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Mac cinema screens - the 23" versions. How much should one pay for one of those, used, do you think?
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:32, archived)
2 vaginas

(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:33, archived)
I recently finished reading American Psycho.
It disturbed me very much. Had to stop reading at one point.
(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:35, archived)
Yup
The nipples/nail trimmer incident messed me up.
(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:36, archived)
Is that the book in which someone fucks a decapitated skull?

(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd, Groincrusher General Wrath of the Lich King is MINT!, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:38, archived)
He does it a lot.
The whole thing is pretty fucked up.
(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:39, archived)
that
more than the rat/drainpipe/acid bit?
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:39, archived)
I think that's where I had to put the book down for a while.

(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:40, archived)
no, not in terms of brutality
but it just got me, in the same way that stubbing your toe is the most painful thing in the world.

If you see what i mean. What?

*dies*
(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:40, archived)
This sounds dreadful
why? why? why?
(I helped save b3ta! Fluzzy 352, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:41, archived)
because
.. and this is the official review here - Easton Ellis is one sick motherfucker.

it also should have been rat/draipipe/acid/hooker's vagina if you really want to know just how wrong it is..
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:44, archived)
The hungry rat
and the 80s music references
(jmaxi all /talk and no action on, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:40, archived)
I couldn't read the whole Phil Collins/Genesis chapter.

(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:41, archived)
Less Than Zero is quite nasty too

(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:36, archived)
I read Glamorama, that was good - it did have it's gruesome parts.

(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:38, archived)
American Psycho is somehow much worse though
I don't know why. I remember thinking less than zero was a good book - worrying, but good. But AP is just every fucking country of the wrongworld.
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:38, archived)
oh really?
I do love a nasty book, I might pick it up.
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:39, archived)
may I suggest
only reading alternate pages? every other page is his description of his and others clothes, glasses, mannerisms etc. It's meant to convey a kind of blase normality as a counter to the ultra-violence, and emphasise just how meaningless other's life and pain is to him ... but it just gets fucking irritating ;)
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:42, archived)
Some of those bits are my favourite moments in it.
The contrast is what makes it more effective, in my opinion.
(I helped save b3ta! FoldsFive wishes to remain an omnibus, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:43, archived)
see below
I'm really just taking the piss. It's a fucking wrong book in so many ways though.
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:46, archived)
I very much agree.

(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:47, archived)
But that's the point.
You get him writing pages and pages of superfluous adjectives about meaningless things, and then half a page of crudely written torture and sexual violence.

You can't have one without the other, otherwise it's just porn for mentalists.
(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:43, archived)
I know
I wasn't really being serious. But fuck, I wished he'd shut up about oliver peoples fucking glasses for a bit.

anyway, arguably it is just porn for mentalists.
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:45, archived)
i actually started to feel guilty for looking forward to the sick bits

(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:47, archived)
haha
just finished Rant, the latest Chuck Palahniuk one - could have done with that advice towards the end. He does have a habit of repeating things a few too many times.
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:44, archived)
I found it irritating at first, but then it amused me, and was a nice break
from reading about eating intestines and burning eyes with lighters...
(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:44, archived)
oh i forgot about the eyeballs exploding

(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:45, archived)
I've read a lot of bad things.
This is the baddest.
(mookay pick em up picklehead, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:42, archived)
I think American Psycho is
worse because you get quite involved with one person and the workings of his mind. Although I've not read Less than zero, I think this is why the violence in AP is worse than the violence in Glamorama.

/book club
(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:42, archived)
I thought the film was weirder. I don't know.

(I helped save b3ta! TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:38, archived)
I didn't think much of the film.
The book was great.
(I helped save b3ta! Neptune, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:46, archived)
I haven't bothered with the film
9/10 ths of the book is totally unfilmable, at least legally. why did they bother?
(loutre I've said too much, been too unkind, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:47, archived)
You are wise to not bother with the film.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:48, archived)
The rat/fanny bit :s

(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star a call girl with yesterday eyes, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:39, archived)
An excellent book, albeit hard work.

(I helped save b3ta! FoldsFive wishes to remain an omnibus, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:41, archived)
No more than £150.
Although, I have absolutely no idea how much they cost in real life. But this seems a good figure.

/not helpful
(I helped save b3ta! Jobe http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:34, archived)
thanks

(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:34, archived)
My new 24" 1080P monitor cost £320
So no more than that.

Why do you desire a Mac cinema screen over a generic brand like HP?

/edit: eBay completed auctions states between £270 and £350
(I helped save b3ta! cr3 looks cute, but has guns, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:34, archived)
This.
Mac stuff is so overpriced.
(I helped save b3ta! The Gentleman Bastard is in ur noun, verbing ur noun. ©, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:35, archived)
thankies
I'm selling, not buying. :)
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:35, archived)
Oooh
Well my advice would be to sign in to eBay and do a completed listing search. Some well-written ones have gone for £400, so be sure to make it look good! :)
(I helped save b3ta! cr3 looks cute, but has guns, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:36, archived)
I've looked
there's only one for sale, for about £350. We weren't expecting that much, to be honest :)
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:38, archived)
Be sure to make a fuss of the fact it has no dead/stuck pixels
If i'm looking to buy a monitor, that's what I worry the most over. But hooray, money!
(I helped save b3ta! cr3 looks cute, but has guns, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:39, archived)
not my money, unfortch.
:)
(I helped save b3ta! spangolin laughs from the dark of the wilderness, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:43, archived)
the perceived benefit of a white plastic veneer and a grey logo is the reason I don't like Apple

(I helped save b3ta! hubare wants to organise a bitterbash :(, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:36, archived)
Yeah, but other products don't radiate love as you use them
The iPhone for example cures all diseases in the user, while they call.
(I helped save b3ta! cr3 looks cute, but has guns, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:37, archived)
Is that the one that goes with the Amiga?
www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/perif/1080mon.htm
(jmaxi all /talk and no action on, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:49, archived)
Mac! Kill it with fire! Argh!

(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd, Groincrusher General Wrath of the Lich King is MINT!, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:36, archived)
Chill...

(I helped save b3ta! TY&GN would let Jason Statham touch his body, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:36, archived)
:(
I couldn't work without my mac - or offer frothy coffee
(I helped save b3ta! lafleur likes cheese, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:39, archived)
Put Linux on it.

(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd, Groincrusher General Wrath of the Lich King is MINT!, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:40, archived)
oh
does that help when making coffee ?
(I helped save b3ta! lafleur likes cheese, Thu 15 May 2008, 14:44, archived)