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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 6:16 pm
(December 29, 2013 at 6:11 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: It's not printed. I know that some may quibble at my use of the word "novel" to descibe the book, but, I really do think it fits: the OED defines the novel as: "a fictitious prose narrative of book length" It's fictitious, it's prose (even the song lyrics), there's some semblance of narrative, and, like I said, it's almost as long as the first Harry Potter book, so, by the standards of the Oxford English Dictionary, it is, technically, a novel.
No, no, don't get me wrong, your guy beats mine by far! It's that people who read it and like it, think that they are suddenly more sophisticated somehow for doing so. It's almost like subscribing Cosmo and saying that you are an avid reader. [/angry rant by girl, who spent as much time as she could in the library since she was four]
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 6:27 pm
(December 29, 2013 at 6:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Chick Tracts? They're more comics than books, but unless you're reading it to get a laugh out of it, I'd say avoid it.
They're kind of interesting from a more academic standpoint. You can use them to get a pretty good look at how the religious far right in the United States thinks, but other than that, their uses are relegated to their humor value, and to their potential use as kindling for a fire in the wastelands if there's ever a global thermonuclear exchange. Even when I used to be more inclined toward Christianity, I thought that Jack Chick was batshit insane.
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 6:29 pm
(December 29, 2013 at 6:16 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: No, no, don't get me wrong, your guy beats mine by far! It's that people who read it and like it, think that they are suddenly more sophisticated somehow for doing so. It's almost like subscribing Cosmo and saying that you are an avid reader. [/angry rant by girl, who spent as much time as she could in the library since she was four] Well, about the only way you could seriously claim to be more sophisticated after reading 50 Shades of Grey is if it inspired you to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles and you got shocked that it isn't anything like the book E.L. James says it is and get pissed at her and not Thomas Hardy for that.
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 6:59 pm
The Fucking Bible and the Fucking Koran should be avoided. Bad shit in both.
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 7:01 pm
Many people already avoid much of the bible, even those who are christians. Keep picking those cherries, guys.
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 7:16 pm
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Romeo and Juliet sucks. Made a great plot for the movie warm bodies though.
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RE: Books to stay away from
December 29, 2013 at 9:47 pm
(December 29, 2013 at 6:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The Fucking Bible and the Fucking Koran should be avoided. Bad shit in both.
I think that the Bible is worth reading, or at least parts of it are. You just have to read it with the assumption that it's mythological, because it's frankly really comforting to know that parts of it never happened. Some of the Psalms are beautiful examples of ancient poetry on par with Ovid or Homer, and the teachings of Jesus are generally good to the extent that they've been preserved. They have to be sifted, but that's true when it comes to any moral philosophy from that time period. Other than that, the morality can get pretty abysmal, and the writing in some parts can be boring (obviously Leviticus wasn't ever meant to be entertaining, but ouch).
The Quran might have some good points but, to be honest, it's really hard to read for any length of time. People say that it's beautiful poetry in the Arabic, but in an English translation, it just seems choppy and repetitive.
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