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Luna
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:44 |
This is the most that I have ever talked about books
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The Truth
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:46 |
Ricochet wrote:
I couldn't carry any Rimbaud, because I don't poetry.
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:47 |
SolarLuna96 wrote:
This is the most that I have ever talked about books |
You're better than Austin (Horizons) who refuses to even read one.
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The Truth
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:47 |
If Austin even glanced at this conversation he would die.
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Ricochet
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:47 |
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Luna
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:48 |
Andyman1125 wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
This is the most that I have ever talked about books |
You're better than Austin (Horizons) who refuses to even read one. |
Really? I used to love books, I read all of the Magic Treehouse books, and the entire Pendragon series (I finished the last book in <2 weeks), but I never read Harry Potter (nor have I seen the movies) .
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The Truth
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:50 |
SolarLuna96 wrote:
Andyman1125 wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
This is the most that I have ever talked about books |
You're better than Austin (Horizons) who refuses to even read one. |
Really? I used to love books, I read all of the Magic Treehouse books, and the entire Pendragon series (I finished the last book in <2 weeks), but I never read Harry Potter (nor have I seen the movies) . |
GOOD
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:51 |
SolarLuna96 wrote:
Andyman1125 wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
This is the most that I have ever talked about books |
You're better than Austin (Horizons) who refuses to even read one. |
Really? I used to love books, I read all of the Magic Treehouse books, and the entire Pendragon series (I finished the last book in <2 weeks), but I never read Harry Potter (nor have I seen the movies) . |
Magic Treehouse and Pendragon isn't all that impressive
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Luna
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:51 |
The Truth wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
Andyman1125 wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
This is the most that I have ever talked about books |
You're better than Austin (Horizons) who refuses to even read one. |
Really? I used to love books, I read all of the Magic Treehouse books, and the entire Pendragon series (I finished the last book in <2 weeks), but I never read Harry Potter (nor have I seen the movies) . |
GOOD
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I just never understood the hype (who am I kidding? This is a progressive rock site, no one understands hype)
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A Person
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:53 |
SolarLuna96 wrote:
What was the point of Newspeak anyway? |
The idea was that the people couldn't revolt or think freely or anything because they simply didn't have the vocabulary to express anything Big Brother didn't want you able to.
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:53 |
SolarLuna96 wrote:
The Truth wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
Andyman1125 wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
This is the most that I have ever talked about books |
You're better than Austin (Horizons) who refuses to even read one. |
Really? I used to love books, I read all of the Magic Treehouse books, and the entire Pendragon series (I finished the last book in <2 weeks), but I never read Harry Potter (nor have I seen the movies) . |
GOOD
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I just never understood the hype (who am I kidding? This is a progressive rock site, no one understands hype) |
I have a scary number of friends who not only cried at the last movie (my friend and I laughed through most of it) and have read all 7 books some 5 or 6 times. I found them minorly entertaining, but nothing more.
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A Person
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:54 |
HP was good :(
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The Truth
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:55 |
A Person wrote:
HP was good :(
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It was good, but in an average way. Certainly not great.
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:55 |
A Person wrote:
SolarLuna96 wrote:
What was the point of Newspeak anyway? |
The idea was that the people couldn't revolt or think freely or anything because they simply didn't have the vocabulary to express anything Big Brother didn't want you able to.
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That's why its vocab decreased and they were trying to obliterate Oldspeak.
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Luna
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:55 |
@Matt oh duh, I forgot, I read it like 8 months ago and havent really analyased it. @Andy, That's just... sad
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:56 |
So
How about that Objectivism?
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The Truth
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:56 |
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:56 |
Andyman1125 wrote:
Read The Fountainhead if you want to "impress" your teachers, although they won't care anyway. |
f**k The Fountainhead, it's not hard to read, it's a best-seller, it's just too goddamn long. You're right about Animal Farm, though, that's not hard either. Try something that's actually difficult to get through, like Russian literature or Heart of Darkness or w**ker philosophers like Proust. The best would be to pretend you understand Finnegan's Wake, except that nobody would believe you.
Andyman1125 wrote:
OMG The Oedipus Cycle is on my book list this year as well yusssssss |
Sophocles is actually somewhat interesting, but Aeschylus is soo boooooring. CHORUS CHORUS I LOVE TO HEAR THE CHORUS SPEAK
SolarLuna96 wrote:
I posted that because I felt that highschool=adulthood. |
What the f**k no you have no idea what is going on
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 16:58 |
The Truth wrote:
uh
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Andy Webb
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 17:00 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
Andyman1125 wrote:
Read The Fountainhead if you want to "impress" your teachers, although they won't care anyway. |
f**k The Fountainhead, it's not hard to read, it's a best-seller, it's just too goddamn long. You're right about Animal Farm, though, that's not hard either. Try something that's actually difficult to get through, like Russian literature or Heart of Darkness or w**ker philosophers like Proust. The best would be to pretend you understand Finnegan's Wake, except that nobody would believe you.
Andyman1125 wrote:
OMG The Oedipus Cycle is on my book list this year as well yusssssss |
Sophocles is actually somewhat interesting, but Aeschylus is soo boooooring. CHORUS CHORUS I LOVE TO HEAR THE CHORUS SPEAK
SolarLuna96 wrote:
I posted that because I felt that highschool=adulthood. |
What the f**k no you have no idea what is going on
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Yea, the Fountianhead isn't the deepest most incredibly mindf**king book out there, but it's still damn good.
I'm reading the Sophocles version.
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