OTP: What are y'all reading?
mune...@my-deja.com
this time.
I just got finished reading Richard Pryor's autobiography "Pryor
Convictions". Man, that book had some funny ass parts, but it also made
you think about life. Rich drops a lot of knowledge and some the stuff
he said really got me thinking.
I finally found a copy of "Nigger" by Dick Gregory, so I'll be reading
that next.
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Ssjba
got done reading the Count of Monte Cristo
and don't front, but I am currently reading the Bible, the Old Testament has
some deep ass shit in there, especially near the end, crazy shit!!
Peace
The Cheen
Like Subway Art, and othe things I can find on the net.
I always read Slam magazine and occasionally The Source. And I love to read
biographies. Ive read biographies on Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Marilyn
Manson, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Howard Stern, and a bunch more.
natt...@my-deja.com
mune...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I finally found a copy of "Nigger" by Dick Gregory, so I'll be reading
> that next.
GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT BOOK. A testament to a mentality that can
laugh, smile, scream and raise his fist in the face of adversity.
Really a must read in my opinion.
Currently I am reading "The Sufi Message" of Hazrat Inayat Khan. So far
so good - in writing about how the only true scripture is nature it has
this to say:
"All scriptures brfore nature's manuscript are as little pools of water
beside the ocean." I can dig it.!
I just finished Edmund Carpenter's "Oh What a Blow that Phantom Gave
Me!" which was a collection of essays writtin about the coming of a
media world from the eyes of an anthropologist who studies 'primitive'
indigenous civilizations. Very inspring as well as prophetic (it was
writtien in the early 70's and much of it holds true today.
I also reread Frank Zappa's autobiography recently, and couldn't
recommend it more.
peas,
d
Mark
Check out Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff Thames and
Hudson Publishing. It's not as good as Subway Art but it's cool. And
if you are familiar with Jungle/D&B's Goldie, you can find his picture
when he was doing pieces.
Group: rec.music.hip-hop Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2001, 2:25am (EST+5) From:
itsc...@aol.com (The Cheen)
PS: Howard Stern rocks!
Mark
Weber.
It's talks about the connection between different growing Christian
sects (in post-reformation Europe & England) and the growth/acceptance
of capitalism/the human quest for prosperity through materialism.
Dead by Dawn
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Fatboy Roberts
I'm reading literary junk food, cuz it tastes good.
"The Shining" by Stephen King.
I'm also bit by bit going through the Autobiography of Malcolm again
for like, the 7th time.
that is, when I'm not burning my eyeballs doing computer geek shit.
GOD I suck.
Scottish people call it DA SHINNIN!
Fatboy
The Cheen
graffiti bible, but Spraycan Art is really good too.
I cant find it at any store. Ive tried ebay but without luck. Id use amazon.com
but my parents wont use their credit card because theyre paranoid. If youre a
writer yourself, please tell me the caps make a big difference. I bought my
first cans the other day and absolutely sucked when i sprayed on cardboard. Too
thick and drippy in some spots..too thin and barely light in other spots. Im
guessing the caps are the main problem because I hear that true writers never
use the caps that come with the paint. Or maybe I just need practice.
Mochaspresso
Well thanks to recs I received from this NG, I'll soon be reading "The
Informers", "The Story of O" and "The Morning After". That is, if they
ever get here. It's a sad day when it seems easier to order stuff off
the net and wait a week for it rather than just going to one of the two
bookstores that I pass on a daily basis.
tim schnetgoeke
wrote:
>And
>if you are familiar with Jungle/D&B's Goldie, you can find his picture
>when he was doing pieces.
and 3d should be the dude frome massive attack.
tim
tim schnetgoeke
>I know this post comes up every few months, so I thought I'd start it
>this time.
i've just finished a couple of books by german authors and while they
were quite entertaining, i suspect them of being pure autobiography.
typical 20something stories by somebody who likes wack music. i've
just started another book by a another german author (benjamin v.
stuckrad-barre) and it's basically the same, although i find his
writing superior to the others + the book has an underlying
misanthropic attitude which i quite enjoy. the music mentioned is even
worse, though. oasis all over the place.
i've started the "art of loving" by erich fromm, hamlet, modernism
rediscovered (a book about modern architecture in cali), some book
about 20th century art and "the big money" by john dos passos.
i'm doing parallel reading most of the time. i finish what i like most
quickly and then return to whatever else i've started. i saw romeo &
julliet on stage recently + that reminded me of always wanting to read
hamlet, but now i know why i didn't do it so far. shakespeare's
language is just too much for me at times.
i'm about to order a couple of collections of short stories by
somerset maugham. his writings impress me, because he's really on
point most of the time.
i copped "truly italian" by ursula ferrigno yesterday. it's a
vegetarian cook book with plenty of vegan recipes. it was around $30,
but the recipes just looked to good and it's pretty undogmatic. i hate
cookbooks that come with a "let's save the planet" attitude.
tim
tim schnetgoeke
> If youre a
>writer yourself, please tell me the caps make a big difference. I bought my
>first cans the other day and absolutely sucked when i sprayed on cardboard. Too
>thick and drippy in some spots..too thin and barely light in other spots. Im
>guessing the caps are the main problem because I hear that true writers never
>use the caps that come with the paint. Or maybe I just need practice.
caps do make a big difference and so does practise. technique is just
one aspect and not really as essential as many people believe. in my
opinion, that is. if you've got the letters, don't worry about drips.
technique complements style and not the other way around.
tim
STRATEGY3
>From: djfa...@home.com (Fatboy Roberts)
>I'm reading literary junk food, cuz it tastes good.
>
>"The Shining" by Stephen King.
>
Great book. First time? If so, go out of your way and find the made for TV
adaptation that came out a couple of years ago and watch it. It's not as
"good" as the Kubrick classic, but it's very true to the book, you could call
it the King protest version, I guess (he hated the Kubrick, as if all his other
books that became movies are so true to the books....?).
>I'm also bit by bit going through the Autobiography of Malcolm again
>for like, the 7th time.
As much important shit as there is in this book, my favorite part is still the
Detroit Red parts. He said he smoked "over an ounce a day" of weed. Do you
realize that's approx. 100 good size joints? That's wild....
>Scottish people call it DA SHINNIN!
That lad got the SHINNIN inside him! Ready the dunk chair!
STRATEGY
miss_bee
and some Kantian philiosophy (essays by Kant and extrapolations of his
philosophy)
dula
loose balls - jayson williams' nba expose
divided soul - david ritz' marvin gaye biography
java enterprise in a nutshell - for work
invisible man - bits and pieces
In article <20010202113306...@ng-fi1.aol.com>,
stra...@aol.comCHOBOCO (STRATEGY3) wrote:
> >Subject: Re: OTP: What are y'all reading?
> >From: djfa...@home.com (Fatboy Roberts)
> >Scottish people call it DA SHINNIN!
>
> That lad got the SHINNIN inside him! Ready the dunk chair!
>
> STRATEGY
urge to kill...fading... :)
where my simpsons niggas at?
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Enid Blyton.
I love Enid Blyton.
Oh, and William Logan's Night Battle.
A to the L
Nice Day"...kind of behind the wwf scenes...
PEACH
A to the L
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Julien Boast
on it.
Reading Apollodorus' 'Library of Greek Mythology' once-through cos, after
all, I am going to be an 'ancient historian' for the next 3 years...
Before starting 'Frankenstein' again, I had just finished 'Slaughterhouse
5', and before that I was just re-reading more books/plays for my English
Lit. A level (got a realtively funny anecdote about this...but can't be
bothered)
Going to start 'Doctor Fischer of Geneva' next.
As always, I recommend 'The Master and Margarita' by Bulgakov.
(incidentally, just got a mate of mine to start reading Crime & Punishment)
Still haven't got round to CP Snow.
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We need to hear some shit with knowledge and drama or impact.
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Mochaspresso
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lardner "haircut and other stories", + var. chicano poetry - luis j.
rodriguez, few others - some touching, soulful shit... and my old
notebooks
T. Tauri
>
> If so, go out of your way and find the made for TV
> adaptation that came out a couple of years ago and watch it.
Aw, no man, no. Say it isn't so. You liked that junk? That was AWFUL.
I've gotta say it again 'cause one isn't enough: AWFUL.
AWFULAWFULAWFULAWFULAWFUL.
Man, you're not my hero anymore.
Peece,
T. Tauri
Behold
Try a great book titled "English as a second language". Who the hell
taught you to type in this dimwit broken english? Thats the point.
Your probably a hunt and pecker.
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STRATEGY3
>STRATEGY3 wrote:
>>
>> If so, go out of your way and find the made for TV
>> adaptation that came out a couple of years ago and watch it.
>
>Aw, no man, no. Say it isn't so. You liked that junk? That was AWFUL.
>I've gotta say it again 'cause one isn't enough: AWFUL.
>AWFULAWFULAWFULAWFULAWFUL.
>
Okay, I should have said, "if you're a fan of the BOOK, it's a must see" or
something like that, but it wasn't THAT bad.
>Man, you're not my hero anymore.
>
If you haven't seen "Manhunter" try that. Not good enough to make me your hero
again, but it's decent, I saw it this weekend (80's movie just rereleased on
DVD; an unofficial prequel to "Silence Of The Lambs"). I thought this dude's
portrayal of hannibal was more believable (if not better) than Hopkins.
Hopkins was good, but a little too horror movie schlocky to be taken totally
seriously.....
STRATEGY
>Peece,
>T. Tauri
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Steve Jackson
"Left Behind: Book Three-- Nicolae"
"The Philadelphia Negro"
various passages from the Bible
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"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but
not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed."
--II Corinthians 4: 8,9
dula
i started kauffman's existentialism today. anybody read this yet?
and how come nobady's talking about 'snatch' yet?
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Steve Jackson wrote:
> Not an avid reader but:
>
> "Left Behind: Book Three-- Nicolae"
get with it jackson! i'm on like 5 or 6 or something....
>
>
> various passages from the Bible
you and that other dude might want to check out the stuff king james left out.
anyway, can someone recommend a good book on touissant and the haitian
revolution? and more historical account than novel, please....
disorg...@my-deja.com
i first read about the author in the source i believe. she's from
philly, and wrote the book in the early/mid 90's but couldn't sell it,
so she just shelved if for a few years.
but in the late 90's she decided to put the book out on her own. she
literally sold hand bound copies out of the trunk for a couple of
years, which eventually gave her the cash to start her own publishing
company to put her book out to stores.
sounds familiar right? ha!
now, as for the book itself, i enjoyed it. you can definitely tell that
no editor from doubleday had his hands on her prose, to smooth the
rough edges off of the grammar and spelling, but that actually made me
enjoy it more, it made the book less slick, glossy and processed to me.
the story is about the drug game in philly & the various players around
it. sort of a combination of the coldest winter ever and a donald
goines novel.
i don't know how hard it may be to find in your area, but she has a
website thats listed in the back of the book you can check out:
http://www.meowmeowproductions.com
i just pre-ordered angie's broke diaries book. she gonna have recipe's
in there too! you can never have enough ramen recipes. but i have to
wait for it to come out, so in the meantime, i'm trying to decide what
to read next............
regards,
Dis.
In article <95cqs4$jvm$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
mune...@my-deja.com wrote:
> I know this post comes up every few months, so I thought I'd start it
> this time.
>
> I just got finished reading Richard Pryor's autobiography "Pryor
> Convictions". Man, that book had some funny ass parts, but it also
made
> you think about life. Rich drops a lot of knowledge and some the stuff
> he said really got me thinking.
>
> I finally found a copy of "Nigger" by Dick Gregory, so I'll be reading
> that next.
>
Delirium
>I know this post comes up every few months, so I thought I'd start it
>this time.
>
>I just got finished reading Richard Pryor's autobiography "Pryor
>Convictions". Man, that book had some funny ass parts, but it also made
>you think about life. Rich drops a lot of knowledge and some the stuff
>he said really got me thinking.
>
>I finally found a copy of "Nigger" by Dick Gregory, so I'll be reading
>that next.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
>http://www.deja.com/
I just got through Bomb the Suburbs and No More Prisons....
Upski's a dope writer. His books were really interesting... made me
think of what I want to do with my life.
I've also been fucking around with Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietszche
Delirium
>Thanks for the recommendation. Ive heard the same thing..Subway Art is the
>graffiti bible
that's bullshit. from what i hear (from people who were around at the
time) is that Graff started before Hip-hop in Philly and is a culture
in and of itself. books like subway art and spraycan art and the
movie wildstyle made people think that Hip-Hop started it all
True writers rock anything they've got handy....
if it's too thick in some spots and too thin in others then you need
to work on your can control.
you can't expect to be rocking perfect pieces from your first cans
Delirium
wrote:
>As much important shit as there is in this book, my favorite part is still the
>Detroit Red parts. He said he smoked "over an ounce a day" of weed. Do you
>realize that's approx. 100 good size joints? That's wild....
he was probably rolling at least gram joints man.... 100 joints a day
is pretty tedious.
i'm surprised he still got high.
Steve Jackson
> Speaking of Philly drug game novels:
> 2nd and Indiana by Steve Lopez
Make that Third and Indiana
The Ma-jin
It's an anthology of different people taking the personas/responsibilities of
Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil and Good respectively.
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"..it be the music that makes me sick/and acting like a paranoid scizophrenic/
I leave your mind in a state of panic/like a claustrophobic stuck on the
titanic." (Beretta 9 "Bastard Swordsman")
Steve 'Flash' Juon
mad...@aol.comVEGETA says...
> Have any of you read the Incarnations Of Immortality by Piers Anthony?
>
> It's an anthology of different people taking the personas/responsibilities of
> Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil and Good respectively.
OH HELL YEAH. One of my favorite series of all time. You ever check
out the "Chaos Mode" series or his "Bio of a Space Tyrant"? Now the
latter is deep - hip-hop fans ought to relate to this one because it's
a saga of how a member of the discarded underclass works his way up
the ranks with ambition and intelligence to become the most powerful
and influential man in the universe. It's got some dope sex scenes too,
which people made fun of me for in high school - one chapter in Vol. 1
or Vol. 2 is entitled "Helmet Sex." I left to go to the bathroom and
left my book on the desk, and dirty things were scribbled on every page
of the chapter when I came back - making it completely unreadable (not
in the margins, OVER the words).
I fucking HATED my high school worse than Columbine,
Flash
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of books I have ever read. The one about Satan was the best though. I
liked how Anthony portrayed him as a benevolent dictator, for whom evil
actions are a consequence of his position's requirements.
In article <20010207141901...@ng-ft1.aol.com>,
T. Tauri
> To further defend myself, "The Shining" was the first real engrossing
> novel I read as a kid (I guess "The Outsiders" might be, but that's
> kid stuff & not very long). I read it several times growing up, and
> the TV adaptation really was like watching one of those "cassette
> books" where they read the story to you, and I guess that was good
> enough for me......
>
> Also, Dick Halloran being killed in the Kubrick was very devastating
> to me.
Likewise, it pissed me when the Fox X-Men cartoon did the death of Jean
Grey scene for scene from the comic I had as a kid, but then didn't kill
her at the end. (OK, I kinda recall that they had already changed it in
a reprint of the comic book or something, but I wanted it done OG
style.)
> >So anyway, on the film tip, I just want to say that I now think Hard
> >Boiled is a better movie than The Killer. First-time viewing, The
> >Killer is way more involving, but I find myself enjoying Hard Boiled
> >more after like the 7th or 8th viewing.
>
> I've always thought this, from day one. The warehouse scene in Hard
> Boiled is absolutely the best one man army/gunfight scene i've ever
> seen in my life.
Nothing in HB involved me like the battle at the end of The Killer (I
had to walk around NYC for a while to kind of extract myself from movie
afterwards), but on repeat, the whole pace and cinematography etc etc
really stands out much more to me.
> > But what I'd really like to see again is
> >the HK "Once A Thief."
>
> One of the few HK action movies I still haven't seen.
A fine one.
Peece,
T. Tauri
Steve 'Flash' Juon
> Most definitely. This was probably one of most thought provoking series
> of books I have ever read. The one about Satan was the best though. I
> liked how Anthony portrayed him as a benevolent dictator, for whom evil
> actions are a consequence of his position's requirements.
Actually I thought it was the weakest book of the whole series plotwise
and theologically speaking. It's cornball how he actually prays his way
out of being Satan. Come on Piers, I expect better of you than that ish.
I don't get the benevolence of his being the weigher of the souls either.
I could buy that idea in "Behold a Pale Horse" for Death but once was
really enough for me.
Peace, Flash
mist...@my-deja.com
> >From: djfa...@home.com (Fatboy Roberts)
>
> >I'm reading literary junk food, cuz it tastes good.
> >
> >"The Shining" by Stephen King.
> >
>
I read King religiously. All his fiction. It's been a while since I've
read this one. I'm an 'It' and 'Dark Half' man myself.
A lot of deep reading material on this board. I'm boring; I just read
King, Crichton, Clancy, Grisham, Rice's witch and vampire series. That
is, when I'm not reading software design descriptions.
mistaryte
Last intelligent thing he read was Thompson's 'Rum Diaries'
mune...@my-deja.com
Seasons ook. Three of the stories have already been made into movies
(Apt Pupil, Shawshank Redemption, and Stand By Me) and the fourth ain't
too bad either. I never really got inot his horror stuff, but he is one
of the best fiction writers around.
P.S. Does anyone know of a story he wrote involving a baseball pitches
whose pitches disappear before they get to the plate? I think my friend
says King wrote this, but I don't know which book it would be in.
In article <95uk90$t9$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
mist...@my-deja.com
reason a decapitated pregnant woman who continues to give birth doesn't
scream movie plot...
Baseball themes in King... there's the last short story in 'Nightmares
and Dreamscapes', and all kinds of baseball themes in 'The Girl Who
Loved Tom Gordon'. A great book; best King-esque book of recent memory,
especially after Insomnia and Bag of Bones.
mistaryte
Everybody want heaven, but n'on want dead - redrum, redrum
STRATEGY3
>The one thing by King that I think is outstanding is his Different
>Seasons ook. Three of the stories have already been made into movies
>(Apt Pupil, Shawshank Redemption, and Stand By Me) and the fourth ain't
>too bad either.
Was that the one where kids had to walk this marathon for days on end, and when
you collapsed, they shot you in the head until there was one kid left?
>I never really got inot his horror stuff, but he is one
>of the best fiction writers around.
Check out Dead Zone & Cujo (important to read in that order)
STRATEGY
Mochaspresso
> I read King religiously. All his fiction. It's been a while since I've
> read this one. I'm an 'It' and 'Dark Half' man myself.
>
> A lot of deep reading material on this board. I'm boring; I just read
> King, Crichton, Clancy, Grisham, Rice's witch and vampire series. That
> is, when I'm not reading software design descriptions.
>
You sound normal to me. My favs of King are "Rose Madder" and "Gerald's
Game". Someone was selling "The Drawing of Three" on the street for $1,
so I bought it. But after reading the cover, I realized it's a
continuation of another book. So I've been holding off on it. I like all
of the other authors you mentioned also. Esp. Grisham. He only let me
down w/ "The Pelican Brief". This is the only book where I can honestly
say that the movie was much better.
mist...@my-deja.com
of the Bachman Books, and includes 'Running Man' (yeah, the Ah-nuld
movie is loosely based on it), 'Rage' (kid holds his class hostage),
and 'Roadwork'.
'Thinner' is the other Bachman work. Great movie, too. Next to 'Pet
Sematary', it's one of the few King movies that do the book justice.
'Cujo' and 'Dead Zone' are good reads, too. Another I forgot
is 'Salem's Lot'. Probably the best vampire story I've read.
STRATEGY3
Thanks.
I actually read everything you mentioned,
just haven't defragmented the old brain in a while.
STRATEGY
Fatboy Roberts
>The Long Walk is the 'drop below 4mph and you're dead' story. It's part
>of the Bachman Books, and includes 'Running Man' (yeah, the Ah-nuld
>movie is loosely based on it), 'Rage' (kid holds his class hostage),
>and 'Roadwork'.
>
>'Thinner' is the other Bachman work. Great movie, too. Next to 'Pet
>Sematary', it's one of the few King movies that do the book justice.
oooh. I gotta disagree here. Thinner was an awright flick, but Pet
Sematary was God Awful considering what they coulda done. I mean, most
of King's books are hard to translate because he can crawl up inside a
person's head real well, but Pet Sematary is pretty straightforward,
pretty literal. The elements were all there for the taking, and they
fucked it up.
Now, my list of the King movies that have done the books justice:
Carrie
The Shining (even though King hated it, it captured the feel of the
book VERY well)
Shawshank Redemption
Green Mile (although it tended to drag..but hey, so did the book. I
didn't catch it in serial form, so maybe that colors my perception)
Stand By Me
The Dead Zone
Creepshow (this, if I remember right, had some of King's short stories
translated to the screen. did very well.)
There's some others I'm forgetting, and some that skirt the line, but
hey, that's a pretty good lineup of flicks there.
now why they can't get "The Mist" out of development hell, I'll never
know. That short story was WRITTEN to be a movie, I swear it.
although giant mutant lobsters might be hard to pull off..
Fatboy
Fatboy Roberts
<mochas...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <95uk90$t9$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> mist...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> I read King religiously. All his fiction. It's been a while since I've
>> read this one. I'm an 'It' and 'Dark Half' man myself.
>>
>> A lot of deep reading material on this board. I'm boring; I just read
>> King, Crichton, Clancy, Grisham, Rice's witch and vampire series. That
>> is, when I'm not reading software design descriptions.
>>
>
>You sound normal to me. My favs of King are "Rose Madder" and "Gerald's
>Game".
Someone had told me there's a production of Rose Madder? I hadn't
heard word one of any film company working on it. I think it'd be
great though, I loved that book.
Viva ze bool.
Fatboy
Mochaspresso
djfa...@home.com (Fatboy Roberts) wrote:
> Someone had told me there's a production of Rose Madder? I hadn't
> heard word one of any film company working on it. I think it'd be
> great though, I loved that book.
Haven't heard anything about a movie either, but if they do, they'd
better make it right...esp. the showdown/fight scene toward the end.
>
> Viva ze bool.
lol. dude was insane.
Kayal
stra...@aol.comBenGrimm (STRATEGY3) wrote:
> >Subject: Re: OTP: What are y'all reading?
> >From: mune...@my-deja.com
>
> >The one thing by King that I think is outstanding is his Different
> >Seasons ook. Three of the stories have already been made into movies
> >(Apt Pupil, Shawshank Redemption, and Stand By Me) and the fourth
ain't
> >too bad either.
I've read Different Seasons, Carrie (while I had menstrual cramps,
which is the *perfect* time to read it) and one other one that I never
finished. They were alright, the kid/Nazi one (Apt Pupil?) was pretty
good.
So *there*.
TJ Xenos
RMHH :)
T.J. Xenos
xen...@student.wit.edu
"I turn pretty boys into Craig Macks"
"You're wack if you dont appreciate knives"
"And if she wanna play, get up in that bitch face,
and tell her Ghost said, 'TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF!' "
disorg...@my-deja.com
Steve Jackson <s...@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu> wrote:
> Speaking of Philly drug game novels:
>
> 2nd and Indiana by Steve Lopez
>
i'll have to check these babies out.
> The funny thing about 2nd and Indiana is that it reads like a book I
> wrote between 1994 and 1997. Never been published or edited and only
a
> few people have seen it. I'm just waiting for the right person to
read
> through it. It needs to be edited before I look at putting it on
> iuniverse.com. Anyone use this?
you wrote a book? hey, you can always self publish, a lot of people are
doing it these days.
i love reading books, scripts, whatever, before they've been polished
and been through 100 rewrites, but this iuniverse site looks
interesting.
regards,
Dis.
disorg...@my-deja.com
bought this book back in the mid 80's. couldn't read it, thought it was
dull and unreadable.
now years later, i'm devouring it, i can't believe i ever found it
boring. go figure.
quest19...@webtv.net
"Ten Things You Can't Say In America". Other good books are:
"And Man Created God"
"Bomb The Suburbs"
"Brothers, Lust, & Love"
"Man, God, & Civilization"
"Africa's Gift To America"
"The Age of Reason"
"The Coming Race War In America"
"The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War"
"Afraid of the Dark"
PEACE!
Steve Jackson
> In article <95pecn$86u$2...@cronkite.temple.edu>,
> Steve Jackson <s...@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu> wrote:
>> Speaking of Philly drug game novels:
>>
>> 2nd and Indiana by Steve Lopez
>>
>> The Family by Antonne Jones
> i'll have to check these babies out.
Oh and it's 3rd and Indiana
> you wrote a book? hey, you can always self publish, a lot of people are
> doing it these days.
> i love reading books, scripts, whatever, before they've been polished
> and been through 100 rewrites, but this iuniverse site looks
> interesting.
Before I put it on iuniverse, though, I need someone else to reread and
edit it. (hint, hint:))
> regards,
> Dis.
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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mist...@my-deja.com
djfa...@home.com (Fatboy Roberts) wrote:
>
> oooh. I gotta disagree here. Thinner was an awright flick, but Pet
> Sematary was God Awful considering what they coulda done. I mean, most
> of King's books are hard to translate because he can crawl up inside a
> person's head real well, but Pet Sematary is pretty straightforward,
> pretty literal. The elements were all there for the taking, and they
> fucked it up.
>
> Now, my list of the King movies that have done the books justice:
>
> Carrie
>
> The Shining (even though King hated it, it captured the feel of the
> book VERY well)
>
> Shawshank Redemption
>
> Green Mile (although it tended to drag..but hey, so did the book. I
> didn't catch it in serial form, so maybe that colors my perception)
>
> Stand By Me
>
> The Dead Zone
>
> Creepshow (this, if I remember right, had some of King's short stories
> translated to the screen. did very well.)
>
> There's some others I'm forgetting, and some that skirt the line, but
> hey, that's a pretty good lineup of flicks there.
>
> now why they can't get "The Mist" out of development hell, I'll never
> know. That short story was WRITTEN to be a movie, I swear it.
>
> although giant mutant lobsters might be hard to pull off..
> Fatboy
Never caught Creepshow. Cats Eye did the same thing with a bunch of
stories out of Skeleton Crew (Smokers Inc. and Ledge immediately come
to mind), where 'Mist' resides.
We just have a difference of opinion on Pet Sematary, I guess. Just the
images of the 18-wheeler bearing down on the Tadder; the scalpel in the
Munster-reject's heel; the hypo in the ex-Church's neck; and Paxcow
runnin' around the whole movie saying the ground has gone sour. Maybe
not the best-acting ever, but the movie still gets to me.
mistaryte
Mist WAS written to be a movie, I will give you that