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peacetokengy:
Books: Kurt Vonnegut books are always good! And also Mein Kampf, A clockwork Orange, uh....I am America (and so can you).
my recommended movies: Eraserhead, Gummo, Repo Man, and A clockwork Orange.
duallain:
--- Quote from: roxie_vinyl on 18 Mar 2008, 21:07 ---I stand by Dexter. Although I do, at times, agree with people that Deborah is a pain in the ass. However, her faults are nowhere near enough to turn me off the show. You can have your opinion but I continue to be dazzled by Michael C Hall :D
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My favorite part of dexter is that there is a fucking reason that he goes out and takes care of the criminals himself. CSI has people in his same role out there interviewing witnesses which is absolutely crazy. Also the blood splatter stuff is much less obviously BAD science than CSI. That being said I like Law and Order but I'm burnt out. That plus I love the Fred Thompson Episodes, and they were off the air during his candidacy.
StreetSpirit:
TV Recommendations:
The new Doctor Who
The Wire
Rome
Deadwood
obviously part of Lost is pretty spectacular
Torchwood has it's moments
the new Battlestar Galatica
absurdabsurd:
--- Quote from: pinkpiche on 24 Mar 2008, 11:34 ---If I'm going to start reading classic american litterature, what should I start up with?
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I really enjoyed Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, though it's a love-it-or-hate-it thing. As in, if you're not into it by the end of the first few pages, don't bother with the rest. If you like the first few pages, you will love the hell out of everything that follows. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is obviously also a must-read. It's one of those books that will stay with you for ever. I think it taught me more when I read it at 12/13 than any other book has since (except maybe reading Joseph Heller's Catch-22 at around 16).
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As far as my personal recommendation-of-the-moment goes...
I've just finished Friction by Joe Stretch.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted or easily offended; there is a lot of sex, a lot of uncompromising looks at society.... etc etc. It's a bleak and desolate look at today's oversated culture, told from the point of view of a narrator in a future society that is basically the result of everything before being taken too far. The characters are not entirely believable, and more stand-in symbols for exaggerated personality traits we'll recognize in a lot of people we know, but it works in the context of the story. The entire thing is peppered with a lot of surprisingly deep observations on the state of the world, and the writing is of the highest standards; words used as weapons but we can't help but notice how nicely they shine when they're about to deliver their fatal blow (to use overblown literary language). I'm not sure how culturally relevant it is for someone not of the 18-28 age range, and its impact may even be geographically limited to the UK in some way, but I do think it is definitely worth a read.
Also, author Joe Stretch is a member of the band (We Are) Performance ( http://www.myspace.com/weareperformance ), who are ok-but-not-great (with potential for getting better as they go along).
KvP:
These days all I really watch is The Daily Show / The Colbert Report. I am in love with John Oliver.
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