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Picked up the Count of Monte Cristo at my local library last week. This book is a thousand loving pages and nobody in it talks like a real person but its p good still. The key is to skim over all the passages where random frenchman is struck by what great morals and skill and knowledge this Dantes guy has and how cool he is because boy there is a loving lot of them. Striking it rich and using the money to seek vengeance on your enemies is definitely a conceit I like a lot though.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 00:16 |
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That book owns
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 00:18 |
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Those admiring characterizations of Dantes are important and set up the drama in the future arc of the character, op
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 00:54 |
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have you ever read the wind in the willows?
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 00:55 |
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Thats a good book actually, I listened to it though
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:27 |
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i fuckin love it
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:27 |
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I read Frankenstein. This is one instance where the movie was better than the book. Read Dracula. It was pretty good. Moby Dick, it was good the first time I read it, but tried the second time and it was...... Difficult. Robinson Crusoe I tried and tried to like it, but just couldn't get in to it. Might try that one again some time, but not today.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:29 |
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wesleywillis posted:I read Frankenstein. This is one instance where the movie was better than the book. i like the part at the end of Frankenstein when Frankenstein fucks Dr Frankenstein in the rear end tenderly
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:29 |
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funny to think about people waiting for the next part of the story to come out in whatever weird news paper things they were reading the stories in back then
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:37 |
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The Count of Monte Cristo opened the first Bennigan's restaurant, but committed suicide when the chain ultimately had to shut down. Ironically, by covering himself in pancake batter and jumping into a cat of hot oil.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:39 |
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Smugworth posted:The Count of Monte Cristo opened the first Bennigan's restaurant, but committed suicide when the chain ultimately had to shut down. Ironically, by covering himself in pancake batter and jumping into a cat of hot oil. i would use a vat but im not into animal endagerment
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:39 |
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Moby Dick is so loving good
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:43 |
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Moby Dick is so loving good Queequag hosed me
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:44 |
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Sid Vicious posted:Queequag hosed me Yea i read about it in the book!!!
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:45 |
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My record for getting through Crime and Punishment is getting about halfway
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:48 |
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Picked up the Count of Monte Cristo at my local library last week. This book is a thousand loving pages and nobody in it talks like a real person but its p good still. The key is to skim over all the passages where random frenchman is struck by what great morals and skill and knowledge this Dantes guy has and how cool he is because boy there is a loving lot of them. Striking it rich and using the money to seek vengeance on your enemies is definitely a conceit I like a lot though. Dumas didn’t even write the whole thing and farmed out all the crazy C-plots to other writers working for him lol so yeah don’t feel bad about skipping the 50-page backstory about some dude who says hi to Dantes on the street
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:52 |
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was the legend of sleepy hollow a book
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:54 |
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hell astro course posted:funny to think about people waiting for the next part of the story to come out in whatever weird news paper things they were reading the stories in back then Hmm what if I paid authors by the word. It should save on costs and I can’t imagine it having any negative consequences like some guy just handing me a painstaking 3 page list of every single thing a character has in their backpack as half of this weeks chapter
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 01:54 |
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its called world building, you philistine
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:01 |
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Sid Vicious posted:was the legend of sleepy hollow a book Basically a very short story
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:02 |
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Basically a very short story dang i wanted the backstory on ichabod crane and if maybe he has IBS, maybe he has cholera or he lost his sister to it?
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:03 |
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Sid Vicious posted:dang i wanted the backstory on ichabod crane and if maybe he has IBS, maybe he has cholera or he lost his sister to it? Hes a big bjtch
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Hes a big bjtch yo Mr Toad is gonna mess u up for sayin that poo poo about his platonic life partner
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:06 |
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow has one of the worst opening sentences i ever read afaik let me find it real quick
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:06 |
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In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:07 |
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. jesus christ lmao i thought the start of I Am David was dry
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:08 |
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I finally finished the Hobbit and the LOTR books over the course of like 2 years. For as much as I love everything about it, it sure took me a long time to read the actual books. Das Boot is from the 70s so it's not really a classic but I just started reading it last night.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:10 |
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it's extremely trite but probably my favourite classic is war and peace. i've only read it once and would like to read it again but man, was it ever an experience
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:14 |
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my favorite book as a kid was anne of green gables
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:14 |
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Gutenberg.org, OP. Also, I started reading L Morte D Arthur (the old kind Arthur anthology or whatever) and those dudes get into some pretty homoerotic action. Ironically someone made a thread (I want to say pick) about it that was p hilarious and very timely w my own reading The thousand nights and one night is also p cool if you like those old school stories where there’s a lot of weird history poo poo going on and scores of characters getting their heads lobbed off w a passing reference to god being almighty, etc
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:15 |
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Moby Dick is up there for me but my fav is Ulysses I've written multiple papers on that and the rest of Joyce's work lol
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:15 |
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It's Poe season.
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phasmid posted:It's Poe season. quoth the raven, gay rear end whore
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Brother Tadger posted:Gutenberg.org, OP. I can’t read novels on a screen. My eyes just slide right off. Luckily there’s a magical place my tax dollars already fund that lets me just take any novel i please. There’s a nice new one I went to today that has a coffee shop built in.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:23 |
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I love Poe. Greatly superior to Lovecraft, will always prefer the bleak gothic horror of people losing their minds or falling prey to obsessions. Poe was about the more tangible, far more terrifying unknown, that we don't truly know ourselves or the depths we're capable of. It's the fear of the dark, but unlike Lovecraft it isn't external, it's the fear that we become strangers to ourselves thereby distorting the world around us because our perceptual mechanisms have become irreparably tainted. Berenice is the greatest horror story ever imo
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:25 |
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That opening paragraph trill af - "MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow! How is it that from Beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? — from the covenant of Peace a simile of sorrow? But thus is it. And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been. I have a tale to tell in its own essence rife with horror — I would suppress it were it not a record more of feelings than of facts." Now that's the kind of unctuous, pitch drenched, aphotic poo poo that owns.
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# ? Oct 26, 2021 02:28 |
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Sid Vicious posted:have you ever read the wind in the willows? I got given it for my fifth birthday. It was a fantastic read. I miss my copy of it
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Moby Dick is so loving good Greatest American novel ever written
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Revins posted:My record for getting through Crime and Punishment is getting about halfway Same. Tried 3 times. Not sure why I stop though
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I read Crime and Punishment it was aight
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