The Syndicate

Read it. The first chapters had me dying of laughter, but then I felt it (ironically) went nowhere. Sounds like a good choice, though. Maybe upon a second read...? Maybe if I read it in original? Douglas Adams clicked so well when I read it straight from the source.

Epignosis wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

S~V~S wrote: I have to think on this~ my initial reaction is to nominate Ulysses, by Joyce. I have never read it. But I have not read alot of things

I read it last year. I don't recommend it.

I took a class on Irish lit. I also don't recommend it. Joyce was a master of short stories. His novels were pretentious twaddle and he knew it.

I wouldn't call it book club material (except if we're going full avant-garde), but I'm happy to report it is one of my favourite books. Or it was at least, back when I was 16 and my brain was apparently generating its own brand of opium. I didn't like Dubliners, by comparison.

Temps perdu sounds more like "time lost/wasted" in my language, which would not be unlike my experience reading the first volume.

That Romance of the Three Kingdoms sounds familiar for some reason. Let's read that.

Epignosis wrote: "1984" by George Orwell
I was born the year before. Things weren't so bad. Cartoons were the shit.

Epignosis wrote: "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
There's a hint in the title and in the author's last name.

Dunno if this is good or bad.

Epignosis wrote: "Dune" by Frank Herbert
Hot, dry book.

Epignosis wrote: "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
An even hotter, drier book.

I should read this and re-watch the movie.

Epignosis wrote: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
And yet another hotter, drier book.

The movie pissed me off, I wonder if the book would do any better.

Epignosis wrote: "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
Tried to watch the film. Fell asleep. Didn't try to read the book.

Epignosis wrote: "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
From the guy whose wife was always expecting.

Never managed to finish it. :yawn:

Epignosis wrote: "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Don't stand so close to me.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Please don't stand so close to me.

Lol where lol is due.

Epignosis wrote: "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
OH oh OH OHHH OHooooo ah ah ohhho oh WHAT THE FUCK JEFFERY?

I don't remember anything from this.

Epignosis wrote: "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
I tried to read this six times. Never got past page ten because the guy can't figure out punctua- Oh wait. That's "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

Epignosis wrote: "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
Girl doesn't understand cultural boundaries ANYWHERE

Browsed the book in a library. Like the animation a lot.

Epignosis wrote: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Jane Austen needs to stop criticizing me 170 years before I am born.

Epignosis wrote: "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
PO-TEE-WHAT-THE FUCK? One of the stupidest books I have ever read.

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Epignosis wrote: "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
Serious commentary: Get Salinger's Nine Stories. His novel is good, but he can say more in fewer words.

Absolutely agree.

Epignosis wrote: "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
His publisher accidentally used the label from the editor.

Epignosis wrote: "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank
Too much unnecessary teen angst.

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Epignosis wrote: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
How many of you took forever to figure out that eyes of TJ Eckleberg was referencing a fucking billboard?

Does not giving a fuck count?

Epignosis wrote: "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
So much fuss over fucking jewelry.

Epignosis wrote: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
THERE'S that piece of shit novel with no punctuation.

Man I sure hope Epig never picks up The Autumn of the Patriarch by Marquez.

Epignosis wrote: "The World According to Garp" by John Irving
Not a bad book, but A Prayer for Owen Meany is John Irving's masterwork. Please read it.

Still not translated here.

Never read the book (instead, I read some Austen ones ayyy ), but occasionally had to watch a few adaptations because girlfriends ("So you like literature?" "Not as much as you read, but yeah" "Oh, like what?" "Jane Eyre and Wuthututu" "Oh." *hides Camus away from sight*). I actually rather enjoyed the intrigue and dark tone of it.