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PapaFrita:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 04 Mar 2009, 15:19 ---Just pick up anything by Garcia Marquez. Most people have read those two but neglect a lot of his other stuff, especially his shorter fiction (stories and novellas) all of which are brilliant. "Leaf Storm" is one of my favorite things he's written and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is really masterful. His "Collected Stories" come in a nice volume and are almost all quite worthwhile as well.
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I know I've read at least one short story by him (something about a wounded angel, I don't remember the name) that was good, but I'll try to find some more.
ADRIAN WOODHOUSE:
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
warning!the trailer really shows too much.
TRAILER: http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/lettherightonein/
great movie. about childhood, friendship and vampires.
Ford Prefect:
--- Quote from: Dyly on 22 Feb 2009, 13:26 ---I hope someone already recommended him but...
Chuck PalahnIuk is an amazing writer. He wrote Fight Club and Choke. Both were made into movies. I think Choke, Lulubye, Rant and Fight Club are pretty much must reads.
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I agree that he has written some incredible books, but the quality of his stories has consistently gone downhill. Fight Club, and Survivor were stupendous, and kept you guessing the whole time. Invisible Monsters was very good, but I feel like he threw in a few twists too many. Choke didn't really have any resolution, and after that - caveat emptor. (I didn't read Rant or Haunted - They might be good).
Chuck is aware of this. I went to a reading he gave many years ago, when Lullaby was released. He signed several books for me, and on the inside of Lullaby he wrote, "Sorry about Lullaby."
--- Quote from: data damage on 25 Feb 2009, 18:58 ---My favorite Chuck is Survivor. I'm not really sure why. It just came across as awesome to me.
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Survivor is my favorite as well. I think this may also be because it is the first book of his that I read. I find that with any author I really enjoy, I always love my first read the most. As soon as it became clear that Fight Club was a cult hit, they began to make Survivor as a motion picture. Their production start date? The beginning of September, 2001. After 9/11 the movie was shelved, seeing as the whole thing is told from the perspective of a guy on a plane which has been taken hostage.
The Joker:
--- Quote from: SayWhat on 16 Jan 2009, 09:57 ---Anyone know if Mall Cop is at all good? Our school is taking the MAP 4 students to see it for a 'Congratulations!' field trip, and I'm wondering if I should go or not.
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I saw it and liked it. It wasn't genius, like Airplane! or Monty Python, but it was genuinely funny and didn't resort to cheap laughs. Also: semi-subtle parodies are awesome.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: The Joker on 16 Mar 2009, 12:06 ---genius, like Airplane!
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I am having a really hard time seeing the connection here. Every time I see bits of it on TV I feel like I've been hit in the head with a blunt object.
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