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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh

    Well

    I ain't give a shit not like I can get it a couple days after release like I normally do. Hopefully it'll be out i the first week or so of April so mom can bring it to me after basic

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    why is no one talking about the swan sex poem

    come on guys, it is crazy good

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Because animals fucking is weird alright

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Because animals fucking is weird alright

    but it's zeus fucking leda

    he just happens to be a swan at the time

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    So what you're saying is

    Zeus was a furry

    Maybe that's not what you're sayin' maybe that's just what I'm hearin'

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    So what you're saying is

    Zeus was a furry

    Maybe that's not what you're sayin' maybe that's just what I'm hearin'

    among other things

    such as a golden shower

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Well then

    Guess we know what section of the video store Zeus hung out in

    The section with the really creepy sweaty dude who never bought anything just jerked it to the covers

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Quoth wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    So what you're saying is

    Zeus was a furry

    Maybe that's not what you're sayin' maybe that's just what I'm hearin'

    among other things

    such as a golden shower

    my English professor was talking about that time that Zeus fucked Europa
    and he's telling the story about how Zeus saw her and was smitten and "decided he would turn himself into a white bull - much like any of you would - and seduce her."

    and the way he said it just cracked me up

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Quoth wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    So what you're saying is

    Zeus was a furry

    Maybe that's not what you're sayin' maybe that's just what I'm hearin'

    among other things

    such as a golden shower

    my English professor was talking about that time that Zeus fucked Europa
    and he's telling the story about how Zeus saw her and was smitten and "decided he would turn himself into a white bull - much like any of you would - and seduce her."

    and the way he said it just cracked me up

    my teacher says things like that

    it is the best

    although Zeus actually appearing as himself to Semele was fun because it basically vaporized her

    her own damn fault though, she asked for it

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    BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    guys let's talk about how awesome flannery o'connor is

    Pip, you'd probably be a good poster if someone held a gun to your head every time you posted

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    FutoreFutore Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    So my parents keep asking me what I want for my birthday. I've been putting it off and haven't really cared much for any big, fancy presents recently. But, I figured I'd come up with a list for them, since they sincerely like doing these things for me.

    I thought of a food processor, a couple pie pans. Then, completely out of ideas, I made a big book list. I haven't sent it yet, so I was wondering if you all had any suggestions. As you can see, I'm going for a good number of classics that I am yet to read, but anything will do.

    On the Road - Jack Kerouac
    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Stranger - Albert Camus
    Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    Candide - Voltaire
    At the Mountains of Madness - H.P Lovecraft
    Nightfall and Other Stories - Isaac Asimov
    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    The Stand - Stephen King
    Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
    Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
    In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
    Ulysses - James Joyce
    Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

    Oh, and yes yes, i know A Song of Ice and Fire is sooooooo good and bla bla bla. but i don't really want to read that right now

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    ZyrelaxZyrelax Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    BusterK wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    guys let's talk about how awesome flannery o'connor is

    Pip, you'd probably be a good poster if someone held a gun to your head every time you posted

    Well played, sir.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    do not read madame bovary and never under any circumstances read joyce ever

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    BusterK wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    guys let's talk about how awesome flannery o'connor is

    Pip, you'd probably be a good poster if someone held a gun to your head every time you posted

    k

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    futore, put some graham greene on that sumbitch, definitely the quiet american. Also, Jonatham Lethem's motherless brooklyn. its a weird detective noir story with the protagonist suffering from tourette's, and is all sorts of good reads

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
    A man came slowly from the setting sun,
    To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun,
    And said, "I am that swineherd whom you bid
    Go watch the road between the wood and tide,
    But now I have no need to watch it more."

    Then Emer cast the web upon the floor,
    And raising arms all raddled with the dye,
    Parted her lips with a loud sudden cry.

    That swineherd stared upon her face and said,
    "No man alive, no man among the dead,
    Has won the gold his cars of battle bring."

    "But if your master comes home triumphing
    Why must you blench and shake from foot to crown?"

    Thereon he shook the more and cast him down
    Upon the web-heaped floor, and cried his word:
    "With him is one sweet-throated like a bird."

    "You dare me to my face," and thereupon
    She smote with raddled fist, and where her son
    Herded the cattle came with stumbling feet,
    And cried with angry voice, "It is not meet
    To idle life away, a common herd."

    "I have long waited, mother, for that word:
    But wherefore now?"

    "There is a man to die;
    You have the heaviest arm under the sky."

    "Whether under its daylight or its stars
    My father stands amid his battle-cars."

    "But you have grown to be the taller man."

    "Yet somewhere under starlight or the sun
    My father stands."

    "Aged, worn out with wars
    On foot. on horseback or in battle-cars."

    "I only ask what way my journey lies,
    For He who made you bitter made you wise."

    "The Red Branch camp in a great company
    Between wood's rim and the horses of the sea.
    Go there, and light a camp-fire at wood's rim;
    But tell your name and lineage to him
    Whose blade compels, and wait till they have found
    Some feasting man that the same oath has bound."

    Among those feasting men Cuchulain dwelt,
    And his young sweetheart close beside him knelt,
    Stared on the mournful wonder of his eyes,
    Even as Spring upon the ancient skies,
    And pondered on the glory of his days;
    And all around the harp-string told his praise,
    And Conchubar, the Red Branch king of kings,
    With his own fingers touched the brazen strings.
    At last Cuchulain spake, "Some man has made
    His evening fire amid the leafy shade.
    I have often heard him singing to and fro,
    I have often heard the sweet sound of his bow.
    Seek out what man he is."

    One went and came.
    "He bade me let all know he gives his name
    At the sword-point, and waits till we have found
    Some feasting man that the same oath has bound."

    Cuchulain cried, "I am the only man
    Of all this host so bound from childhood on!"

    After short fighting in the leafy shade,
    He spake to the young man, 'Is there no maid
    Who loves you, no white arms to wrap you round,
    Or do you long for the dim sleepy ground,
    That you have come and dared me to my face?"

    "The dooms of men are in God's hidden place,"

    "Your head a while seemed like a woman's head
    That I loved once."
    Again the fighting sped,
    But now the war-rage in Cuchulain woke,
    And through that new blade's guard the old blade broke,
    And pierced him.

    "Speak before your breath is done."

    "Cuchulain I, mighty Cuchulain's son."

    "I put you from your pain. I can no more."
    While day its burden on to evening bore,
    With head bowed on his knees Cuchulain stayed;
    Then Conchubar sent that sweet-throated maid,
    And she, to win him, his grey hair caressed;
    In vain her arms, in vain her soft white breast.
    Then Conchubar, the subtlest of all men,
    Ranking his Druids round him ten by ten,
    Spake thus: "Cuchulain will dwell there and brood
    For three days more in dreadful quietude,
    And then arise, and raving slay us all.
    Chaunt in his ear delusions magical,
    That he may fight the horses of the sea."
    The Druids took them to their mystery,
    And chaunted for three days.
    Cuchulain stirred,
    Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard
    The cars of battle and his own name cried;
    And fought with the invulnerable tide.

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    Why would you read Catcher why

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    Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    do not read madame bovary and never under any circumstances read joyce ever

    fuck you; joyce is awesome

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Butler wrote: »
    Whatever happened with that "Wizard's First Rule" miniseries?

    It's an actual series, not a mini.

    It's called "Legend of the Seeker" and it's already been picked up for a 2nd season.

    It's just as terrible as the books.

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    bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    Uhhh God, The Picture of Dorian Grey what an awful book

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    Uhhh God, The Picture of Dorian Grey what an awful book

    Not my favorite; decent idea for a story, though.

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    bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    Uhhh God, The Picture of Dorian Grey what an awful book

    Not my favorite; decent idea for a story, though.
    I just felt it was completely devoid of the usual wit of Wilde's short stories.

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    Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    Uhhh God, The Picture of Dorian Grey what an awful book

    Not my favorite; decent idea for a story, though.
    I just felt it was completely devoid of the usual wit of Wilde's short stories.
    As I understand it, he was on a lot of drugs and whores at the time.

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    hey Wiggin and Quoth and other Dresdenphiles (oh god I am so fucking clever)

    White Knight's already pretty fucking awesome and I'm only up to
    Harry tracking Grey Cloak with Little Chicago

    does Small Favor measure up I can't find it anywhere

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    Eastern GlowEastern Glow Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    Uhhh God, The Picture of Dorian Grey what an awful book

    Not my favorite; decent idea for a story, though.
    I just felt it was completely devoid of the usual wit of Wilde's short stories.
    As I understand it, he was on a lot of drugs and whores at the time.

    If by whores you mean rent boys.

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    YaYa wrote: »
    hey Wiggin and Quoth and other Dresdenphiles (oh god I am so fucking clever)

    White Knight's already pretty fucking awesome and I'm only up to
    Harry tracking Grey Cloak with Little Chicago

    does Small Favor measure up I can't find it anywhere

    Holy fuck balls Small Favor is like an entire book of crazy shit and Harry coming up with wily solutions to everything

    White Knight is good and all but it's much more of a detective story than Small Favor

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    bongibongi regular
    edited January 2009
    bongi wrote: »
    bongi wrote: »
    Uhhh God, The Picture of Dorian Grey what an awful book

    Not my favorite; decent idea for a story, though.
    I just felt it was completely devoid of the usual wit of Wilde's short stories.
    As I understand it, he was on a lot of drugs and whores at the time.
    Were they drugs that stole his wit away and make him boring?

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    seizureorbsseizureorbs Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    so guys, I just finished no country for old men

    that was fucking depressing

    that's the kind of ending someone would write before they committed suicide

    depression aside, that was a really excellent book

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Quoth wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Quoth wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    So what you're saying is

    Zeus was a furry

    Maybe that's not what you're sayin' maybe that's just what I'm hearin'

    among other things

    such as a golden shower

    my English professor was talking about that time that Zeus fucked Europa
    and he's telling the story about how Zeus saw her and was smitten and "decided he would turn himself into a white bull - much like any of you would - and seduce her."

    and the way he said it just cracked me up

    my teacher says things like that

    it is the best

    although Zeus actually appearing as himself to Semele was fun because it basically vaporized her

    her own damn fault though, she asked for it

    He mentioned that too! "He also seduced a woman named Semele, and ended up revealing his true form to her, and she exploded... buuuuuut that's neither here nor there."

    and the students who weren't already familiar with the story were completely flabbergasted

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    futore you should put candide at the top of the list so as to make sure that you receive it

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    so for the aforementioned english lit class I have been reading romantic poetry for the past couple hours

    I'm not sure, but I feel like Wordsworth might like nature or something??

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    so for the aforementioned english lit class I have been reading romantic poetry for the past couple hours

    I'm not sure, but I feel like Wordsworth might like nature or something??

    whoa what

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    do not read madame bovary and never under any circumstances read joyce ever

    fuck you; joyce is awesome

    rest my case

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    so for the aforementioned english lit class I have been reading romantic poetry for the past couple hours

    I'm not sure, but I feel like Wordsworth might like nature or something??

    whoa what

    also Blake talks about god sometimes

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    so for the aforementioned english lit class I have been reading romantic poetry for the past couple hours

    I'm not sure, but I feel like Wordsworth might like nature or something??

    whoa what

    also Blake talks about god sometimes

    you're being fucking crazy man

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    so for the aforementioned english lit class I have been reading romantic poetry for the past couple hours

    I'm not sure, but I feel like Wordsworth might like nature or something??

    whoa what

    also Blake talks about god sometimes

    you're being fucking crazy man

    sir mixalot likes butts

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I heard that fella lies a lot

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    That's it, get out

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    You heard wrong sir

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    That's it, get out

    out, out, everybody out

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