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Originally posted by couch-potato Led Chaplin.

Fixed.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles So many people have recommended this to me, but I've never gotten around to it. Why do you think it sucks?

its annoying , cause it is written from the point of view of a 19 (?) year old.

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Originally posted by Lira Even thoughtcrime seems to flirt with the idea that language is thought (and vice versa).

Well, that is one of the original founding notions of semiotics.

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Originally posted by Meat187 I didn't find the plot hard to understand, rather that he doesn't really try to convey his points about religion and art to the reader. The main character and his problems are not something I can easily identify with and Joyce just doesn't manage to make this book accessible to me.

Joyce was never trying to make it accessible, quite the opposite.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J JM Coatzee. He won a Nobel prize for literature, but his books are good only for academics to write papers about.

I'm surprised to see him on your list - I've only read "Disgrace" but thought it was quite good, actually.

Catcher in the Rye is probably my favorite book:]]

It seems like people either love or hate Catcher in the Rye. I think I'll pick it up and find out which camp I fall into.

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Originally posted by Meat187 Andy Warhol: I know that is his fame isn't solely based on his artistic merit, but rather on the techniques he introduced and how he changed art as a whole. But I'm quite baffled about what could possibly be great about his stuff. I wouldn't hang any of this crap in my room, and I think anyone who doesn't know will be like "What kind of silly garbage is that?!" That is, until you tell them it's by Andy Warhol, when they'll suddenly change to "Oh, that's cool."

this. I agree.

Apparently Catcher in the Rye and its hero, Holden Caulfield, are becoming less popular as kids identify less with outcasts and dropouts and more with people who "work within the system." Students today think the character is whiny and immature, and should just "shut up and take his Prozac":

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/w...schuessler.html

today's youth is stupid

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Apparently Catcher in the Rye and its hero, Holden Caulfield, are becoming less popular as kids identify less with outcasts and dropouts and more with people who "work within the system." Students today think the character is whiny and immature, and should just "shut up and take his Prozac": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/w...schuessler.html

globalisation is fucking up any concept of originality i guess...

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Originally posted by bananas today's youth is stupid

Today's youth are stupid.

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Originally posted by Domesticated Today's youth are stupid.

Ouch.

Well it's not my mother-tongue, gimme that at least

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Originally posted by EgosXII globalisation is fucking up any concept of originality i guess...

What?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J What?

I created the concept of globalization shit!

(or, with the pronoun properly capitalised, "Originality, I guess the concept of globalization is the shit")

i read Post office by Bukowski and wasn't all that impressed. Would say much the same of On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Anna Karenina by tolstoy.

I stopped the Karamazov Brothers at page 800 something. Is it worth picking up again if up until this point it caused nothing more than 'meh'?

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan i read Post office by Bukowski and wasn't all that impressed. Would say much the same of On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Anna Karenina by tolstoy.

I am three quarters of the way into Anna Karenin. I put it down three months ago and promised myself I'd finish it. I haven't picked it up since. It's a good book, it's just very arduous reading.

the dark knight.

FUCKING LONG

I tried reading On the Road three times until on the fourth time I actually finished it and loved it

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Originally posted by TranceGiant I stopped the Karamazov Brothers at page 800 something. Is it worth picking up again if up until this point it caused nothing more than 'meh'?

no. screw Dostoyevsky. i'd rather shoot myself in the face than read TBK again. that or any play by Chekhov. whiny whiny mcrussianwhinerson.

Charles Dickens can DIAF, too. Save it for history class.

True Blood (tv)? everbody's got their panties in a twist over it and i could not be more bored out of my skull if i tried. ditto to A Clockwork Orange.

true blood is utter shit.

notes from the underground is one of the best pieces from fyodor Dostoevsky (thank you spell check).

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Originally posted by eowyn797 ditto to A Clockwork Orange.

I had my own "Bukowski moment" with A Clockwork Orange:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=490610

the sound of music...sorry.

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Originally posted by winston the sound of music...sorry.

Raindrops on roses
Whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles
Warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages
Tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things!

[Had to watch that one for a drama class in middle school. Still get some of those songs stuck in my head sometimes. Some of those melodies in musicals are absurdly catchy.]

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Originally posted by winston the sound of music...sorry.

heh, yeah, that was a long one. it drags... liked a lot of the songs, though, independent of the film.

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