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his prose is really amazing, it is a shame he's basically a douche

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu_article.shtml

Also, Updike's Kerouac parody is very very funny and very OTM. It's called "On The Sidewalk" and is about three year olds.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

although wtf at the stupid hippy girl that asked me what LOLITA was and then got all shocked and grody'd when i gave her the rough plot outline

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

WHO IS DANNIELYNN'S DADDY

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

ok was she like 12 years old because otherwise she sounds retarded

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

well it's fair to get grody'd by the rough plotline of Lolita!!! that she hadn't heard of it is kind of wtfy

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been carrying around a fucking book for like a month and haven't even cracked it open, i need to really stop being unable to read.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

she is old enough to BUY BEER!

....bear in mind, at least 7/10 ppl at this fucking school would have the same reaction

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like it's really hard to live in the west and not know of Lolita? like, gross old men call young girls they're into Lolitas in like movie reviews all the time. you don't need to have read the book to know about it.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

like like like

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah basically, i mean it's a rather common cultural touchstone to use so i'm unsure how someone could not have at least a vague idea of what it is about.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

well yeah, horseshoe, but given the fact that the title of the book alone now means something to legions of porn, uh, fanciers, there's got to be some kind of recognition for someone that hasn't actually read the book

beartraps

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, she is stupid

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the end

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, totally, gbx.

now I'm just going to sound like the biggest baby to all of you who have real jobs keeping you from reading, but reading novels on a schedule to be tested on them kind of warps the pleasure a little bit. but I am very lucky that my "work" is reading them, I know.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

no i agree. i don't think i would have enjoyed Moby Dick as much if I had read it in a classroom.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i should just go back to reading plays, it is apparently impossible for me to finish a novel anymore.

beartrap uh yeah reading massive amounts of books and novels on a deadline basically destroyed the idea of ever reading again for me so i am totally with you on that.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

that is why i hated being an english major, horseshoe ;_;

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, it is totally shameful that I had never read an updike novel, so now I can feel okay about that.

so Malkmus plays fantasy football? love!

xpost, gbx are you currently taking all the science you missed as an english major so you can go to med school? if so, you are my parents' wet dream, I have to say. I loved being an English major but graduate school is not college and I am a big baby.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

that is exactly what i'm doing horseshoe. the problem is that it means that i have regressed from being an adult with a job to being in classes with idiot 19 year olds from rural eastern Montana.

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

why are you attending the air force academy

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i had a bio lab a few weeks ago that basically involved telling us that plants that look different may have (a) come from different seeds or (b) been subjected to different growing conditions.

WHOA

beartrap zing!

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

after grad school I don't think I've finished a single book that wasn't IT-related. I used to read tons of novels esp 19th century but no longer! although I did pick up a copy of anna karenina a few weeks ago.. haven't read that since junior year, high school

― daria-g, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

YES YES YES WORK FOR DISTINCTION THESIS IDEA CAME TO ME IN LECTURE TODAY (actually my professor responded to a comment I made with a very pointed "SOMEONE COULD WRITE A REALLY GOOD PAPER ON THAT IF THEY WOULD COME TALK TO ME ABOUT IT"). I WILL NOT FAIL.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

get in there!

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I've had an anthology of American film critics for about 4 months, and am around p. 20 (Carl Sandburg reviewing silents).

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite english teacher in high school used to say that Anna Karenina "isn't a book you read, it's a book you live in." 19th century novel is where my heart is, so I had to decide not to work on it.

xpost yay Jessie!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

horseshoe are you in english grad school? I mean grad school for english lit, not grad school in england.

I think the really gross, sad, pathetic thing about at least me, if not other current/future/past grad students is how we really really like to talk about school and class and papers on ghost-worship in Taiwan and really boring shit.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been rereading the same couple books over and over again, haven't touched recent fiction in years...

i intended to pick up the new pynchon but i should probably just go back and try mason and dixon again

or, you know, keep rereading nabokov and saki

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

also a very large beartrap to gbx: I can top your biology lab. In political geography (I have to take this class to graduate), I have learned that there is, in fact, OIL in the middle east and it is, in fact, of political significance.

I don't read books that aren't about Asia anymore. :( I still read comics sometimes tho.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in grad school for english lit, Jessie, yes. also known as pointless will never got a job school.

I know, I can now at least recognize the faraway look normal people get when I end up talking about you know, everything I talk about. English grad students=worst because we take stuff everyone loves like books + TV and make it stupid.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

try m&d again!

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

that's okay i spent 15 minutes the other day (ie last night) discussing how you'd secure an airway on a guy that, say, just sustained a bullet wound in his trachea

beartrap i was doing v v well on Mason and Dixon this fall, and then midterms showed up. i was really enjoying it! ;_;

trappin' that's why i sorta gave up on english majoring, duder

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

and drowning in self-loathing about it doesn't seem to stop us from doing it, as you can see. ANYWAY.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

When I get really drunk I talk about governance in east asia, like, a lot. :( I think I went on for like an hour once.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

nah, everybody talks shop, ghost-worship in taiwan is interesting! it's just.. what depressed the hell out of me was that the goal of grad school was to specialize to the point that nobody can even TALK to you and in order to do that you had to spend many hours in libraries also not really getting to talk to anyone

maybe I should reread moby dick

speaking of which.. who wants to go get some kabob?

― daria-g, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

that is awesome, though, Jessie, at least you have a body of knowledge!!! same to you, gbx

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

beartrap i know i should mw! i basically quit it -- along with tristam shandy, which is kinda even more sad -- when i got a real job!

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i know a lot about blogs now :/

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love to reread moby dick at a glacial pace when my stupid exams are over.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dude shit tristam shandy, i was going to try to read that this summer, but i was looking at it a few sundays ago and there's noooo way. too many dashes

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

the last book i read was like maybe 130 pgs and i still struggled to get through it even though i enjoyed it so i just give up, basically.

maybe i should just bring books to work and openly read them in the office and ignore everyone else.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

omg daria is so 8080 about the ultimate goal of grad school it is hilarious.

at least I find other people's subjects to be extremely fascinating as well; this is my one saving grace.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I disapprove of the 18th century for precisely that reason. spastic punctuation and spelling and capitalization.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll talk about pretty much anything when i'm drunk, guys

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

also i stopped reading the new pynchon somewhere in the middle when the semester started up again, i don't think i'll be going back. it was entertaining, but not like m&d

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I read all of I Am Legend over Christmas break! I just remembered! I also got like 50 pages into V and then I landed in Boston and funtime was over.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Ally, when I was working in DC, I got to that point. I just stuck my novel underneath my keyboard and was pretty shameless about reading it.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the only pynchon books i've successfully complete are Vineland and Lot 49

one of these was much, much better than the other one

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I really ought to be reading books on the subway to and from work but instead I just read the EXPRESS cover to cover which is a totally inane waste of eveyone's time since we watch CNN and MSNBC in here all day and I already know all of it except the bits about Trans Am coming back and a couple of other local interest indie dork tales

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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