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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 03:57 PM
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I'm reading American Psycho
:D

We also picked up No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, but I'm letting Sniffa read that one first.

Oh, and I made Guacamole today. We're having Mexican for dinnah.

:hi:
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 04:52 PM
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1. Strange
there was somebody yesterday who was asking what title a Bush biography should be called.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 04:55 PM
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4. Hehe...
:)
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_testify_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 04:53 PM
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2. Well, how is it?
Do you keep picturing Christian Bale?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 04:54 PM
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3. No, not really...
But I do wonder why they bothered to make a movie out of it...So tame compared to the original work. I saw it in the theater and it was so-so.

Hm. It's quite a fast read though...

:)
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 04:58 PM
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5. OK, am I pev or what?
That book actually gave me ideas for putting certain foods together--> it was ALL so over-the-top. Especially (OK, not especially, but including) the restaurant scenes. I mean, the decadence displayed when he was not fantasizing about car batteries and, I mean,
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:00 PM
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6. Hehe, I'm reading one of the restaurant scenes right now...
But I totally get what you mean... :rofl:

:loveya:
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:02 PM
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7. OMG, THANKS!!
Ohhh, I really cannot describe what I'm trying to say, and I'm so glad you get me. :blush: :loveya: :rofl: :patriot:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:03 PM
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8. I love the interstitial chapters with Patrick Bateman's inane music reviews.
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:12 PM
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9. *GENESIS*
:rofl: *My secretary who's in love with me*

Oh, wait. That one's not a music group.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:30 PM
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13. those are the only memorable parts of that book
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:14 PM
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10. Is it autobiographical?
:P

J/K

:hi:

is it good?

:)
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:34 PM
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15. Hey now...
:spank:

And yes... :)
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:44 PM
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16. thought so
:rofl:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:14 PM
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11. American Psycho is excellent
Hard to read at times, and from someone who watched the 80's unfold before his young, impressionable eyes - all too real.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:26 PM
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12. Wow... Violence Overload, huh?
:hi:

RL
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 05:34 PM
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14. Yah d00d....
:rofl: Indeed.

:hi:
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-02-07 07:54 PM
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17. Never read American Psycho, but NCFOM is decidedly "meh"
at least as far as McCarthy's work goes. My reaction upon reading it was, "well this is his movie screenplay finally." And sure enough they made it into a movie.
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