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  • #31
    Pointless? The point was that they were oppressed by a society constricting on love and our modern day values.

    Imagine how you would feel if you weren't able to be publicly open with your love for your girlfriend, if you had a child by her and you couldn't even by that child's rightful father, if you had to hide your love from the world and live seperately from the woman you loved.

    I think it's one of the biggest romances of the millenium.


    Hence... I don't like romances . Give me something entertaining anyday. I don't want to hear about their 'feelings'. It bored me to tears and till this day I curse that horrid book and the waste of time it was.
    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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    • #32
      Hmmmm, I guess I'm just a *bit* more romantic than you are....

      Ah well, as the romantic French say: "c'est la vie!" Remember though, it may have been a waste of time for you, but others have loved the book. Also, you can appreciate the fact that you know alot more about colonial society than you did before, such as the fact that you couldn't wear certain clothing if you were of a lower class, and so on...
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      • #33
        I'm not saying I'm that I'm not the end all, be all, but I just hated it (and following the OP, wanted to burn it ).

        Hmmmm, I guess I'm just a *bit* more romantic than you are....


        Hopeless romantic perhaps . My g/f finds me to be plenty romantic.

        Also, you can appreciate the fact that you know alot more about colonial society than you did before, such as the fact that you couldn't wear certain clothing if you were of a lower class, and so on...


        Actually.... that is the first I heard of that. I'm serious when I say I didn't get anything out of that book. Got more of colonial society from The Crucible.
        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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        • #34
          so many books....

          hands down:
          Dante' Alighieri's "inferno" (am currently adapting a screenplay from it. )

          others:
          Stephen King - It
          Anne Rice - Cry to Heaven and Queen of the Damned

          and yes....i really like the Scarlet Letter..hawthorne fans should check out his short story "Artist of the Beautiful"

          My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
          Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
          Paradise Lost by John Milton
          The Illiad and THe Oddyssey by Homer
          The Aeniad by Virgil
          "Speaking on the subject of conformity: This rotting concept of the unfathomable nostril mystifies the fuming crotch of my being!!! Stop with the mooing you damned chihuahua!!! Ganglia!! Rats eat babies!" ~ happy noodle boy

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          • #35
            DM, he said ONE book, not your entire collection .
            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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            • #36
              with the size of my collection, that might as well be one book
              "Speaking on the subject of conformity: This rotting concept of the unfathomable nostril mystifies the fuming crotch of my being!!! Stop with the mooing you damned chihuahua!!! Ganglia!! Rats eat babies!" ~ happy noodle boy

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              • #37
                That would be a big book, missy .
                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                • #38
                  *shrugs* well...i am an english/writing major.
                  "Speaking on the subject of conformity: This rotting concept of the unfathomable nostril mystifies the fuming crotch of my being!!! Stop with the mooing you damned chihuahua!!! Ganglia!! Rats eat babies!" ~ happy noodle boy

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                  • #39
                    And what do you expect to do after school then? I'm sure that flipping burgers is not your first choice?
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #40
                      no. grad school. I'm taking a year off in between....if i WANTEd to i could go become a screen play writer right out of college...but i want to go get my master's and PHD. i'm hoping to find a year long internship after graduation so i can just get out of the school scene a year before i dive back into it......alot of my professors say this will stave off burn out..and i'm already burned out.
                      "Speaking on the subject of conformity: This rotting concept of the unfathomable nostril mystifies the fuming crotch of my being!!! Stop with the mooing you damned chihuahua!!! Ganglia!! Rats eat babies!" ~ happy noodle boy

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                      • #41
                        Ah, burn out. You just have to find other things (like Poly ) to counter the burn out.

                        Well, grad school is a damned good idea for an English major (really for any Liberal Arts major).
                        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                        • #42
                          I completely agree with Immy. I hated "The Scarlet Letter."

                          My fave would be "Homage to Catalonia" by Orwell.

                          I really love the "Songe of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin, though.
                          "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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                          • #43
                            /me wonders if the DNA book A Salmon of Doubt has anything to do with the Celtic myth of the Salmon of Knowledge...
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                            • #44
                              Re: so many books....

                              Originally posted by devilmunchkin
                              hands down:
                              Dante' Alighieri's "inferno" (am currently adapting a screenplay from it. )

                              others:
                              Stephen King - It
                              Anne Rice - Cry to Heaven and Queen of the Damned

                              and yes....i really like the Scarlet Letter..hawthorne fans should check out his short story "Artist of the Beautiful"

                              My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
                              Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
                              Paradise Lost by John Milton
                              The Illiad and THe Oddyssey by Homer
                              The Aeniad by Virgil
                              I am glad to notice that some people on Apolyton like to read a REAL book. Most seem to prefer rubbish, but this also applies for the public at large.
                              I find the idea to burn books disgusting. Only fascists burn books!

                              My favourites:
                              Homer: 'The Iliad', the greatest of all
                              The Bible -though a dark, dangerous and bloodthirsty book, the language is superb
                              Sophocles: 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'
                              Mahâbhârata, the epic of India
                              Tacitus: 'Annales', 'Historiae'
                              T'ang poetry by Wang Wei, Li Taibai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi
                              Béroul/G.von Strassburg: 'Tristan et Iseult' -the greatest love story ever invented
                              Dante: 'Divina comedia'
                              Shakespeare: 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'
                              Tolstoy: 'War and Peace'

                              honourable mention:
                              Cervantes: 'Don Quijote'
                              Schiller: 'Maria Stuart'
                              L.Couperus: 'De boeken der kleine zielen' (The Small Souls), 1901-03
                              Proust: 'À la recherche du temps perdu'
                              Tolkien: 'The Silmarillion'
                              Last edited by S. Kroeze; May 12, 2002, 08:50.
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                              • #45
                                Literature: Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
                                (Runner up: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens)

                                Non-Fiction: A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
                                (Runner up: A Study of History - Alfred Toynbee)

                                Fiction: Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
                                (Runner up: The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson)

                                Bio: Lincoln - Gore Vidal
                                (Runner up: Brahms - Malcolm MacDonald)

                                Humor: Hitchhiker's Guide, of course!
                                (Runner up: Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot - Al Franken)
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