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Well, just because most students have blind ignorance that if something is forced upon one, then it’s **bad**. Generally one _might_ ponder that many of these books have had some longevity for a reason. While an across the board scholastic open-syllabus is an interesting idea I think that...

We Need To Talk About Kevin Occasionally I get asked why I even bother to continue reading newer books since I am continually insulted, embarrassed, infuriated, bored (etc, etc, etc) by a *very* high percentage of them. Well, believe it or not, that cascade of emotion(s) is not a desired...

Horribly written, banal storied, pseudo-history mixed with vacant biography on quasi-fictional (at best) characters and past geniuses? Hmmm, should this be encouraged? _Catcher in the Rye_, which hasn’t held any significance (if it ever did) for decades, can be nixed and, if need be...

Open up your sock drawer. Stare into it for about 20 minutes (25 minutes if you ‘ball up’ your socks) [That was not a gay joke]. Pause. Drink a tall glass of warm water. Repeat. *That* is more amusing that reading Sedaris. Feel free to drink “tepid” water instead of “warm”...

http://suicidegirls.com/words/Chuck+Palahniuk+-+Haunted/ CP: I had two separate books I was going to do. I was going to do a novella that was about these people in this sort of fairy tale setting gradually destroying themselves. They were all going to be book and movie and music critics who...

All these comments on _Dracula_ are not so much the book’s fault but more the instilling of scenes and images that Hollywood has left on us through the years. The same, you would find, with _Frankenstein_. Undoubtedly, even with crap like Harry Potter, there will always be the “it’s not as...

There is *no* substance to the implied message behind the theory that this is launching millions of children to literacy. This is a fad, and generally not much good comes from fads. Every generation pretty much has something like this happen, we just never had blatant propaganda...

Fer the love of gawd just read: _I am Legend_ (1954) by Richard Matheson Burn your Ann Rice, you’ll feel better. And it’ll keep you warm. j

Yes, sadly I fear the alcohol may become a debilitating thing at some point (if it’s not already)... However, I had no sense of the book being half-thrown together, only that I was hoping for a larger volume. CH credits the book launching from a few lectures on TJ he was asked to give in...

I agree. Threads that go on forever are just…well, not very nice. I’d be happy to start one on July first, as I’m on Euro time I’m in work while many of the members are sleeping. But I fear that more than likely, if not out of habit, people would just keep the other thread alive…but we could...

The economic situation of bookstores is not an/my “opinion”. Nor is the fact that this is badly written (enjoyable to some, maybe. Well written? I don’t think anyone would make that claim) books for um, kiddies. Understood. I wouldn’t have stepped in if Stewart wasn’t being commented with...

It's a sad state of affairs when „enlightenment“ is moved so far down the ladder (spiritual or otherwise) to (what should be) simple General Knowledge. …and even then foreseen as unattainable. Alas...

I’m sad to say I have not yet got around to that one. Supposed to be excellent…and funny.

Indeed. Just a twist on translation. Anyway, I meant to look into it when we first were talking about that it may be hard for you to find a copy…since the story is now in the public domain, the good ol’ WWW has it: http://www.online-literature.com/gogol/1651/ Sadly they do not also have...

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Heh. Yeah, I don’t care so much, the only thing is that in those much larger threads things just get lost and sift away within hours. Not many will delve into an xxx page numbered thread to read old stuff and it’s harder to refer back to it. Here, maybe a few others would have got into the...

Ack. I didn’t know there was a thread for this book; otherwise I wouldn’t have ranted on the ‘just read’ thread. Anyway, weeks later I am still, even moreso, 100% convinced, while the ending was ok; it should have been, easily, 100 pages sooner. I see a movie of this book being entirely...

Badly written, no less. I'm continually perplexed by the post-pubescent world actually getting excited by this banal crap. If it takes a pretty silly book for you to “bond” with your kids, well, the relationship must be pretty poor, at best. And Lewis Carroll, as far as I know, is *not*...

I agree with those that think a “currently reading” thread is pretty silly, I am in favour of a “finished reading” thread, as one may chose to make some comments. And therefore start a small conversation. I agree the page amount makes it blindingly daunting and not very welcoming. On...

Yes, will due. A great example of twisting one’s ankle upon landing upon a jumped conclusion. I’m not intrigued by the idea, myself. There’s a comic book currently being published (_Fables_ by DC Comics) with much the same ideas (playing with Fairy Tale themes, etc). I can understand...