiOMs
i dunno with u guys... pero i read catcher in the rye over the summer and i was like... wats the hype all about? diba kinda controversial yung book? so i went to powerbooks, found the book- white yng cover nya and it had no synopsis whatsoever... so i read it and nung tapos ko na... hmmm was that it? anlabo!

whoever read 'catcher in the rye' by jd salinger.... would you please enlighten me?

p.s. hey ngayon ko lang nakita, nde lang pala ako ang na-weirdo-han sa book nato... pero si Alt+Ctrl+Del nagandahan...

the thing about catcher in the rye is that when it came out, it was a groundbreaking work. for the first time, a writer tried to portray an anti-pa-cute, anti-heroic teenager, without much of the good guy pretentions of other authors.

plus, the way he used the language - salinger used a very realistic speaking tone, people today can still read the book without much difficulty. and catcher was one of the first books to include swearing in its dialogues.

[of course, by today's standards, it's already tame. heck, evrybody and their mother says s**t all the time these days, it's no longer swearing.]


there. hope that pseudo-intellectual rambling did something.




sextonfurnival
[who is a big salinger fan. see that goldfish? it's a secret.
so don't mind me much. ]

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by Whirrled
The Chocolate War

excellent book!

All the while I thought it was so unpopular that no one else has read it . . .

sextonfurnival did you get to read the sequel already (Beyond the Chocolate War)?

yup. i have a bunch of cormier books. got them mostly from last years NB booksale.

[ i actually sent some of my friends copies of fade i bought from NB last xmas. ]

so what do you think about chocolate war? it was good, wasn't it?
and all those catholic symbolisms cormier used.

he's a good man, robert cormier is. god bless his soul.

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by Whirrled
The Chocolate War

excellent book!

All the while I thought it was so unpopular that no one else has read it . . .

sextonfurnival did you get to read the sequel already (Beyond the Chocolate War)?

it is so non-popular. i only saw a copy in NB greenhills then. syempre, i had to buy it then and there. and the fact that it cost P30 doesn't hurt, either... hehe.

but now, i saw some copies sa goodwill. that, and beyond the chocolate war [the sequel written 10 years later], after the first death [another great book], and i am the cheese [probably cormier's most difficult book. and no, it's not a comic story at all. it's a conspiracy-theory sort of story. ]

[sextonfurnival]

try james joyce [he's the writer of ulysses, right?]

now his books are weird, and are among the most difficult to read in english.

and he's a famous writer because of those books. that's even weirder.






[i wish pex would carry a green animated fish.]

[Freakworks]

No doubt about it...Stephen King's "Nightmares and Dreamscapes", a short story collection

[Freakworks]

Originally posted by sextonfurnival



the thing about catcher in the rye is that when it came out, it was a groundbreaking work. for the first time, a writer tried to portray an anti-pa-cute, anti-heroic teenager, without much of the good guy pretentions of other authors.

plus, the way he used the language - salinger used a very realistic speaking tone, people today can still read the book without much difficulty. and catcher was one of the first books to include swearing in its dialogues.

[of course, by today's standards, it's already tame. heck, evrybody and their mother says s**t all the time these days, it's no longer swearing.]


there. hope that pseudo-inteelectual rambling did something.




sextonfurnival
[who is a big salinger fan. see that goldfish? it's a secret.
so don't mind me much. ]

I'm not a book expert or anything, but when I read Catcher I just fell inlove with Holden! He is that one fictional character I would love to just talk with for hours! He's just too REAL, you know? Not holding back any emotions, thoughts or feelings. A friend suggested I read it again 5 years from now, and I'd feel differently about it. Which goes to show it's an undying classic!

[Whirrled]

sextonfurnival

I loved the book

Actually, my brother & I are planning to write a play based on it

(technically, my Bro will do the writing . . . I'm just contributing a couple of ideas to the whole thing)

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by Whirrled
sextonfurnival

I loved the book

Actually, my brother & I are planning to write a play based on it

(technically, my Bro will do the writing . . . I'm just contributing a couple of ideas to the whole thing)

er... which book? salinger or cormier?

but then, i doubt it'll be salinger's ... unless you're very willing to entertain a lawsuit anytime soon. so it must be chocolate war. that'd be interesting.



the thing about cormier is how i end up connecting to the"anti-heroes" as well as the protagonists. they're not the epitomy of evil, they're often just like us.

ah, i'm slipping... hehe.

[sextonfurnival]

Originally posted by Freakworks



I'm not a book expert or anything, but when I read Catcher I just fell inlove with Holden! He is that one fictional character I would love to just talk with for hours! He's just too REAL, you know? Not holding back any emotions, thoughts or feelings. A friend suggested I read it again 5 years from now, and I'd feel differently about it. Which goes to show it's an undying classic!

try reading neil gaiman's death books: the high cost of living and the time of your life.
you'll enjoy how he portrays death. it's really neat.

[Whirrled]

I was referring to "The Chocolate War" . . .

the thing about cormier is how i end up connecting to the"anti-heroes" as well as the protagonists. they're not the epitomy of evil, they're often just like us.

yup yup. I really like the ending . . . felt like a more realistic version of "1984" (by George Orwell)