Bonjour from brit

I too, am a nihilistic cynic, or I would be, if it were worth it and if I weren't so busy not believing even in the possibility of it.

Nice to meet you.

I like how your intro post was basically you having a conversation with yourself. You don't have to be totally crazy to post here but.... well you know the rest.

Anyways, if you like reading and writing then you have found a good site. Plenty of stuff to be checking out. Look through the author shorts and essays - great reading. The workshop is very cool too.

What's your fav Chuck book?

Which other authors you into?

I like that. Wilful ignorance is a beautiful tool, in the way it gives way to making the world what you want, which is also so...eurgh. Soldier on.

Anyway, some people made it worth it, the bastards

I've got to say Invisible Monsters was the first book ever to pretty much blow me away, I need to re-read that actually, thanks for the remind! Also Rant is up there, damn, I was sceptical of the style at first what with shifting oral accounts and the general what-the-fuck-is-going-on-edness of it, but I ended up really, really enjoying it (I loved the concept of the whole plug in the neck dvd, damn, need to re read that as well)

Am I retarded that I can't for the life of me read pygmy? I mean, the broken English and the over obvious angle of anti-America?

I'm finding it kind of hard to read at the moment, a bit all over the place but I've got a few books on the go that I'll pick up upon fancy. I just finished The Beast Within by Emile Zola, and that sucked me right in, I was kind of upset to find a man wrote it, as I originally supposed it a woman, I know, ignorance (Emily/Emele) I'm also reading Slaughterhouse - Kurt Vonnegut, A scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick, Microserfs - Doug coupland (Anyone else read JPod? Laugh out loud funny) War and Peace,The Picture of Dorian Grey, and weathercock - Glen Duncan.

Has anybody read I,Lucifer? If not, seriously, do it now, if you're into laughing and theology...

I found Pygmy hard going for a chapter or two, but it got easier to read as I got used to the style. It's not Chuck on top form but I did think it was quite funny.

Slaughterhouse 5 was one I read recently too. Just last month actually. I thought it was pretty good.

A Scanner Darkly is awesome.

Where abouts in the U.K (I presume you mean Britain in the thread title) are you from?

I'm a huge fan of Richard Linklater, he wrote and directed Waking Life, Slackers, Dazed and Confused and the film version of A Scanner darkly, that's how I stumbled upon Philip K. Love his direct style of writing and am so far finding the book a lot more entertaining then the film, although Robert Downey Jr. Was spot on! You can't write acting like that.

I've been watching Vonnegut's talks and he is a good man, with great opinions, in fact he may have got on pretty pally with Palahniuk. Cheers for the heads up on Pygmy though, I'll give it another go after I've busted all these other ones.

I'm around about south west of England, in Surrey if you know where that is? It's not great here, very stale, and static, and a little stuck up, which is why I am looking to move out, but you know, that requires getting a full time job, and becoming a slave, which I mentally cannot do. Amsterdam or a poor French town would do me well I feel...
You feel the control in this country? or am I just paranoid?

Surrey dahhling!!

Stick around, fellow Southerner!

I went to Surrey once. Had a curry. In Surrey. Was in a bit of a... hurry. Vision's gone blurry.

You're a bit burly and a little bit surly. Why am I rhyming with pearly instead of blurry?

Not to worry! Relief from glaucoma and cataracts, it's purple and furry!