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Mycophile


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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Bumble_Dick]
#683731 - 08/29/13 09:00 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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That's a pretty cool book, I never got around to watching the movie. I was fairly young when I read it too, should probably give it another go.
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Bumble_Dick
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Mycophile]
#683733 - 08/29/13 09:08 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's definitely worth it. I recommend watching the movie after you read it and comparing the two. It's a great movie but IMO doesn't hold a candle to the book.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Bumble_Dick]
#683743 - 08/29/13 11:09 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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No shit, a movie didn't do a book justice.
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Bumble_Dick
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Hawksresurrection]
#683751 - 08/29/13 11:40 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I didn't realize the obviousness of what I was saying. Nonetheless, it's a good movie and a great book. Sometimes a movie can be better than the original. For example, I prefer the movie version of The Mist; Neither are particularly good though.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Bumble_Dick] 1
#683759 - 08/29/13 12:20 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Bumble_Dick said: I didn't realize the obviousness of what I was saying. Nonetheless, it's a good movie and a great book. Sometimes a movie can be better than the original. For example, I prefer the movie version of The Mist; Neither are particularly good though.
But with One Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest, the movie was so far away from the book, they basically made the indian chief a secondary character when he's the one telling the story, we get to read his thoughts and we get to see actually why he's in an asylium, the book is so much better than the movie!
-------------------- Pour un instant, j'ai respiré très fort
Ça m'a permis de visiter mon corps
Des inconnus vivent en roi chez moi
Moi qui avait accepté leurs lois
J'ai perdu mon temps à gagner du temps
J'ai besoin de me trouver une histoire à me conter
Pour instant j'ai oublié mon nom
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Bumble_Dick
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Manitou] 1
#683761 - 08/29/13 12:38 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes, the entire machinery feel to the story is lost and Nurse Ratched becomes the bad guy instead of "The Combine". You lose a lot in the first 10 minutes of the film.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Bumble_Dick] 1
#683764 - 08/29/13 01:44 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nurse Ratched's tits were too small for the character in the movie, but she got the coldness down pretty well. Amazingly beautiful book, always my first to recommend.
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P-O


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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Manitou]
#683768 - 08/29/13 02:16 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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edit
Edited by P-O (08/29/13 02:48 PM)
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P-O


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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: P-O] 1
#683841 - 08/30/13 11:33 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Anyone remember finding one of these as a kid.... and it felt like you found the holy grail
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Thebooedocksaint
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: P-O]
#683842 - 08/30/13 11:48 AM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
PositiveOutlook said:

Anyone remember finding one of these as a kid.... and it felt like you found the holy grail 
I always found Playboys and Heavy Metal Magazines.
Oh puberty...
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Thebooedocksaint]
#683844 - 08/30/13 12:24 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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I once found a stash of 80's thrasher mags, that was my holy grail.
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P-O


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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Sham87]
#683850 - 08/30/13 02:24 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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when i was like 10 yrs old me and 2 buddys broke into a friends house when they went to the lake. JUST to steal all his dads "porno magazines"...... ahhhhh life before internet porn
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: P-O] 2
#683852 - 08/30/13 02:31 PM (11 years, 5 months ago) |
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hahahah Good times. I remember finding my first vhs porno. Sticky times those were.
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P-O


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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Sham87]
#721078 - 03/12/14 06:21 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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pretty good so far.
reminds me a lot of the hunger games story.
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: P-O]
#721092 - 03/12/14 06:53 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Poasts in the growery.
-------------------- Harry Detroit in 304 made one last promise now
"I'm goin out without a trace, a vanishing act before your eyes"
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nannybooboo

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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: UltimateDevotion]
#721184 - 03/12/14 11:00 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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"blink" - Malcolm Gladwell
i haven't started it yet, but after reading "Outliers" this should be interesting.
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Dr. Siekadellyk
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: nannybooboo]
#721238 - 03/13/14 03:38 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Alan watts- The taboo against knowing who you are
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Data
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Dr. Siekadellyk] 1
#721252 - 03/13/14 05:43 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy
-------------------- “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you” -NDT
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P-O


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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: Data]
#721253 - 03/13/14 05:45 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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how is it?
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closed veil
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Re: What are you guys reading at the moment? [Re: P-O] 1
#721278 - 03/13/14 07:29 PM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
-------------------- m00nshine said: I just finished masturbating so it's time to get to work!
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