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    Crystal said:

    Crystal said:

    Why do you dislike Jane Eyre again, and while I'm at it are there any other books common in English lit classes that you dislike so I can see if we're opposed more. That would be fun.

    i liked the early sections about school and how things were not good for jane and such, but then it became an incomprehensible romance story with a complete fucking asshole so totally unappealing it's difficult to understand the psychology of a character into him.

    i was pretty good with the rest of ye olde classic canon. i like jane austen and beowulf, which are very similar in that
    Hm, so we're not so in disagreement, then. Boring.
    you're boring

    actually I don't think I hated anything in English class es as much as jane eyre

    owen meany seemed pretty dull, but I never actually read it
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    naney said:

    Tachyon said:

    It's not actually an ugly name, it just registers as a made-up fantasy name to me, and i reflexively dislike The Hunger Games despite not having read them because i find the premise unpleasant.

    they're actually really good

    you can trust me because i reflexively hate popular things + im super picky about stuff and i still like them a good deal
    We hardly ever like the same things though!

    Still, i will probably read them at some point.  It's just the idea of such a horrific dystopia being the setting for escapist teen lit makes me go eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Crystal said:

    Why do you dislike Jane Eyre again, and while I'm at it are there any other books common in English lit classes that you dislike so I can see if we're opposed more. That would be fun.

    i liked the early sections about school and how things were not good for jane and such, but then it became an incomprehensible romance story with a complete fucking asshole so totally unappealing it's difficult to understand the psychology of a character into him.

    i was pretty good with the rest of ye olde classic canon. i like jane austen and beowulf, which are very similar in that
    Maybe you should read The Wide Sargasso Sea.

    I mean

    I haven't.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Also I liked Owen Meaney.
  • edited 2015-07-24 17:07:18
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    Odradek said:

    Crystal said:

    Why do you dislike Jane Eyre again, and while I'm at it are there any other books common in English lit classes that you dislike so I can see if we're opposed more. That would be fun.

    i liked the early sections about school and how things were not good for jane and such, but then it became an incomprehensible romance story with a complete fucking asshole so totally unappealing it's difficult to understand the psychology of a character into him.

    i was pretty good with the rest of ye olde classic canon. i like jane austen and beowulf, which are very similar in that
    Maybe you should read The Wide Sargasso Sea.

    I mean

    I haven't.

    i have.  It's better than Jane Eyre.
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    We can do anything if we do it together.
    Crystal said:

    Crystal said:

    Unrelated, pretty certain I'm going to go see Suicide Squad when it comes out, at least if I remember my saying this.

    You should really watch Batman: The Animated Series at some point.

    There's no real story to it, but it's so great anyway.
    Is this "watch it because it's good", or "watch it because it's good and it's up your alley", sort of deal.
    I’m thinking a combination of both here, since I remember how much you liked what you watched of The Big O.

    BTAS shares its basic look and a fair bit of its thematics with the first season of The Big O. TNS can back me up on this one.

    Also, it was where Harley Quinn originated, and it’s the media I still feel she was handled the best in.
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    i've never read Owen Meany
  • i have read none of these things except beowulf

    I have the seamus heaney translation on my CD shelf for whatever reason
  • There are people naming their child Khaleesi.

    That's her title. Daenerys is her name.
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...

    Crystal said:

    Crystal said:

    Unrelated, pretty certain I'm going to go see Suicide Squad when it comes out, at least if I remember my saying this.

    You should really watch Batman: The Animated Series at some point.

    There's no real story to it, but it's so great anyway.
    Is this "watch it because it's good", or "watch it because it's good and it's up your alley", sort of deal.
    I’m thinking a combination of both here, since I remember how much you liked what you watched of The Big O.

    BTAS shares its basic look and a fair bit of its thematics with the first season of The Big O. TNS can back me up on this one.

    Also, it was where Harley Quinn originated, and it’s the media I still feel she was handled the best in.
    Noted. Thanks.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    TvTropes disliked Owen Meany, but that might have been /r/atheism at work.
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    On a side note, I think the revisionist genre of "here's a classic story that we all know, except the villain was secretly the good guy and the good guys were secretly Hitler" is mostly pretty bad. Looking at you, book version of Wicked.

    I liked that Grendel didn't do that, really, because Grendel is still a bad dude. Not to say that Beowulf isn't fucking terrifying in that book.
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    i like the songs from Wicked but i've never read the book
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    The musical is good fun.

    The book is just nasty and meandering.
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    disappointing

    i won't bother with it, then
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    But i wouldn't characterize The Wide Sargasso Sea as "here's a classic story that we all know, except the villain was secretly the good guy and the good guys were secretly Hitler".

    It's much more intelligent than that would suggest and the characters feel like real people.

    As far as i can remember it never actually contradicts the original novel, either, it just offers a different perspective on the events.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    black book of arda
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    But i wouldn't characterize The Wide Sargasso Sea as "here's a classic story that we all know, except the villain was secretly the good guy and the good guys were secretly Hitler".

    It's much more intelligent than that would suggest and the characters feel like real people.

    As far as i can remember it never actually contradicts the original novel, either, it just offers a different perspective on the events.

    I wasn't classifying it as that
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    OK

    But jsyk, it's better than that.
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    So uh what criterion is he using
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Giving The Joker an email account on the Crown's private server was not the best idea Princess Meredith had :|
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    i don't suppose it was.

    What was the best idea Princess Meredith had?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Define "best"
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    It depends on what criteria you're using to define good.
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    breast is best
  • Grendel is beautifully written, if byzantine in a way, and was very influential when I was 16. Not sure if it was in a good way, but it was.
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    OK

    What was the breast idea Princess Meredith had?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Tachyon said:

    OK

    What was the breast idea Princess Meredith had?

    Founding a charity to provide bras to those in need, definitely
  • today i got up at like noonish and i had iced coffee, toast, 2 eggs and leftover chicken and beans from the tacos we had yesterday
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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    this is kind of depressing

    i guess i could post this in the SU thread but whatever
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I can perfectly imagine the smell of Onion's house, because I have been to homes like that.
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    Tachyon said:

    OK

    What was the breast idea Princess Meredith had?

    Founding a charity to provide bras to those in need, definitely
    That's a cause we can all support.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    indeed.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    In elementary school they taught us two different mnemonics for the cardinal directions: Never Eat Soggy Waffles and Never Eat Sour Watermelon

    Naturally, being the kind of kid I was, I came up with a much better one: Never Ever Smoke Weed
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    I don't need a mnemonic for North East West South other than them spelling out "NEWS" if arranged a certain way
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Anonus said:

    I don't need a mnemonic for North East West South other than them spelling out "NEWS" if arranged a certain way

    ...what an Anonus thing to say.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    NEWS is pretty easy though
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    we were taught Never Eat Shredded Wheat

    the advantage being that's how it's spelled if you go clockwise

    i'm having trouble seeing how NEWS helps unless you actually don't know the points of the compass for some reason
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    This is basically my entire knowledge of the plot of Rebecca
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    i don't think i'd have understood Never Ever Smoke Weed at that age

    my childhood was extremely sheltered, i don't think i'd even heard of 'drugs' before i was 10 years old
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    Tachyon said:

    i don't think i'd have understood Never Ever Smoke Weed at that age

    my childhood was extremely sheltered, i don't think i'd even heard of 'drugs' before i was 10 years old

    In America you get DRUGS ARE BAD MKAY NEVER DO THEM drilled into your head about five billion times by the time you're eight.

    Then it continues until you're eighteen.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I remember being highly confused by the "SAFEWAY FOOD & DRUG" sign because I was often told that drugs were bad

    But here was a place that SOLD drugs!
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Odradek said:

    Tachyon said:

    i don't think i'd have understood Never Ever Smoke Weed at that age

    my childhood was extremely sheltered, i don't think i'd even heard of 'drugs' before i was 10 years old

    In America you get DRUGS ARE BAD MKAY NEVER DO THEM drilled into your head about five billion times by the time you're eight.

    Then it continues until you're eighteen.
    Basically, yeah

    Hell, even by second grade we had a police officer visiting our classroom twice a year to tell us how awful drugs supposedly were

    I guess they didn't count on kids like me who will just think "if adults don't want me to have this, it must be good"
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    i would probably have developed a fear of drugs under those circumstances

    i was that kind of kid
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    so actually i guess i'm the kind of person social conservatives love to control, and a strong argument against liberalization
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    cuz under a more relaxed system where the drugs education was about teaching you the risks, weed ended up quite appealing to me
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