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Magic Juan Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 8709 (Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:04 pm) Reply
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Anyways, I am currently reading Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, and I tried reading a People's History of the United States, but the smarmy socialism of it overwhelmed me. |
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My Head Hurts 90 Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 3445 (Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:14 pm) Reply
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I'm reading Areopagitica (John Milton vs. licensing) and My Antonia (supposedly one of the great American novels) for class right now. You would probably be better off looking up Areopagitica on Wikipedia since Milton uses roughly a million examples to make his point.
My Antonia is actually not that bad, at least in terms of prose. The writing has a very natural flow to it and it reads very quickly. I haven't gotten that far in, but it's not awful which is really all I'm looking for at this point. |
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Clotho Clotho's rational faculties are not estimated to be at optimal capacity for a sapient specimen Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 1850 (Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:30 pm) Reply
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*Still reading Hemingway* |
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Mike Dunn Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 3549 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:11 am) Reply
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My Antonia is gay. I was just reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but I don't know if I'm gonna have time for it now that class has started again. I have to read Fight Club for a Comp-Lit class which is pretty cool cos I've already read it. |
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Username Swimmin' in a Magnum Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 3106 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:14 am) Reply
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I'm reading Hemingway too. |
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Magic Juan Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 8709 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:27 am) Reply
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Hemingway is kind of retarded. I mean, he was a manly guy with latent homosexuality and everything, oh wait. |
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Supah Ted Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 863 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:39 am) Reply
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FUCKING DARK TOWER!!! |
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My Head Hurts 90 Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 3445 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:37 am) Reply
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Fight Club is fucking horrible and Chuck Palahniuk is quite possibly the worst author of all time. |
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My Head Hurts 90 Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 3445 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:42 am) Reply
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I guess if you make enough pop culture references it can cover up the fact that you have the writing skills of a retarded child. |
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Big Fagot Alpha ape Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 10545 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:37 am) Reply
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I'm very slowly reading Cosmos but I hate it.
I love Carl Sagan but I hate his books. |
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Theldorrin Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 19724 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:50 am) Reply
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I'm also reading Cosmos. And that means I read 20 pages and haven't read any more in weeks.
Biology is boring! |
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MADali Basically, someone like me is the friend who is watching from afar and shaking one's head. Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 6740 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:53 am) Reply
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I only read when I am shitting, because reading seems so boring now. |
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Action Hank Yes, I fart dicks. Dicks actually come out of my anus when I fart. Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 8600 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:07 pm) Reply
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I am reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, about post-apocalyptic America filled with Road Warrior-like cannibal cults and a constant snow of ash. |
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MADali Basically, someone like me is the friend who is watching from afar and shaking one's head. Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 6740 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:09 pm) Reply
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Stop trying to be FTU. |
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Supah Ted Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 863 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:53 pm) Reply
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I read another chuck phalanuk book wicj was pretty deent, i think it was called choke. |
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Magic Juan Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 8709 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:07 pm) Reply
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The problem is that a lot of people shit their dicks over Chuck Pahlaniuk for reasons that escape me. It's like, he writes something half-assed about people doing strange shit and people take it as some sort of liturgical sermon. |
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MisfitMan Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 341 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:37 pm) Reply
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I'm reading some Star Wars books, but fucking Shadow of the Empire is so bad. |
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petahjonze69
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i bought but i havent started reading, Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, I want to finish Less Than Zero first |
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Clotho Clotho's rational faculties are not estimated to be at optimal capacity for a sapient specimen Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 1850 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:13 pm) Reply
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I want to argue Hemingway is so fucking manly his words burn Homosexuals like holy water.
But... I was reading one of his shorter stories a year ago, or so. It's tells of a man and a woman going out on a canoe ride for a picnic by a lake. The guy breaks up with her later at night by a campfire, and he tells her to get in the canoe and paddle off. A few minutes later by the fire another guy approaches the one guy, and he asks along the lines of "is she gone, yet". The main character tells him to shut up like he was struggling with the decision. |
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Username Swimmin' in a Magnum Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 3106 (Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:45 pm) Reply
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You're dumb if you think that story has any homosexual undertones. He tells him to fuck off because he feels bad about sending Marjorie away. |
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