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Book thread: Distractions welcome

QuothQuoth the RavenMiami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
edited April 2010 in Social Entropy++
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Discuss.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Not enough

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    E: mmmyep, I can just tell that this is the right thread based on the OP of the other book thread

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I choose you Quoth

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    Bale has shadow-mod powers!

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    man this is some bullshit mine even has more content
    and was first

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    god's creation of adam is better

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'm reading High Crimes: The Fate of Evererst in an Age of Greed by Michael Kodas right now

    Good sequel to Into Thin Air

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    man this is some bullshit mine even has more content
    and was first
    Please prove how your thread was first.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    in response to quoth's old dumb professor about american lit

    and in agreement with kusu regarding poe

    but there's twain, london, and hemingway to consider as well.

    fuck it louis l'amour too

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    In regards to American lit

    I thought Twain was pretty good with the whole writing thing and providing what we would call literature. But whatever

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Bogey wrote: »
    Bale has shadow-mod powers!

    Bogeyfuego

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    Bogey wrote: »
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    man this is some bullshit mine even has more content
    and was first
    Please prove how your thread was first.

    well there is the fact that mine was first and you know it was first but just want to be a contradictory silly goose
    but other than that, no i cannot prove it because time stamps on the forums do not show seconds

    also there is the fact that the first post in this thread is "i choose you" which indicates there was another choice before this thread was posted.
    and since mine is the only thread posted with the same subject, mine was first.

    this is circumstantial and i am positive it doesn't make a difference since mods just do whatever they want anyway

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'd argue Whitman and the transcendentalists as the first truly American literary movement

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    a dumb lit professor is apropos of nothing

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    man this is some bullshit mine even has more content
    and was first
    Please prove how your thread was first.

    well there is the fact that mine was first and you know it was first but just want to be a contradictory silly goose
    but other than that, no i cannot prove it because time stamps on the forums do not show seconds

    also there is the fact that the first post in this thread is "i choose you" which indicates there was another choice before this thread was posted.
    and since mine is the only thread posted with the same subject, mine was first.

    this is circumstantial and i am positive it doesn't make a difference since mods just do whatever they want anyway

    What about thread numbers, are those random or do they come in some sort of order?

    By all means though, please continue your tantrum. I'm loving it! :o

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  • LockoutLockout I am still searching Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    gonna reply to dis here
    Monkeyfeet wrote: »
    Invisible Man is pretty big in American Lit though

    ok

    I had no problem with reading it

    it was just him going and assigning everything that influenced it too

    so we ended up reading Eliot's Prufrock, a couple women's lit short stories, and a bunch of african american lit and nothing else

    it was disappointing is all

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I just started reading the Percy Jackson books, the first one was really good. I read it cover to cover in a day. I also just picked up this book called Monster. I'll see how that is.

    And I want to say, I liked the title of Kusu's thread because it reminded me of Elementary School and the Book It! program that rewarded you with free pizza for reading books. Because of Book It! I now only got into reading, but got some rad Darkwing Duck cups from Pizza Hut when I was a kid.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Quoth
    I love you


    Also to a lesser extent
    Bogey

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Also I guess Hawthorne did some things in America with writing.

    But no one likes him so it doesn't count

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I am reading two books at the same time right now

    so it is slow going especially since I don't particularly have a ton of time for reading

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Adding books to my kindle is fun. If you like Fantasy or Science Fiction and want to suggest stuff feel free to do so.

    For some reason, three of the four books in this one series are available for the Kindle. The first, second, and fourth. Why not the third? Still a fun little toy

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    Bogey wrote: »
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    Bogey wrote: »
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    man this is some bullshit mine even has more content
    and was first
    Please prove how your thread was first.

    well there is the fact that mine was first and you know it was first but just want to be a contradictory silly goose
    but other than that, no i cannot prove it because time stamps on the forums do not show seconds

    also there is the fact that the first post in this thread is "i choose you" which indicates there was another choice before this thread was posted.
    and since mine is the only thread posted with the same subject, mine was first.

    this is circumstantial and i am positive it doesn't make a difference since mods just do whatever they want anyway

    What about thread numbers, are those random or do they come in some sort of order?

    By all means though, please continue your tantrum. I'm loving it! :o

    hahaha
    ohhh lord

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    BusterK wrote: »
    Quoth
    I love you


    Also to a lesser extent
    Bogey

    thats some cold shit Buster

    ice cold

    to my heart

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I loved The Scarlett Letter
    From beginning to end
    There was a lull in the middle a bit
    But once Hester, Pearl and Dimmesdale are holding hands in the town square staring up at God it had me hooked again

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ugh nooooo nooo noooooo Busterrrrrrrr

    god I hate The Scarlet Letter so much

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    the scarlet letter is one of the worst books i have ever read
    on this list

    dracula
    pride and prejudice
    autobiography of benjamin franklin
    the awakening

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Balefuego wrote: »
    BusterK wrote: »
    Quoth
    I love you


    Also to a lesser extent
    Bogey

    thats some cold shit Buster

    ice cold

    to my heart

    Bale, I like you as a friend
    Let's not make this weird
    Maybe some night when we're drunk something might happen but just hang in there until then

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  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    1984 was a good read. Kinda depressed the shit outta me though at the end.

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I'll agree with you on The Awakening. I'll diagree with you on everything else just to remain contrary

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    oh i forgot moby dick lets put that up on there

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I enjoyed The Scarlet Letter back in high school

    but I finished it too quickly and forgot everything when we tested on it a month later

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  • LockoutLockout I am still searching Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    1984 was a good read. Kinda depressed the shit outta me though at the end.

    sometimes I wish that book had never been written

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    the awakening is the worst book

    twain is the coolest dude ever

    puddn'head wilson is so fabulous i could just EXPLODE

    BOOM

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Lockout wrote: »
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    1984 was a good read. Kinda depressed the shit outta me though at the end.

    sometimes I wish that book had never been written

    oh god yes

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    puddinhead wilson is awesome
    huckleberry finn is hilarious because it shows that twain was dumb enough to think that heading even further south to escape slavery was a good idea

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    puddinhead wilson is awesome
    huckleberry finn is hilarious because it shows that twain was dumb enough to think that heading even further south to escape slavery was a good idea

    that's not

    kusu I

    no nevermind

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    uhhhh

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Kusu, you deserve to become to the book thread what Wiggin was to the music thread

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  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited January 2010
    I recently finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. I'm going to start A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge. Both of these were Secret Satan gifts from a duck!

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    puddinhead wilson is awesome
    huckleberry finn is hilarious because it shows that twain was dumb enough to think that heading even further south to escape slavery was a good idea

    that's not

    kusu I

    no nevermind

    man you know he totally forgot that that's what they were doing and then made up a bunch of bullshit at the end to make up for it

    come on

    huck turning him in
    what was that
    this post has been brought to you by sarcasm


    alt post

    where is that sarcasm punctuation mark

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Bogey, A Fire Upon the Deep has my MASSIVE SEAL OF APPROVAL


    and if you like it (which you will) you should check out A Deepness in the Sky by the same author.

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