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mchicken is dejected.
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| kallie wrote: | | I agree. They could just be entertaining and well written, like Pride and Prejudice. But The Great Gatsby isn't either of those. |
Maybe you just hate America. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| mchicken wrote: | | kallie wrote: | | I agree. They could just be entertaining and well written, like Pride and Prejudice. But The Great Gatsby isn't either of those. |
Maybe you just hate America. |
I think that she's already hating about as hard as she can.
Also, Heart of Darkness is awesome... had a highschool class where the reading list was that, 1984, Brave New World, Bladerunner and Dune... best English class I ever had.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I disagree that it's awesome (I would consider that term to mean good + I liked it). I didn't like it at all. I understand that it's good. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't really like it either, but it had a certain horrifying appeal. And I got to write an essay criticizing the view that the book should be stricken from the list of classics because of "inherent racism."
Also, everyone knows that Americans can't write for crap.
Also also, that is a great reading list. |
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| kallie wrote: | | Also, everyone knows that Americans can't write for crap. |
Faulkner? Hello? |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| mchicken wrote: | | kallie wrote: | | Also, everyone knows that Americans can't write for crap. |
Faulkner? Hello? |
And Phillip Roth. And my sister :)
Also, I misspelled the original 'Gatsby' thing I was talking about. It's actually 'Gadspy'. I really have few problems with these different 'versions' of classic or popular books. On some level, I have bigger problems with movie versions of books that I think are awesome. Maybe because you can't unsee them and the imagery can replace whatever was in your mind from reading the book. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| epb wrote: | | And that illustrated hipster bible? |
I bet there are zombies in it already.
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The most important thing to take away from this is, despite what the internet has to say, zombies really aren't that cool. Trend + existing story =/= genius.
That one text excerpt has me convinced that book just isn't very good.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| lugo wrote: | The most important thing to take away from this is, despite what the internet has to say, zombies really aren't that cool. Trend + existing story =/= genius.
That one text excerpt has me convinced that book just isn't very good. |
It doesn't sound like the original prose at all... which is a big reason to read the real book in the first place. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| epb wrote: | | mchicken wrote: | | kallie wrote: | | Also, everyone knows that Americans can't write for crap. |
Faulkner? Hello? |
And Phillip Roth. And my sister :) |
Look, I'm going to have to refer you to the most respected librarian I know:
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: | Giles: Oh, Emily Dickinson.
Buffy: We're both fans.
Giles: Yes, she's quite a good poet. I mean for a...
Buffy: [defensively] A girl?
Giles: For an American. |
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Just terrible. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| mchicken wrote: | | Just terrible. |
agree 2/10
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| jaster wrote: | | mchicken wrote: | | Just terrible. |
agree 2/10 |
That's generous.
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| mchicken wrote: | | The Red Badge of Courage ...fuck those things. |
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