*Reads NME's anti-tom clancy "rant"*
I haven't read any tom clancy, but i'd imagine that if one wrote somany books about the exact same thing that they'd eventualy fall into a pattern. I really have no interest in his books, or the games, eventhrough theyre supposivly someof tehbest FPS's... i'd still rather go for quake 2 over them, i odn't know why but i would.
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I finished On the Road about two weeks ago and it was an amazing book. A friend and I have started getting heavily into beat writers and are planning on taking a road trip of similar style. Of the beats Burroughs is my favourite writer. I can´t explain why.Nestorath69 wrote: Me personally, Jack Kerouac is badass, but you can't really understand On the Road unless you've hitched like he did.
"I wish I did more drugs,
I wish I slept with more girls,
I wish you'd all go and get fucked."
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I wish I slept with more girls,
I wish you'd all go and get fucked."
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"Der Untergang der Stadt Passau"
English titel should be like: "The downfall of the city of Passau"
It's an end-time sci-fi drama that is settled in the time arround 2110 when a great plague elimiates 99% of mankind. The few survivors in the Middle-European area gather either in Passau, Rosenheim (my hometown, yay!) and hungary. The people of Passau try to conserve what is left of technology by harvesting the leftover resources, while the people of Rosenheim return a life as pre-medieval barbarians. As written the chronicles of "Magnalia die per dentem rosmeriorum", one day the people of Rosenheim decide to ravage the rich city of Passau, but are successfully fended off and banished to the vast plains of Hungary.
They build up a huge army by enslaving the resident nomads and go back to Germany to revenge their defeat...
Sounds pretty wired, but actually it's one of the best German sci-fi books.
English titel should be like: "The downfall of the city of Passau"
It's an end-time sci-fi drama that is settled in the time arround 2110 when a great plague elimiates 99% of mankind. The few survivors in the Middle-European area gather either in Passau, Rosenheim (my hometown, yay!) and hungary. The people of Passau try to conserve what is left of technology by harvesting the leftover resources, while the people of Rosenheim return a life as pre-medieval barbarians. As written the chronicles of "Magnalia die per dentem rosmeriorum", one day the people of Rosenheim decide to ravage the rich city of Passau, but are successfully fended off and banished to the vast plains of Hungary.
They build up a huge army by enslaving the resident nomads and go back to Germany to revenge their defeat...
Sounds pretty wired, but actually it's one of the best German sci-fi books.
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Nestorath69 wrote:Me personally, Jack Kerouac is badass, but you can't really understand On the Road unless you've hitched like he did.
I'm buying "Naked Empire" the New Terry Goodkind book. Makes Robert Jordan look like an 11 yr old looking at a playboy... we're talking Violence, Blood, intense plot, gratuitious rape, and if you read Book 3, you'll never look at a lambchop or boiled egg the same!
That's not too hard to out-graphic RJ. Robert Jordan is a notoriously non-graphic writer. If you want graphic, read George R. R. Martin, 'A Song of Ice and Fire'. It's better than anything else out there anyway.Robert Jordan actually said, rather than wrote:I like reading erotica, sometimes.
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A Freudian slip is where you say one thing, but mean your mother.
"Restrictions breed creativity." - Mark Rosewater
A Freudian slip is where you say one thing, but mean your mother.