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Ohhhh, I gave up a looooooong time ago. While ‚Mockingbird’ is great I’m just lost to the concept that a group of kids can’t appreciate ‚Flies’. Every children’s social circle has a Ralph. And a Piggy. All kids tells each other to shut up and think _they_ are right (the whole idea of the...

Yes, I’ve mentioned this book a few times. An excellent read. But you’ll probably have noticed by now that 98% of this board only gives a shit about Stephen King and/or books that at least hundreds/thousands/millions of people praise. j

Excellent point. Excellent point. The Idiot Brigade that worship college athletics (the end-product of what you are bringing up) should all be sent to a separate island, with their beloved uneducated pituitary and steroid cases, to act out their desires. Without a conch. Land of Piggies...

I’m willing to debate with them. I think some graphic readers will have far more of an argument than “I love it!!” and/or “everyone else is doing it!!” I agree. I don’t like this whole, “what’s this worth” system. It’s only “worth” what someone else will pay for it. A price guide may...

You are correct and get half-points for observance: note the inverted commas, *not* quotations marks. You are, which is appreciated. I’m not sure how or why you decided to finally pick up HM, but it does generally seem that many people go into him knowing to except something a bit…different...

Novella’s “substance”: ‘it’s a failure on several levels’. The “unfounded”ness behind Novella’s “substance”: ‘Clearly I don’t know what HM is (was) trying to achieve, so to claim he is “failing” is pretty…out there.’ I wasn’t being insulting whatsoever, just trying to help you out and...

I agree. And if a group of school kids can’t find anything to “like” or to at least learn from in ‘Flies’, they’re beyond hope. Tell them it’s Eminem’s favourite book or something. It shouldn’t be coddling, that’s for sure. As I’ve suggested earlier, I have no problem at all with...

Well, aside from _knowing_ this would be your reaction (I was stumped by your initial enthusiasm) and your being veddy, veddy wrong, let’s just say Murakami aint your man. Very little if anything in ‘Sheep’ is “failed” by any means. You just didn’t dig it nor will you ‘Wind-up’. Save your...

Black’s ok. My soul was free of such torment before, so I didn’t draw upon memory but simply typed “wheel of time series” into the googster and this came up. http://www.tor.com/jordan/series.html I didn’t even click on the thumbnails and I still wanna pull and Oedipus. j

Nicely put. I have no exp with GRRMartin but Moorcock I found to be a baffling bore (Elric, maybe? The albino, black sword wielding wanker…). Yeah, I kinda think any religion that feels the need to ask their deity to do…’something’ about a stoopid film being made, but it’s ok that flakes...

Along with prostitution. Not a coincidence there, methinks. Take a look, it might be worth the trip. j

Been there done that. When I was 10. Wasn’t impressive then. You’ll have to pardon me for not being amazed that Ursela Le Guin can turn an adequate sentence every other novel. But popcorn, yes. I got no problem with it when it’s labeled properly, but a gourmet, 5-course meal it aint...

No need to apologise. Not many well read people give Da Code much, if any merit whatsoever. Jennifer was simply using a beloved modern day ‘classic’ [yes, I shuddered while calling it that] as example. Basically, the kind of pap that would go on in school if the kids’ had a say. -Funny how...

Heh. Based on that minimal info alone the jezuz freaks will be preparing your cross. But don’t worry, you’ll hang in good company. Here’s two: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691003246/qid=1124114603/sr=8-13/ref=pd_bbs_13/104-8469315-0411902?v=glance&s=books&n=507846...

Anything said half-assed can be provoking. Especially on a thread about (supposed) learning. Horribly written, absurdly edited, much of it nicked from older texts and all and all pretty banal. Best selling work of fiction every though. But at least it’s printed on a flammable material…...

Ah, well. As they say, “you’re young yet…” And that, as far as I can tell, is about the only thing you do that is age-appropriate. You’ll grow out of it. So. If _Lord of the Flies_ was a group of blue-skinned elvy things and they were trapped on a small, distant planet and one of the...

I’d use a *far* different word than obstacle when I refer to the church, but ok ;) Sure, sure. I wasn’t busting on it. Anthony Burgess has done this too (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Joyce…)… Very true. And books sales prove this so. If you’re still on the Michelangelo kick, there are a...

Maybe if you read _Lord of the Flies_ you would. One doesn’t have to like a book to respect it or refer to it. Basically I was saying, “and *you’re* a teacher? Very true. But the last I hear Education wasn’t really in the Entertainment business. Reading level, yes. (you did say...

Stick around, it only gets worse… Hmmm, historical-*fiction*. Sure. And then go to Rome and let the Pope force you to into doing some work you have no interest in thereby completely making you ignore what you want to do. Stone has also done this treatment with Vincent van Gogh (_Lust...

Thanks for pointing this out. I didn’t know it existed. Although I cant really see myself reading it; Bush’s fallibilities, distortions, contradictions, illusions, delusions, lies (can I stop now?)…are clear on the surface, it’s sad that it takes an interesting thinker to make the (already...