Lonelygirl15

i used to spin records under this name. i was gonna start as absinthe, but when i relized what a good pun "synth" would make. i play synthesized music, so hence Absynth was born. ive had the SN for about 10 years then someone started ripping it off. dont know if it was intentional or not, but now i go by Absynth956 or some other number combinations, if mines already taken:(

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SuperRad wrote:Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are is my favorite childrens book.

Hey, nice! Did you see my post in the book memorizing thread? I wore out a copy of that book and had to buy another, lol.

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Haha, yea. That book is so awesomely great. I used to work at the local library and whenever I was stocking in the childrens section I would get completely distracted by the Doctor Seuss books.

I live about 30 minutes away from King's house, it's awesome and yet, he leaves during halloween. He hates tick or treaters.

Kimmi-Chan wrote:I live about 30 minutes away from King's house, it's awesome and yet, he leaves during halloween. He hates tick or treaters.

I bet he's gotten some real pranksters over the years...can say I blame him.

not pranksters so much as fans going to the "King" of horror's house as a spectacle type thing. There are a lot of kids that go egging around here though

Aww, thank you.

Flautapantera wrote:
Gross! Myah!

I haven't had McDonald's in years...does that make me unpatriotic?

Ugh, I'm with you on that one. I hate McDonalds. Both because its unhealthy and cause I'm a vegitarian.

#1 favorite is A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
#2 is probably Travels with Charley by Steinbeck

talk about eclectic taste.... hmm

Broken Kid wrote:
Oh, he's great, and that's his best and most common book.

He's the only writer who truly inspires me...

Aww...did I just shed a tear? *sniff sniff*

rachelalexis wrote:#1 favorite is A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
#2 is probably Travels with Charley by Steinbeck

talk about eclectic taste.... hmm

I....LURVE....Steinbeck!! I read The Grapes of Wrath and my next book, once I'm done with Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald!! aah!!), is going to be East of Eden.

My dad bought me Travels with Charley when I was in high school and he found out it wasn't in my American Lit class. He though it was a travesty that it was left off the syllabus and I kinda understand why. He also made me read Stranger in a Strange Land, which I wasn't keen on...

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Some of my favorite novels, in no particular order:

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, Pierre, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Jan Potocki: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Lady Murasaki: The Tale of Genji

William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, The Wild Palms

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn

Thomas Pynchon: V, The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow

Bessie Head: Maru

G. K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness

Stephen Wright: M31: A Family Romance, Going Native

Fyodor Sologub: The Petty Demon

Andrei Bely: Petersburg

Angela Carter: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Passion of New Eve

It's not a complete list; it's just what comes to mind.

I'm fond of short fiction by Hemingway, Borges, and Babel. I read a lot of science fiction and collect pulps, too.

And I left out the French stuff. And the Irish. And Dickens.

Hermann Hesse: "SteppenWolf", "Siddharta", "The Glass bead game", "Knulp-Demian", "Narcissus and Goldmund"

Friedrich W. Nietzsche: "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Beyond Good and Evil", "The Antichrist", "The twilight of the idols"

Dostoievski: "Crime and Punishment, "The Idiot", "The possesed".

Jane Austin: " Pride and Prejudice"

Sienkiewicz: "Quo Vadis?"