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Anybody read The Gospel According to Larry? Interesting little story...
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.

...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
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So I finished Cat's Cradle. I loved it. Very different than anything I've read before. :thumbs:

Now I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five (also by Vonnegut) which is great so far.
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has anyone read anything by joyce carol oates? i was in indigo a couple of days ago and i was looking through some of her stuff. i read a bit of faithless and it was pretty good, so i'm interested...any thoughts?
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clumsychild_ wrote:So I finished Cat's Cradle. I loved it. Very different than anything I've read before. :thumbs:

Now I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five (also by Vonnegut) which is great so far.


Does it not feel like you've whizzed through the book? it's a great book, but it feels like it goes by too fast.
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Yeah, it did go by pretty quickly. When I realized I was near the end, I didn't wanna finish it.
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i'm reading vernon god little right now :nod:
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dream in Japanese wrote:i'm reading vernon god little right now :nod:


like it?
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so far, yeah.
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i just picked it up recently and just started it yesterday. me gusta so far tambien.
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i just finished reading Tuesdays with Morie, and it was really good. now I am starting All I really need it know is what i learned in Kindergarten, and so far it is good.
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GUESS WHAT?!

I just bought my favourite childhood book!!!

"Where The Sidewalk Ends" from Shel Silverstein.


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"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.

...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
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i have all of shel silverstein's books :nod:
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that is a sweet book.



some of the poems are scary :uh:
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hahaha i know.
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8O

I love that book. I must go find it. Now.
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HARRY POTTER.
don't look now, just keep watching the TV hating what's too see waiting for someone to say something that's right.
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i'm currently reading 'the way the crow flies' by ann-marie macdonald ..
it's really good so far

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I really liked Fall on your Knees. But The Way The Crow Flies looks scary so I didn't buy it!
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


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Post by Joey »

what do you mean scary?
so far it's not scary anyway
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