Off Topic 2011

[Mo]

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Once again Canada fails

[Bellsprout]

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I haven't read it either.

I'm not really a fiction guy when reading for leisure. Unless it's Harry Potter. #sad

[BurghFan]

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I haven't read it either.

I'm not really a fiction guy when reading for leisure. Unless it's Harry Potter. #sad

Umm, Harry Potter is fiction

[BlueNGold]

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Umm, Harry Potter is fiction

He never said it wasn't.

[dan_457]

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Random and unimportant question, but it's been something that's been bugging me for a while.

In the NCAA 12 thread there's the Official ONLINE ISSUES thread That's been there, and just kind of sits there with no purpose or link to anything relevant. Just curious as to why it's still there.

[Mo]

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Umm, Harry Potter is fiction

Your Honor, there is no contradictory statement being made.

[BurghFan]

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Umm, Harry Potter is fiction

Your Honor, there is no contradictory statement being made.

I fail, somehow I missed the word "unless". I think it's time for me to go to bed.

[Bellsprout]

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Umm, Harry Potter is fiction

I know. I don't normally enjoy fiction, as I said, unless it's Harry Potter.

I don't know why, but I thoroughly enjoyed every last damn one of those 7 books. It makes zero sense.

Normally I'm more of an sports biography/political humor reader. Hell, there's 4 books under my nightstand next to me right now, and 3 of them are political humor and one's The ESPN World Cup Companion.

[WyxHarmon]

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And with this, I think it's time for me to go to bed. MLB The Show isn't sim. Valdez's fastball is only 81 MPH.

[TracerBullet]

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#RyanFailforever

Also being forced to read books in class always made them suck more than they actually did.

[ryan36]

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My english teacher told me to read "cat's cradle" (my favorite book ever) and "On the Road".. a good book. The Great Gatsby was all symbolism, and sort of boring- but it still was the authoritative snapshot of a generation

[SPTO]

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To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.

Best books I read in HS


And the Great Gatsby

I hated the Great Gatsby but enjoyed the other two as well as Great Expectations by Dickens.

[dan_457]

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So I'm watching the Conan O'Brien show, and the musical guests drummer was standing up while drumming(odd but not unheard of) and for some reason was wearing a random *** Book bag. So is wearing a book bag for no apparent reason in syle or something?

[Watson]

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To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye.

Best books I read in HS


And the Great Gatsby

In my younger and more vulnerable days, my father gave me some advise that I've been turning over in my mind ever since...

I HATED The Great Gatsby. The only thing worse was The Dubliners and The Metamorphosis. *** **** IB program in high school

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

I was literally seconds away from turning everything off and sleeping, until I see the Torture trailer for the Show 11.


Now my stupid ps3 is on and I'm playing a stupid game in this stupid game.

He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

I liked The Outsiders too. I think I read that in middle school so it's been a while.

Stay Golden, Ponyboy

Yeah, Of Mice and Men....that was a good one

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bundles on their back and that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an' they quit and go on. And every damn one of 'em got a little piece of land in his head. And never a *** **** one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven.

I remember liking The Importance of Being Earnest quite a bit, but I don't remember anything specifically about it.

As Wyatt mentioned, the fact that I was being quizzed on and had to take notes about these books ruined damn near all of them for me.

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I've never even read The Great Gatsby. The only thing I know of it is that they made a movie about it on Entourage.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

Once again Canada fails

I haven't read it either.

I'm not really a fiction guy when reading for leisure. Unless it's Harry Potter. #sad

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Umm, Harry Potter is fiction

and boom goes the dynamite.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”— it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

Spoiler

I really do know the first 2 paragraphs or so by heart. Because it was so boring I had to keep re-starting it

[SPTO]

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I see what you did there Watsontiger.....

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

....and there's your Great Expectations quote for the night.