Oh Dear Gawd, you didn't know what Catch-22 was when you read it whilst deployed? Eep. There was an early Matt Groening "Life In Hell" cartoon from the late 80s/early 90s on the topic of the "Steps to Manhood" and one of them was "First Realization That Everything You Have Been Taught Is A Lie" and showed Binky the Rabbit reading Catch-22.
Well, let's see what else we got in the suicide-baiting bookshelf, fiction category. I read "Shalimar The Clown" by Salman Rushdie this last year. Hey, clowns are funny, right? It's right there in the title! Must be quite a joyous romp!
[Later] Hm. Gun oil makes my mouth taste funny.
"Snow" by Orhan Pamuk. "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke. "Children of Men," book AND movie. ...and while we're on the subject of movies, never never never never EVER see "House of Sand and Fog" and "21 Grams" back to back, which I did when they were released in the theaters. That's the Diamond Slope of suicide-baiting. Bonus masochism points: bought the DVD of "House of Sand and Fog" because I was impressed by the acting and just how well the slow unstoppable train wreck of events were directed. Popped open the factory seal, slipped it into my DVD-ROM, and then thought, "What the fuck am I thinking? I don't want to see this!" and ejected the drive. Go see it. I recommend it. Just don't have a gun barrel in ALREADY in your mouth when you start to watch.
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Date: 2007-04-14 02:39 am (UTC)Well, let's see what else we got in the suicide-baiting bookshelf, fiction category. I read "Shalimar The Clown" by Salman Rushdie this last year. Hey, clowns are funny, right? It's right there in the title! Must be quite a joyous romp!
[Later] Hm. Gun oil makes my mouth taste funny.
"Snow" by Orhan Pamuk.
"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke.
"Children of Men," book AND movie.
...and while we're on the subject of movies, never never never never EVER see "House of Sand and Fog" and "21 Grams" back to back, which I did when they were released in the theaters. That's the Diamond Slope of suicide-baiting. Bonus masochism points: bought the DVD of "House of Sand and Fog" because I was impressed by the acting and just how well the slow unstoppable train wreck of events were directed. Popped open the factory seal, slipped it into my DVD-ROM, and then thought, "What the fuck am I thinking? I don't want to see this!" and ejected the drive. Go see it. I recommend it. Just don't have a gun barrel in ALREADY in your mouth when you start to watch.