Amazing book, and you should read it if you haven't or just can't remember it.
Amazing book, and you should read it if you haven't or just can't remember it.
Had a copy, lost it in a house fire,lol.
That book was so good, I literally couldn't put it down. I read through the whole damn book in one sitting. Only book I've ever done that with. That shit rocked my world when I was like 16 or 17.
Vin, that's quite ironic.
HAHA...I love it, vim
I posted it on MA because of all the times where it talks about how people live their lives too fast, and I thought that was pretty moped-savvy.
A little Friday fun. Good book, and good movie.
I remember the burning of the books!
Weird flick too!
Dick Gregory, a black activist, wrote a book titled "Nigger". It was on our high school library's shelves. Is it still in high schools?
Lenny Bruce sounded the alarm in the early sixties, George Carlin gave us warning in the seventies. Nothing has changed , in fact , only more suppression of words and ideas, not by government but by popular consensus. It is only a matter of time.
What was acceptable in the past is now banned, what is acceptable now will be banned in the future.
Censorship is like an appendix, useless when benign, dangerous when active.
No skateboarding allowed !
I just wanna ride my motor-sick-el.
I go to a po-dunk high school with a senior class of 12, so I highly doubt that we have it. Sounds amazing though.
I go to libraries. They have lots of books.
I wish there was a library here...
Um yeah.
There is a lot of great shit that has blown young brains for decades...try
Violent Femmes first record (a record)
Slaughterhouse five (a book)
Repo man (a movie)
BRAVE NEW WORLD---nuff said.
and HELL YES repo man!
I can see it now. the Fredericksburg Moped Rally and Book Appreciation Day. Ribbon-cutting ceremony, book exchange: your burnt books for new ones, especially F451. Bring your trades. Don't wrap the moped parts in the books, and vice versa. Camping available. Gotta get on that.
Fahrenheit 451 was a great book. I have fond memories reading that as a kid of 16 on a trip to Hawaii! It gave me such a great respect towards the written word. Now move onto Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell.
Kurt Vonnegut is a brilliant man. Read his books in chronological order to best enjoy his development as an author. If you don't care about any of that crap and want to get to the real meat, just read Slaughterhouse Five and then Breakfast of Champions and your life should be complete!
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country
A lot of people tell me Slaughterhouse 5 is really good, but I usually don't like horror movies, and I really feel like I'd be lost if I haven't already seen the first four.
It is really scary that the reality we are seeing in this country (and others, but I am only familiar with this one) needs only to be stretched a tiny bit to match some of the extremism described in F451. I work for a company that makes glass panels for flat screen televisions, and they are always driving for bigger, bigger, higher definition, etc. This really rings home with the huge full wall screens in people's houses in the book. The amount of money some people spend on flat panel TV is astounding, as if their life in some way depended on it. In a way, I guess it does. Save up thousands for a huge TV, so you can then feel obligated to watch it because you spent so much bank on it in the first place. Way to give up your own life in order to live through some reality show bullshit on TV instead. It is easier, I suppose.
pft. I like the Bad Girls Club. So sue me.
throw away your television!
this is my favorite book of all time
I traded a flat screen tv for my first moped. So I guess tv's not all bad...
Kurt Vonnegut is an awesome genius. ICE NINE!! If anybody likes him try Christopher Moore. Lamb and Practical Demonkeeping is fucking hilarious.great satire
Great book. Read White Noise next. You'll freaking love it. As for Brave New World... Huxley must have been a damn prophet. A culture that is kept in line with endless amusements, sex, and happy drugs (ie. "Soma")... well, that's our America.
When we read that, my teacher always pronounced Guy Montag, As 'gee'.
It made me mad.
Kurt Vonnegut is no more. He passed away in 2007. I love his work.
definately Vonnegut, Heller and Salinger are faves, too... might as well throw in Heinlein if you want a "better" Bradbury.
kind of amazed that young folk still read. I was voracious in my earlier incarnations, but the world was simpler then.
~marc
ps: Updike also passed recently, different genre but quite blessed nonetheless.
Dick Gregory's dedication said "To my Mother--from now on, whenever you hear this word you'll know they're just talking about my book."
I think this if the first OT post I've looked at.
Great books and great authors all.
Some I've yet to consume.
Quatto trading a tv for a ped.
Quatto you are a genius. Write some great stories already, please.
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