[QUOTE=robo2448]Orwell is awesome. 1984 is one of my favorite books ever. Never has a book made me think as much as that one did. All I've read by Vonnegut is Cat's Cradle. It was really good, I should read Slaughterhouse Five sometime.
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I highly recommend it. Although, it isn't funny like Cat's Cradle. It's a much more serious view on humanity, war, etc.

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Minoritys never like them. They are bitter I reckon. Yay for being the in majority and conforming to society![/QUOTE]

The movies had the all-white good guys fighting and killing black bad guys in black armor who come from the black mountain (and yet take orders from a white wizard...hi slavery). c'mon it's hard for me to root for that.

In all seriousness the movies were just boring boring boring. It's like 3 hours of Rudy, Elijah Wood, and that faggy elf guy run up and down the country side with a few fights thrown in here and there.

[QUOTE=BigGayDumbGayQueerGay Boy]Oooh. A rebel.[/QUOTE]
Oh I see what you did with my name, two can play that game.
[QUOTE]jacaranda, the full title is "the court of the crimson king including the return of the fire witch and the dance of the puppets"[/QUOTE]
Gracious, some song names are too long. Like Jesus of Suburbia from [I]American Idiot[/I]. Ya thats right I like Green Day watch out guys bad a[SIZE="2"]s[/SIZE]s coming by.

yeah. mother night is my favorite. breakfast of champions is his most famous, it's also very good. timequake is good. basically anything he writes is golden.

[QUOTE=Illmatic]The movies had the all-white good guys fighting and killing black bad guys in black armor who come from the black mountain (and yet take orders from a white wizard...hi slavery). c'mon it's hard for me to root for that.
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Clever interpretation. :lol: I don't think I've ever heard it put that way.

[QUOTE=A stupid guy who is the opposite of cool]Oh I see what you did with my name, two can play that game.[/QUOTE]

touche

[QUOTE]My friend gave me a CD entitled 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Guess what's at number one [/QUOTE]

Uh, Stairway to Heaven, Aaron?

Props to Player Piano.
/alliteration

And I see what you guys mean on hte map thing. If there's a map in the begginning of any book, I have to check back to it every time a place is mentioned, no matter how insignificant.

[QUOTE] other ones, not so much.[/QUOTE]

c'mon they had dinosaurs in them. d-i-n-o-s-a-u-r-s!!!!

[QUOTE]Am I the only one who thinks Truckin' has some of the best Dead lyrics ever?[/QUOTE]

Yes, they have many better songs (lyric-wise)

[QUOTE]They were both pretty solid[/QUOTE]

Mickey surpasses "solid" easily. He is one of the premier "World" artists, with more knowledge in the arts of precussion than anyone else I can think of.

LOTR > Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis > J.R.R. Tolkien

[QUOTE]And I see what you guys mean on hte map thing. If there's a map in the begginning of any book, I have to check back to it every time a place is mentioned, no matter how insignificant.[/QUOTE]
Maps always make a book funner back when I used to read the Redwall series they always had a neat little map and I'd check it out, it also helps forshadow whats going to happen if they show you the trail the heroes or whatever visted.

[QUOTE]Maps always make a book funner back when I used to read the Redwall series they always had a neat little map and I'd check it out, it also helps forshadow whats going to happen if they show you the trail the heroes or whatever visted.[/QUOTE]

War of the Worlds had a cool little map on the back, so I referenced that for my final :cool:

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Maps always make a book funner back when I used to read the Redwall series they always had a neat little map and I'd check it out, it also helps forshadow whats going to happen if they show you the trail the heroes or whatever visted.[/QUOTE]

Those were exactly the books I was thinking of. Fantastic maps, and great stories too.

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Maps always make a book funner back when I used to read the Redwall series they always had a neat little map and I'd check it out, it also helps forshadow whats going to happen if they show you the trail the heroes or whatever visted.[/QUOTE]

Oooh Redwall. I loved those books back in like 6th and 7th grade. Cool books.

My grandfather funded making CS Lewis' house in Oxford into a museum because he's a crazy born-again Christian and obsesses over CS Lewis. I'm not against born-again Christians at all and I like CS Lewis a lot, but this was a big waste of money that could be going towards a fund to get me into college.

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Maps always make a book funner back when I used to read the Redwall series they always had a neat little map and I'd check it out, it also helps forshadow whats going to happen if they show you the trail the heroes or whatever visted.[/QUOTE]

Oh yes! Redwall, I thought everyone had forgotten about that series. I hope they don't try to make that into a movie, for some reason I think it would never work.

Anyone here read any Lloyd Alexander?

I wanna get a huge map of Middle Earth and hang it in my room.

NP: Allman Bros. - Midnight Rider (Hehe...me)

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82]Oh yes! Redwall, I thought everyone had forgotten about that series. I hope they don't try to make that into a movie, for some reason I think it would never work.[/QUOTE]
I dunno I could see Orlando Bloom playing a mean Martin the Warrior (Oh shi, how do I still remember that?).
I think it'd be hard doing a movie were the characters are mice and badgers. Any one seen that cartoon version they did on PBS about 3 years ago? It was horrible I wanted blood and killing but they wouldn't show even someone shooting a arrow at someone.

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82]Oh yes! Redwall, I thought everyone had forgotten about that series. I hope they don't try to make that into a movie, for some reason I think it would never work.[/QUOTE]

I think that I saw a cool little cartoon of one on public TV when I was much younger.

[QUOTE=MidnightRider]Anyone here read any Lloyd Alexander?
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I think so..... is that the series with The Black Caulrdon?

[QUOTE]Oh yes! Redwall, I thought everyone had forgotten about that series. I hope they don't try to make that into a movie, for some reason I think it would never work.[/QUOTE]

For some reason, I hope they leave those books untouched. I think I have one Redwall book, and it's the one that started it all. The one with the mouse. The first one.

Yeah.

[QUOTE]My grandfather funded making CS Lewis' house in Oxford into a museum because he's a crazy born-again Christian and obsesses over CS Lewis. I'm not against born-again Christians at all and I like CS Lewis a lot, but this was a big waste of money that could be going towards a fund to get me into college[/QUOTE]

Maybe you can get into Oxford?...prob'ly not

And yeah, Christians obsess over C.S. Lewis, he defended us and wrote brilliant apologetics.

[QUOTE]I think that I saw a cool little cartoon of one on public TV when I was much younger.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Any one seen that cartoon version they did on PBS about 3 years ago? It was horrible I wanted blood and killing but they wouldn't show even someone shooting a arrow at someone.[/QUOTE]

Oh my gah.

[QUOTE=rockinbass17]I think so..... is that the series with The Black Caulrdon?[/QUOTE]

Yep, they're some of my favorites.

I think the reason I don't want to see Redwall turned into a movie is because it was one of the first books I REALLY enjoyed and it has just because a peice of my childhood I hope never gets destoryed.

Yeah, I read them a while back. I remember liking them alot.
It's coming back to me now. My favorite one was Taran Wanderer, which I think was second to last.
I think they're better than LOTR.
Anyone here read Eargon? Or the new one?

YAYAYYWYRWE9AHJR ERAGORN the author lives like 20 mins away from me, ya sup I'm cool.

I read the first when it came out 5 years ago, it took him way too long to write a second and really don't like fantasy any more so I don't know if I'll enjoy it as much as I would've 5 years ago or whatever.

I've read some of the Redwall books. I liked them.

I like LOTR a lot. I haven't read through all the books yet, but I still like them a lot. The idea of another world is interesting.

[QUOTE]Anyone here read Eargon? Or the new one?[/QUOTE]

I've heard about those books, but have been rather skeptical to read them. The author's 17 or something, isn't he? He's pretty much set for life then. :lol:

Because this fred moves way too fast around this time of noche, I'm backtracking to the Scouts stuff. I'm in Scouts, but I do think most of the stuff in Scouts is really messed up. Basically, I'm in a troop that doesn't do any of that stupid, pointless stuff. We go on campouts, play poker, burn sh[size="2"]it[/size], etc. We do 99% of our merit badge stuff at our meetings, and in our troop it's really easy to get Eagle. I'm 14 and a Life Scout, in other words I just have to do a few more merit badges and do my Eagle project to get Eagle. A friend my age who is a lot like me, not an overachiever by any means, etc., he's already an Eagle.
Our troop basically just does fun stuff. We basically go by the rule that first-years do the half-year program at meetings to skip three ranks and get directly to First Class when it takes most people like two years, the first years get semi-hazed on campouts and stuff (nothing serious, just practical jokes), get to clean up meals and stuff, but we also basically initiate them, usually I find one cool first-year and just make him my apprentice and show him all the stupid stuff we do. We play tackle capture-the-flag at night and stuff, good times.
At summer camp we never do the stuff the whole camp does. Basically, we have a crappy regional summer camp for all the troops, so we invited ourselves to the awesome camp in the mountains, and manhandled us a really good campsite with adirondacks instead of crappy tents. Then we proceed to skip all the stupid camp-wide bonfires and stupid stuff like that to go hiking and stuff. One time me and my friend just took some first-years one day and hiked like 10 miles across the mountains and stuff. It was pretty awesome. We break open glowsticks at night and put the stuff on this one guy with a machete, and he runs through all the other campsites, into the tents, screaming and swinging the machete around randomly and stuff. We decided the food at camp sucked, so we started leaving camp every night to go to Ryan's in the town near us. Camp security came to our camp once, all they found was this one fat older guy sleeping in front of the campfire.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is, don't think all Scouts are really "Scouts" :thumb:

[QUOTE=Illmatic]The movies had the all-white good guys fighting and killing black bad guys in black armor who come from the black mountain (and yet take orders from a white wizard...hi slavery). c'mon it's hard for me to root for that.

In all seriousness the movies were just boring boring boring. It's like 3 hours of Rudy, Elijah Wood, and that faggy elf guy run up and down the country side with a few fights thrown in here and there.[/QUOTE]

Haha, not at all surprising that you'd mention something about race when talking about Lord of the Rings. Who at all thought from reading the books, that there was racism going on? It certainly didn't dawn on me. Of course, it was probably set like an extremely long ago, there weren't a whole lot of Malcoms and Martins around. I think there was sort of a racism thing going on between the hobbits and the normal men too, didn't hobbits always have to escape men? That's at least how either The Hobbit, or LotR, or some other Tolkien book was...did he even right any books that didn't relate to Middle Earth? That's intense, I heard he had entire languages completely written out and people would talk entirely in those languages at the geeky Harvard literature type social gatherings.

I still have like a page of reading to go before I'm caught up to the current conversation...so I'm just replying to this and then skipping ahead a few pages. I'll think of the best discussion yet!!! :amaze:

edit - Holy ****! ^^^ and I thought MY posts were long!!! That's insane.

[QUOTE=BigTrav415]/little boys[/QUOTE]
Wait so how old are you?

[QUOTE=Jacaranda]Wait so how old are you?[/QUOTE]
This many! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

[QUOTE=the evil corrupt machine, man!]You have included too many images in your message. You are limited to using 4 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.[/QUOTE]
I guess I'm 4 :-/

Wait, this kicks a[size="2"]ss[/size], nap time! \m/