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Strike For The South
07-20-2011, 22:32
And It's currently being used to anchor my truck in the lot.

Srsly, it's a massive book

Does anyone want to read it with me to make it more fun?

Lemur
07-20-2011, 22:37
Just read the comic (http://www.ulyssesseen.com/comic/us_comic_tel_iii.html), it's much more digestable.

Rhyfelwyr
07-20-2011, 22:44
Where do you get all this time to read so much. God knows the last time I read a book...

Louis VI the Fat
07-20-2011, 22:51
There are so many books I have to read before I die. :shame:

How will I ever find the time?


I suppose I could quit the interwebs, less computer games, get some discipline, stop being a weak cryba

Strike For The South
07-20-2011, 22:54
Just read the comic (http://www.ulyssesseen.com/comic/us_comic_tel_iii.html), it's much more digestable.

This is disrepectful and I blame your generation

A POX ON YOUR HOUSE

Louis VI the Fat
07-20-2011, 22:55
This is disrepectful and I blame your generation

A POX ON YOUR HOUSEAND A PLAGUE ON YOUR HORSES!!


THATS RIGHT I KNOW MY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CAN COMPLETE LITERARY QUOTES FROM MEMORY

Strike For The South
07-20-2011, 22:58
AND A PLAGUE ON YOUR HORSES!!


THATS RIGHT I KNOW MY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CAN COMPLETE LITERARY QUOTES FROM MEMORY

I hope you know your English lit better than your French lit becuase I read Bovary and I must admit I found it lacking in every sense of the word

I'm willing to chalk it up to a bad translation but I was upset

I thought you lot were supposed to be good at this

HoreTore
07-20-2011, 23:04
I'm currently deep into Wealth of Nations, so no. After that I have an exciting book called "the students learningenviroment - the teachers possibilities" lined up... And after that, it's another dqte with the tome called "Educational Psychology". It's been a while since I read Stalin's biography, so that one is proably right after that. And when I'm finished with that, I'm sure I have a bunch of new books I'm dying to read...

Louis VI the Fat
07-20-2011, 23:05
I hope you know your English lit better than your French lit becuase I read Bovary and I must admit I found it lacking in every sense of the word

I'm willing to chalk it up to a bad translation but I was upset

I thought you lot were supposed to be good at thisYou would enjoy Stendhal much better. More your cup of tea, methinks.

Strike For The South
07-20-2011, 23:06
I'm currently deep into Wealth of Nations, so no. After that I have an exciting book called "the students learningenviroment - the teachers possibilities" lined up... And after that, it's another dqte with the tome called "Educational Psychology". It's been a while since I read Stalin's biography, so that one is proably right after that. And when I'm finished with that, I'm sure I have a bunch of new books I'm dying to read...

A simple no would've sufficed

~;)

HoreTore
07-20-2011, 23:06
I hope you know your English lit better than your French lit becuase I read Bovary and I must admit I found it lacking in every sense of the word

I'm willing to chalk it up to a bad translation but I was upset

I thought you lot were supposed to be good at this

Read some Dumas, you bloody heathen.

HoreTore
07-20-2011, 23:08
A simple no would've sufficed

~;)

Considring I have the reading speed of a lobotomized turtle, I felt like bragging. You may notice how I left out the months it would take me to get through those...

It's been raining all summer, can't a poor viking have his day in the sun withut you texans walking all over it?

Hosakawa Tito
07-20-2011, 23:09
Haz it pictures?

Louis VI the Fat
07-20-2011, 23:11
I'm currently deep into Wealth of Nations, so no. After that I have an exciting book called "the students learningenviroment - the teachers possibilities" lined up... And after that, it's another dqte with the tome called "Educational Psychology". It's been a while since I read Stalin's biography, so that one is proably right after that. And when I'm finished with that, I'm sure I have a bunch of new books I'm dying to read...And there I was, thinking you'd weekly read some massive biography of some communist. Especially for bedtime reading.

Luxembourg, Jaurès, Engels? You would, wouldn't you?

Strike For The South
07-20-2011, 23:13
You would enjoy Stendhal much better. More your cup of tea, methinks.

You share one night of wine induced passion with a man and he thinks he knows you

~;)

Louis VI the Fat
07-20-2011, 23:14
You share one night of wine induced passion with a man and he thinks he knows you

~;)I think so indeed. But then, I've got a biblical mind.

HoreTore
07-20-2011, 23:16
Nah, I only have tomes of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, which I read years ago and read/skim/flip through again from time to time to brush up/ponder how it fits into all the new stuff I've thought about and learned...

Oh, and I do the same with the communist manifesto, obviously. Wealth of Nations might be added to that list, it's very, very promising so far...

Strike For The South
07-20-2011, 23:20
Agh bested again. My only out is some sort of "knowing eachother biblically" joke that I can't make becuase I've already refrenced our relationship in the thread


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Centurion1
07-20-2011, 23:22
I read Ulysses when I was younger but I am afraid I was too young. I suffered from the fact that my actual reading ability was very high but my comprehension of themes symbols and motifs was over my head. For example, I read the Lord of the Rings at the end of 4th Grade. I finished them and did so promptly yet the actual content was often too advanced for my young mind to truly understand as the author intended and details which were important slipped quite easily from my young mind. Re reading them however was much more a treat. Ulysses being such a complex book soared far far above my young self. Therefore, the use of me reading it was near the same as the use of whatever the Rainman reads. Yes, I read it. Yes, I understood the authors words even the big ones. But the usage of Joyce's stream of consciousness and the complexity of his parallels with Odysseus overwhelmed me among other things. Actually i don't even think I could finish it I read maybe a third before I simply gave up in disgust.

As a result reading it again would be like reading if for a first time. So after I read my current novel I may join you.

Rhyfelwyr
07-20-2011, 23:28
You all make me feel so uncultured. ~:mecry:

Samurai Waki
07-20-2011, 23:47
Classic literature is always more interesting if it's been hacked to death by the porn industry.

Centurion1
07-20-2011, 23:49
Classic literature is always more interesting if it's been hacked to death by the porn industry.

TRUE. The rendition of Hamlet by **************** Studios was engrossing.

HoreTore
07-20-2011, 23:50
This thread needs more penis jokes. I'll go first:

So SFTS.... It's 'Ulysses' you guys call it nowadays, eh?

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07-21-2011, 08:01
Agh bested again. My only out is some sort of "knowing eachother biblically" joke that I can't make becuase I've already refrenced our relationship in the thread


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Dem eyes...my god.

Adrian II
07-21-2011, 09:22
And It's currently being used to anchor my truck in the lot.

Srsly, it's a massive book

Does anyone want to read it with me to make it more fun?

No, keep it under your truck. Joyce is a perfect bore.

AII

Strike For The South
07-21-2011, 09:26
No, keep it under your truck. Joyce is a perfect bore.

AII

Louis told me I would enjoy a book. I did not enjoy said book

Now you are telling me I won't enjoy a book

See where I'm going with this?

Adrian II
07-21-2011, 09:33
Louis told me I would enjoy a book. I did not enjoy said book

Now you are telling me I won't enjoy a book

See where I'm going with this?

You're on your own. Pull up your pants, straighten your cap and start reading.

AII

Centurion1
07-21-2011, 09:39
No, keep it under your truck. Joyce is a perfect bore.

AII

I wouldn't call Joyce boring. Complex yes but a bore no.

Lemur
07-21-2011, 14:04
I wouldn't call Joyce boring. Complex yes but a bore no.
No explosions. No transforming robots. No dinosaur fights. Absolutely no ninjas. BORING!

Adrian II
07-21-2011, 14:47
No explosions. No transforming robots. No dinosaur fights. Absolutely no ninjas. BORING!

No story, no structure, no humour, no sense.

AII

Louis VI the Fat
07-21-2011, 14:49
I wouldn't call Joyce boring. Complex yes but a bore no.Thank God, at last another sophisticated man such as myself, who knows his literature! Joyce is not boring at all, she writes beautifully!

gaelic cowboy
07-21-2011, 15:09
Pity the god squad got rid of Monto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monto) it would have been a big tourist draw now for Dublin


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Sarmatian
07-21-2011, 15:14
Thank God, at last another sophisticated man such as myself, who knows his literature! Joyce is not boring at all, she writes beautifully!

What an ignorant sod! It's a he not a she. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for his next book.

Adrian II
07-21-2011, 15:52
What an ignorant sod! It's a he not a she. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for his next book.

Don't worry, no doubt Gregoshi will soon reJoyce.

AII

HoreTore
07-21-2011, 15:58
Don't worry, no doubt Gregoshi will soon reJoyce.

AII

Ha. Ha. Ha.

gaelic cowboy
07-21-2011, 16:00
Don't worry, no doubt Gregoshi will soon reJoyce.

AII


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Adrian II
07-30-2011, 08:33
Did you read the goddamn book or not?

AII

Strike For The South
08-02-2011, 02:58
It's in the queue