Two Books

tj · 04-15-2007, 05:45 PM

Heya everyone, I'm about to open up Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote. Has anyone here read it? Any good?

I also bought The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie... the same question for this one as well.

audity · 04-15-2007, 07:21 PM

I prefer the movie over the book.

As far as Rushie goes...didn't you hear about the fatwa?

Hendrik · 04-15-2007, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by audity

As far as Rushie goes...didn't you hear about the fatwa?

It's Rushdie, ya goldchain negro, ya!

Fatwa? Isn't that, like...with garlic and bread?

flyaway · 04-15-2007, 10:02 PM

Agreed about your statement on Breakfast at Tiffany's. It was the first occasion I found a film better than a book.

Rai · 04-15-2007, 11:40 PM

The Rushdie one is the only really good novel I've ever read about rock music. Its one of my all-time favourites, I just love it (actually my eskimo pen name comes from the novel). The title song is just amazing (and U2 put it to music):

All my life, I worshipped her.
Her golden voice, her beauty’s beat.
How she made us feel,
how she made me real,

and the ground beneath her feet.
and the ground beneath her feet.

And now I can’t be sure of anything,
black is white, and cold is heat;
for what I worshipped stole my love away,
it was the ground beneath her feet.

She was my ground, my favourite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet.

Go lightly down your darkened way,
go lightly underground,
I’ll be down there in another day,
I won’t rest until you’re found.

Let me love you true, let me rescue you,
let me lead you to where two roads meet.
O come back above, where there’s only love,
and the ground’s beneath your feet.

I could praise it for ages, its probably emotionally the closest novel to me...

tj · 04-16-2007, 09:52 PM

Aw Rai, I love the song and from what I've read so far I can tell you I'm realy enjoying the book! The Ground Beneath Her Feet is an amazing song... if it wasn't for the song I would never have bought the book.

Rai · 04-16-2007, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by tj

Aw Rai, I love the song and from what I've read so far I can tell you I'm realy enjoying the book! The Ground Beneath Her Feet is an amazing song... if it wasn't for the song I would never have bought the book.

I bought it for the same reason... I had the Million Dollar Hotel soundtrack and got interested in this Rushdie guy after hearing the song (its a shame U2 left the best verse out), I didn't know much about him before and now, a year later there's only one work of him I haven't read. Still The Ground is my favourite, for some reason (partly because we are both photographers) I feel that Umeed Merchant (Rai) and I have much in common.

04-15-2007, 05:45 PM	#1
tj Phono Vox Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 828	Two Books Heya everyone, I'm about to open up Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote. Has anyone here read it? Any good? I also bought The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie... the same question for this one as well. __________________ a goldfish only has a three second memory..that means if it takes a goldfish three seconds to swim around a bowl, everything is new...each time two goldfish meet it's like it's the first time..

04-15-2007, 07:21 PM	#2
audity High-Five Eskimo Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: On the River Lee, County Cork, Ireland Posts: 1,397	I prefer the movie over the book. As far as Rushie goes...didn't you hear about the fatwa? __________________ Ireland For Ron Paul "Don't worry, ma'am...I've got permits for these." -The Todd "For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight." -William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright

04-15-2007, 10:02 PM	#4
flyaway Eskimo Geek Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 530	Agreed about your statement on Breakfast at Tiffany's. It was the first occasion I found a film better than a book. __________________ "I would love to hold you up, but my fingers just aren't strong enough"

04-15-2007, 11:40 PM	#5
Rai Eskimontologist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire Posts: 2,345	The Rushdie one is the only really good novel I've ever read about rock music. Its one of my all-time favourites, I just love it (actually my eskimo pen name comes from the novel). The title song is just amazing (and U2 put it to music): All my life, I worshipped her. Her golden voice, her beauty’s beat. How she made us feel, how she made me real, and the ground beneath her feet. and the ground beneath her feet. And now I can’t be sure of anything, black is white, and cold is heat; for what I worshipped stole my love away, it was the ground beneath her feet. She was my ground, my favourite sound, my country road, my city street, my sky above, my only love, and the ground beneath my feet. Go lightly down your darkened way, go lightly underground, I’ll be down there in another day, I won’t rest until you’re found. Let me love you true, let me rescue you, let me lead you to where two roads meet. O come back above, where there’s only love, and the ground’s beneath your feet. I could praise it for ages, its probably emotionally the closest novel to me... __________________ "There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers"

04-16-2007, 09:52 PM	#6
tj Phono Vox Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ireland Posts: 828	Aw Rai, I love the song and from what I've read so far I can tell you I'm realy enjoying the book! The Ground Beneath Her Feet is an amazing song... if it wasn't for the song I would never have bought the book. __________________ a goldfish only has a three second memory..that means if it takes a goldfish three seconds to swim around a bowl, everything is new...each time two goldfish meet it's like it's the first time..