How'd you get your BS name?

[yossarian]

What's the origin of your name?? Or is it just from the book?

What book?














:p


Yep, I'm a Heller fan.
Plus, the book fits in nicely with the absurdities of BS.

[johno]

Plus not reading a certain book because you're trying to be different is absurd and I guess I'm not clear on how that makes you different .... It's like people who didn't read the Davinci Code because it was so hyped.. Was it the best book ever? No but it was a damn good read.. Why deny yourself something you may enjoy because of some inner desire to be different that others will never notice...

I read the Da Vinci Code, and it was horrid... very transparent and it lacked flow and invention... the plot was good, but its execution was absolutely disgusting. I'm of the opinion that it was Harry Potter for adults, except that adults read Potter too, which I think is sad.

I was not exposed to the LOTR until after the movie came out or was about to come out and I'm just the kind of guy that likes to do things different from others... I don't have to do the same things, read the same authors as everyone else. I guess the LOTR thing came about partly cuz a friend of mine told me i "had" to read it and at that point I decided I wasn't going to.

Its not that I'm against things that others are into, but if something is really hyped before I get a chance to experience it, it ruins the experience for me. alot of times I'll read the book/see the movie after the hype dies down, because I hate to go into a movie or a book, the first of a series expecting certain things...

I mean, I'm not completely against popular stuff... I've read every Grisham, Clancy and Ludlum book ever written, but I can claim to have read them when they weren't "in" and I like that.

[yossarian]

I read the Da Vinci Code, and it was horrid... very transparent and it lacked flow and invention... the plot was good, but its execution was absolutely disgusting. I'm of the opinion that it was Harry Potter for adults, except that adults read Potter too, which I think is sad.

I was not exposed to the LOTR until after the movie came out or was about to come out and I'm just the kind of guy that likes to do things different from others... I don't have to do the same things, read the same authors as everyone else. I guess the LOTR thing came about partly cuz a friend of mine told me i "had" to read it and at that point I decided I wasn't going to.

Its not that I'm against things that others are into, but if something is really hyped before I get a chance to experience it, it ruins the experience for me. alot of times I'll read the book/see the movie after the hype dies down, because I hate to go into a movie or a book, the first of a series expecting certain things...

I mean, I'm not completely against popular stuff... I've read every Grisham, Clancy and Ludlum book ever written, but I can claim to have read them when they weren't "in" and I like that.

When could you have possibly read Grisham or Clancy and claim that it was a time when they weren't "in" ??

[Achtung]

All you people trying to be lame scenesters. :p

Although to be fair, I did read A Million Little Pieces way before Oprah had ever heard of it and remember thinking to myself, "if the guy was really as ********ed up at the time as he says he was, would he really remember everything in such detail?" Ah well, provides lots of fodder for late night jokes.

Da Vinci Code was a fun read if you take it for what it was: dumb, page-turning entertainment. It's pretty clear it was written with the movie in mind.

[Numquam Moribimur]

The last book that i read was "Keane" talking about some good reading :D

[FCDallas96]

The last book that i read was "Keane" talking about some good reading :D
Would the book be highly recommended?