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[jellyjacket]

i'm going to get as many books knocked off my to-read shelf as possible while i'm here. just read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. in the last...7 hours. better than i expected. intelligent, self-aware, some gorgeous Catch-22-esque dialogue. i expected it to be more style-infested - more slang, more jitter, more burroughs gross-out

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[hushypushy]

speaking of book to movie...have you read Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby?

[jellyjacket]

nope, didn't know it was a book first. hrmmm. how does it translate? the film is so stylized...

[hushypushy]

Actually, Hubert Selby Jr. not only wrote the book---but he wrote the screenplay for the film as well!

The book is fantastic, and if I had to make a recommendation for someone who has consumed neither, I'd say to watch the movie first. The book is written very much in a style like Sound and the Fury--it never pauses for a breather, it never says who is talking, there's hardly any punctuation, etc. You only know the character by the way they talk--Tyrone talks like a big black dude from the 70s, Harry talks like a squirrely jew, his mom talks like my grandma, etc. It was easy for me because when I read the book, I'd seen the movie so many times that the dialog already made a lot of sense to me because I recognized the lines from the film. It's very fluid, very interesting...there are some scenes in the book that aren't in the film and vice versa. Overall a very engaging read and I highly recommend it.