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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Jeez, "The Crying of Lot 49" would easily be in my top 10 books of all time. Look up a guide for reading the book along with. It's not a long book at all, so re-reading chapters with new knowledge in mind is not a huge undertaking and adds several new layers of depth to the story.
    I'm not going to study for Pynchon's sake. He can go eat a bag of dicks.
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    Quote Quoting Spun Lepton (view post)
    I'm not going to study for Pynchon's sake. He can go eat a bag of dicks.

    Different strokes, dude.

    That book changed the way I read.
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    Quote Quoting Spun Lepton (view post)
    I'm not going to study for Pynchon's sake. He can go eat a bag of dicks.
    What a great attitude to have!

    Stick to Palahniuk's miserable dreck. No "studying" required.
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    Quote Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
    What a great attitude to have!

    Stick to Palahniuk's miserable dreck. No "studying" required.
    Right, because a condescending piece-of-shit attitude is so much better.

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    What can I say? I have a bad habit of mimesis when dealing with condescending piece-of-shit attitudes.
    ‎The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.

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    Quote Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
    What can I say? I have a bad habit of mimesis when dealing with condescending piece-of-shit attitudes.
    I never condescended to anybody for liking Pynchon.
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    OK, then, here is my revised post, and I stand by it:

    Quote Quoting Milky Joe
    What can I say? I have a bad habit of being condescending when dealing with piece-of-shit attitudes.
    ‎The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.

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    Quote Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
    OK, then, here is my revised post, and I stand by it:
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    It's the arrogance, the "no one understands me" attitude that I found so unlikable. The death of his brother is awful, yes, but I thought he was an ungrateful jerk.
    i can't resist but ask....and you like batman? replace "brother" in this quotation with "parents", and you get my sentiment.
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    I hated that freakin' Curious Dog blah blah blah book. My place of employment picked it for the common freshman reading experience a couple years back. What's worse is that they've decided to go with it again next fall. Seriously, of all the books students could read...

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    Quote Quoting Hugh_Grant (view post)
    I hated that freakin' Curious Dog blah blah blah book. My place of employment picked it for the common freshman reading experience a couple years back. What's worse is that they've decided to go with it again next fall. Seriously, of all the books students could read...
    I thought it was okay. I wouldn't put it on a required reading list, by any means.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    Twice in three years!!! *bangs head on the wall*

    I also didn't care for The Lovely Bones or The Kite Runner. Those were some awkward book club meetings.

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    Quote Quoting lovejuice (view post)
    i can't resist but ask....and you like batman? replace "brother" in this quotation with "parents", and you get my sentiment.

    Actually I find Batman's self-pitying "my parents are dead...a thug killed my parents...I miss my parents...did I mention my parents are dead?" stories to be pretty annoying as well.
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    Quote Quoting Benny Profane (view post)
    Depression caused by the death of a sibling and being on the verge of a nervous breakdown are certainly real problems. Especially in the highly uneasy teenage years. Holden is one of the most perceptive and sensitive protagonists, and the book is a lot more about dealing with grief and passing into adulthood than it is about angst and alienation. His double-standards of phoniness and snobbery just make him real, not necessarily unlikeable.
    I agree with this. I'd also like to add that one of the major points of the novel is that despite what he's been through, Holden IS a little shit that needs to grow up. I definitely didn't get the sense that Salinger wasn't being critical of Holden, and I'm constantly surprised by the amount of people that 'admire' him or who are so overtly annoyed with him. Maybe that's what makes him such an enigmatic character, I guess.

    As for the thread, I don't hate the book but I never found The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy very funny.

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    Quote Quoting Spaceman Spiff (view post)
    As for the thread, I don't hate the book but I never found The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy very funny.
    Aww, man! This and Breakfast of Champions are the only two books I've read more than once.
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    I've been pretty lucky these past few years. Can only recall two books I actively disliked:
    * The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
    * Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami (sorry, Meg)
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    Frank: Good
    Mistaken for Strangers: Good
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    Treme (S04): Good
    The Legend of Korra (S03): Good

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    This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Quote Quoting Spun Lepton (view post)
    Aww, man! This and Breakfast of Champions are the only two books I've read more than once.
    Breakfast of Champions is a weird choice for the only Vonnegut someone would read twice

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    Quote Quoting Spun Lepton (view post)
    Aww, man! This and Breakfast of Champions are the only two books I've read more than once.
    I reread books compulsively.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    Quote Quoting Adam (view post)
    Breakfast of Champions is a weird choice for the only Vonnegut someone would read twice
    I guess I'm weird then. I really loved that book. I've also loved Slaughterhouse Five and The Sirens of Titan and may re-read those one day. Vonnegut is one of my favorites.
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    Going to throw The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai out there. Can't believe that won the Booker.
    Wishful thinking, perhaps; but that is just another possible definition of the featherless biped.

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    Quote Quoting Duncan (view post)
    Going to throw The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai out there. Can't believe that won the Booker.
    I just finished reading this one, and I have to admit I was disappointed.

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