i like to read

[robot]

:o

[Takker]

oh hey robot, you're back. awesome

[robot]

i like the book "walden."

[MST3Kakalina]

walden is the most amazing piece of literature to come out of america ever.


except the first chapter, but the rest. wow. wow.

[robot]

yeah

the first chapter is like

"excuse me for pompusly talking about how great i am, but i'm just ten times better of a person than you are."

[KLEIN]

I do not like walden.

[Zorkporker]

Best auther.
Ever.
=




H.P. Lovecraft.
:ava:

[Adnama]

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rapaccini's Daughter" is one of the greatest and craziest short stories ever. For lack of a better description, it's so...pretty. Amazingly pretty.

[Burrito]

*stares open mouth* I don't understand how you people can like that book. How on flipping earth could anyone like that book? (no seriously, explain this to me)
I read that book, and all it was was bitching and moaning and complaining about humanity--I do enough of that for everyone on earth, even the aliens--along with dreadfully long explanations about the pond and animals. I love animals, but I couldn't appreciate it, because it can't apply to any of our lives. I mean seriously, I hate Thoreau, he was some rich guy who went into the woods for two years and sure he experienced living life simply and that it could be done. All right I suppose it may have been enlightening then, but it's not difficult to think of that idea yourself.

He had like five houses, which proved his wealth (plus he wrote, anyone who wasn't doing hard labor back then had to be rich) and...I don't like the wealthy. Whine whine...watch me whine. heh.

[MST3Kakalina]

well, if you want to talk about tools of the Transcendental movement, Emerson takes the cake. he never actually tried to do any of the things he wrote about, he just sat in his nice big comfy house. Thoreau went out and TRIED.

i can't explain why i like it, except that i understood Thoreau's line of thinking exactly. i guess you either love it or you hate it.

[t3]

Yay "Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters" and "Wheel of Time"; boo "The Red Badge of Courage" and "Catcher in the Rye."

[MST3Kakalina]

Catcher in the Rye is amazing. Red Badge of Courage is wicked lame. Wheel of Time goes on for-fucking-ever.


why don't you like Catcher? i weep. ='(

[Adnama]

I enjoyed Catcher, but I haven't read it in awhile. I can see how some people might not like it though, because the story does tend to meander, in a seemingly random fashion. Some would slam it shut and be like "There's no point to it!"

We had Emerson for a long time in English class. There was a running gag that Emerson would either shop at Hot Topic or be a scene whore if he was in our generation.

[t3]

Ah dunno. Not enough robots? I didn't hate it, it just wadn't my particular cup of tea. And lemme tell you, that is some mighty strange tea I like. And so far I'm only on the 6th WoT and I'm wondering how they can possibly make it last for another four 700 page installments.

[Linzoy]

I've never read walden, and I should because I go swimming and kyaking in walden pond a lot. I don't like how everyone makes such a big deal about how he lived in the middle of the woods, when he was only a mile from town and he only lived there for a couple years or something.

I'm reading robot dreams by issac asimov, it's a bunch of short stories. It's really good so far and hostess is a fascinating story. It's about why humans stop growing and die of old age, and fish and plants don't.

[Adnama]

reading is good for your brain. that's why these threads don't get a lot of attention.

i'm reading Lord of the Flies right now, and I'm not quite sure how well I'm liking it.

[Zorkporker]

Guys i had a dream last night that. At some point in his life H.P. Lovecraft made a bunch of stories under a fake identity. But the identity was a giant pig named wellington. And all the stories were about pigs. But like happy stories about pigs. And it all took place in some really messed up futuristic version of my local Barns&Nobel.

Oh and uhh reading rocks.
Soon im gonna buy the "Charles manson in his own words book" Discuss.

[robot]

i am such a nerd

[brokensirunit]

1984 George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, oh and anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Adnama]

check out Brave New World by Aldous Huxley if you liked Orwell and Bradbury.

[Forever Finite]

i loved lord of the flies. reading the cliff's notes on it might make you appreciate it more.

[trög]

Closing Time.

Joseph Heller.

G-g-g-good stuff.

[tater]

I hated "Lord of the Flies". Hated it. My friends and I had this running joke that the best thing to happen in that book was the dead pilot.

"Catcher in the Rye" was too obtuse for me. I enjoyed "Breakfast of Champions" much more. Then again I love and adore most Vonnegut stuff. Genius. "Cat's Cradle" remains one of my favorites.

"The Ugly American" surprised me by being good. I had to read it for a political science class I took a few semesters ago and I loved the social commentary. Good read, I'd reccomend.

"Catch-22" rawked. Plain and simple. It took me awhile to get through it, but I'm glad I did. Joeseph Heller is awesome. I must now read "Closing Time" because Trogg has alerted me to it.

*goes off to find new book*

[Adnama]

i finished Lord of the Flies a feeeew days ago.
i....did not like it. could not make myself like it. *goes off to read more manga garbage*

edit: psst...Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo=yes

[dromeda779]

I work at a bookstore. 33% discount, beeyatches.

[implode]

i loved lord of the flies and catcher in the rye.

and they loved me.

[Ravenous Monkey]

I'm reading "Naked Lunch" right now. It is amazing.