the empire runs on duncan

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Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

rotor posted:

this is an important point. Dune is great, Dune 2 is middlin and it fuckin falls off a goddamn cliff from there

chapterhouse was great

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rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

SmokaDustbowl posted:

dune is like baby politics I don't know why it's not assigned reading in school

i'll tell you what tho, the books they make middle schoolers and high school students are generally awful. Like why the gently caress would you make ANYONE read fuckin Flowers For Algernon, that poo poo is just a grenade tossed right into your emotions

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:32

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

if you don't read flowers for algernon the always sunny parody episode isn't nearly as funny

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:33

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Chris Knight posted:

chapterhouse was great

really? i think I got like halfway through the fourth one and gave up

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:33

mystes: May 31, 2006

I have a friend who read all of the dune prequels. Coincidentally I don't trust his book recommendations at all. He also likes Brandon Sanderson.

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:34

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

rotor posted:

i'll tell you what tho, the books they make middle schoolers and high school students are generally awful. Like why the gently caress would you make ANYONE read fuckin Flowers For Algernon, that poo poo is just a grenade tossed right into your emotions

I dunno I dropped out in grade 11

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:34

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I dunno I dropped out in grade 11

it was honestly more of a rhetorical question

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:35

mystes: May 31, 2006

Flowers for Algernon is good it's just a downer.

I wish I was assigned that in school instead of poo poo like The Rape of the Lock and Henry the Blah Part Blah.

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:35

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

mystes posted:

Flowers for Algernon is good it's just a downer.

yeah, and all the books they want kids to read are generally huge downers, that's what I'm sayin

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:36

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

Jonny 290 posted:

if you don't read flowers for algernon the always sunny parody episode isn't nearly as funny

or the "smatthew" episode of newsradio

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:38

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

i was an angsty teen so i chose Paradise Lost for my Big Senior English Book Report

Sometimes I wish they kept copies of that poo poo on file so i could FOIA it back from the school and see exactly how bad my paper was

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:40

Ellie Crabcakes: Feb 1, 2008; Stop emailing my boyfriend Gay Crungus

rotor posted:

i'll tell you what tho, the books they make middle schoolers and high school students are generally awful. Like why the gently caress would you make ANYONE read fuckin Flowers For Algernon, that poo poo is just a grenade tossed right into your emotions

They had me read Bridge to Terabithia in grade school when I was doing in-school suspension

😭

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:42

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

or the "smatthew" episode of newsradio

or that one simpsons

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:42

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

i was allowed to do a critical paper on neuromancer because there was actual academic literary criticism of it available to reference, which was the main requirement

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:44

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i was allowed to do a critical paper on neuromancer because there was actual academic literary criticism of it available to reference, which was the main requirement

that's pretty cool, nice

# ? Jul 23, 2021 01:44

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

algernon was in my sophomore survey lit book in hs. i had to read a ridiculous amount in high school. soso many papers to write. shockingly i'm a reader so whatever i mostly enjoyed it.

BUT

the all time worst one by a mile was tess of the d'urbervilles

# ? Jul 23, 2021 02:09

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

mediaphage posted:

algernon was in my sophomore survey lit book in hs. i had to read a ridiculous amount in high school. soso many papers to write. shockingly i'm a reader so whatever i mostly enjoyed it.

BUT

the all time worst one by a mile was tess of the d'urbervilles

I failed the math part of my GED but made up the points in language arts

# ? Jul 23, 2021 02:11

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

I like to read and I like to post

# ? Jul 23, 2021 02:11

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

indigi posted:

why are there evil space nobles. seems like you�d just pick good guys to be space nobles, if you�re the emperor.

the emperor is threatened by the good nobles. the duke leto atreides is such a good dude that all the other nobles listen to what he says, and the emperor knows that if they all band together he doesn't actually have enough troops to stop them. so he has to keep them fighting with one another, and he has to get rid of leto specifically. his plan is to take arrakis from the harkonnens and give it to the atreides, knowing that the harkonnens are scummy and will try to kill leto to get it back. to make sure the attack succeeds, he sneaks in a bunch of his own elite shock troops in harkonnen armor. paul sees through the disguises and realizes that his fight won't end until he dethrones the emperor.

rotor posted:

i'll tell you what tho, the books they make middle schoolers and high school students are generally awful. Like why the gently caress would you make ANYONE read fuckin Flowers For Algernon, that poo poo is just a grenade tossed right into your emotions

trying to remember what i had to read at that age, beyond the usual shakespeare and whatnot. i remember we had the handmaid's tale, fifth business, the chrysalids, and zone, so there must have been some sort of cancon requirement.

i have still never read many of the "classic" middle school novels that you get in america, like catcher in the rye and the great gatsby.

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:14

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

rotor posted:

really? i think I got like halfway through the fourth one and gave up

I found god emperor hard going too, but powered through it. can't remember much of heretics, but Chapterhouse all bene gesserit stuff like WAY in the future, so It rocks

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:14

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

mediaphage posted:

the all time worst one by a mile was tess of the d'urbervilles

had to read Jude the obscure in university. would not recommend.

also noped out of middlemarch because I kept falling asleep reading it. I think i opted to do pass/fail for that class lol

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:19

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

tleilaxu bitches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qhj3sJ5qs

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:36

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

Chris Knight posted:

had to read Jude the obscure in university. would not recommend.

also noped out of middlemarch because I kept falling asleep reading it. I think i opted to do pass/fail for that class lol

yeah i didn't want to seem too much of a philistine but i don't like thomas hardy at all

the only non-science stuff i really had to read in college was a bunch of french plays and myths, mostly

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:39

BaldDwarfOnPCP: Jun 26, 2019; by Pragmatica

i remember having to read the red badge of courage (and bridge to terebitha :hfive:

trashcakes) and then mark twain's little morality play The War Prayer and Occurrence at Owl Creek

apparently my teachers were more hippy than hawk

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:50

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
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shit wizard dad

bump_fn posted:

do they gently caress the whales

Could I be known as Paul Mua'cafee

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:52

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

in high school freshman and sophomore years were both survey courses with a standard textbook that had a bunch of different readings from across western literature, plus some other stuff like romeo and juliet freshman year. more greek stuff in sophomore year plus a bunch of plays. the crucible, death of a salesman, etc. third year was all american literature. i remember before the year started we had to read heart of darkness, awakenings, maybe fahrenheit 451? stuff by twain and a few biographies incl having our say, by two black women who lived to be over 100 years old. senior year was all british lit. tess, maybe 1984? more shakespeare, bunch of bronte stuff since my teacher was regrettably a fan

# ? Jul 23, 2021 03:58

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

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# ? Jul 23, 2021 04:00

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

Jonny 290 posted:

its 97f out and i have zero interest in Sand And Thirst: The Movie

im sure i will be more interested as the weather breaks

one of my best movie experiences was going to see fury road on a scorching day, then leaving the theater moments after a rainstorm soaked the lot and left a comfortable breeze

seeing jurassic park in a drive-in during a summer rainstorm's also good too

SmokaDustbowl posted:

it's not like game of thrones, dune is lord of the rings level

like lord of the rings, the initial trilogy is the strongest, too. unfortunately his son is tackier and cashed in on the legacy harder

# ? Jul 23, 2021 04:28

Pythagoras a trois: Feb 19, 2004; I have a lot of points to make and I will make them later.

If there's going to be another lord of the rings style supermovie based on a book we could do worse than Dune. Heinlin's grave is still full of unmined crap like Stranger in a Strange Land. The last thing we need is another superhero movie but with strong 60's cult vibes.

# ? Jul 23, 2021 07:05

distortion park: Apr 25, 2011

we read The Inheritors which was impossible.

I actually enjoyed the crucible and stuff, it's pretty snappy even on the page. I went to a production as an adult and it was really great irl

# ? Jul 23, 2021 09:02

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

should have done yospos book club while wfh left most posters with way looser than usual schedules.

# ? Jul 23, 2021 11:56

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

Sagebrush posted:

i don't really like david lynch's work in general though.

yikes!

# ? Jul 23, 2021 12:25

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

mediaphage posted:

yeah i didn't want to seem too much of a philistine but i don't like thomas hardy at all

the only non-science stuff i really had to read in college was a bunch of french plays and myths, mostly

I think That period of English novels can be a bit dire. I loved the hell out of A Sentimental Journey, Tristram Shandy and Shamela, mostly because they're a lot shorter lol

# ? Jul 23, 2021 12:43