The Adventures of Michael MacInnes

finished the book... was a really fast read... btw. it's targeted at Young Adults...
the story starts with Michael MacInnes transferring to a new boarding school and follows him and the people around him through a year (maybe less)... almost rape, love + sex, drug abuse, mental illness, homosexuality, a guy running ( Read more... )

Into the Wilderness is done... nice book... a bit... uh... lengthy... but nice nonetheless

King Must Die also done... neither the story nor the language got to me... won't read it again... will probably end up on ebay... it's not bad just doesn't fit my taste ;)

example:
When I was seven, the Horse Sacrifice came due, a great day in Troizen.

It is held ( Read more... )

Comedy Central presents Daniel Cummins...

"You can tell a lot about someone by their email adress...
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like you see dragonhunter1965...
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ok, alright... that's a 40 something lonely dude...
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and then you see sexyladyxxx...
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that's the same guy
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["Yeah" shout from the audience]
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and there he is"

watch the whole show, if you can get your hands on ( Read more... )

Right now I'm reading 5 books...

my "toilet" reading (they are slim and not too captivating but still interesting):

• a biography of Oscar Wilde

• a book about common German grammar mistakes "Der Dativ ist dem Genetiv sein Tod" something along the lines of "Eats, shoots and leaves" if you've heard of that

and 3 novels:

• Ilija Trojanow - Der Weltensammler [= ( Read more... )

The 12 Days Of Christmas (For the politically correct)

On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my
Significant Other in a consenting adult, monogamous relationship gave to
me:

TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming,

ELEVEN pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of
members in good ( Read more... )

The phrase „Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.“ illustrates a very common view about marriage in Europe and the USA. Therefore more and more people decide to never get married. On the other hand, in some parts of the world people can not afford to pick and choose and have to let others decide their marriage for them

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...dangerous sports should be banned.

This is an essay I'll hand in tomorrow... Only the last two paragraphs were completely done by me... my ideas and all... the ideas for the others were obligatory, which is imo always hard to work with... I usually can't really relate to them... but anyway... that's what I usually have to do for ILSS 2 ( ( Read more... )

Although I already have a recommendations-post I open one for books only... They play a big part in my life (I love books... would marry them if I could ;) would write one... if I had any talent XD), so they should do so in my blog too ;)

I already posted those:

• Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity (Might be a bit biased... Austrian and all... still ( Read more... )

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I still love this part of a book called "Persuading Annie" by Melissa Nathan... I've yet to read it completely though ( Read more... )