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Me too, but mine is strong booze.
 
Mine is cinnamon vaseline.
 
That would be handy for rubbing people up the wrong way
 
[/quote=cassie]Curiousa2z, are you a fan of Anne Rice? I used to gobble up her books. ANYWAY recently I read Wild Seed by Octavia Butler and it reminded me of some of the Mayfair witches books. I think you'd like Wild Seed, and your library should have it because it's been out for a long time.[/quote]

Cassie I loved Ann Rice! I read everything she'd come out with too- til she got religion. And I adored the Mayfair witches and have not read Butler, so will definately give her a try. Thanks for the heads up!
 
curiousa2z said:
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I thought you would embrace the genuine honesty, if nothing more ;)
 
ok, - who's got Gagh's account?

I'm confused; (wont be the first nor the last time)
you read The Odyssey, The Iliad & The Aeneid even though they are poems, but you say fuck poetry cos
Gagh said:
I have never seen it as meaningful or reflective in any manner. I feel stories, and words from the heart are a far more descriptive way of...well...being descriptive.
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erm, my bloody poems are not only from the heart, but they most certainly tell stories! :rwmad:
 
I don't really "get" poetry myself, unless it's the Bath Song from Lord Of The Rings.
 
I'm not a fan of all poetry, because some of it sucks out loud BUT one of my favorites is Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, and I only read that because I read The Dark Tower and was all into it. It's a good poem to me because it is a story. Probably also good to me because I can picture Roland when I read it.

ANYWAY if you want to read it go here http://www.web-books.com/classics/poetry/anthology/Browning_R/Childe.htm
 
yep, Cassie, and that's good poetry.
I have always loved poetry; to me, poetry is when words sing, as with an exquisite work like The Lady of Shallot.

Likewise it can boil a moment in time down to the barest bones and still convey with sharpest clarity emotions we all have felt - even centuries later - as with the T'ang poets of China, or in the haiku form of ancient Japanese poetry.
 
curiousa2z said:
ok, - who's got Gagh's account?

I'm confused; (wont be the first nor the last time)
you read The Odyssey, The Iliad & The Aeneid even though they are poems, but you say fuck poetry cos

erm, my bloody poems are not only from the heart, but they most certainly tell stories! :rwmad:
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They are poems, correct, but not in the accepted Western ideal of length and structure. Arguably, poems do tell stories, but not, IMO, in terms of prose. I prefer proper structure, and poems are too broken for that. Again IMO.

Just remember, if well all liked the same things, life would be very boring. Or like Germany.
 
:D
 
I'm not much of a fan of RHYMING poetry, (with a few exceptions) But I love much of the modern stuff.

I read and loved the Vampire books from Rice, but have yet to start on the witch books.
 
^they're well-written, and have a completely different cadence than the vampire chronicles. She wrote beautifully when she was at the top of her form.
 
I have a copy of The Witching Hour, and will eventually get through it.
 
well I hope you don't have to get through it, but actually find it a riveting page-turner, which it is, imho.
 
I loved her Mayfair witches books. I may have even liked them more than the vampire books.
 
^ me too.
C2 that was really good! I wish I had talent!
:D
mm
 
A young gentleman named McSweeney
He spilled some Gin on his weenie
So, to appear couth
he added Vermouth
and slipped his girl a Martini.
 
A Watusi floozie named Bea
said to her two lovers, "Aw, Gee!"
"I don't think that coitus
could possibly hoit us!"
So they did it together, all three.
 
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