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Join Date: May 2010
Location: OPKS
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#1442 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
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He's thinking about cutting it considering it has the least relevance, apparently.
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Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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I've always enjoyed your tastes in music and literature, so I'm baffled why you would consider On the Road a throwaway? It was probably the most spontaneous novel of its generation and ignited scores of teens to seek out new experiences and turned a nation of youths to rebel, enlighten, and blow out their minds. It inspired a generation to write, to start rock bands, to travel the world, listen to jazz, and to really know what it means to appreciate the beauty of simplicity. Not to mention, the entire novel is filled with creative youthful ramblings: "I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds." Of course, there is his most famous paragraph from the novel: "They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..." I'm not sure about you, but I remember the electric joy of reading it for the first time and how I couldn't put it down. It's not for everyone, but it is without a doubt, the undeniable tome of the Beat Generation. It's a must read for any literature class. That is how I discovered it- from a teacher. And because of that, I rediscovered a love for reading a very long time ago. "So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it... and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?" Last edited by CosmicPal; 10-21-2010 at 09:06 PM.. |
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#1444 | |
Feelin' Alright
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Someone mentioned Room earlier, anyone read it? THe cover design got me to read about it. Sounds interesting. |
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#1445 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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Cosmic: I like the book, and I agree that it's an important work from a cultural standpoint. It doesn't really match the craft of the other works though. It's not that it's inferior: it's that it is a different type of work. I'm on my phone or I'd try to be more verbose in my explanation.
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#1447 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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#1448 | |
Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
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#1449 |
oxymoron
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: OP/KC/Whatever
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About to start reading Connie Willis' Blackout and All Clear. Not usually a fan of historical (science) fiction, but I really loved Doomsday Book.
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#1450 | |
Ain't no relax!
Join Date: Sep 2005
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#1451 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
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#1452 |
Ain't no relax!
Join Date: Sep 2005
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#1453 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
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#1454 |
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Earth
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Im reading this novel called the "Hanging of Angelique" I don't reccommend anybody to read it. It's based on a true story. If you could handle depression, go right ahead and read it then. But the title of novel speaks high volumes on what kind of a read it is.
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#1455 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
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As always, I'm juggling a ****ton of readings. Most prominently this week it has been:
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey - Robert V. Camuto |
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