Never thought truncated would be a King fan but now I know.

I won't even deign to defend him to you ignoramuses. I am secure in the knowledge that I am enlightened to the brilliance of his literary posturings.

sounds cool, ill join.

stephen king has said he writes salami, but it is GOOD sallami. great stories.

har har. nobody is making me read horror books, unless they involve mafioso politicians (the real horror if you ask me).

anyway im not organizing this shit, i've done my share of organizin' & its an ungrateful task.

kundera is a great guy to have a beer with. not a great-great writer, but smarter than glice :D i consider him my stephen king-- very amusing, easy read, funny characters, and i just would like to sit with him & drink a few pilsners while he talks about his old lovers. ha ha. you fuckers dont know what youre talking about. intellectual my ass. his books are about sex mostly.

anyway. im bored. irritable. not a great day.

i think to read l ron hubbard though one must be on crack.

here is a little book for all of you to read: les liaisons dangereuses. that's right, the english versions keep the french title. don't tell me you've "seen the movie" or i'll fucking smack you. this is some fucking excellent prose and a thrilling. engrossing plot, populated by astonishing characters, and if you're not hooked by the 2nd page you lack either brain lobes or gonads.

chordelier de laclos, who wrote it, was a general of napoleon's army who specialized in designing fortresses. try beating this one.

i think people here would be willing to join and put their add their opinions to the discussion (wherever the discussion is wil be held). but i think the only problem would be unanimously deciding on a book. i suggest a poll to determine the book and perhaps more than one group, reading a different book at the same time, so that incase they don't want to read the book one group is reading they can read the other. maybe chabib would set up a chat room for us. i'm sure he would be willing if someone asked.

I don't know Laila, chabib can be pretty uptight. (lol)

why do you say that? what'd he do?

Oh, he didn't do a damn thing. I'm just trying to be silly, & start up a conversation.

i have a feeling the total i.q. of this thread has suddenly precipitated into the abyss :D

Yeah, and it shows in your typing.

(Like I should talk)

hah. yes it's contagious. run. :D

Oooh. Get her.

I wrote a book once. It was also shit. Do you want to have a beer with me now?

[Just kidding, good on you guy]

Oh, and should this go ahead, it should be controlled by one person, and no different people reading different books because they want to read different books, because we can all read our own books if we want to. Part of the point is reading books that you might not read. If we decide upon King, I'll happily go along with it...

[trunky-wunky, close your eyes now]

...even though I think King is utter, utter shite. I might change my mind, I might contribute vitriolic ramblings (something I am perhaps not known for), but the point is to get different points of view.

[trunky-wunky, you may open again]

...because Stephen King is a wonderful writer.

king is a very nice realist, his descriptions of new england small towns are pretty kickass if that's the genre you're into. (i'm not. but i digress.) throw however supernatural darkness and... hm.. well... maybe if threatened with penile electrocution i'd give it a 2nd try.

H.P. Lovecraft slays King on all levels, including the level of creepy detailed descriptions of New England.
I visited Lovecraft's grave while in Providence a few weeks back, actually. Good times.

Edgar Allan Poe,Hermane Hesse and we will be friends for life.

poe >>> lovecraft

lovecraft is schlocky. poe just genius.

If we were in the same room, I would hit you now.

ouch, that flapping handkerchief really hurts :p