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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#301: Mar 11th 2010 at 3:15:30 PM

Started reading Pride And Prejudice in school. I like it so far, but not for the reasons that I expected to. It's like watching so many starving rats pick at each others' ragged fur.

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#302: Mar 11th 2010 at 4:55:43 PM

Starship Troopers is lagging a teensie bit.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
#303: Mar 11th 2010 at 9:36:25 PM

I finished Purple Hibiscus. Great read. The prose is very easy, and sometimes a bit too flowery, but this forms a great contrast to the horrors discussed. I'll probably pick up Half of a Yellow Sun soon, which is by the same author.

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#304: Mar 15th 2010 at 5:53:52 PM

Reading The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer. No I don't know what I'm thinking either.

Kill all math nerds
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#305: Mar 15th 2010 at 5:55:46 PM

I finished Starship Troopers. It focused far too much on the military minutae(right word?), but that's my only complaint.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#307: Mar 16th 2010 at 2:24:56 PM

Sorta.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
BlackKing Since: Aug, 2018
#308: Mar 16th 2010 at 2:32:15 PM

Is it true malazan book of the fallen contains a lot of wangst?

LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
BlackKing Since: Aug, 2018
#310: Mar 16th 2010 at 5:42:04 PM

•Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series has a nasty habit of this. To be fair, things really are pretty bad for the characters and the world they are in. It wasn't too bad until the very latest installments, where not only did several characters (*cough* Seren Pedac *cough* Nimander Golit *cough*) complain all the time (sometimes just to themselves in their heads, but still) but they repeated each and every problem every time the characters reappeared in the story. We get it already! SHUT UP for gods' sake

This makes it sound unbearable.

LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#311: Mar 16th 2010 at 5:50:22 PM

I didn't think it was that bad at all.

Like I said, YMMV.

People pretty much either love the series or hate it. There are few that lie in between.

edited 16th Mar '10 5:50:40 PM by LuckyRevenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#312: Mar 16th 2010 at 9:37:01 PM

Double post so I can say I've been reading Hofstadter's I Am A Strange Loop. It's pretty good. It's like GEB but easier to read. There's less information as well, but at least this time you can actually easily understand the point he's making. Hell, he practically spoon feeds it to you.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Arilou Taller than Zim from Quasispace Since: Jan, 2001
Taller than Zim
#313: Mar 17th 2010 at 9:00:54 AM

Started Dragon Haven.

"No, the Singularity will not happen. Computation is hard." -Happy Ent
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#314: Mar 17th 2010 at 12:02:37 PM

Is Angela Carter any good?

Kill all math nerds
KillerRabbit Just wondering from In the Ning Nang Nong Since: Jan, 2001
Just wondering
#315: Mar 17th 2010 at 4:37:50 PM

From what I've read yeah. Very good prose style, very creative, doesn't allow her political views to overshadow any other element of her work.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams for an instant, then it's night once more
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#316: Mar 17th 2010 at 5:03:49 PM

The Passion of New Eve looks kind of Anvilicious to me so I'll check out The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Thanks.

edited 17th Mar '10 5:05:44 PM by Myrmidon

Kill all math nerds
#317: Mar 17th 2010 at 7:23:42 PM

I like Angela Carter immensely, though sometimes she really overdoes the symbolism. Great prose style, still.

doesn't allow her political views to overshadow any other element of her work.
Except for the ubiquitous feminism?

edited 17th Mar '10 7:24:39 PM by IceQueen

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
#319: Mar 22nd 2010 at 8:30:31 PM

Because Austen, like Bronte, has an unfortunate tendency to flanderize her own characters and then gleefully point out their lack of depth as though that were a fault of anything but her own writing...

But Pride And Prejudice is pretty fun, apart from that.

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
#321: Mar 22nd 2010 at 8:36:57 PM

Oh yes, the Belligerent Sexual Tension between Darcy and Lizzie is masterful.

Have you seen the Keira Knightley movie version? She is absolutely perfect. And so cute!

edited 22nd Mar '10 8:37:16 PM by IceQueen

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#322: Mar 22nd 2010 at 8:38:30 PM

Nnnnnope. My teach says it's inaccurate, so we're going to watch some of the hours-long BBC adaptation instead. And I like to watch adaptations after the original when I can anyway.

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#323: Mar 22nd 2010 at 8:41:38 PM

Your teacher is insane. The Hollywood version is not only a good deal more accurate than the BBC shit, but it also doesn't have fat thirty-year-olds playing light and sprightly teenagers.

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#324: Mar 22nd 2010 at 8:43:43 PM

Well the first thing we read was Jane Eyre, so suffice to say I haven't had high expectations.

We also watched the unabridged (Kenneth Branagh) adaptation of Hamlet. Can't say I liked it much.

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#325: Mar 22nd 2010 at 8:46:53 PM

I don't recall that one very well, but the Mel Gibson version was fun (all the more so since he looked like a blond Maximus. Branagh is in a really good version of Othello, though.

If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

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