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03-12-2008, 07:29 PM
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| | | This book is distubing!
Has anyone read Monster Love by Carol Topolsky?
I've never cried and hated yuppies so much in my life.
The format in which it was written was amazing though. I hadn't read anything like it since the Seymoure Tapes.
Your thoughts? |
03-12-2008, 07:46 PM
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| | | im so looking forward to this. it's (i guess) the kind of book that i'd love. but im still undecided if i have the time and concentration to read a book in english. i guess i'll buy it anyway. |
03-12-2008, 07:49 PM
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| | | another disturbing book about yuppies springs to mind..american pyscho |
03-12-2008, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Mistress_F  im so looking forward to this. it's (i guess) the kind of book that i'd love. but im still undecided if i have the time and concentration to read a book in english. i guess i'll buy it anyway. | It's amazing really.
Post-modernism but without the unnecessary pretention and author-ego. |
03-12-2008, 08:10 PM
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| | | I read a book about ten years ago, when I was in my early teens called The Dumb House, which was kind of similar only almost more fucked up. It was about this guy who gets obsessed with how language develops so basically a) starts torturing mute kids and b)decides to raise his own set of twins in silence. They develop their own language aged about 5, so he tortures them and kills them. It kind of put me off the whole "parents murdering children" genre. |
03-12-2008, 08:16 PM
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| | | I wonder how the authors get into the mindset.
*shudders* |
03-12-2008, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Kyokobaby I wonder how the authors get into the mindset.
*shudders* |
Did you ever hear about this dude?
There was a really good article in the New Yorker last month about the detective who solved the case, I wish I still had it!  |
03-13-2008, 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by CounterfeitVoid Did you ever hear about this dude?
There was a really good article in the New Yorker last month about the detective who solved the case, I wish I still had it! | See, that's why I'm no longer an English major.
That and the fact that I failed my second language... |
03-15-2008, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Insomnia I read a book about ten years ago, when I was in my early teens called The Dumb House, which was kind of similar only almost more fucked up. It was about this guy who gets obsessed with how language develops so basically a) starts torturing mute kids and b)decides to raise his own set of twins in silence. They develop their own language aged about 5, so he tortures them and kills them. It kind of put me off the whole "parents murdering children" genre. |
....remind me not to read that 
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03-15-2008, 12:33 PM
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| | | American Psycho isn't disturbing. I don't think, anyway. Disgusting, yes. |
03-15-2008, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Duchess American Psycho isn't disturbing. I don't think, anyway. | well, differences of opinion and all that. I just found the torture scenes a tad graphic, like when he sews the rat inside her vag  I like the book don't get me wrong, but i dont think Bret Easton Ellis' head is a fun place to be. |
03-15-2008, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by never was well, differences of opinion and all that. I just found the torture scenes a tad graphic, like when he sews the rat inside her vag I like the book don't get me wrong, but i dont think Bret Easton Ellis' head is a fun place to be. | Haha. I know what you mean. But I'm a pathetic Easton Ellis fangirl.
I found the graphic scenes funny. Sometimes I pick up AP and flick straight to the murders, like the threesome where he decapitates a girl and puts her head on his cock.
Last edited by Duchess : 03-15-2008 at 12:40 PM.
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03-15-2008, 12:44 PM
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| | i know where your coming from, i do like the dark humour, and the points he's making, but i'm slightly worried where some of the ideas and inspiration comes from 
i think the thing with his ex girlfriend was the bit i found most disturbing, not sure why, but like i said, still like the book, it's good to be taken out of your comfort zone |
03-15-2008, 12:48 PM
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| | | He says American Psycho was mostly about his father.
Which is fucked up. |
03-15-2008, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Duchess He says American Psycho was mostly about his father.
Which is fucked up. | haha did he really? that would be bloody concerning. we need a psycho smilie |
03-15-2008, 01:36 PM
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03-15-2008, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by never was well, differences of opinion and all that. I just found the torture scenes a tad graphic, like when he sews the rat inside her vag I like the book don't get me wrong, but i dont think Bret Easton Ellis' head is a fun place to be. | Even the actual "Less Than Zero" novel was so much darker than that silly, stupid movie that was made bearing the same title. One didn't even resemble the other in any way whatsoever.
The book showed the dark side of Easton-Ellis' mind and life, and I related way more to the things he wrote about that were in fact happening in the drug culture and with the shallow, spoiled little sociopaths that I also knew in Los Angeles during that era more than anything I saw in that stupidass movie.
I agree though...the mind of Bret Easton Ellis can probably get a bit claustrophobic at times, to say the least. |
03-15-2008, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Amity ....remind me not to read that | haha, I was just thinking "I have to read that!" |
03-15-2008, 06:29 PM
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| | | Oh it sounds fascinating, I just want to sleep ever again.
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