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Originally Posted by carleton
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I cleaned up the thread and moved the Nutruition discussion to a new thread: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...7200-Nutrition
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The Left Behind series, good read so far!
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Originally Posted by krustyone
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The Left Behind series, good read so far!
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Originally Posted by GMJ
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I have that book. Some day I'll read all of it. |
Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo - unabridged.
It's big but I'm finding out that for some reason the abridged versions leave out the best parts. |
Originally Posted by Santaria
(Post 13823392)
Unfortunately, I think you got raced ahead when your post should have been left behind.
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^ one hell of a book.
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Hemingway was, quite possibly, a demigod of some sort.
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When I first read that for a book report in 8th grade I thought it was boring - it sounded like he was describing everything in the flattest way possible.
By the end I got it and loved it. |
Surprising the number of people reading classics. Then again, when they make you read them in school, you often don't have enough life experience for the book to mean a damned thing. Even a few years after college, they make a lot more sense.
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Originally Posted by Doohickie
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Surprising the number of people reading classics. Then again, when they make you read them in school, you often don't have enough life experience for the book to mean a damned thing. Even a few years after college, they make a lot more sense.
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Originally Posted by Doohickie
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Surprising the number of people reading classics. Then again, when they make you read them in school, you often don't have enough life experience for the book to mean a damned thing. Even a few years after college, they make a lot more sense.
I've gone back and read a few HS books as an adult, and yeah, they have a lot more meaning. Did you guys ever realize that Romeo and Juliet were married less than 24 hours after they met? ...and are dead 3 days later. |
Also, how do they expect HS kids to understand existentialism in The Stranger by Albert Camus?
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Also, all of the Edgar Allen Poe stuff is a lot creepier when read as an adult.
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Originally Posted by carleton
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Also, how do they expect HS kids to understand existentialism in The Stranger by Albert Camus?
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Originally Posted by redpear
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Absurdism, but yeah kids don't get it, at least from personal experience.
The Stranger or The Outsider (L’Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of existentialism, though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist; in fact, its content explores various philosophical schools of thought, including (most prominently and specifically) absurdism, as well as determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism. I'm not familiar with absurdism. ACQUIRING INFORMATION IN 3...2...1... |
One cup existentialism, add a tablespoon of nihilism...
The universe is irrational anyway. Gonna go push a rock up a hill. |
Originally Posted by Mr. Hobbes
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Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo - unabridged.
It's big but I'm finding out that for some reason the abridged versions leave out the best parts. |
Another vote for the unabridged Count. One of the best revenge stories ever.
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Wittgenstein's Poker. Interesting.
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^^ Haven't read it, but I have heard the story; it does sound interesting, and Wittgenstein is a boss anyways.
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. Conservatism as a reaction against democratic challenges, in public and private life, to hierarchies of power and status.
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Originally Posted by Scooper
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. Conservatism as a reaction against democratic challenges, in public and private life, to hierarchies of power and status.
Is that any good? |
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
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