Only English ^^

[Celinilein]

That's a good reason. ^^

Too* much text.

Yay I have an excuse :emot-toot:

Vorheriger Post um 13:29

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The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round and round, round aaaaaand rooooound

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The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round and round, round aaaaaand rooooound

Very complex text... I dunno how i'm ever able to translate that!

[Celinilein]

Very complex text... I dunno how i'm ever able to translate that!

some day, my son, you will understand

[shaman_king]

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round and round, round aaaaaand rooooound

isnt it more like "all through the town" or something like that?

[Celinilein]

isnt it more like "all through the toown" or something like that?

:emot-raise: Could be. But that sounds a little bit too complicated for me

[Belian]

Let me tell you something about my favourit book. "Candy" by Kevin Brooks

Candy, the character, has none. A heroin-addicted prostitute, utterly dependent on the terrifying pimp who supplies her drugs, she totters into toilets for regular fixes. She is beautiful, bright and sparky, but wrecked. Joe, the main character in the book, falls crazily in love with her, and love removes any control he might have had, hooking him into the ugly detritus of a drug-addict's world.

Mind you, Joe had little control over his life before, and he constantly feels propelled by circumstances. In classical tragedy, a weakness in the central character inexorably drives the cartwheel of doom. In Candy, things are driven partly by events, or by forces stronger than Joe or Candy. Unusually for teenage fiction, the main events are also driven by adults, making the powerlessness of the teenagers even more stark.

Joe does have a weakness - a habit of hyper-self-conscious dithering, very cleverly portrayed. He worries on the micro-level and lets the macro drive itself, knowing he can't control it. But those small things - boy, does he worry about them! Linking arms with Candy, what should he do with his other arm: "Should I stick my elbow out? Should I hold her arm? Should I put my hand in my pocket?" As a lesson in using small details to paint character, it's perfect.

It's a first-person narrative, which means that Joe's is the only character we truly come to know; the others are seen through his eyes, and therefore not completely. Thus Iggy, the pimp, becomes a creature without redeeming features. We can't know what Candy really feels, only how she seems to feel, though we like her almost as much as Joe does, because Joe does.

But Joe's character is worth spending time with. He is intriguingly different, and his introspection allows us unusually deep into his mind. I initially doubted if a 15-year-old boy would ruffle his 20-year-old sister's hair and refer to her as "a beautiful young woman who meant everything to me", but Joe's exceptional decency eventually persuaded me that he might. After all, Joe says that although his father is "bigoted and blind and stupid", he "couldn't hold that against him". I would have done, but Joe, being exceptionally decent, couldn't.

Brooks's use of language is adept. He is a wordsmith as well as a storyteller: Iggy has "passionless eyes", which have a "sterile light"; Joe's heightened senses after a particularly shocking scene are perfectly depicted by the quiet intensity of "the darkness shifting in the rustle of the shadows" and "the cold night air ... misted with the smells of the city". Exactly the right amount of controlled description floats a powerful plot to a more vivid, multisensory dimension.

As an anti-drug parable, it is unambiguous. Candy's awareness of her state is terrible to see, and the glimpses of her life with Iggy are some of the most shocking scenes imaginable. Good novelists, however, do not set out to write teaching materials and Brooks is undoubtedly a good novelist. Look at these characters, he says: enter their heads, live their lives for a few hours and ask yourself what you would have done. Are you stronger than love, passion, drugs, fear and brutality? You don't know whom you will fall for or what events will overtake you. How much control will you have then? Some words of warning: Candy may hook you too...

Tl;dr

No, just kidding

I read the whole text but I definitely won't read the book

Not because I wouldn't like to. The main reason is, that my books here staple at least as high as my unplayed games :'>

And in both cases it is absolutely possible not completing them in a year ("or so") *

* to use Rockstars words ^^

[Celinilein]

No, just kidding

I read the whole text but I definitely won't read the book

Not because I wouldn't like to. The main reason is, that my books here staple at least as high as my unplayed games :'>

And in both cases it is absolutely possible not completing them in a year ("or so") *

* to use Rockstars words ^^

Haha of course YOU did read it

Will you ever complete anything in your life?

:biggrin5:

[Belian]

Sure. His little text for example

[Celinilein]

Nooo

[Belian]

Yeeees

[Celinilein]

okay

Vorheriger Post um 23:52

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[Belian]

That was... unexpected

Edit:

[Celinilein]

Yeah I know. Normally I don't give up that easy when there is a chance to dicuss something

[Belian]

Well, actually there wasn't even a thing to discuss, because I was right

Haha, oh yes. Everytime the same stupid question

For fuck's sake, I know so many other game related memes, but I can't find any

[Celinilein]

Well, actually there wasn't even a thing to discuss, because I was right

Haha, oh yes. Everytime the same stupid question

For fuck's sake, I know so many other game related memes, but I can't find any

You weren't :emot-what:

Yes, they will never get the sense and fun of playing videogames, those digital immigrants

Hahaha just use google and search for "9gag gamer" and there you go

[Belian]

Totally I knew I read the whole text!

Yeah, I already figured it out. But I didn't want to double post and waited for you to inform me :'>

[Celinilein]

Oh how smart of you

Hahaha totally true It is NEVER my fault or failure

[Belian]

I laughed so hard because I imagined saying it with no anger at all and being the most peaceful person ever. Like Rob sometimes

Maybe I'll try this during our next battlefield session^^

But we all know the TRUE reasons:

[Celinilein]

Which Rob? Robmeister?

Yeah try it. I will laugh my ass off if you could keep calm and say that

Hahahaha so true too

[Belian]

Jop

It seems like I met him in Home Or more precisely he met me. Well, at least he sent me a message. Actually I wanted to answer before I turned off my PS3 and now I feel guilty for haven't done so

Stupid brain

I totally will. But it'll get hard not to laugh myself