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Re: Do you think...
Not at all. Guys like leather jackets and boots and football and beer. Girls like make-up and clothes and pink and each other. Basic writing 101.
Aug 24, 2008 -
Re: What influenced you to write what you are writing right now?
The story I'm currently writing came to me in Literature. We were discussing Picasso, and a student suggested that he started his cubist period because the paintings were easier to ...
Aug 23, 2008 -
Re: Eliminating "to be"!
Even though I would change the last sentence, I still like the first one better.
Aug 22, 2008 -
Re: Author Reccomender
Typed in Irvine Welsh, Mario Vargas Llosa and Elmore Leonard. Got: Halldór Laxness...? Edit: googled him and it turns out he's an Icelandic novelist who won the Nobel Prize. So ...
Aug 22, 2008 -
Re: Greyhound
Reviewing stories is hard shit. I don't want to sound too harsh, but it seems useless to just give praise to a story like it's been written by our generation's ...
Aug 22, 2008 -
Re: What are you currently reading?
Finished "The Road," by Cormac McCarthy, and Bob Dylan's autobiography "Chronicles Volume One". Also read "From Hell," by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell. Next up is "Filth," by Irvine Welsh ...
Aug 20, 2008 -
Re: The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Comicbook. Comicbook. It's called a comicbook. And yeah, it's fantastic. The first volume was mindblowing, though I thought the second one, Doll's House, had some pacing issues. Haven't read the ...
Aug 19, 2008 -
Re: American Psycho
Both the movie and the book are fantastic. Hilarious, stuff. Tell me the sex scene in the movie is not the funniest thing ever.
Aug 19, 2008 -
Re: Worst Book You've Ever Read
I'm tempted to say Lord of the Rings. I mean, the narrative is so boring that I just don't know how anyone can actually like those books. Then again, the ...
Aug 17, 2008 -
Re: Best book you ever read
Reading Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh, was like getting kicked in the head. Everything that I read before it seemed irrelevant. Such a fantastic book. Changed the type of books I ...
Aug 17, 2008 -
Re: What's the weirdest book you've ever read?
Irvine Welsh always gets a little bit crazy with formatting. In Acid House he has pages filled with the word "LIGHT" and rectangles of meaningless narration scattered around. The plot ...
Aug 17, 2008 -
Re: Where was your book made?
It's cheaper.
Aug 17, 2008 -
Re: The Critique... Click?
Kylan's coming up. The rest are done.
Aug 15, 2008 -
Re: I Love My Dirt; My Dirt Loves Me
That was creepy. I can't even begin to imagine why people are calling the story cute. All I could picture is Mudface from Batman stuck on the ground, whispering things ...
Aug 15, 2008 -
Re: What The Hand's Have To Say
This is a nice little piece of writing. I always find poems about specific things a bit silly-- they always remind me about this poem I wrote about my pencilcase ...
Aug 11, 2008
