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NaJoPoMo -2- 2013 Lanzababy

Post 21

SashaQ - happysad

That is interesting about the Dark Materials - I read it and quite enjoyed it, but I did think there was an odd flavour to it, and that explains it indeed...


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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like?

My 'favourite' book is James Joyce 'Ulysses'. I saw it on a list of the greatest novels ever written and thought, 'That's for me then.' Trouble is I read two or three chapters, put it down, start on something else and by the time i get back to it I have to start again from the beginning. It's one of those books that you have to get into the rythmn of and after a month or so, the rythmn has gone.

So far it has lasted about four years, and I am currently on..... chapter one. Ho hum.


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Post 23

Gnomon - time to move on

I think the first three chapters of Ulysses are awful. Then the character of Leopold Bloom is introduced and it starts getting interesting.


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Post 24

hellboundforjoy

I read His Dark Materials but I don't remember much about it except I thought the third book especially could have used some editing.


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Post 25

Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE)

[Amy P]


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Post 26

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

If James Joyce had written "Dark Materials," how widely read do you think it would have been? smiley - winkeye


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Post 27

pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like?

Not as widely as the Blemnox Tri-Decameron smiley - ok


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Post 28

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

smiley - rofl no, probably not! smiley - biggrin

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Gnomon - time to move on

"If James Joyce had written "Dark Materials," how widely read do you think it would have been?"

A lot less. "His Dark Materials" has sold about 15 million copies on a list of best selling books/series. No James Joyce book features on the list.


NaJoPoMo -2- 2013 Lanzababy

Post 30

Beatrice

My current kindle reading is Iain Banks' The Bridge, which I'm enjoying enormously. But I never get enough time to read.


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Post 31

Lanzababy - Guide Editor

Today's Daily Deal on kindle is the 'Hunger Games' trilogy for £2 and the odd pence. I am not sure I'd enjoy it much. Is it dystopian Scifi or Urban fantasy. I really curl up with a pain in my eyes at things like twilight and teenage horror.

I know a lot of my friends like Hunger Games, so I thought you'd like to hear about the kindle deal before it expires.


NaJoPoMo -2- 2013 Lanzababy

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Gnomon - time to move on

I've been told by a teenager that The Hunger Games is far better than Twilight.


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Post 33

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I saw the first "Hunger Games" movie, and decided that that was enough for me.


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Post 34

pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like?

"I've been told by a teenager that The Hunger Games is far better than Twilight."

Is that in the sense that a broken arm is better than a broken leg?


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Lanzababy - Guide Editor

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Post 36

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

I've so* missed not being able to read, the past week or so, whilst my netbook was out of action smiley - cry utterly lost really smiley - weirdsmiley - book
But glad to say its now working, and sudden book title came into my head (I think someoen on h2g2 mentioned they were really* supprised I'd not already read), so I'm reading that... and very strange it is... in a sort of odd way... (Its the Storey of O), which is I think dated from about the mid 70s... Not got that far into it yet though... but its... smiley - blush interesting smiley - whistle


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Post 37

Vip

Ooooh, O is... really quite disturbing. I did make it all the way to the end and... yes. Hmm.

It's the way that consent and non-consent get very blurry that gets me.

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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

I've maybe not quite got far enough to get to 'that' yet... as it were... I mean, the whole consent'non-consent', in terms of some BDSM/Sub/Dom stuff I'm quite... err... aweare of... ; the consentual giving of oneself to something unplesant (useually pain), from another person, or divesting 'control' to that other person, which, in a perverted way (no, not that* kind of perverted), often actually means the sub, is the one with power... I kinda get smiley - blush
Its a strange mix, to my mind, thus far, of a very mechanical, sort of 'idealised' or 'ordered', form of 'submission', mixed with some odd psychiology; and it is I thin I expect this psychiological aspect which is going to get interesting as it moves on... One strange thing, certainly I find, is that I'm not really finding it 'erotic' in any way (I'm not getting 'cheapthrills' from reading it, in that* way)... I think this is because, its the psychiological aspects, from the onset, that really grabs ones attention, the 'pure sexual' stuff, isn't in the book, for* 'titulation', even though it is really rather explicit... It sort of should* read like reading 'porn storeys', but, just doesn't (to me at least) smiley - alienfrown (and I don't just think that's because its a hetrosexual thing, thus far with the storey,) smiley - huhsmiley - blushsmiley - 2cents . . Mind, I did 'flinch' at some of the early floggings in the book... I could just about feel them smiley - laughsmiley - bruisedsmiley - blushsmiley - handcuffssmiley - book I must try enlighten myself, one day, to some of the even older erotic, BDSM-edged fiction, wasn't there a bunch of Gothic stuff, writen really quite early? I've a vague recollection of there being it, but certainly haven't ever come across it smiley - alienfrown


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Vip

It's more that it starts out con, but as time goes by she seems to get brainwashed and loses her sense of will. Admittedly it's a fantasy, and perhaps I should have read it with that mindset (as in, the author would never want this to happen in real life but it's something to dream about). Anyway, you get the the end of the book and we'll stop taking over Lanza's journal. smiley - blush

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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

I'm still not that far in to it, having only gotten my netbook back working today...

Its quite 'hard going', not in terms of understanding it, or the language or anything, but because of this 'being in O's head', psychiology bit of it... Perhaps err, because I can, I can 'read between the lines', a lot, on her 'feelings' in it, as of my own experiences smiley - blush but, well, to me at least, the very* ritualistic 'version' of 'submition or BDSM', in it, is kinda a bit OTT... smiley - erm hard to explain really... Though, I guess, to me, at least, or for me, I can kinda 'be in the same place', albeit, to a limited extent, that O, is, within some aspects at least of the submition bit, in a pure kind of submition way smiley - huh and I just explained that really* badly smiley - laughsmiley - ufo I'm just really really hoping it doesn't have a sad ending smiley - sadface I virtually cried at the end of the last book I read, and it was just a really trashy thiller thing smiley - snorksmiley - blushsmiley - angel O is, or at least so far, submitting freely... and... hmmm. nah forgot where I was goign with that one smiley - laugh
Maybe I'll need something really* light hearted to compliment this book, in a few days when I finish it... I've not read a solid, soppy, p Proper* old-fashioned romance in ages smiley - laughsmiley - blush Or maybe just a comedy book/novel of soem discription smiley - laughsmiley - grovelsmiley - book Either that... or I'll end up having to write the sequel to the book... so it ends 'correctly' smiley - winkeye


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