The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[Anachlirium]

I just read "Extras" by Scott Westerfeld.

God, I love Scottie. I read his blog and listen to any music he makes and read every last one of his books.. If you go to his website you almost fall in love with him instantly. he does have an amazing personality and a warped sence of humour, which I can.. Relate to, a little.

It wasn't his best.. Maybe he decided he just left too many people sobbing at the end of Specials and needed a happy ending. It was good.. But not 'wow'.

Also reading the Demonata.. By Darren Shan of course, who I love. It's good. Not sure if it'll compare to the original saga, but I'm liking it so far.

Oh, and the "The Dreaming" manga. This is a little different.. It's an Australian manga, but unlike alot of Western mangas it's not trying to be Japanese.. It's very, very Australian. And it's my type of thing. It has cute twins, Victorian girls, old art and skeletons. Yay.

[Chez Daja]

I have to admit, I haven't really read anything just lately. It's pretty lazy of me, but I really want the Edge Chronical series... Hardcover by Paul Stewart. I doubt it'll happen anytime soon, though. So yeah...I won't be keeping my hopes too high. Excellent fanatasy series, though. The only one I like, possibly...

Also, just a quick note to say I'm leaving for a week from 1pm tomorrow. Just figured I'd mention it here as well as in the welcome forum. I'll be back, take care, strange freakish people.

[joesteel64]

Well, I read Confessor by Terry Goodkind about two weeks ago, and i must say that it was an amazing way to conclude a series. After eleven or so other books before it, Confessor fulfilled all of my expectations, and then some.

I've also started re-reading the Dragonlance Saga (Only the ones written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman). There's nothing like a good old-fashioned fantasy novel to take your mind off of the worlds troubles.

[Silver]

Does the dialog in several RPGs count? ^^;

I haven't been reading so much of late. Just playing games in my home time and going out most of the other time. It's why I mostly only come on here at night. Most nights. Hell I tend to be playing console games on the TV WHILE I'm on the internet. ><

What am I playing now? Well I have my laptop on the coffee table next to me with an analog controller and the PC version of Sonic Adventure: Director's cut. I just love how insane fast it seems, and some of the things that can be done throughout the game.

BTW... I FINALLY GOT MY SWORDS!
And they look cooler than I ever could have imagined. I might post pics when I can borrow a camera, although I sent a pic to Lily via my phone.

Anyone else pick up a random interest in things just because they saw a demonstration somewhere or something?

Mine was just wanting to learn to use some Japanese steel, simply through seeing a demo of a man who could quite literally make his blade seem invisible and do some other cool tricks...

[isntitlovely]

Books: Well, I haven't really bought any lately, because people always give me books to read (it's really the only thing people can think to get me for presents and such), but I did just read Elsewhere, which was actually very good in a religious-but-attempting-to-go-around-normal-religion way. Other than that, my uncle actually bought me Ender's Game, so I've been reading that in between schoolwork.

Random Interests: I actually do have something like that...though it was more because of my mother. She'd bought these things called "speed stackers" for her classroom, and she'd brought them home so I could try them out. It's actually kind of addictive...I'm quite good at it though...'tis odd.

[Momo Mastermind]

Originally Posted by joesteel64

Well, I read Confessor by Terry Goodkind about two weeks ago, and i must say that it was an amazing way to conclude a series. After eleven or so other books before it, Confessor fulfilled all of my expectations, and then some.

I've also started re-reading the Dragonlance Saga (Only the ones written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman). There's nothing like a good old-fashioned fantasy novel to take your mind off of the worlds troubles.

I know A LOT about this series although I've never read a word of the books- sadly.

!!!!!!!!!! SPOILERS ABOUT THE SWORD OF TRUTH SERIES BELOW !!!!!!!!!!

Like I miss Scarlet the dragon from the first book, I believe she died when the Chimes came into the world- abolishing all magic

and the Wizard's first rule is that people are stupid... lmfao.

How the Chainfire spell made everyone forget that... what's her name? Kaiylen? Well, made them forget she ever existed- except for Richard though... is that his name? Because he had the sword of truth.

I LOVED the concept of the Dominy Dirches [sp?] which were the giant bells that made people explode. Also, the long and short tailed garrs. Blood flies and heart hounds.

I know SO much about that damn seried because my friend is OBSESSED with them and he always tells me about them- and it doesn't help that my memory is like a one way trap that stores EVERYTHING I've ever heard, seen, watched, thought, etc... and never lets them go.

Jeeze- the series ended by those boxes... I forget their named, but Richard accessed them correctly [unlike Jegang [sp?] who was killed by their traps] and he set those magic haters into a realm of their own... [which many believe to be our world] without magic.

Oh god... I've never even read them... -cries-

[Anachlirium]

Momo.. It's very, very sad that you know all of that and haven't read the things XD.

Has anybody read anything by Gary Crew? Award-winning Australian Author.. He's bloody amazing, honestly. Reading them.. It feels like his books were made for me. It's great.

I'd reccomend "Gothic Hospital" for anybody with a gothic novel/the Brothers Grimm fetish, definitely. It reads almost like a faerie tale in some parts.. But I'd recommend it to anybody that doesn't like those things, too. It is really just amazing. I remember feeling like it was a dream... I read it all in one sitting because I couldn't pull away and then it felt like I was waking up from a dream. Really odd. It just floats by you..

And it doesn't read like it's new, it feels like a much older book.. I don't quite get it.

The Lacemaker's Daughter is also very good. The ending perplexed me, but a good book. The main character.. I responded and related to her very well. It was nice.

[Chez Daja]

Anyone read Udo Grasshoff's "Let Me Finish" ?

I've only read articles, but it sounds like some of those pages could be filled with hours of morbid fun. On the other hand, it appears interesting. I may skit to the library to check it out tomorrow.

Can't be assed trying to buy books with the little money I have. I have to scrape just to afford to breathe these days.

Also, anyone seen the film Flatliners? 1990 it came out. Pretty good. Keifer Sutherland and Julia Roberts. It's about doctors who kill each other and bring each other back to life and then freakish things start to happen. It's an interesting little gem out of a lot of copper. Give it a shot if you're bored one night. I bought it on DVD for £2 at the supermarket. =D

[OmniTense]

*shocks thread*

C'mon people. We have Govinda back. We need activities. Think! What happened to the writing competition. We need something to do. The BoD has falled we need to bring this club back as one of the leading clubs. A call to arms I say!

How many people consider themselves to be...morbid... Would you say? How do you react to that sort of thing?


-Sin

[Chez Daja]

Morbid?

Macabre artwork is something I try my hand at. It works quite well. I suppose my signature, which I made on a free trial on PaintShopPro could be considered a lesser form of that. Maybe.

I like watching films portraying torture. I doubt I'd ever actually torture anybody, but in a film, it works well. Texas Chainsaw Masscare is a pretty mild version of torture, but peeling off faces sure looks satisfying.

Morbid... It depends on your personal definition of the word, I suppose.

[Momo Mastermind]

I've been called morbid before, but it's not anything I strive for. I don't try to fit myself into any category, and I don't think I'm too easily defined.

I do have violent thoughts that abruptly rise from my mind, but who doesn't? I do have an overactive imagination, so when I hear something or think something, it literally unfolds right infront of my eyes.

I guess I do joke a bit more graphically than others as well.

But no, not morbid

[Silver]

Morbid, me?
Well maybe. I'd say more psychopathic. That is if someone I know died or was harmed or something I'd feel something, but if it was some person I didn't know or something...
Well I just don't feel nothing. But you know what I mean Sinny, that chat on MSN the other day should explain it better than I could now.

And yeah, reading about murderers and stuff does interest me. It's just not something I come across every day I guess. ^^;
But it's really the same way random other things interest me. Too much curiousity... >_>
And I do see killing another as wrong... You're not giving that person a chance to experience that which they would have. I very much doubt the after life to be anything like this one.

[Jin]

Originally Posted by sinister

The BoD has falled we need to bring this club back as one of the leading clubs.

I'd rather not fill the shoes they did...or even the ones they think they did.

In some ways I'm morbid, I guess. I find suffering and death to be quite romantic in the cultural sense. I'm more "inspired" by emotional suffering than physical suffering though. But I wouldn't really call myself morbid in the sense I think most people use it. I mean, comical death is funny sure, but I think that's just a human thing.