i actually have no idea what you're talking about simonj ahah
i actually have no idea what you're talking about simonj ahah
You were responding to pepsi's post about a batman book. Sailor Jack thought you were comparing the odyssey and the iliad and that opened up a whole can o' shit. Unless you were actually seriously comparing the two in that post in which case you're all even bigger faggots than I thought. And that's pretty big already.
as i said simonj, i was responding to ATMOSFEAR, when he started that shit 'bout ma boy Achilles cryin' n shit
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simonj really
and camaraderie by buttsecs
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Yeah. It's interesting...I mean, I don't have a deep rooting in philosophy yet, so I thought this book might just be a fun read.
Nope, but I am going to read that next. I have to read them both for the class.
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you have to read both, but you're starting with the odyssey? do you know anything about either text? the events of the iliad take place directly before the odyssey. the iliad is the story of the trojan war, up to the death of hector. the odyssey starts as the trojan war ends and chronicles odysseus's and his men's voyage home from the war.
alright. alright. i'll start with the iliad.
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then you have to read the aenead to learn how the romans started as they fled the ruins of troy goddamn you.
no not really.
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I think I'll skip all of this and watch 300.
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you have no idea how disappointed i was to learn that this was not actually a dramatization of the actual historical event but rather based off of some stupid comic book
but then i saw the men in loincloths
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I'm finishing up American Short Fiction.
Just picked up very famous How to Win Friends and Influence People and Three Cups of Tea.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” -Buddha
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I started SuperFreakonomics today and will begin Tom Wolfe's foray into Atlanta's socio-economic-political fiber A Man in Full tomorrow. If it's anything like Bonfire of the Vanities I will be disappointed that the rich, elegant, heroic protagonist tragically meets his end at the hands of a bunch of poor people and vote-mongering politico-faggots.
lol.
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I finished SuperFreakonomics. It was pretty good, as I expected, though I felt they struggled for greater breadth and less depth in this sequel. Overall, I felt it was filled more with interesting trivia than with meaningful economic application in the way of its predecessor. I felt the chapter on altruism was most interesting and broadly applicable, but even then, it didn't compare to, say, the parenting/naming chapter of Freakonomics.
Reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Done with The Invisible Man.
I didn't really enjoy The Picture of Dorian Gray because I can't get into the setting. I don't want to say the story is outdated. I just feel too distant and alien to get a good feel of it and what everything is about.
I picked up A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The latter being one I wanted to read for some years now but never came across it at the right time. I've already read into it a few chapters and so far its okay. A Confederacy of Dunces just happened to be a gamble. It was sitting there on the shelf and on its cover was advertised as a winner of a Pulitzer Prize. I decided to read the first paragraph. After bursting out loud into laughter I had to get it. So far so good.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
I'm a huge Halo geek so I've been slamming down all sorts Halo books. I recently purchased one entitled Halo Evolutions. It is a collection of short stories by random authors (including some from the older Halo novels). I am also anxious to start The Living Dead collaboration book I bought...gotta love me some zombies.
Just finished 'The Lost World' by Arthur Conan-Doyle and 'The Poison Belt', both classics of early science fiction.
Now moving on to 'The Disintegration Machine'
..also Asterix of course.
I'm working with The Talisman by S. King and P. Straub. It's alright so far. I'm kind of a little disappointed as I'm finding the plot similar to a book outline that I wrote, but we'll see where it goes.
Just finished Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby. It was a very entertaining indie-rock love story but probably not his best work. Now I'm reading Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. So far it's interesting and beautiful but the characters feel a little bit flat compared to After Dark.
Aren't all of Hornby's novels indie-rock love stories?
No, just that and High fidelity. Maybe About A Boy since the subplot mentions Nirvana quite heavily but that's semantics.
Slowly reading Ballard's The Attrocity Exhibition
Stopped reading The Talisman on account of I lost my copy of the book. Starting Eyes of the Dragon today.
Both of those are good. Slaughterhouse Five is a quick read, and A Confederacy of Dunces is very well written and really funny.
i am reading redwall
we have a signed Brian Jaques book in our living room that we do ketamin off.
...oh
now that i've finished the essays and short stories in the best american series, i don't know what's next.
i bought an issue of this literary periodical whose name i forget, but it's so damn depressing that it's hard to read.
i have jhumpa lahiri's unaccustomed earth, but i think i'm just going to dive into the best american science and nature writting.
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I just picked up Required Reading by Andrew Delbanco. Looks kind of interesting.
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The US Two-Party System: Past and Present, printed in 1988 in the USSR. A detailed analysis of the history of US politics (1776-1988) relying to a great extent on mainstream US sources while presenting an overall Marxist viewpoint.
A part of it is available here in PDF form (though I'm reading the whole book): http://leninist.biz/en/1988/UTPS414/index.html
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Starting on Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk and finishing up Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Thanks to my English class, I'm currently reading the Great Gatsby and Gulliver's Travels, the first of which I'm pretty apathetic towards, but I'm really starting to like Swift in spite of the spelling variations.
The Great Gatsby and Gulliver's Travels? In a college course?
A few weeks ago I finished The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett, and it seemed like nothing but a loose series of vingettes that weakly tied together a confusing and muddled plot. But it was funny, so... I'm going to continue with the series for now.
I just finished Darkness Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane; it was good, but not great. I found the entire plot to be underwhelming, hinging on the main character having a slightly shoddy memory of his past. It seems like something that should have been solved much faster, were it not for the convenience of him not recalling certain events until later. It seems as though Lehane had the killers in mind, but had no idea how to tie everything together, and so he came up with a slap-shod 11th hour back story to save it. It worked, kind of. The book was still well written, and it was a tense read.
Reading now, Bag of Bones by S. King. I read this in high school and hated it. I'm trying it again, but so far... not really that into it. What is insanity? Trying the exact same thing over and over and expecting different results?
I'm out of books anyway.
I'm finishing my high school with university prep classes.
Mal - The discworld is great. Mort, Small Gods and Night Watch are easily the best of the series. He gently curves off the standalone stories after a few and starts revisiting characters and defining the actual world and, to be honest, that's kind of where I lost interest. But the three I mentioned are still excellent reads.
feet of clay and wyrd sisters definitely deserve to be on that list
...Mort less so
Aw, Mort is my favourite. Wyrd Sisters should've been on that list. I wasn't so hot on Feet of Clay. I liked the first could Night watch books, but grew more and more tired of them every time Pratchett wrote a new one for them.
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