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Reverse Illiteracy Thread

Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of KafiristanRegistered User regular
edited December 2008 in Social Entropy++
I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I started reading Persepolis a few days ago. I like it, makes me want to see the movie.

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The Persepolis movie is very good.

    I think I'm going to read Shantaram if I get a chance. Any of you read it? If yes, what do you think of it? If no, how you doing?

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah I've heard as much.

    I might read Animal Farm again. I read that book like once a year.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    reading blood meridian

    who the fuck taught dialog to mcarthy

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    reading blood meridian

    who the fuck taught dialog to mcarthy

    Faulkner.

    You fucking heathen.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I went to read lord of the rings again a few months ago and stopped after the two towers.

    so like, i read the good stuff.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    reading blood meridian

    who the fuck taught dialog to mcarthy

    Faulkner.

    You fucking heathen.

    sounds like some faggot

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Why is Lord of the Rings on there? TOLKIEN IS THE BEST AUTHOR EVER! RARARARARAR!

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

    Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

    Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

    I saw a picture of Diablo Cody the other day
    I'd hit it
    I don't want to see Juno, but I'd hit it

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Cloudman wrote: »
    I started reading Persepolis a few days ago. I like it, makes me want to see the movie.

    Thsi past year, my college chose Persepolis as the book it would ask incoming freshmen to read and discuss at the beginning of the next year. The student newspaper then ran an editorial about how the program was getting dumbed down and Persepolis wasn't a real book b/c it's a comic book.

    I wrote an angry letter to the editor that I'm sure everyone ignored when it ran.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    goddamnit wigging

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I tried to read the Silmarion or whatever it's called once.

    Holy shit I thought the main LotR trilogy was boring. I had no idea.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I hate Faulkner

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm good with LotR being on there

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Mysst wrote: »
    I went to read lord of the rings again a few months ago and stopped after the two towers.

    so like, i read the good stuff.

    I agree, the first book was the only one I got all the way through.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    How about any R.L. Stine book?

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  • nosnibornosnibor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I tried reading Infinite Jest because, you know, people said it was good.
    After about a hundred pages of tennis bullshit, I decided I'd had enough.

    Boy, Podly's going to be pissed that Ulysses is on that list.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

    Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

    Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

    The only book on that list I agree with is basically anything written by Jane Austen.


    The rest of those are pretty awesome and it sounds to me like that guy just wants to read Dan Brown.

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I didn't finish the Silmarrillion only because it was in my school's library and I read it during breaks and when I got close to the end it was always on loan to someone else so I had no way to finish it.

    I really liked it, though. It wasn't really a storybook, more of a tome of Middle Earth history.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    How about any R.L. Stine book?

    Those are fun when you're a kid
    Dumb
    Formulaic
    But fun

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

    Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

    Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

    The only book on that list I agree with is basically anything written by Jane Austen.


    The rest of those are pretty awesome and it sounds to me like that guy just wants to read Dan Brown.

    nobody ever has finished ulysses

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Fuck Pride and Prejudice

    Seriously.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

    Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

    Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

    The only book on that list I agree with is basically anything written by Jane Austen.


    The rest of those are pretty awesome and it sounds to me like that guy just wants to read Dan Brown.

    nobody ever has finished ulysses

    I guess that's why Joyce seemed to quit halfway through, too.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm actually really glad they made LOTR movies 'cause the Adventures of Frodo and Sam Have Fuckall to Eat really slows shit down.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Spectre-x wrote: »
    I didn't finish the Silmarrillion only because it was in my school's library and I read it during breaks and when I got close to the end it was always on loan to someone else so I had no way to finish it.

    I really liked it, though. It wasn't really a storybook, more of a tome of Middle Earth history.
    That's why I hated it, to be honest. If I had known beforehand it was going to be a description of how the elves went to this place and formed a new village or whatever the fuck, I wouldn't have read it. But I see the movies, and I think "wow high adventure!"

    WRONG

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Javen wrote: »
    Fuck Pride and Prejudice

    Seriously.

    fuck jane austen

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  • DroolDrool Science! AustinRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I hadn't read any fantasy in ages, and I kept hearing how great A Song of Ice and Fire series is so I picked up the first book and read it cover to cover over a weekend, then went and bought the second book.

    It's pretty great, but I can't talk about it in the Writer's Block because the thread is spoiler tastic. The second book has been as good as the first for the most part.
    Poor Arya, she just gets shit on and shit on and shit on.

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  • heretoinformheretoinform __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Dork in Disguise.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

    Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

    Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

    The only book on that list I agree with is basically anything written by Jane Austen.


    The rest of those are pretty awesome and it sounds to me like that guy just wants to read Dan Brown.

    nobody ever has finished ulysses

    Took a class on it.



    You are looking at one of 15 people that finished that monster.



    It was fun in parts.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You know what's the worst book ever written?

    Jane-Eyre-Book.jpg

    Fuck this book, long and hard.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    I don't think we've talked about books in some time.

    Anyways, here's the top ten books you shouldn't read before you die. It starts out pretty accurate, then it goes off the deep end. Accusing Hunter S. Thompson of not being literary seems to be missing the point, don't you think?

    Right now I'm reading Diablo Cody's memoir Candy Girl, because it was free and I'm not in the mood to read about existential terror and man's inhumanity to man.

    The only book on that list I agree with is basically anything written by Jane Austen.


    The rest of those are pretty awesome and it sounds to me like that guy just wants to read Dan Brown.

    nobody ever has finished ulysses

    Took a class on it.



    You are looking at one of 15 people that finished that monster.



    It was fun in parts.

    were those parts the ones where you stopped reading

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Mysst wrote: »
    I'm actually really glad they made LOTR movies 'cause the Adventures of Frodo and Sam Have Fuckall to Eat really slows shit down.

    Everything past Cirith Ungol just makes me feel like I'm fucking starving.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    sarukun wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    I'm actually really glad they made LOTR movies 'cause the Adventures of Frodo and Sam Have Fuckall to Eat really slows shit down.

    Everything past Cirith Ungol just makes me feel like I'm fucking starving.
    Tighten your belts, we're going for a long walk through barren countryside!

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    currently reading The Turnaround, by George Pelecanos. damn do i love that man's writing.

    Also debating whether i should be productive and head out to DC this weekend for the National Book Festival. I mean, Neil Gaiman's gonna be there! and Brad Metzler! umm, and RL Stine?

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    reading blood meridian

    who the fuck taught dialog to mcarthy

    Faulkner.

    You fucking heathen.

    sounds like some faggot
    Faulkner? I barely know her!

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    were those parts the ones where you stopped reading
    Hurr hurr


    No, Joyce was pretty clever with what he tried to do with that book. I think he took it way past the point of decency and I'm pretty sure in the back of his head, he was laughing about the pain he was going to put people through, but that doesn't mean it wasn't good and entertaining at parts.



    Not a fan of pretty much anything involving Bloom's wife. Just boring.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Cloudman wrote: »
    You know what's the worst book ever written?

    Jane-Eyre-Book.jpg

    Fuck this book, long and hard.

    And boring, and poorly constructed and in archaic English and completely worthless and

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    reading blood meridian

    who the fuck taught dialog to mcarthy

    Faulkner.

    You fucking heathen.

    sounds like some faggot
    Faulkner? I barely know her!

    oh booo

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    And Tolkien is awful. Anyone that thinks otherwise is objectively wrong. There is nothing redeemable about Tolkien's writing, I mean other than the fact that we got some wonderful Dragonlance novels out of the deal.

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  • nosnibornosnibor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    "Hey [insert name here], why are you reading Ulysses?"

    "Because it feels so good when I stop."

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