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justinsayne
Cody Rhodes is an excellant
Go watch Superman Returns & Jack the Giant Slayer, you'll see just how far he's fallen since X2.
As am I, though I won't be going in with my hopes as high as they would've been if Vaugn was back in the directing chair, too bad he had to lets his dick get in the way...
God I fucking hope so, their a few comic characters I fined as annoying as fucking Deadpool.
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The bar has risen so far that I'm keeping my expectations low for Days of the Future Past. The potential is there, but I can't imagine Singer reaching it.
justinsayne
Cody Rhodes is an excellant
The only two books I recall reading in school were Of Mice & Men & The Green Mile, I also think they were the only two books that were assigned reading that I actually finished.
A Modest Proposal was the best thing I read in high school as well, and there's actually a somewhat humorous story behind it. I was in an AP English class of about 12 kids, and my teacher had assigned the essay to us to read for homework, and literally nobody in the class read it because we were a bunch of lazy smart kids who, like you, had been able to get straight A's in all of our previous English classes without reading the book because we were too smart to do any of the actual work. When he found out that we didn't read it, he made us all read it in class, and after the first few paragraphs I looked up and said, "This is the best thing I've ever read."
So I guess it's not all that funny, but it's a story.
One time I tried to do an homage to it in the Cigar Lounge by suggesting that the United States execute white collar criminals, but nobody got it.
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Brave New World and To Kill a Mockingbird are also on my list of assigned reading favorites. Add to that Animal Farm, Alas, Babylon, and The Odyssey.
The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men were both kinda 'meh' to me, though. I didn't identify or sympathize with anyone in Gatsby, and I could not take Of Mice and Men seriously at the time. I thought it was sappy, and I honestly could not dissociate Lenny from the cartoon "which way did he go, George? which way did he go?" characters that he inspired.
In retrospect I am disappointed in my school's failure to include 1984 or Brave New World in my time in high school. I would go on to read both books of course and they're two of my all time favorites, but I feel like it would have been nice to read them in high school instead of some of the shit we read instead, like A Separate Peace.
I hated 1984, as did most of my English class my first semester of college. The book was dreadful. Though I did quite well on the test. It is a book that I'd consider reading over if I ever get around to that.
As for books I enjoyed through school I can narrow it down to Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Fantastic pieces of work and also 3 books I need to read over just because. I actually can't recall reading any other books in high school as I likely didn't enjoy them or I don't care enough to remember them.
As for books I enjoyed through school I can narrow it down to Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Fantastic pieces of work and also 3 books I need to read over just because. I actually can't recall reading any other books in high school as I likely didn't enjoy them or I don't care enough to remember them.
I loved 1984. I think I actually read that one out of choice.
I never read The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye in High School. We read a lot of short stories, though - Harrison Bergeron and Sound Of Thunder are to this day my two favorite short pieces.
We read Lord of The Flies (I really hate this book), a lot of Steinbeck including Of Mice And Men which I loved, To Kill A Mockingbird which was also excellent, a lot of Hemingway which I get a lot of my writing inspiration from despite not actually enjoying the books that much, and a few plays like various Shakespeare ones and Raisin In The Sun.
In ninth grade I had a lot of Summer reading and one of the books was about some young genius who contracted a fatal illness, as told by his father. It was called Death Be Not Proud. That's all well and good, but the kid was such a smug know-it-all that by the end of it I didn't care that he died. Fuck that book.
Oh, we also read some Voltaire. That was neat.
My favorite things I read in high school not out of choice were probably Of Mice And Men, Dante's Inferno, and Harrison Bergeron, with Hemingway's In Our Time being enjoyed in a nontraditional sense.
I never read The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye in High School. We read a lot of short stories, though - Harrison Bergeron and Sound Of Thunder are to this day my two favorite short pieces.
We read Lord of The Flies (I really hate this book), a lot of Steinbeck including Of Mice And Men which I loved, To Kill A Mockingbird which was also excellent, a lot of Hemingway which I get a lot of my writing inspiration from despite not actually enjoying the books that much, and a few plays like various Shakespeare ones and Raisin In The Sun.
In ninth grade I had a lot of Summer reading and one of the books was about some young genius who contracted a fatal illness, as told by his father. It was called Death Be Not Proud. That's all well and good, but the kid was such a smug know-it-all that by the end of it I didn't care that he died. Fuck that book.
Oh, we also read some Voltaire. That was neat.
My favorite things I read in high school not out of choice were probably Of Mice And Men, Dante's Inferno, and Harrison Bergeron, with Hemingway's In Our Time being enjoyed in a nontraditional sense.
I always saw many similarities between Saxton and The Old Man and the Sea.
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Sorry to say this, but I hated most "Classic American Literature". I have a few authors I enjoy like Poe, Hawthorne, and Hemingway, but I hated Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gatsby, etc.
I guess in high school I was already reading 900+ page sci fi and fantasy novels as well as books on various religions so I certainly had a love for reading, but I had zero interest in a lot of the books we had to actually read for school.
Oh and Beowulf. Nothing against it, I get the historical importance of it, but we did not need to spend 14 fucking weeks on a book that took me all of one hour to read through. Every day for two weeks we'd get an assignment to read 10 pages or so. It was the easiest semester of my life but my god was I bored by the time we finally moved on to Chaucer.
Edit: Also Mr. Lovecraft. Easily one of my favorite authors.
I guess in high school I was already reading 900+ page sci fi and fantasy novels as well as books on various religions so I certainly had a love for reading, but I had zero interest in a lot of the books we had to actually read for school.
Oh and Beowulf. Nothing against it, I get the historical importance of it, but we did not need to spend 14 fucking weeks on a book that took me all of one hour to read through. Every day for two weeks we'd get an assignment to read 10 pages or so. It was the easiest semester of my life but my god was I bored by the time we finally moved on to Chaucer.
Edit: Also Mr. Lovecraft. Easily one of my favorite authors.
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Ditto. I read it before I got it assigned for a class and have read once or twice it since. Definitely a personal fave.
JGlass my man, sorry I haven't gotten to you about it sooner but yes, I watched Boy this past weekend.
It was a sweet little flick. Nothing spectacular, but I really enjoyed the innocence of the main character and good-hearted nature the movie had regarding him and Rocky. The New Zealand culture was a bit weird, but I'm used to experiencing that feeling with other foreign films. My main gripe though was that there were times where I could not understand what was being said. I really wished I could have watched the film with sub-titles.
But yeah man, overall I enjoyed it. Like I said, the film really had a good heart and it's difficult to achieve that these days without being cheesy. They also didn't go too far with the depressing stuff for cheap tear jerk reactions. I also loved all the little eighties American pop culture references as well. That was a really nice touch.
Thanks again for the recommendation and going through all the trouble of uploading it yourself so I could check it out.
It was a sweet little flick. Nothing spectacular, but I really enjoyed the innocence of the main character and good-hearted nature the movie had regarding him and Rocky. The New Zealand culture was a bit weird, but I'm used to experiencing that feeling with other foreign films. My main gripe though was that there were times where I could not understand what was being said. I really wished I could have watched the film with sub-titles.
But yeah man, overall I enjoyed it. Like I said, the film really had a good heart and it's difficult to achieve that these days without being cheesy. They also didn't go too far with the depressing stuff for cheap tear jerk reactions. I also loved all the little eighties American pop culture references as well. That was a really nice touch.
Thanks again for the recommendation and going through all the trouble of uploading it yourself so I could check it out.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it. If I remember correctly I think I recommended it to you because you said you wanted to see more indy films that were light hearted and fun, and it seems like that's exactly what you took out of this movie, so success!
Yeah, the goofy 80s pop culture references were great, and I love when characters have really unique, really weird goals, like being able to dance like Michael Jackson.
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Damn it! They just had to put it on against Hell's Kitchen.
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If this were to happen I expect our shenanigans to continue. Reunited and it feels soooo good.
If this were to happen I expect our shenanigans to continue. Reunited and it feels soooo good.
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I never once had a book assigned to me in High School. The last book I remember reading for school was The Giver in the 8th Grade.
justinsayne
Cody Rhodes is an excellant
I think we were suppose to read the Giver in 8th grade also... I tapped out about half way through the book & just skipped to the final chapter.
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