Giuseppe Zangara

Get rid of anonymous posting, too.

Shit, I even started a fucking thread so you guys could take this Real World shit there, but...sodifv 9oejf 90jrf9-vju59j

He's in mourning.

No one said Paris; I stopped watching by that time.

Turns out I was wrong. San Francisco came after London; so that's when I stopped watching. Puck was such an asshole.

I wanted to punch that Austrailian cunt in the face. Or punch her. Both, actually. EDIT: I meant "fuck" for the second "punch." How embarassing.

I'm just gonna be really gay here and say I watched this shit religiously up until the London season. So I stopped watching when I was 15, much younger than most of you that are still watching it now.

Ellis is a little better than Palahniuk, I think, though he can be completely overbearing and heavy-handed with the symbolism. There were some brilliant passages in American Psycho—better than anything Palahniuk would later write—but it's mostly as shallow as the culture it attempts satirizing.

I stepped away from this thread for a moment and came back to see it had six replies. Imagine my disappointment when I saw that KJ Brackish simply triple-posted in it. Douche.

Kotz, I don't wear underwear, so the only thing seperating your sideburns and my groin will be a thin layer of khaki.

Holla.

STFU, YGL

That's sorta great.

That's cool. I was also speaking to Vonnegut's usually being a quick read; I like books that I have to mull over for a long time. Never really do that with Vonnegut.

Other writers of literary fiction. I cannot suggest any specific examples—everyone should go their own way—but I've encountered enough people who think Vonnegut is the end-all/be-all of writing; usually, they haven't read much else. But I'm a lit snob, so I'm my views are slightly skewed. And Chuck Palahniuk is far too glib and self-satisified for me to stomach; William T. Vollman explores a lot of similar issues, but with a level of humanity that Palahniuk's ultra-hip ironic detachment would never allow. So hey, you dudes should check out Vollmann. I'll warn you that his prose can be denser than Palahniuk's, but the rewards are plenty. I suggest the aforementioned The Rainbow Stories, as well as The Atlas, as a starting point. EDIT: Actually, start with The Atlas. It's comprised of numerous essays of varying length (they're all usually short, though). It's a bit more digestible than The Rainbow Stories.

No, really. Vonnegut should be a gateway writer.

Goddamnit.

Shakespeare? This isn't your freshman year of high school, fella.

Close this thread and move it to Classics. It's gonna start getting too in-jokey unless Mike comes back and says some more stupid shit.

I like Vonnegut, but I always get the impression that people who say he's the best writer ever probably hasn't read too many other "serious" writers.

Byron the Bulb is presently viewing this thread. Nice Pynchon reference, guy.

Agent and IDRM made me laugh out loud, which is a rarity on this board. Plus, my co-workers may suspect I'm not doing work.

Jesus, chave is awful.

Mike has said he doesn't care about the board, so banning him would do no one any harm.