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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Silly ape: reading books will help you pick up the best kind of chicks. ;) |
And you can always knock chicks out with books ;) |
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| smokeape |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Silly ape: reading books will help you pick up the best kind of chicks. ;) |
If you can pick up chicks in a club while reading a book, then that's a new one on me. Let me know if it works...
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| Lesbianosaur |
| Weird, I registered on that site just this morning and had never heard of it before today. |
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| Silky Johnson |
Hahah wow, I was wrong...they DO have that book I thought nobody else read!
This site rocks!! |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lesbianosaur
Weird, I registered on that site just this morning and had never heard of it before today. |
Profile? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I like philosophical novels, but it seemed to me that in Atlas Shrugged there were only two philosophies at work: Rand's Objectivism and a philosophy she paints as saying that lazy people are entitled to everything. Nobody switches sides (as far as I remember), and although some characters doubt their own ability to live up to their own ideals, nobody seems to even have any actual doubt about whether his philosophy is the right one. The real moral and political world is a lot more complicated than that. I think that Rand could have done better, because she certainly had talent and ambition, but she let her polemical purpose overshadow these. But I guess that's kind of understandable, since she grew up in a very corrupt Soviet Union. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
and a philosophy she paints as saying that lazy people are entitled to everything. |
LOL WHAT? Not at all! She was saying that lazy people are entitled to nothing, lol. She was a bloody capitalist! |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
LOL WHAT? Not at all! She was saying that lazy people are entitled to nothing, lol. She was a bloody capitalist! |
I was talking about the philosophy of the "looters" as she portrays it in the book. Not her philosophy. :p |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Ah...yeah she presented it quite extremely, but I personally liked it. I loved to hate those people, lol...and it certainly helped me to get caught up in her personal philosophy. She *almost* had me...and that's why I liked it so much. I'm pretty stubborn, and hers were the first ideas/beliefs in a long time that actually made me rethink my own. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | | Originally posted by jennypie |
I see you're reading this. I actually have that same collection of short stories. What are your favorite Hemingway stories so far? |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I see you're reading this. I actually have that same collection of short stories. What are your favorite Hemingway stories so far? |
The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber (omg I ing LOL'ed at the bitch in the end. So far it's my fave.)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Up in Michigan
On the Quai at Smyrna (wtf??!!)
The End of Something
Soldier's Home (this one reminded me a lot of Death of a Salesman)
The Revolutionist (just because it's about a Hungarian :p)
Just about all of the first third of the collection, heh. What I'm noticing about Hemingway, especially after reading FWTBT, is how often the theme of death and suicide comes up. I find it even more interesting, knowing that he himself committed suicide. |
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