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My high school assigned reading was
Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet (from freshman to senior year)
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Separate Peace (of shit)
Brave New World
The Great Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
The Grapes of Wrath
The Scarlet Letter
Heart of Darkness
But along with assigned fiction was some stuff where you got to choose books from a menu, and the person who picked the menu did a terrific job. From that I read
Cat's Cradle
Gorky Park
Catch-22
The Name of the Rose
Farewell, My Lovely
and a bunch of others that I don't remember.
And then for my senior thesis I read a bunch of Sinclair Lewis novels: Babbit, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, It Can't Happen Here, and Main Street. I wrote my thesis on him and TS Eliot.
Sinclair Lewis is kind of underrated, by the way. Babbitt is still a pretty vicious critique of suburban myopia.
I'm reminded simultaneously of Georgia O'Keefe and H.R. Giger
That's literally the exact same thing as saying "I'm reminded of human genitals".
It's not quite the same because it's real artistic you see
it's the difference between balls in your face and a huge Chuck Close blow-up picture of balls (one will always be a mere representation, no matter how realistic)
that is to say, "I am reminded of reminders of human genitals"
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I'm reminded simultaneously of Georgia O'Keefe and H.R. Giger
That's literally the exact same thing as saying "I'm reminded of human genitals".
It's not quite the same because it's real artistic you see
it's the difference between balls in your face and a huge Chuck Close blow-up picture of balls (one will always be a mere representation, no matter how realistic)
that is to say, "I am reminded of reminders of human genitals"
Hey, when I put my balls in your face it is equally artistic.
My mother was a high school English teacher as well, so I ended up reading all of her assigned texts and somehow, Hardy Potter.I had to wait for her in her car at her school and one day was bored enough to read the first book wbicuh was sitting in her work box.
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I dunno, and I have not revisited it in the decades since to see it with adult eyes
but I found all the characters just loathsome, and that is something I am sometimes okay with, but they were also boring to me at the time.
i really could not imagine being the kind of person who would fixate on the sorts of things the book's narrator did and it struck me as alternately creepy and comic. i also remember it having a distinctly floaty, disconnected pace, possibly because what I know of the school year at a private boys' academy could fit comfortably into a thimble.
moby dick was meat and drink to me by comparison
I hear there is maybe a homoerotic subtext to the book and maybe if I read it now with awareness of that, and just generally not being a sixteen-year-old, I might like it a lot better, but honestly even reading a plot summary leaves me wondering why the book exists. it's about being mannered and stifled and stilted, like evelyn waugh for tots, and while there might be places in the US where kids still feel that keenly prairie village kansas was certainly not one of them
that said, i despised most of the books i read in high school
I hated it and The Scarlet Letter (though interestingly I have read some of Hawthorne's other stuff, like his short fiction, and like it very much. He had Poe-like, gothic tendencies in some of his short stories)
I thought Gatsby was dumb at the time but now it makes me ache with the precise and surgical evocation of things that I have authentically felt, somehow working this feat across a space of ninety years.
I thought Grapes of Wrath was kind of MEGA EARNEST and maybe a bit overblown, like those big budget movies where they try to cram too many stars in, but overall liked it and that is still more or less how I feel about it. I have a big soft spot for those 30s American social realist writers like him and John Dos Passos who wanted to wake the masses up.
Heart of Darkness is one of the best things ever written in the English language and is in less than two hundred pages a master class in setting, plot, and atmosphere for anyone who wants to learn how to write.
So read a spoiler of one of the new dinos in Jurassic World
I have NO fucking clue what they are doing.
Is it worse than the half dino/half person hybrids from the old scripts that were rejected?
Real spoiler
They are cross breeding dinos with each other and other animals
One particularly successful T-Rex / raptor / snake / cuttlefish hybrid gets loose and begins terrorizing the park.
The big bad dinosaur has instant camouflage abilities, like the cuttlefish, so he blends into the background, is smart like the velociraptor, uses his jaw like a snake, and can terrorize like the T-Rex.
that said, i despised most of the books i read in high school
I hated it and The Scarlet Letter (though interestingly I have read some of Hawthorne's other stuff, like his short fiction, and like it very much. He had Poe-like, gothic tendencies in some of his short stories)
I thought Gatsby was dumb at the time but now it makes me ache with the precise and surgical evocation of things that I have authentically felt, somehow working this feat across a space of ninety years.
I thought Grapes of Wrath was kind of MEGA EARNEST and maybe a bit overblown, like those big budget movies where they try to cram too many stars in, but overall liked it and that is still more or less how I feel about it. I have a big soft spot for those 30s American social realist writers like him and John Dos Passos who wanted to wake the masses up.
Heart of Darkness is one of the best things ever written in the English language and is in less than two hundred pages a master class in setting, plot, and atmosphere for anyone who wants to learn how to write.
You hated the Scarlet Letter? I only read it last year and whilst the book itself wasn't amazing, the introduction was one of the best I have read for a novel.
So read a spoiler of one of the new dinos in Jurassic World
I have NO fucking clue what they are doing.
Is it worse than the half dino/half person hybrids from the old scripts that were rejected?
Real spoiler
They are cross breeding dinos with each other and other animals
One particularly successful T-Rex / raptor / snake / cuttlefish hybrid gets loose and begins terrorizing the park.
The big bad dinosaur has instant camouflage abilities, like the cuttlefish, so he blends into the background, is smart like the velociraptor, uses his jaw like a snake, and can terrorize like the T-Rex.
I think they saw Pacific Rim and Godzilla and just want to ape them.
So read a spoiler of one of the new dinos in Jurassic World
I have NO fucking clue what they are doing.
Is it worse than the half dino/half person hybrids from the old scripts that were rejected?
Real spoiler
They are cross breeding dinos with each other and other animals
One particularly successful T-Rex / raptor / snake / cuttlefish hybrid gets loose and begins terrorizing the park.
The big bad dinosaur has instant camouflage abilities, like the cuttlefish, so he blends into the background, is smart like the velociraptor, uses his jaw like a snake, and can terrorize like the T-Rex.
So read a spoiler of one of the new dinos in Jurassic World
I have NO fucking clue what they are doing.
Is it worse than the half dino/half person hybrids from the old scripts that were rejected?
Real spoiler
They are cross breeding dinos with each other and other animals
One particularly successful T-Rex / raptor / snake / cuttlefish hybrid gets loose and begins terrorizing the park.
The big bad dinosaur has instant camouflage abilities, like the cuttlefish, so he blends into the background, is smart like the velociraptor, uses his jaw like a snake, and can terrorize like the T-Rex.
Is that confirmed?
Because that's really stupid.
Slashfilm is reporting it as uncomfirmed but they seem to trust it enough to post it without calling it specifically a rumor.
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Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet (from freshman to senior year)
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Separate Peace (of shit)
Brave New World
The Great Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
The Grapes of Wrath
The Scarlet Letter
Heart of Darkness
But along with assigned fiction was some stuff where you got to choose books from a menu, and the person who picked the menu did a terrific job. From that I read
Cat's Cradle
Gorky Park
Catch-22
The Name of the Rose
Farewell, My Lovely
and a bunch of others that I don't remember.
And then for my senior thesis I read a bunch of Sinclair Lewis novels: Babbit, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, It Can't Happen Here, and Main Street. I wrote my thesis on him and TS Eliot.
Sinclair Lewis is kind of underrated, by the way. Babbitt is still a pretty vicious critique of suburban myopia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qlTA3rnpgzU
I'm reminded simultaneously of Georgia O'Keefe and H.R. Giger
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I read him in sophomore year of college; the window of intellectual malleability was forever closed by that point
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
i am extremely skeptical of solar roads
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I really liked his novel of alternative history where the Indians didn't lose as badly
That's literally the exact same thing as saying "I'm reminded of human genitals".
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
420 brooooos
But you're all groovy with stairways to heaven and highways to hell. Your inconsistency is appalling, Feral.
It's not quite the same because it's real artistic you see
it's the difference between balls in your face and a huge Chuck Close blow-up picture of balls (one will always be a mere representation, no matter how realistic)
that is to say, "I am reminded of reminders of human genitals"
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Hopefully this desire will pass.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
like my earlobes, they do not seem particularly detached
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Sounds like an SCP
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Hey, when I put my balls in your face it is equally artistic.
I dunno, and I have not revisited it in the decades since to see it with adult eyes
but I found all the characters just loathsome, and that is something I am sometimes okay with, but they were also boring to me at the time.
i really could not imagine being the kind of person who would fixate on the sorts of things the book's narrator did and it struck me as alternately creepy and comic. i also remember it having a distinctly floaty, disconnected pace, possibly because what I know of the school year at a private boys' academy could fit comfortably into a thimble.
moby dick was meat and drink to me by comparison
I hear there is maybe a homoerotic subtext to the book and maybe if I read it now with awareness of that, and just generally not being a sixteen-year-old, I might like it a lot better, but honestly even reading a plot summary leaves me wondering why the book exists. it's about being mannered and stifled and stilted, like evelyn waugh for tots, and while there might be places in the US where kids still feel that keenly prairie village kansas was certainly not one of them
that said, i despised most of the books i read in high school
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
While the video makes it look cool, there needs to be a serious Shark Tank moment to break this thing down.
In what regard? I like the concept. My only criticism is that it'd take forever to implement.
I hated it and The Scarlet Letter (though interestingly I have read some of Hawthorne's other stuff, like his short fiction, and like it very much. He had Poe-like, gothic tendencies in some of his short stories)
I thought Gatsby was dumb at the time but now it makes me ache with the precise and surgical evocation of things that I have authentically felt, somehow working this feat across a space of ninety years.
I thought Grapes of Wrath was kind of MEGA EARNEST and maybe a bit overblown, like those big budget movies where they try to cram too many stars in, but overall liked it and that is still more or less how I feel about it. I have a big soft spot for those 30s American social realist writers like him and John Dos Passos who wanted to wake the masses up.
Heart of Darkness is one of the best things ever written in the English language and is in less than two hundred pages a master class in setting, plot, and atmosphere for anyone who wants to learn how to write.
I have NO fucking clue what they are doing.
Is it worse than the half dino/half person hybrids from the old scripts that were rejected?
like I'm about to go into something really stressful but not bad
like a full contact sparring round or a CX debate or public speaking
Real spoiler
You hated the Scarlet Letter? I only read it last year and whilst the book itself wasn't amazing, the introduction was one of the best I have read for a novel.
Is that confirmed?
Because that's really stupid.
i am sure this is probably an embarrassingly low score, but it is still pleasing to me, in transistor
On the black screen
Slashfilm is reporting it as uncomfirmed but they seem to trust it enough to post it without calling it specifically a rumor.