catcher in the rye

naporeon

Pony wrote:

you know i can't ever say i have name-dropped a writer of fiction to appear more educated.

Nor can you say that you haven't heard people doing it.

t Penguin Oh, I know. I almost said something to that end.

Penguin Incarnate

Have you heard of an author by the name of SD Perry?

Oh, I thought not.

Pony

there's few things in the world more annoying than a person who gets all snooty about their interests when talking to people who share the same interests.

like "oh, you read sci-fi? That's wonderful. Oh... oh you read Star Wars novels? I... I see. Well, no I mean I read Harlan Ellison and William Gibson. You know, literature"

Shut up, you read sci-fi novels you uppity ponce.

naporeon

Sometimes, with an ex's snooty, overeducated friends, I would make up authors, complete with a partial oeuvre, and see if anyone would bite, a la Emperor's New Clothes.

I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.

Penguin Incarnate

Has anyone else read Blood Meridian? It was spectacular. I think it's safe to say that this book has changed my life.

I'm going to give this to my son for his 12th birthday instead of Catcher in the Rye.

Fucking ruin him.

Filler Inc.

naporeon wrote:

Sometimes, with an ex's snooty, overeducated friends, I would make up authors, complete with a partial oeuvre, and see if anyone would bite, a la Emperor's New Clothes.

I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.

I tried doing that in one of the music threads where people are posting these wierd ass bands.

No one bought.

Names like

The Septuplets

Or

Winter in autumn.

Blue sunrise.

Pony

naporeon wrote:

Sometimes, with an ex's snooty, overeducated friends, I would make up authors, complete with a partial oeuvre, and see if anyone would bite, a la Emperor's New Clothes.

I was hoping it would work more often than it did, but it DID work on occasion.

oh man

i've never done this, but i've seen someone fall for it, anime-style, at a convention.

buddy of mine who's a pretty caustic mean feller

did something like this with made up mecha anime

dude totally bit on it, and when confronted on it was like "no, i was, uh, i was confusing it for something else..."

shaddup

you were trying to join in on a conversation with a snooty dick and you wanted to be a snooty dick too, so you made shit up

shaddup.

Penguin Incarnate

The Emperor's New Guitar.

No one likes the music. It's just an eleborate bluff. People only think they enjoy it.

Mars Volta, I am looking in your general direction.

Pony

Penguin Incarnate wrote:

The Emperor's New Guitar.

No one likes the music. It's just an eleborate bluff. People only think they enjoy it.

Mars Volta, I am looking in your general direction.

i actually believe this is the case in many different forms of entertainment medium.

movies, bands, tv shows etc. that nobody actually really enjoys but pretends they do because it's the in thing.

naporeon

I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.

Penguin Incarnate

Oh hey, my prediction about making fun of Mars Volta ended up being spot on.

Though with me and Mars Volta, it's hardly a prediction. It's more of an inevitibility.

I also finished I Am Legend and The Book of Lists since Christmas. I'm pretty proud of myself.

Pony

naporeon wrote:

I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.

You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?

Seph

Pony wrote:

naporeon wrote:

I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.

You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?

aka

You think you're better than me? (redneck voice)

Penguin Incarnate

If you're going to say You think you're better than me?

You have to do it in a drunk voice.

Redneck optional.

naporeon

Pony wrote:

naporeon wrote:

I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.

You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?

You make it sound so petty. And no, I didn't really do it to make anyone feel stupid. I never came out and said, for example, "Hey...this guy you've been talking about for the last ten minutes? Yeah, I totally just made him up! Sucker!" And when I say paranoia, I am more or less serious; it was an irrational, mostly unfounded response. I feel like my level of education was on par with their own, excepting of course their particular areas of research and medicine, but whereas they had all this parchment, I had but one meager piece.

But yeah, it WAS petty.

Pony

naporeon wrote:

Pony wrote:

naporeon wrote:

I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.

You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?

You make it sound so petty. And no, I didn't really do it to make anyone feel stupid. I never came out and said, for example, "Hey...this guy you've been talking about for the last ten minutes? Yeah, I totally just made him up! Sucker!" And when I say paranoia, I am more or less serious; it was an irrational, mostly unfounded response. I feel like my level of education was on par with their own, excepting of course their particular areas of research and medicine, but whereas they had all this parchment, I had but one meager piece.

But yeah, it WAS petty.

so basically you faked it so you would fit in because you felt insecure about your lack of a Ph.D

that's understandable. petty, but understandable.

naporeon

Pony wrote:

naporeon wrote:

Pony wrote:

naporeon wrote:

I'd like to pretend otherwise, but I pretty much did it because they were all dual MD/PhD people, and I felt like they looked down on me. It wasn't a lack of confidence, exactly...more a sort of credential-induced paranoia.

You felt like making them look stupid because they were way more educated than you and you felt they were looking down on you?

You make it sound so petty. And no, I didn't really do it to make anyone feel stupid. I never came out and said, for example, "Hey...this guy you've been talking about for the last ten minutes? Yeah, I totally just made him up! Sucker!" And when I say paranoia, I am more or less serious; it was an irrational, mostly unfounded response. I feel like my level of education was on par with their own, excepting of course their particular areas of research and medicine, but whereas they had all this parchment, I had but one meager piece.

But yeah, it WAS petty.

so basically you faked it so you would fit in because you felt insecure about your lack of a Ph.D

that's understandable. petty, but understandable.

No. It wasn't a matter of faking it. I didn't need to fake it, at least so far as literature went.

What I DID need to do was prove to myself that I wasn't the only insecure one. As it turns out, I wasn't.

Metzger Meister

Penguin Incarnate wrote:

If you're going to say You think you're better than me?

You have to do it in a drunk voice.

Redneck optional.

I feel like such a tool, having actually said this thing shortly after a fight at the local roller rink.


There's not much to do in Cheyenne, see...


Drugs, alcohol and being pregnant seem to be popular.

Penguin Incarnate

And read.

Weaver

I think I've read half the articles on Wikipedia

Faricazy

you know

i met JD Salinger once

old guy

Penguin Incarnate

Ray Bradbury came to our school once. It is a wonder he is still making public apperances, much less alive.

Faricazy

Penguin Incarnate wrote:

Ray Bradbury came to our school once. It is a wonder he is still making public apperances, much less alive.

shit

bradbury is more awesome than salinger

i'd love to meet bradbury

Penguin Incarnate

He's also less of a dick.

Bloods End

Penguin Incarnate wrote:

Have you heard of an author by the name of SD Perry?

Oh, I thought not.

Didn't he write some Resident Evil adaptations?

Crashmo

Rereading "John Dies at the End" because it keeps me awake in my classes. Keeps me awake with fits of barking laughter, and sometimes from crying at the shame of what I'm laughing at. If I did drugs (the trippy kind) I would SO attempt this book while I was blasted, since it already rapes my mind.

fallaxdraco

Crashmo wrote:

Rereading "John Dies at the End" because it keeps me awake in my classes. Keeps me awake with fits of barking laughter, and sometimes from crying at the shame of what I'm laughing at. If I did drugs (the trippy kind) I would SO attempt this book while I was blasted, since it already rapes my mind.

Fuck I remember that book... I should reread it.

Shorn Scrotum Man

I'm reading Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton. Good so far, but I expected that after the glory that was Random Harvest.

After that... I'm thinking of rereading Flowers For Algernon, because I was explaining the story to a cute girl at work today and suddenly desire to re-experience it.

Penguin Incarnate

Bloods End wrote:

Didn't he write some Resident Evil adaptations?

She did.

Double Deuce

Has anyone read the new Dave Eggers book, What Is the What? I loved all his other books, but I'm not sure I could get into this one, what with the subject matter.

And just so I'm not totally off topic, I liked Catcher in the Rye, but I haven't read it since high school. Don't know if I would still enjoy it as much.

sark

I'm just about finished with Fight Club.

Next I'm reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

or maybe A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

Both should arrive in my mailbox next week, I'm not sure what order I'll read them in.

SeñorAmor

I totally read this as "Catch her in the eye" and thought it was some kind of bukkake thread.

(Ha, Firefox auto-spellcheck tells me I spelled "bukkake" properly)

Jebu

I just started reading A Farewell to Arms, since I got a big collection of Hemingway a while ago and I've only read For Whom the Bell Tolls and a short story collection so far. I like the way he writes, but reading too much of him at a time messes me up, especially when I'm trying to write something.

Drez

Catcher in the Rye was great.

Carl with a K wrote:

i just read a seperate piece and i loved it

It's "A Separate Peace" and is also the worst book ever written.

naporeon

Drez wrote:

Catcher in the Rye was great.

We agree on a work of fiction.

I believe my head just exploded.

Pb

Drez wrote:

Carl with a K wrote:

i just read a seperate piece and i loved it

It's "A Separate Peace" and is also the worst book ever written.

You are correct, sir. I am a worse person for having read that book.

Drez

naporeon wrote:

Drez wrote:

Catcher in the Rye was great.

We agree on a work of fiction.

I believe my head just exploded.

Which head?

Drez

Pb wrote:

Drez wrote:

Carl with a K wrote:

i just read a seperate piece and i loved it

It's "A Separate Peace" and is also the worst book ever written.

You are correct, sir. I am a worse person for having read that book.

Precisely my feeling. What a god-awful travesty.

naporeon

Drez wrote:

naporeon wrote:

Drez wrote:

Catcher in the Rye was great.

We agree on a work of fiction.

I believe my head just exploded.

Which head?

Does it really matter?

Drez

naporeon wrote:

Drez wrote:

naporeon wrote:

Drez wrote:

Catcher in the Rye was great.

We agree on a work of fiction.

I believe my head just exploded.

Which head?

Does it really matter?

Not as such.