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 May 21, 09 at 3:58am |
quoteYeah, East of Eden was amazing, definitely my favorite of his books. I recently finished Tortilla Flat, & have also read Of Mice & Men, The Winter of Our Discontent, & Cannery Row. The Grapes of Wrath waits to be read, along with Studs Lonnigan & Shogun - Whose authors I don't remember off the top of my head. As for the giving lessons, it'll definitely be nice. We decided it'd be twice a week over the summer, which will definitely be enough to fund most of my food-based expenses haha. GM: I've never read the Pearl, although Of Mice & Men is a pretty tragic tale. The best works are never happy though - Shakespeare is an excellent example. Nearly every character is jailed or dead. quote& nope, Nino only comes into contact with that one monk who she kills. Then no one else bothers her after that. As for the AP Tests, I've been tempted to do stuff like that, but wanted to save the arm strength for doing work. My essays are ridiculous. I wrote 14 pages for my 3 World History essays, 11 for US, & 9 for English Language. It's quite painful. >_> -------------------  | |
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Ranger 1 Blind alligence is foolishness
Neo or Bust  total posts: 7260 since: Apr 2004 |
May 22, 09 at 2:30am |
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Grapes of Wrath is pretty good. Long, though, and not as good as East of Eden.
Also, I've had Nino killed a few times on that level. ------------------- I came, I saw, I wish I hadn't http://www.petitiononline.com/fe6/petition.html Please sign the petition to bring Fire Emblem 6 to the U.S. Read it for further details. | |
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tomato13187 ----------------
Neoholic since: Dec 2004 |
May 25, 09 at 2:36am |
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From my understanding it's immensely depressing too. I believe some schools banned it when it first came out actually.
Also, my dad recently showed me this cool musician, Sam Beam, who goes by 'Iron & Wine'. All of his music is extremely relaxing acoustic guitar with poetic lyrics. Boy With a Coin Lion's Mane ------------------- | |
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Ranger 1 Blind alligence is foolishness
Neo or Bust total posts: 7260 since: Apr 2004 |
May 25, 09 at 4:51am |
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Well, they banned it because it was supposedly communist. I can see where they got that, but still.
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Mastix
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 May 25, 09 at 8:59pm |
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We all know censorship is bad, mmkay. Haha. I like the guitar melody on Boy with a Coin. It's really chilled out. Very nice. I may get some of this guy's stuff. It's good for my current work-free and bored state.
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GhostMember Seeketh Maximus
  total posts: 5197 since: Oct 2006 |
 May 26, 09 at 12:57am |
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I've heard a synopsis on Grapes of Wrath. I never want to read it. The things that happen sound terrible. D:
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NeoXtreme   total posts: 8575 since: Jun 2006 |
 May 26, 09 at 1:10am |
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Of Mice and Men was the most depressing thing I had to read for school.
Then I had to read some creepy pedo incest play. =\ ------------------- | |
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Mastix
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May 26, 09 at 1:38am |
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Just wait until you read Lolita. Then you get creeped out.
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Ranger 1 Blind alligence is foolishness
Neo or Bust total posts: 7260 since: Apr 2004 |
May 26, 09 at 3:21am |
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I've managed to avoid being creeped out by school reading.
Though my high school banned Beloved because of cow sex. True story. ------------------- I came, I saw, I wish I hadn't http://www.petitiononline.com/fe6/petition.html Please sign the petition to bring Fire Emblem 6 to the U.S. Read it for further details. | |
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tomato13187 ----------------
Neoholic since: Dec 2004 |
May 26, 09 at 3:29am |
quote MastixYeah, he writes some pretty nice guitar melodies. It's unbelievable to me that he can sing while playing such a complicated piece - I can't even strum chords to a different rhythm of vocals xD & congratulations on the moderation job by the way. The forum you moderate suits you, for sure. quote The DeathwindSounds nice, just the kind of material schools should be exposing their students too. Considering the average teenager probably reads close to nothing *at least of literary merit) outside of school, they should at least try to read something more reputable than "creepy pedo incest plays". >_> quote GhostMemberIt's crazy to think stuff like that actually went on. Our society is so sheltered now, we have such little understanding of hardships people in the past had to face. Even so, nature's been trying to do away with us forever, nearly everyone has some sort of hereditary disease or something. Since Darwinism doesn't exist in human society, many generations have been formed from lesser gene pools, which is why so many people have vision problems, allergies, etc. Humans are smart enough to do close to anything & mend any problem so we can get by with defects that other, unintelligent animals can't. It makes you wonder if humans will ever be beaten by nature & disease. We're essentially just stagnating nature's progression. Yeah, I kind of felt like going on a bit of a rant there.  ------------------- | |
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Mastix
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May 26, 09 at 3:57am |
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Lol, I remember that Ranger. My school couldn't stop talking about that. Highly amusing.
I'm not as big a fan of Lion's Mane, I have to say. I'll look into his other stuff though. It seems good. As for the mod stuff, yeah, I know it does tomato, haha. I'm well aware of my anime nerdiness. XD Well hey, Lolita is creepy pedo book to the max, doesn't make it bad literature. Nabokov is a fantastic author. This creepy pedo incest book could be good. ------------------- | |
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Ranger 1 Blind alligence is foolishness
Neo or Bust total posts: 7260 since: Apr 2004 |
May 26, 09 at 4:48am |
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It was especially amusing in that I believe that was the year my principal ran for State Senate.
17% of the vote. That was great stuff. ------------------- I came, I saw, I wish I hadn't http://www.petitiononline.com/fe6/petition.html Please sign the petition to bring Fire Emblem 6 to the U.S. Read it for further details. | |
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Alkaid Valkyria Chronicles too good.
true seeker   total posts: 1089 since: Nov 2008 |
 May 26, 09 at 6:38am |
quote MastixGood Job. I sorta wish you had that tag instead of EtS back in the FE8 forum a year or two ago. It was like. "O hai, I'm flourishing for 2 years now and EtS comes to mod me. Screw this!" *Dies within the week* >_> -------------------  | |
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Ranger 1 Blind alligence is foolishness
Neo or Bust total posts: 7260 since: Apr 2004 |
May 26, 09 at 6:41am |
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Lol, I remember applying for that position. And the FE8 forum was rarely totally healthy, to be perfectly honest.
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The Deathwind is a bitter little internet man.
NeoXtreme total posts: 8575 since: Jun 2006 |
May 26, 09 at 10:25am |
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I remember applying for FE10, and got rejected over Mana.
... That never really worked out. =\ (The creepy pedo incest book was a tiny little playscript, and all I can remember about it was that the main dude wanted to screw his wife's niece/his adopted daughter and couldn't admit it to anyone, but the niece wanted to marry one of her aunt's cousins. I hated that thing.) ------------------- | |
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