Your opinion is as valid as anyone else's, Frank, and you express it with humor and politeness, so no guac. Unless you're hungry, that is.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.
'Out Of Gas'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Beverly - May 27, 2004 7:13:16 pm PDT #2942 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Megan E. - May 28, 2004 3:19:55 am PDT #2943 of 10002
I just finished The Life of Pi. I thought it was interesting, but I'm still sort of puzzling over what I thought of the ending.
Hil, I read Life of Pi last Fall and am still mulling over the ending. Both scenarios seem plausible but I find that I really want to believe the tiger story; however, the part about the toxic island is what puts that story into question for me. The other, more mundane story is much less satisfying to me, but seems more believeable.
Frankenbuddha - May 28, 2004 3:20:46 am PDT #2944 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Granted, I don't think it's a very good high school book (or it certainly wasn't for me). I get what the teacher was trying to do by pairing it with Walden, but it just struck me as so twee and smug (and hippy dippy).
And yet, still liked it better than ETHAN FROME.
Ginger - May 28, 2004 4:00:41 am PDT #2945 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked having my wisdom teeth pulled better than Ethan Frome.
Steph L. - May 28, 2004 4:20:36 am PDT #2946 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I liked back surgery more than Ethan Frome.
Hil R. - May 28, 2004 4:24:02 am PDT #2947 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Megan, that's it exactly. I want to believe the tiger story. And I'm thinking maybe that was the point.
Ginger - May 28, 2004 4:24:15 am PDT #2948 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked breaking a bone in my hand better than Ethan Frome. In fact, the only experiences in my life that I liked less than Ethan Frome were a ruptured ovarian cyst, moving and chemotherapy.
Nutty - May 28, 2004 4:33:33 am PDT #2949 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So the question is, why do all the schools make us read it??
Also, I want to have a talk with the first person who put Bartleby the Scrivener into the curriculum.
I'm currently reading Hard Times, and sometimes I forget in Dickens's customary frothiness and overdone-ness that he can sometimes luck himself into great hushed pointful prose. The introduction would have me believe that because Hard Times is so short, it's got a lot more of said pointful prose; unfortunately so far this means there are also no characters I particularly like. Maybe Louisa Bounderby, except she desperately needs to murder her husband (or run away with some factory worker) and I don't think Dickens will allow her a happy ending if she does.
Then again, book called Hard Times.
msbelle - May 28, 2004 4:35:29 am PDT #2950 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I read EF in highschool, I don't remember hating it , and now I don't remember anything about it, except there was a man, a woman and it was winter.
Frankenbuddha - May 28, 2004 4:45:17 am PDT #2951 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So the question is, why do all the schools make us read it??
Misery loves company?
Also, I want to have a talk with the first person who put Bartleby the Scrivener into the curriculum.
Hm, I rather like old Bartleby, but I always read and enjoyed that as a precursor to Camus and the like.