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RE: Felicitations
July 19, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Haha, I'll try. I'm reading Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre. Then I have an interesting book called The Denial of Death.
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RE: Felicitations
July 19, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Whatever you do, don't bother with that Fifty Shades nonsense that everyone is cooing about. My mother talked me into reading it, and I barely made it past the second book. It was wretched!

All the women I know are just raving about it. I asked one of them why she liked it so much, and she told me it was the first books she's ever read. Really? No wonder she wouldn't have a clue that it's the most poorly written book in existence, aside from the bible. All the sex stuff in it was stupid, yet all these women are getting all red-cheeked and crazy over it.

They must be horribly repressed.


If you like historical fiction, Karen Maitland has some really great books. I reccomend A Company of Liars. It's a reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It's really amazing.
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RE: Felicitations
July 19, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Haha, I think that's why Twilight was popular... And now they don't even need to read the books!
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RE: Felicitations
July 19, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Oh, I know, but this is much worse! They're making movies of these awful books too.

What killed me is that at least once on every page, the main character "flushes", "blushes", or "flushes scarlet". All she had to do was think about something, and she flushed. I was ready to flush the whole goddamn thing by the fourth chapter of the first book. Seriously, one time she flushed/blushed three times on one motherfucking page. It was ridiculous.

Another thing that bothered the everlivingshit out of me was that constantly she was saying what her "subconscious" was thinking, feeling, doing, etc. This is a terrible misuse of that word, because if you're subconscious really was making it's actions known to you, it wouldn't be your subconscious at all. It was retarded.
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RE: Felicitations
July 19, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Wow I am quite glad I never chose to read that series. Sounds amazingly bad.

I heard you mention historical fiction is that an interest of yours? And if so have you ever heard of the book "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault?
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(July 21, 2012 at 12:31 am)cato123 Wrote:
(July 21, 2012 at 12:22 am)C.W. Sims Wrote: I for one, as a homo, must say that if he was a homo, then he had to have looked fabulous on that cross. Nearly naked, body all ripped, oh wait.... yeah, never mind. I'm gonna just stop right there before I offend anyone. ROFLOL

I have a certain distaste for the emoticons, and particularly despise the laughing/rolling dude when used in response to one's own statement, but.....

Holy fuck that was funny! "Nearly naked, body all ripped,....". Oh, fuck me. I'm still laughing but can no longer piss myself since I've emptied the tank.
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RE: Felicitations
July 19, 2012 at 11:09 pm
(July 19, 2012 at 8:05 pm)C.W. Sims Wrote: Wow I am quite glad I never chose to read that series. Sounds amazingly bad.

I heard you mention historical fiction is that an interest of yours? And if so have you ever heard of the book "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault?

I adore historical fiction. I have not heard of that book, but I'm almost certain I've read something by that author.

I'll have to check it out.
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RE: Felicitations
July 20, 2012 at 12:22 am
(July 19, 2012 at 11:09 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I adore historical fiction. I have not heard of that book, but I'm almost certain I've read something by that author.

I'll have to check it out.

It is about Bagoas, the Persian boy who was one of the lovers of Alexander the Great. It is an amazing story. I fell in love with the character of Bagoas and was simply amazed at all of the stuff he went through. Of course it's fiction, but she did her research and set it in as realistic frame as possible not knowing all the facts. I am quite sure if you read it you will like it.
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(July 21, 2012 at 12:31 am)cato123 Wrote:
(July 21, 2012 at 12:22 am)C.W. Sims Wrote: I for one, as a homo, must say that if he was a homo, then he had to have looked fabulous on that cross. Nearly naked, body all ripped, oh wait.... yeah, never mind. I'm gonna just stop right there before I offend anyone. ROFLOL

I have a certain distaste for the emoticons, and particularly despise the laughing/rolling dude when used in response to one's own statement, but.....

Holy fuck that was funny! "Nearly naked, body all ripped,....". Oh, fuck me. I'm still laughing but can no longer piss myself since I've emptied the tank.
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RE: Felicitations
July 20, 2012 at 9:46 am
Welcome CW
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RE: Felicitations
July 20, 2012 at 11:36 am
(July 20, 2012 at 9:46 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Welcome CW

Why thank you.
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(July 21, 2012 at 12:31 am)cato123 Wrote:
(July 21, 2012 at 12:22 am)C.W. Sims Wrote: I for one, as a homo, must say that if he was a homo, then he had to have looked fabulous on that cross. Nearly naked, body all ripped, oh wait.... yeah, never mind. I'm gonna just stop right there before I offend anyone. ROFLOL

I have a certain distaste for the emoticons, and particularly despise the laughing/rolling dude when used in response to one's own statement, but.....

Holy fuck that was funny! "Nearly naked, body all ripped,....". Oh, fuck me. I'm still laughing but can no longer piss myself since I've emptied the tank.
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RE: Felicitations
July 20, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Welcome, C.W. Smile

(July 19, 2012 at 7:24 pm)aleialoura Wrote:


This amused me Big Grin
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