Yeah, I couldn't even stomach enough of Hitchhiker's Guide to finish it, and it ain't exactly long.
We can't be lovers anymore.
What if I write my own parody of Hitchhiker's Guide, and then read that? Can we resume being lovers? Can we at least be lovers as a parody of our former, loving relationship?
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Of course, just because it's subjective doesn't mean you're not all wrong.
What if I write my own parody of Hitchhiker's Guide, and then read that? Can we resume being lovers? Can we at least be lovers as a parody of our former, loving relationship?
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After consulting the oracle, I have found this course of action permissible.
I've barely read anything more than once, ever, unless it was a poem I was memorizing or something.
It was like in one week. I had a bunch of really easily classes (was freshmen year, high school) and I just didn't want to pay attention to the teachers anymore (rar rebellious youth) so I'd just read in class while other people took notes. Like I said, I could burn right through it so sometimes I read it two or three times in a day.
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I've barely read anything more than once, ever, unless it was a poem I was memorizing or something.
It was like in one week. I had a bunch of really easily classes (was freshmen year, high school) and I just didn't want to pay attention to the teachers anymore (rar rebellious youth) so I'd just read in class while other people took notes. Like I said, I could burn right through it so sometimes I read it two or three times in a day.
I did this with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas my senior year. just read it all fucking year, reading maybe 3 other books as well (each once, F&L whenever I finished one and had nothing else, I'd read it until I bought another book)
The best part of the series for me was that guy that went around the universe insulting people in alphabetical order. And the reincarnations of the fly Arthur kept killing.
I really wish I had read F&L before I saw the movie. The movie was such a faithful adaptation I just couldn't help but just see the movie in my head as I read it, when I know the book could've been so much more.
Luckily, the copy of the rum diary sitting on my shelf has not yet been spoiled in movie form.
I've barely read anything more than once, ever, unless it was a poem I was memorizing or something.
It was like in one week. I had a bunch of really easily classes (was freshmen year, high school) and I just didn't want to pay attention to the teachers anymore (rar rebellious youth) so I'd just read in class while other people took notes. Like I said, I could burn right through it so sometimes I read it two or three times in a day.
You rebel you!
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I really wish I had read F&L before I saw the movie. The movie was such a faithful adaptation I just couldn't help but just see the movie in my head as I read it, when I know the book could've been so much more.
Speaking of overrated.....
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I've barely read anything more than once, ever, unless it was a poem I was memorizing or something.
I don't know if I've read any book 13 times, but I've definitely reached 5 times. It was probably Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. For me, it's not about reading for content as for experience. Yeah I knew the plot of Pride and Prejudice by heart after the first time or two, but I enjoy re-experiencing the emotions that come up when I read the book. It's the same thing with movies.
I know I was such a cool kid reading books and shit. Had to beat the ladies off of me so they wouldn't just blow me right in class.
Tough times man, but bitches gotta know their place, ya know what I'm saying dawg?
Bronislaw Malinowski knows what you are saying. In his book i'm reading, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, he says that when he was left all by himself on his ethnographic fieldwork he would read novels over and over much like a normal person would resort to drinking. Nerdy.
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My opinion about Pride and Prejudice can be summed up by my dropping the class where the teacher was going to base the whole class on that book. I have yet to read past the first chapter. THAT WAS ENOUGH.
My opinion about Pride and Prejudice can be summed up by my dropping the class where the teacher was going to base the whole class on that book. I have yet to read past the first chapter. THAT WAS ENOUGH.
There was only one book I ever attempted to read where I couldn't get past the first chapter.
That honor goes to Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky is just far, far too dense for me to read enjoyably. I have to work far too hard to parse him and his this-paragraph-goes-on-for-three-pages style.
That honor goes to Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky is just far, far too dense for me to read enjoyably. I have to work far too hard to parse him and his this-paragraph-goes-on-for-three-pages style.
I really enjoyed the first half of Notes From the Underground but god the second half blew.
I have yet to encounter a book I couldn't read due to language, though plenty I have found unenjoyable. P&P was just too incredibly shitty and stupid for me to handle, though I've heard some say it was a parody, but man, that is some Scary Movie kind of shit. I have not tried Crime and Punishment though. I mean really I watched plenty of Law & Order already so I'm set for crime drama. :P
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So. I have one last wonderful wonderful day in Seattle, Sexy Queen of Cities, before I must return to my own private hell. Anyone reccomend any clubs within sane walking distance of Pine and Bellevue? I have walked for many many many tens of blocks, so I am not really up for cross-country clubbing.
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I think I need to change my strategy, though. No one Awesomes anything which is long and elaborate. It's all zingers. I need ... a long and elaborate zinger which is also short and succinct and Oboroesque.
I really should read 451 one of these days, but any time a book's message is so well known it makes it really hard for me to bother reading.
I crave NEW ideas, not shit I'm going to go "well fucking dur" to.
451 is a very, very short/quick read and surprisingly interesting despite its idea being 'tired' and well-known. The Mechanical Hound is fantastic, for one.
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I think I need to change my strategy, though. No one Awesomes anything which is long and elaborate. It's all zingers. I need ... a long and elaborate zinger which is also short and succinct and Oboroesque.
I can do this.
Show us your mighty word power. I want to see somthing long but short and complex but succinct. Then maybe you can make up down as well and turn dogs into cats.
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13 times? o_O
I've barely read anything more than once, ever, unless it was a poem I was memorizing or something.
We can't be lovers anymore.
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After consulting the oracle, I have found this course of action permissible.
Yeah, once is generally enough for me too. I usually remember what happens anyway.
but they're listening to every word I say
It was like in one week. I had a bunch of really easily classes (was freshmen year, high school) and I just didn't want to pay attention to the teachers anymore (rar rebellious youth) so I'd just read in class while other people took notes. Like I said, I could burn right through it so sometimes I read it two or three times in a day.
I did this with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas my senior year. just read it all fucking year, reading maybe 3 other books as well (each once, F&L whenever I finished one and had nothing else, I'd read it until I bought another book)
Luckily, the copy of the rum diary sitting on my shelf has not yet been spoiled in movie form.
You rebel you!
but they're listening to every word I say
Speaking of overrated.....
but they're listening to every word I say
Tough times man, but bitches gotta know their place, ya know what I'm saying dawg?
Time flies, I've been on the forum for a similar amount of time. It just doesn't really register, ya know?
I don't know if I've read any book 13 times, but I've definitely reached 5 times. It was probably Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. For me, it's not about reading for content as for experience. Yeah I knew the plot of Pride and Prejudice by heart after the first time or two, but I enjoy re-experiencing the emotions that come up when I read the book. It's the same thing with movies.
Maybe it's because I have a penis but....ew.
EDIT: The book I've read the most is probably The Handmaid's Tale, at four or so times.
Bronislaw Malinowski knows what you are saying. In his book i'm reading, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, he says that when he was left all by himself on his ethnographic fieldwork he would read novels over and over much like a normal person would resort to drinking. Nerdy.
but they're listening to every word I say
And schadenfreude.
That honor goes to Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky is just far, far too dense for me to read enjoyably. I have to work far too hard to parse him and his this-paragraph-goes-on-for-three-pages style.
God I want to use that word in day to day conversation SO often but fuck if I know how to pronounce it right.
I really enjoyed the first half of Notes From the Underground but god the second half blew.
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So. I have one last wonderful wonderful day in Seattle, Sexy Queen of Cities, before I must return to my own private hell. Anyone reccomend any clubs within sane walking distance of Pine and Bellevue? I have walked for many many many tens of blocks, so I am not really up for cross-country clubbing.
the Brontës are good tho.
It has great style and flow, great language use. One of the best books i've ever read.
but they're listening to every word I say
I think I need to change my strategy, though. No one Awesomes anything which is long and elaborate. It's all zingers. I need ... a long and elaborate zinger which is also short and succinct and Oboroesque.
I can do this.
The wiki makes it sound more like: shad-en-freud (as in the philosopher).
I crave NEW ideas, not shit I'm going to go "well fucking dur" to.
The wiki is not to be believed
Sha-den-froy-duh
E's at the end of German words are always pronounced as an 'uh'.
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Show us your mighty word power. I want to see somthing long but short and complex but succinct. Then maybe you can make up down as well and turn dogs into cats.
but they're listening to every word I say