...I am so getting Roger Waters' In the Flesh DVD next paycheck...

[QUOTE=zeppelinfan2k3]I read The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Republic and Metamorphoses this year. The classics are great.[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna be buying The Odyssey and the Iliad for £1.50 together some time this year :cool:

I've already got Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Don Quixote, De Profundis/The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde) and The Prince (Machiavelli) for a tenner..I love it. Almost makes up for the complete lack of decent metal.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]I love The Oddysey. A lot.

I know it isn't really a classic, but has anyone read "The Silmilarion" by Tolkien? The first part, with the world being created by a symphony of music, is really mindblowing.




That's still about $13 dollars U.S.[/QUOTE]
No, and, sucks to be Aussie :p

[QUOTE=Bartender]I'm gonna be buying The Odyssey and the Iliad for £1.50 together some time this year :cool:

I've already got Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Don Quixote, De Profundis/The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde) and The Prince (Machiavelli) for a tenner..I love it. Almost makes up for the complete lack of decent metal.[/QUOTE]
I didn't like The Prince, it seemed like common sense to me, so it was boring. Maybe I am just better than Machiavelli ;) :p

[QUOTE=zeppelinfan2k3]I didn't like The Prince, it seemed like common sense to me, so it was boring. Maybe I am just better than Machiavelli ;) :p[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it's pretty hard-going sometimes as well, but that's not surprising considering it's a tactical treatise for a Renaissance ruler, not a novel. It does have some great examples in it though (like Agathocles).

[QUOTE=Bartender]I'm gonna be buying The Odyssey and the Iliad for £1.50 together some time this year :cool:

I've already got Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Don Quixote, De Profundis/The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde) and The Prince (Machiavelli) for a tenner..I love it. Almost makes up for the complete lack of decent metal.[/QUOTE]

The Iliad wasn't as well written, I thought. But I love mythology, so it is all good. Seeing as you do Philosophy, Bartender, have you read Sophie's World? The storyline is a bit weak, but some of the concepts are really interesting.

I haven't, no, but I remember it being mentioned as a good philosophy book in the Book Club thread in the Pit (was it you that mentioned it?), who's it by?

We read it in 8th grade, it was really long winded. Really good though. Look into it for sure, don't remember who it's by though :/

Fair enough, I'll keep an eye out for it. I'm off to bed now though, as it's coming up on 2am.

nighty :wave:

[QUOTE=zeppelinfan2k3]We read it in 8th grade, it was really long winded. Really good though. Look into it for sure, don't remember who it's by though :/[/QUOTE]

Homer?

Jostein Gaarder wrote Sophie's World.

[QUOTE=Praiz]Homer?[/QUOTE]
Sophie's World.

We read it in year 12. That is to say, I read it, then re-read it, then re-read it again, while the idiots in my class struggled with the fact this book had paragraphs.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]We read it in year 12. That is to say, I read it, then re-read it, then re-read it again, while the idiots in my class struggled with the fact this book had paragraphs.[/QUOTE]
Haha, I know that feeling, luckily I went to a smart school which you had to test in to.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]We read it in year 12. That is to say, I read it, then re-read it, then re-read it again, while the idiots in my class struggled with the fact this book had paragraphs.[/QUOTE]

Try American Public schools :smash:

So many idiots.

Australian public schools are pretty much retardation defined. We don't have "special" schools here, smart, dumb and moronic are in the same class.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]Australian public schools are pretty much retardation defined. We don't have "special" schools here, smart, dumb and moronic are in the same class.[/QUOTE]
We had it because I was in a rich school district, the kids across the street had 1 million dollar houses. Mine was between 200 and 300k :/

The value of my land just went up. Half an acre in the middle of prime real estate development. :cool:


My girlfriend has four acres. :upset:

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]The value of my land just went up. Half an acre in the middle of prime real estate development. :cool:


My girlfriend has four acres. :upset:[/QUOTE]
Your gf is rich. Marry her :p

Her parents were offered a million dollars to sell! :eek:

But the offer fell through.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]Her parents were offered a million dollars to sell! :eek:

But the offer fell through.[/QUOTE]
That's a lot of money...but Auusie $< American $

I know. I can't be bothered to translate that.

i went to maui recently and holy crap...the cheapest house there is honestly like 1 million american. i live in saskatchewan where you can trade a tractor for a house.

How was the peer group retreat? Did you survive without electricity?

ya it was awesome. it was like 40 girls, and five guys including me..i was in heaven. plus i brought my acoustic guitar and there was a piano so i just found girls to jam with and we all had singalongs.


and how did you know i went on a retreat? good memory!

I stalk you. I mean, no I don't.

oh shi

Nah, I remember the Thread in the pit.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]ya it was awesome. it was like 40 girls, and five guys including me..i was in heaven. plus i brought my acoustic guitar and there was a piano so i just found girls to jam with and we all had singalongs.


and how did you know i went on a retreat? good memory![/QUOTE]
40:5 ratio :naughty:...please tell me you used that to your advantage? :p

so i decided to post in here tonight

How's that working out for you?