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paladin181
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 		Re: Gatsby -- Weren't we just talking about this...
... somewhere around here?
Marble Hornets wrote:
Grumplestiltskin wrote:


http://troywagner.tumblr.com/post/50181668444/book-report



As someone who never read that book in HS, and someone who was gonna go see the movie, SPOILERS MAN! I ain't even mad tho

I know I'm going to get poo'd on for never having read it. We had catcher in the rye instead.
The book is over 90 years old. The spoiler period is long expired on this. If you never read it, that's not exactly anyone's fault.

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Beidah wrote:
Guys, that's obviously a tennis shoe. What on earth are all of you talking about?


RAFAEL NADAL CONFIRMED FOR 71

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Are you certain?


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 		Full disclaimer: I really tried to read The Great Gatsby in high school (I'm an '81 baby, so you can date when that was). I just couldn't do it. The book is horrible.

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Zarggg wrote:
Full disclaimer: I really tried to read The Great Gatsby in high school (I'm an '81 baby, so you can date when that was). I just couldn't do it. The book is horrible.

I agree. I tried reading it when it was the assignment we were on back in like freshman English back in high school, but I found it almost as impossible to tolerate as Siddhartha. The only thing i cared less about than high society social niceties was writing a report on a book about them. Still true.
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 		You guys are amateurs. If you think The Great Gatsby is difficult, try reading my favorite novel: Naked Lunch, by the late, great William Burroughs. I'd recommend against the pop-up book version of it, though.

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ReeseSparrow wrote:
Zarggg wrote:
Full disclaimer: I really tried to read The Great Gatsby in high school (I'm an '81 baby, so you can date when that was). I just couldn't do it. The book is horrible.

I agree. I tried reading it when it was the assignment we were on back in like freshman English back in high school, but I found it almost as impossible to tolerate as Siddhartha. The only thing i cared less about than high society social niceties was writing a report on a book about them. Still true.
It wasn't a hard read, but it was boring as all hell.

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paladin181 wrote:
ReeseSparrow wrote:
Zarggg wrote:
Full disclaimer: I really tried to read The Great Gatsby in high school (I'm an '81 baby, so you can date when that was). I just couldn't do it. The book is horrible.

I agree. I tried reading it when it was the assignment we were on back in like freshman English back in high school, but I found it almost as impossible to tolerate as Siddhartha. The only thing i cared less about than high society social niceties was writing a report on a book about them. Still true.
It wasn't a hard read, but it was boring as all hell.

Oh my! It looks like we are trying to bond by taking turns pissing on a famous work of literature, and I'm almost late for the party.

So here's my story: for a very long time I really liked that famous last paragraph (or is it a couple of paragraphs?) of the book, so I was pretty enthusiastic about reading the remaining 99.9% of it. Turned out that those last lines were the only thing about it I that liked. (The cover too, come to think of it.) I was pretty disappointed by that. I always assumed that I didn't enjoy the book because by taste was underdeveloped somehow and if I were a better reader (whatever that means) I would really like it. I've only read the translation though, which is just cheating, maybe I should try the English original. But not before I get through the English version of Lolita. (Look at me, overusing parenthesis all over the place. Nabokov really is starting to rot my brain.)
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paladin181 wrote:
ReeseSparrow wrote:
Zarggg wrote:
Full disclaimer: I really tried to read The Great Gatsby in high school (I'm an '81 baby, so you can date when that was). I just couldn't do it. The book is horrible.

I agree. I tried reading it when it was the assignment we were on back in like freshman English back in high school, but I found it almost as impossible to tolerate as Siddhartha. The only thing i cared less about than high society social niceties was writing a report on a book about them. Still true.
It wasn't a hard read, but it was boring as all hell.

I wasn't really saying i had difficulty reading it, i just didn't enjoy any of it. Actually I quite liked "The Prince."
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and much too rare to die.

Chaos isn't a pit, chaos is a ladder.

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 		I didn't think The Great Gatsby was completely horrible, but I sure don't see what the hell is so great about it. I read all the way through it because I usually like to give every novel I read a full chance by reading it from cover to cover. The only novel I've been assigned that I've never been able to finish is Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". I've tried to read that book twice and I just can't get through it. It's too boring.

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 		I read it once fifteen years ago, and my memory of it is that's it's nothing but horrible people doing deplorable things to each other and Gatsby gets shot at the end. (If that's wrong, apologies all around, and also, I don't care)

Fuck spoilers because the book's been out for almost a century. Nothing I've read by good ol' Scotty has ever been any good. They've all been dull, uninteresting, by the numbers... not even stories. They've been accounts.

Most egregious in that is Benjamin Button. No explanation, no twist at the end. He's born old, he gets younger, he disappears into puff of nothingness. The end. There, I just saved you hours of your life.

Also, Leonardo Dicrapio is a terrible actor, and I wish his pudge face would just go away; and Baz Luhrmann is a terrible visionary, and I wish he'd take his mind-jangling visual cues and just go away.
-Tycho

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 		I've never read Benjamin Button but the movie is awful. It's Forrest Gump without the politics and more than an hour too long. Ugh.

I don't think Luhrmann is a particularly good director but the new Great Gatsby is probably my favourite of his films. It's okay. More than I can say for Moulin Rouge. Razz

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 		How did this become a discussion for books?

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fawfulbowser wrote:
How did this become a discussion for books?


New 0nset EWD

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Lithp wrote:
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In other news, Heisenberg will probably be in the new entry…


Are you certain?


Laughing I doff my cap to you, Sir! Laughing

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 		I'm so glad that so many people liked my pun.

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