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[Duke Devlin]'s Reading List - 2010


1. Dave Pelzer; A Child Called 'It' Review: A Child Called 'It' - Dave Pelzer
2. Mark Haddon; The Curious Incident... Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
3. R.D Jahn; Acts of Violence Review: Acts of Violence - Ryan David Jahn
4. Jodi Picoult; Perfect Match Review: Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult Review to come.
5. Stephenie Meyer; Twilight Review: Twilight - Stephenie Meyer Review to come. <__<
6. Stephen King; The Mist Review: The Mist - Stephen King Review to come. X___X





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2009-12-11 [▲.]: Images~ Looks great!

2009-12-11 [Duke Devlin]: Why thank ya. ;D

2009-12-12 [▲.]: Not at all. :3

2009-12-12 [Duke Devlin]: :D

2010-01-03 [Rice]: Excuse me but..where the fuck is 'Jokes and Crow's Sexy Stories'.

2010-01-03 [Duke Devlin]: XD Well, first someone would have to write them, then I'd be able to read them. XD

2010-01-03 [Rice]: Ahem...WELL!
We are writting them..

2010-01-03 [Duke Devlin]: ... XD Well, they'd need to be published! D:

2010-01-03 [Rice]: URGH fine well then..I'll take my leave..with my unpublished book.

2010-01-03 [Duke Devlin]: XD Visit a publisher!

2010-01-14 [member181737]: If you have 1984 in there you've got to have Brave new World. They're like soul mates ;D

2010-01-15 [Duke Devlin]: :O I'll add it on! :) When I can be bothered to locate a copy/get a picture for it! :D XD
Thank you! :)

2010-02-21 [Rice]: I laughed my way through a child called it. XD

2010-02-21 [Duke Devlin]: Why? It's not remotely funny. =/

2010-02-21 [Rice]: Because it's complete bullshit. He's even addmited that he may have 'blown it out of proportion'.

2010-02-21 [Duke Devlin]: Ahhhhh okay. :P I'm gonna read the rest of them, and find out for myself, to be honest.

2010-02-21 [Rice]: Yeah. There was this big thing about it yeas back, me and Mell used to talk about it all the time. XD Like the bit near the start where his mum stabs him or something..and..he like somehow lives for days and days before getting attention XD. WTF!! Thats impossible. (BTW sorry if you haven't got to that bit...it's not amazing)

2010-02-21 [Duke Devlin]: I've read the entire book, so I have read that bit. It does say in the book that it isn't a deep wound, so it is plausible for him to survive such a time with little attention (it is also made clear that his mother was a nurse of sorts - i.e not qualified, though this of course adds to the 'convenience' of it all). Although it does seem unlikely at times, frankly, we weren't there, so we can't know what is exaggerated and what isn't. Sure, parts of it seem a little excessive - like his father standing by and doing nothing (which I can't see being the case, especially as he was a serving fire fighter at the time - NO FATHER WOULD DO THAT. Oo) while this went on - but since we can't be sure what is truth and what is not, I'd prefer to reserve judgement, and review the book for the most part of it's literary points. :O

2010-02-21 [Rice]: Have you read his brothers book as well. The child they for some reason left with the murderous mother. Child Support at its finest.
Also yeah about the Dad..bullshit he would have done nothing.

2010-02-21 [Duke Devlin]: Haven't read any others. :O What's his brother's book called? They really wouldn't have left the children with the mother after the court case (or before, for that matter. All children would have been taken into protective custody the moment the words 'child abuse' were mentioned oO), but then it might tell of that in one of his other two books on the matter. Dunno yet. :O
You'd have to be the world's worst father to do absolutely nothing, and then just move out and leave the kid. =/

2010-02-21 [Rice]: I have no clue, never finished it because it was basically the same thing. 8/ Just now he's making it look like he was the one being abused or something, when clearly in the first book he was some twatish brat how always got the kid into trouble.
But yeah, plus he was a fire fighter, by nature wanting to help people.
But I detest biographies about abuse because in most cases its for attention (IE celebrities suddenly revealing they were abused for media coverage). But yeah, there are the rare few I enjoy reading and really get into and feel 'my god this actually happened'. Like Black Bird and Still Waters. Many people in that book I want to hurt.

2010-02-21 [Duke Devlin]: Wow, how gay. I'm not sure which brother it was, since he had four, but all of them were particularly nasty towards him in this, except his very youngest. =/ Oh well, people tend to try to cash in on other's stories if they can - especially if it's a family member.
AHGHGHGGHHHHH Fucking Katie Price and her 'I was raped!' story last year. That one really pisses me off. She's such a cunt. :)
I've never read those, but by the sounds of it, they would be worth reading. :O Will do. :P

2010-02-21 [Rice]: YES! Read them, they follow from each other, same girl. But they are really good.

And YES XD..my god...it's like every single celeb biography. 'I WAS RAPED AS A CHILD'....'I WAS BEATAN'. It's just, URAGH, it annoys me because I feel it takes something away from people who have really been abused, people who are suffering in silence watching as their troubles are twisted by some ugly bitch to make people feel sorry for her.

2010-02-21 [Duke Devlin]: I'll probably read them over Easter then. :) I find it interesting to read one's that follow on from eachother.
It is disgusting that many celebrities suddenly pull such stories from their little bag of tricks. All it is is more publicity to them, while elsewhere there are people who have developed into quiet, nervous people, afraid of the slightest thing - it's absolutely sickening. God I hate Katie Price.

2010-02-21 [Rice]: Yeah. Media Attention whores annoy me so much. Its like Lissa. D8< *breathes fire*

2010-02-21 [windowframe]: Bout time.

2010-02-22 [▲.]: That book was so sad. :/

2010-02-22 [Rice]: Gah!. >.> But now I know some of it may have been made up, I start to wonder which parts are real. So 8/ Kinda ruined it for me.

2010-02-22 [▲.]: Ah, well it's "based" on a true story. I still found it a sad book, regardless of whether or not it was real. :/

2010-02-22 [Rice]: I don't really read sad books. o_o They bore me and get sooooo depressing. I don't like thinking about kids being tortured and stuff.
So I opt for serial killer books 8D where adults get tortured and stuff.

2010-02-22 [▲.]: I kind of just read whatever comes my way. I have yet to read a serial killer book that wasn't Silence of the Lambs.

2010-02-22 [Rice]: *bursts into flames* WHAT OMG D8<
That is just not acceptable.

2010-02-22 [▲.]: :<

2010-02-23 [Duke Devlin]: Psht. Shh you, Silvie. XP I'm reading like a mega-bitch now. XDDD
I read whatever, also, ABCiCi... You have a bizarre username btw... :D

2010-02-23 [Duke Devlin]: Also, IT IS LIKE LISSA! D:< *rage*

2010-02-23 [Rice]: *RAGE RAGE*

2010-02-23 [Duke Devlin]: *Mega Rage*

2010-02-23 [Rice]: *Ultimate rage formation*

2010-02-23 [Duke Devlin]: XD ... Do we get to form a RAGE SPIRIT BOMB!?

2010-02-23 [Rice]: Yes. But it takes a few months to power up..then we miss.

2010-03-04 [Duke Devlin]: ... Damn, we suck. XP

2010-03-04 [Rice]: Yeah. We may as well just sit here.

2010-03-04 [Duke Devlin]: Damn. Oh well, we're awesome enough even without a Spirit Bomb.

2010-03-18 [Duke Devlin]: Note to self: 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', 'Acts of Violence'.

2010-07-04 [Rice]: Oh oh. Duke I have a book suggestion for you. I think I have mentioned this at some point but I only just re-read it. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite. It's a book about two serial killers in London who fall in love and it's pretty brutal. Loads of man sex and graphic murder but it is REALLY good, also has a side story with this tranny character I reckon you'd love for the fact he wears womens clothes.

2010-07-04 [Duke Devlin]: Sounds awesome, I'll order it when I get paid. :D XD
Hmm... Serial killers in love<3 Adorable.

2010-07-04 [Rice]: You can borrow mine if you like?

2010-07-04 [Duke Devlin]: Might be a plan. ;) Atm reading Twilight. -____- Fucking shit book, but I have to read it to criticise. XD Gonna be SUCH a fun review to do. XD

2010-07-04 [Rice]: I read that..but gave up about half way in.

2010-07-04 [Duke Devlin]: Yeah I'm about a third of the way through, and it has gotten no better than it was at the start (which was insta-shit). Additionally, Stephenie Meyer is completely void of writing talent.

2010-07-04 [Rice]: Bella is the most punchable female lead of all time. And Edward..my got...we just know him an senoir twat in our house.

2010-07-04 [Duke Devlin]: XDDD Love it. I fucking hate her. Every other page she's like 'Oh Edward is beautiful' then suddenly when she's near him ';.;' straight to 'D8< I HATE YOU'. It's like she's ill or something.

2010-07-04 [Rice]: And she can't do anything....

2010-07-04 [Rice]: She cant walk into a room without getting internal bleeding or something..or severing a limb.

2010-07-04 [Duke Devlin]: AND, she constantly goes on about how below average looking she is. Then in the movie.. Hmm... Attractive? That's not right.

2010-07-04 [Rice]: Oh god the actress who plays he is weird..she stutters every god damn sentence and does this annoying eye flutter thing.

2010-07-04 [Duke Devlin]: I refuse to ever watch the movies. The book is bad enough, I wil not waste any more time on this attrocious series. XD

2010-10-06 [Rice]: The Mist is amazing.

2010-10-18 [Duke Devlin]: Very true. :) The book is better than the film, definitely.

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