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hey! lay off adam. he's special.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I made a go at Infinite Jest once when I was 17 and again when I was 23. Neither time did I make it past the first 100 pages. That, and I got sick of a couple friends of mine waxing rhapsodic about it in a really sickening way. Eff that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

never mind, caitlin! i take it back!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

britdude@usa.net

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Still, his essays are pretty great.

xpost DFW's, not Adam's. I don't know if he writes essays.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

don't be mean to adam, he is lovely

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I also finished The Game the other day, it was stupid.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The last essay I wrote was a mawkish "personal statement" that somehow got me into grad school.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeeks. I just wrote one of those about doctor school and it was BAAAD>

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

recent:
"the metamorphosis" (kafka)
do androids dream... (philip k. dick)
"the double" (dostoevsky)

now:
the divine invasion (philip k. dick)

next:
cloud atlas (mitchell)
maybe neuromancer

― inert false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

guys, my comment to adam was not serious. i luv all of u.

personal statements are the worst. it was during the personal-statement-writing process that i decided "fuck grad school" and moved to pennsylvania instead.

i got a 1470 on the GREs and i like to brag about that. so i'll mention it here because it is almost relevant.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link

divine invasion was my fave pkd

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i haven't started reading it yet, but i found this over the weekend...

http://static.flickr.com/50/108290029_9ffa3ce500.jpg

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

The last essay I wrote was a mawkish "personal statement" that somehow got me into grad school.

my personal statement (and my letters of recommendation, and maybe my resume) was what got me into grad school. it wasn't my grades, that's for sure! i'm living proof that you can slack off through undergrad and still get into a fancy grad school.

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

wow... that reminds me of this amazing book called "Handbook for Poisoners" that i recommend to EVERYONE. the first half includes a glossary full of information about various poisons (animal venoms, plants, chemicals, etc), and accounts of real-life poison stories. the second half is a collection of short stories ALL ABOUT POISONINGS by famous writers (i think rudyard kipling, arthur conan doyle, etc). i LOVE that book so much. the cover says HANDBOOK FOR POISONERS in a very large font, and i was reading it on the bus once. this old man tapped me from the seat behind and said "i better be careful around you, huh?"

― Q _ _ n n (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

does it have anything to do with this movie?

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I keep this on my desk at work:

http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail_pf.asp?pf=1&dept_id=1&sku=C5756

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha! :-D

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

MILTON WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Jam culture?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

audio hardware & software QA

SHHH

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmmm

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

what's the contra code again?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

up up down down left right left right a b a b start? or something like that.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

also, sexydancer, do you need to borrow any grant morrison? i still have yer doom patrol vol. 2.

i have: animal man, the mystery play, we3, seaguy, some of his Justice League and I used to have his X-Men stuff, but I think they're still at my cousin's house in RI.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i pretty much have everything except flex mentallo and teen hitler.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

we 3 = best

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

it's b a b a start.

b a b a start select for two player

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

morrison: finished up "7 soldiers" vol 1. and "kid infinity"
wow that late 80s/early 90s painted-stylee dates like a motherfucker.
this 7 soldiers seems to be morrison trying to outdo Moore again, but that's a good thing.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't profess to being noisy but am reading pierre by herman melville, just now

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

you are noisome

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

not really, though.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

but maybe

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

he is scottish.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

really??

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/famous/nietzsche_crimes/Rise-&-Fall-Third-Reich150.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

re: granny morrisey: i gave up on seven soldiers pretty early on.. i've got a few issues each of manhattan guardian/klarion/zatanna and shining knight. liked klarion the best. apparently it's gotten better?

re other comics, if we're talkin em on this thread:
old conan b&w magazine-sized deals. B-
fell #4 by warren ellis. B+
cerebus up through melmothish... recently re-readings reveal funnier and funnier joeks.

allan moore hasn't really done much worthwhile since League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, has he? i mean, does he still do weird princess lesbicon porn or whatever?

reading:
i still haven't finished that lomax book i was reading. i want to read more fiction. i want to read a lot of fiction quickly. how do you guys feel about Iain Pears? he was recommended to me, at some point... also Peter(?) Ackroyd?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

London

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

adamrl are you a bot???????

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

britbot

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter Ackroyd wrote a book called London.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

AND he writes fiction

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

he wrote a biography of... dickens?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

would i LIKE his writing, adam?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

it...doesn't seem likely!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

could you be a bit more descriptive?
this coyness is tiring, adam.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Buddha's Little Finger, Victor Pelevin

some books on web usability & a css manual. (boring)

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

this coyness is tiring, adam.

I'm sorry! It's hard for me to write long posts sometimes.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter Ackroyd writes historical fiction and non-fiction on very British subjects. I don't know your tastes, but I wouldn't have thought he would be your kind of thing.

Did you MEAN Peter Ackroyd or someone else?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

no, i think i meant peter ackroyd. sounds right. i dunno if i'll like the way he writes, but it's definitely the guy.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

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