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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293401: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:15:25 PM

OH GOD READING I HATE READING

BOOKS ARE GHEY

but in seriousness, if they want to get the lazy youngsters to read, coercing them to do so probably isn't gonna help

War is God.
GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#293402: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:26:16 PM

The fastest way to get someone to hate a book is to make them annotate it.

I still don't like All Quiet on the Western Front after all these years.

I used to despise Slaughterhouse-Five, too, before I got a change to read it voluntarily.

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293403: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:27:42 PM

[up]Ha ha ha ha ha

You did not just say that you hated All Quiet on the Western Front

I read that book on my own and it's still one of the most unsettling and depressing books I've ever read

War is God.
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#293404: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:27:49 PM

i need to read all quiet on the western front again

it was good, but i don't remember why it was good

[up]ah yes

edited 23rd Jul '14 5:28:07 PM by thespacephantom

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Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#293405: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:27:55 PM

probably?

dead devotion
chibifenrix Forever wandering, Never lost. from Va-1 Ha-1A Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Forever wandering, Never lost.
#293406: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:29:28 PM

Posted for yas spaz. been making Taco.

Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293407: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:30:17 PM

He is right. We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in war.

War is God.
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#293409: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:33:15 PM

Yes I am, trip. I'm actually wondering how many of you know what I'm talking about.

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#293410: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:36:25 PM

i was talking about prom but okay

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#293411: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:36:31 PM

i do not understand what the refrance

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293412: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:37:21 PM

yeah i must be old because i read

books

War is God.
GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#293413: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:37:38 PM

It's really, really, really hard to enjoy a book/movie when you're being forced to stop every five seconds and look for things like "bird symbolism" so you can mark it down in a list.

That's not analysis. That's TVT bullshit that has no place in a classroom and yet somehow it's the preferred method of teaching kids how to think about books. It doesn't teach anything, it's just mindless categorisation. Picking shit apart every other sentence does not help me appreciate how the parts work together to create a whole, it just tells me that "gee this book sure does like talking about birds a lot. I should write that down in the margins!"

This is part of the reason why, despite having one of the most well-educated generations, it's not a generation that knows how to think. We are taught to learn definitions, but not what those definitions mean, why it's defined as such, and what it means for other things, or us.

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
Rivux same old me from [a jump to the sky turns to a rider kick] Since: Aug, 2010
same old me
#293414: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:38:14 PM

i remember that quote

i remember that quote

mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's mean
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293415: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:39:04 PM

Somehow I doubt you paid attention to the book

since

well

it's about war

and how war tore away any sense of normalcy from a bunch of young, idealistic young men's lives

War is God.
GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#293416: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:41:51 PM

Of course I didn't pay attention to the book. That wasn't the point of the assignment.

Do you see the problem here? I could write the most beautiful, moving poetry mankind has ever seen, but if I tell you instead to count how many e's I use per line, you're not actually going to be reading it.

So, yeah. I just associate that book with frustrating, dry busy work. This is what my literature classes have taught me to associate classic books with.

I had maybe a grand total of two good English teachers throughout my entire education. My senior one, and the one I had in... seventh grade? Eighth? Can't remember. She got pregnant and moved to Boston, though. Bummer.

edited 23rd Jul '14 5:42:39 PM by GameSpazzer

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293417: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:42:22 PM

well okay

if you're going to let crappy education ruin good literature for you then

War is God.
Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#293418: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:43:20 PM

gotta laundry

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GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#293419: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:45:19 PM

No, I'm trying to fix that, at least.

Senior year I had a teacher that knew what she was doing, and I got to go back and reread Slaughterhouse-Five and realise how good it was. And Brave New World, and A Clockwork Orange.

And then I got to analyse and criticise and praise them on my own terms, with no list bullshit. It was fun, and I learned things and gained a greater appreciation of the effort that had gone into the writing and the themes and the characters.

There's a lot of damage that's been done, unfortunately, but it could have been a lot worse, and she made a lot of strides towards getting us to actually read shit, instead of just annotating it.

Then we also wasted twenty minutes trying to explain to the class why no, Twilight is not an acceptable book report subject.

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293420: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:47:00 PM

Good

Also, I believe in literary interpretation

But I like... try to see a work as its own self contained world

that MAY have allusions to reality

but if the symbolism is there, I'll notice it

Like some people say that Moby Dick is a political commentary

uh

well

okay

I would say that it's more about a man's lust for revenge and obsession driving his purpose in life ultimately consuming him along with those he cares about

or like a crew of misfits hunt a big white sperm whale

War is God.
GameSpazzer The Beta Male from Against! The! Wall! Since: Jun, 2010
The Beta Male
#293421: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:50:20 PM

[up]Also whales.

Lost of whales.

And whale types

and whale equipment

whale salad

whale gumbo

fried whale

whale stew

MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293422: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:50:45 PM

Those parts were boring

I skipped those

War is God.
thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#293423: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:51:47 PM

they're integral to the experience, prom

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Prometheus136 What's eatin' you, chief? from Yoknapatawpha County Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
What's eatin' you, chief?
#293424: Jul 23rd 2014 at 5:54:15 PM

Also A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite books ever so YEAH THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT YOU AIN'T DISSIN' IT

It has a lot of compelling ethical and philosophical questions

War is God.
Rivux same old me from [a jump to the sky turns to a rider kick] Since: Aug, 2010
same old me
#293425: Jul 23rd 2014 at 6:15:34 PM

gonna run for half an hour soon

literally

i am going to go jog

mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's mean

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