Page 4A AGGIF-LANP a branch of Greater TEXAS Federal Credit Union Open a new account & receive 1 box of Custom Aggieland (175) checks FREE! Plus, you’ll receive a maroon Aggieland Pulse Card, Aggieland checkbook cover and 1 dozen starter checks - all FREE! Unlimited Check Writing, No JVlinimum Balance, and No IVIontRily Service Charge 201 Southwest Pkwy. E & 501 University Dr. W Offer expires 9/30/00 696-1440 fRuck: s Pizza TM Pint, & Strtmitli ■" 2418 Texas Ave. S • 693-BUCK (2825) * Carry-out Special MEDIUM 12 I Topping Pizza $ 3.50 J" Purchase 3 for FREE DELIVERY Not valid with any other offer. ■P ■P ■" ■P J 1 ■P ■■■" ■" ■" ■" ■" ■" ■" ■" ■" ■" ■■AGGIELIFE Wednesday, August 38,)) THE BATTALION Neil Caiman and Terry Pratchett Good Omens Publishedby Workman Publishing It is the end of time, and the world is in the hands of the An tichrist. The only problem istle Antichrist is a little boy in Tad- field, England, who would rate play with his ' Wednesday, A D( ABC Marquis DeSade Justine, Philosophy in the Bed room, & other writings Published by General Publish ing Company The Marquis DeSade is best known for his namesake — sadism. However, DeSade was also a prolific writer who pro duced thousands of pages of let ters, political treatis es and worjcs of fiction. This compi lation, contains his most famous novel la Justine — a piece Napoleon Bonaparte once described as “the most abom inable work ever en gendered by the most depraved imagination.†Depraved, per haps, but DeSade's works are also some of the best fiction of Romantic France. MARQUIS DE SADE worst. But like any horrific car wreck, it attracts a crowd. The best work, and the most underrated in this compilation, is Philosophy in the Bedroom. This is a faster read than Justine and combines far more palatable philosophical views on the nature and responsibilities of mankind. This piece centers on the sexual and political “liberation" of a teenage girl by a trio of aristocrat ic sadists. Through conversation and graphic sexual ex ploration, they transform her from a typical teenager into a sadistic predator. The journey climax es with one of the most graphic and torturous rape scenes ever written perpetrated upon the girl’s mother, with the girl’s help. , The compilation also contains a col lection of DeSade’s G°0f om JuStilKr PlliIo«0|'llV in tk« Bedroom - Sr Ofker \X4ifini?s Unlike other great French writers, Voltaire especially, DeSade’s works do not simply skip from topic to topic, but expand and de velop plots like modern novels. Not unexpectedly, every work centers on depravity and libidi nous pursuits, so this book is not for the faint of heart. Justine de scribes rape, murder and kidnap ping in a blinding and extremely graphic whirlwind. It is unsettling at best and outright nauseating at letters and a time line of his life. The time line actually reveals one of the great mysteries of DeSade’s life because one must wonder, given his perpetual arrests and sexual escapades, how he man aged to escape the guillotine as a member of the aristocracy. This book is a must for every Neitsche enthusiast and churchgoer. (Grade: A) dog (which is really a de mon hound from hell) than bring about the fi nal battle be tween heaven and hell. Good Omens takes a humorous look at the apocalypse in a manner that would make Douglas Adams proud. The story revolves an angel and a demon who.throi: the millennia, have developedai “unnatural†liking for the tiumaii race and seek to defy heaven's! hell’s intentions to bring aboutils untimely demise. The novel, set in Englandjal- though one might be more inefe to believe that the end of theworU would happen in America) takeso some of the more channing style characteristics of The Hitchhiker) Guide-to the Galaxy series,such dry, British humor and an intrinsk need for comedic irony. The authors show a definite la- miliarity with the mythology of Catholicism, but they do not hesi tate to put their own spin on some of its more popular players. Foret ample, the Four Horsemen in Ren 1 at ions become the four bikers, rt pollution substituting forpestita Overall, the book deservestk minor cult following it has devel oped (no pun intended) andisa must read for anyone looking for; new spin on the end of the world. (Grade: A) -Jason Bennyhoff —Stuart Hurst NEWY gency roon gang memi he tries to; 7, Later, he ' neighborhc ‘hospital be * of guns ant •dike in the i v Com we Insurance of George Cl ^Anthony E He is n< nothing fal C sheets. Or t '•well hims surgery at , Baltimore, television, a remarkat debuts Wee “Hopki Baltimore ma of “ER The car she has ute surgery an struggling meeting to Phyllis I first concei logistical n Schw honor : BOYS T man most ceps, Tern etHotlywoe Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita Published by Grove Press A talking cat, a knife-throwing lackey and a conver sation with the devil combine to make The Master and Margarita one of the great classics of Russian litera ture. Bulgakov’s opus was written at the height of Soviet power in the ’50s and was banned in the Soviet Union due to its reli gious content. Howev er, this book is not about religious preach ing or demagogy — it is a fanciful ride through the writer’s imagination where the devil is the ultimate practical joker. The novel opens with two Russian in tellectuals conversing about the existence of God — a taboo subject first person. This is our first introduction to the devil While the assertion of creationism as pure fact prototi got this book banned, the wondrous antics of the devil make this book the brilliant piece of literature it is. From the moment of the conversation totheveiy last page, the devil makes theater conductors, thecit) 1 Leningrad's citizens’ clothes and literary critics disap pear. In a hilarious series of practical jokes, the devil single-handedly turns the city upside down. The surprise in this novel is that the devil isnotev — his main goal in the book is to reunite two lovers separated by the caprices of the paranoid Soviet re* The finale comes in the most fantastic setting imaft able — a masquerade ball with all the powers oftlie devil as the decor. The beauty of this novel is that its page-to-page events are so riveting that anyone can read and enjoy for its surface value alone. However, after the wonto has faded, a scathing social commentary of the So^ regime remains. Unlike books by other Russiancon- temporaries, Solzhenitsyn especially, Bulgakov’s no® is entertaining from start to finish and still slipsina protest. (Grade: A+) —Jason Bennd! in the Soviet Union. The conversation takes a decidedly noncreational view of history when a tall stranger ap proaches. He joins the conversation by stating the exis tence of God and the truth of the Bible as historical fact, A = Literary classic = A cut above Q = Passable reading = Don't buy it F = Waste of pap e: | Monday, fc of Mother great Mich Schwar: cipient of Award, but it under t which was Boys Town “This is said. “It’s comes fro has spent help so m; The Schwa rzer physical fit in attenda , tion to be question. His firs one: Is he !, his own n was just a • “The qu ciding is, ‘ panned. r career center Employer Worksho fall 2 Learn from corporate representatives how to get the job yon want! 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