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Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:36 pm
by futuresailors
behndy wrote:lol. Battle Royale's good too. otaku nerds flipping out yelling THEY RIPPED OFF BATTPE ROYALE.... that shit's kinda silly. they're bth way different directions they take using the Roman Gladiatorial games as inspiration.
oof. i sound like a defensive ass fan boy. i didn't want to read it at first 'casue of the Tweeny overtones, but i was out of books so i lent it to myself from my mom's Kindle library and did dig on it a lot.
Battle Royale 2 (ze movie) is fucking horrible. in a way different way than the og BR was horrible. not the good horrible kind of movie.
I wasn't aware there was a book for BATTARU ROYARU!
"Kawa-chan walked down the path and was shot with an arrow. Yama-san ran to her and was shot with an arrow. As they lay dying, Toro emerged from the underbrush to stab them both in the face with an arrow." I'd probably read that...
Battle Royal 2 sucked giant dicks. That's giant the noun. Wasn't even fun as a drinking game.
Speaking of dicks, I have to deal with a big white one.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:40 pm
by behndy
you suh, lead an interesting life.
can't remember where, but some site has the whole manga of it up too. it's done by an American artist, in English, and is fucking horrible. and super rapey. fun read for the badness.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:48 pm
by Chankgeez
behndy wrote:Battle Royale 2 (ze movie) is fucking horrible. in a way different way than the og BR was horrible. not the good horrible kind of movie.
Yeah, I was just talking with someone about this today.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:53 pm
by Chankgeez
futuresailors wrote: I wasn't aware there was a book for BATTARU ROYARU!
"Kawa-chan walked down the path and was shot with an arrow. Yama-san ran to her and was shot with an arrow. As they lay dying, Toro emerged from the underbrush to stab them both in the face with an arrow." I'd probably read that...
Yeah, it's not the best translation. That kinda bothered me at first, but I got used to it. It's a pretty quick read once you get into it.
(The movie's actually based on the novel.)
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:18 pm
by Achtane
Chankgeez wrote:futuresailors wrote: I wasn't aware there was a book for BATTARU ROYARU!
"Kawa-chan walked down the path and was shot with an arrow. Yama-san ran to her and was shot with an arrow. As they lay dying, Toro emerged from the underbrush to stab them both in the face with an arrow." I'd probably read that...
Yeah, it's not the best translation. That kinda bothered me at first, but I got used to it. It's a pretty quick read once you get into it.
(The movie's actually based on the novel.)
The movie is even more fucking ridiculous than the novel, for the most part.
Japan has a real aptitude for making B-movies.
Probably because their dramas haven't been good since like 1970.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:03 am
by jfrey
Finished "Hitch-22", now reading "Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" by Christopher Hitchens.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:22 pm
by RR Bigman
I'm not too into biographies or the Che Guevara mythology, but this has been laying on my bookshelf since 07 so I figured I might as well give it a shot. Not too bad . Moving on to The Nine Billion Names of God to keep with my end of the world theme afterwards.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:58 pm
by behndy
is that one that honestly depicts him as the mass murdering coward that he was in real life or the idealized Wow I Took One REALLY Photogenic Picture rebel messiah that popular culture has transformed him into?
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:51 pm
by RR Bigman
behndy wrote:is that one that honestly depicts him as the mass murdering coward that he was in real life or the idealized Wow I Took One REALLY Photogenic Picture rebel messiah that popular culture has transformed him into?
so far, it's more concerned with just facts and doesn't seemed to have any political bias either way. Then again, I'm only to the part where he's entered medical school
I'm hoping once I get to the juicy bits the book picks up a little bit TBH...real life is no fun to read about
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:10 am
by The4455
The things they carried, for English, it's aight.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:41 am
by D.o.S.
behndy wrote:is that one that honestly depicts him as the mass murdering coward that he was in real life or the idealized Wow I Took One REALLY Photogenic Picture rebel messiah that popular culture has transformed him into?
But Behnders, what do you really think?
Real life Che is probably not something you could fit into either of those sentences.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:16 am
by devnulljp
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:51 am
by behndy
D.o.S. wrote:behndy wrote:is that one that honestly depicts him as the mass murdering coward that he was in real life or the idealized Wow I Took One REALLY Photogenic Picture rebel messiah that popular culture has transformed him into?
But Behnders, what do you really think?
Real life Che is probably not something you could fit into either of those sentences.
lulz. i'm VICIOUS.
of course everybody has a negative and a positive aspect to their lives...... but from everything i've read i think my description is wayyyyyyyyyyy closer than what he's been..... ahem....... white-washed into being perceived as.
RARRRRRRRRRRRR. I GOTS OPINIONS.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:34 am
by bugzaney
750 pages into infinite jest, but i'm at a bit of a standstill.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:36 am
by phantasmagorovich
