Infinite Jerkgrinders
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« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2008, 01:12:29 PM » |
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Foundation is pretty sweet. Personally, I stopped reading after the fourth book, but I can't remember why...I think the plot might have been getting away from me.
wow it goes on for four book?? I'm only halfway through the first ... woot now I got myself reading for the next month or two  |
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TheOfficer
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« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2008, 01:29:28 AM » |
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1. James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Informed my life more than any other book in high school.
2. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Like Neil Gaiman? This guy was born 70 years before him, and writes a lot less cheesy than he does, with very similar themes. I still love Gaiman though, don't get me wrong.
3. Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Feminist literature, but subtle enough that it doesn't beat you over the head. Very enjoyable, and basically about self empowerment over your own demons, not any male faction.
4. Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows
This book has stuck with me since 5th fucking grade, and still makes me terrified of evisceration to this day.
5. J.K. Rowling - Prisoner of Azkaban
Don't sass me, bitches. I devoured this fucking book. I don't care if my reading level is that of a 10 year old.
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Larry Flyntz
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« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2008, 09:25:10 AM » |
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1. James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Informed my life more than any other book in high school.
2. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Like Neil Gaiman? This guy was born 70 years before him, and writes a lot less cheesy than he does, with very similar themes. I still love Gaiman though, don't get me wrong.
3. Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Feminist literature, but subtle enough that it doesn't beat you over the head. Very enjoyable, and basically about self empowerment over your own demons, not any male faction.
4. Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows
This book has stuck with me since 5th fucking grade, and still makes me terrified of evisceration to this day.
5. J.K. Rowling - Prisoner of Azkaban
Don't sass me, bitches. I devoured this fucking book. I don't care if my reading level is that of a 10 year old.
Your numbers 1 and 3 were probably my number 1 and 2 least favorite books in high school. |
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TheOfficer
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« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2008, 09:59:24 AM » |
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The sad thing about my list is a lot of it is from high school. Well, those two in particular.
I've read a good amount of books since then, but for some reason I still always go back to those books.
And as much as I love Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore, I couldn't justify putting them on my top 5 list. Yet somehow J.K. Rowling. haha.
I guess most of the books I chose, I chose because they've stuck with me for years after I've read them. Its hard to find that when only reading fantasy or sci fi for pleasure. I need a lot of stimulation to remember a book, and I guess it has to have some sort of social comment and context.
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« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2008, 12:04:29 PM » |
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I'm not doing another five, but I just want to say that Watchmen is one of the most powerful pieces of literary brilliance I've ever had the pleasure of reading, and it's a fucking graphic novel. Read Watchmen if you are a person who likes things.
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« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2008, 08:22:33 PM » |
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I'm not doing another five, but I just want to say that Watchmen is one of the most powerful pieces of literary brilliance I've ever had the pleasure of reading, and it's a fucking graphic novel. Read Watchmen if you are a person who likes things.
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Larry Flyntz
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« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2008, 11:30:35 PM » |
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it just shows that you are a politician  I'm going to take this as a compliment, so thanks. |
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« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2008, 03:32:30 AM » |
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I love James Joyce but I hate Kate Chopin. What does that make me?
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TheOfficer
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« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2008, 07:07:42 PM » |
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Hm, I never read James Joyce as speaking specifically about the male. I always took him as speaking more about the creative individual. I mean, yeah, hes definitely sexist and derogatory towards the feminine in a lot of books (ULYSSES! OH GOD!), but he always spoke to me as a fellow artist.
The reason I love portrait so much is because when I read it I was basically going through a lot of the shit he was in the book (I take it autobiographically, a lot of people don't). The battle between being completely selfish and doing what you want, or giving in the social pressures and family.
P.S. I also took him as being totally gay with Cranly. Thats just because I have a filthy mind though.
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الله أكبر
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« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2008, 07:18:25 PM » |
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I like James Joyce.
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« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2008, 07:24:50 PM » |
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james joyce was great, i don't mean to minimize the quality of his subjective literature by saying it was male, i'm saying that james joyce's internal reality could only be male because that's what he was. megan you are absolutely right, you are an artist so in your mind you are already a subject, that is why you like james joyce and identify with him and none of it needs to be explained to you  girls only run into problems when they don't think of themselves as subjects, and this happens more than it should. |
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TheOfficer
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« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2008, 07:32:24 PM » |
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I agree completely.
I'm just trying to redeem myself, because I feel retarded for my high school reading list.
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FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON
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« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2008, 05:11:38 PM » |
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B and Megan, will you teach me to be a smart, selfaware, feminist woman like you guys are? I want to be able to talk about neat stuff like books and art and sound intelligent, instead of like a blathering moronic plebe like I usually do!
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CadmiumYellow
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« Reply #33 on: April 07, 2008, 11:20:20 PM » |
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carly you are already smart, love, convincing other people of this could be as simple as Reading More Books let's read lots of books once i'm done school and have time to think again ok? |
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TheOfficer
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« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2008, 11:58:38 PM » |
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For serious. I have no idea what I'm talking about most of the time, it just spews out.
We should start a book club, though. I need to read more.
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CadmiumYellow
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« Reply #35 on: April 13, 2008, 05:09:48 PM » |
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milan kundera is weird but good, i liked the unbearable lightness of being
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CadmiumYellow
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« Reply #36 on: April 15, 2008, 11:51:27 AM » |
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also right now i am reading a room of one's own by virginia woolf, it is modernist literature colliding with an intelligent, independent (admittedly outsider) female perspective, i am not that far in yet but so far i love it. i could see several of you being into it but i am especially thinking of you megan check it out if you haven't yet |
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« Reply #37 on: April 15, 2008, 10:38:41 PM » |
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For serious. I have no idea what I'm talking about most of the time, it just spews out.
We should start a book club, though. I need to read more.
Didn't we already try that? We chose The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz... and nothing happened. |
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CadmiumYellow
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« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2008, 12:04:54 AM » |
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me and ethan are reading ulysses FOR SERIOUS this summer, anyone that feels similarly FORSERIOUS about this is welcome to join and discuss!
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