nm singing along bobbing my head you know how u do with paramore

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I hate writing papers on Shakespeare because his works are so well-known and extensively studied that it's hard to say something originally insightful about his plays.

Also, my professor has a PhD in Shakespeare and is sort of a hard line douche bag. Meh.

Eat his brains to gain his knowledge.

I think I'm doing a zombie pub crawl soon, actually.

sup nigs?

I wish I could do a pub crawl... :(

pub crawls blow.

[QUOTE=whitesquares;17528069]I hate writing papers on Shakespeare because his works are so well-known and extensively studied that it's hard to say something originally insightful about his plays.

Also, my professor has a PhD in Shakespeare and is sort of a hard line douche bag. Meh.[/QUOTE]

our tests on Shakespeare in English were limited to "what did person x say in act y in play z". it was ridiculous. you had to know Hamlet word by word. yay.

hamlet is good enough to warrant that though

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo;17529125]pub crawls blow.[/QUOTE]

What I meant to say is that I wish I could drink at a bar in the United States legally. Can't wait for my next north or south of the border excursion.

[QUOTE=Iluvatar;17529153]hamlet is good enough to warrant that though[/QUOTE]

no. it's quite sh'it actually.

Hamlet is tight. I never really got into any other Shakespeare, though.

I much prefer MacBeth and Romeo & Juliette.

MacBeth is my favorite Shakespeare, but Hamlet is really multifaceted and brilliant, I think you are just experiencing some unwarranted hate there man

I really liked that move Romeo + Juliet starring Leo.

Hamlet is awesome, probably my favorite.

Twelfth Night is a close second, though. Hilarious.

Shakespear is great. I really enjoyed A Midsummer's Night Dream (prob my favorite), Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet. Othello I never really dug.

I need to read Macbeth.

Also Chris, despite me getting Lunar Park over a year and a half ago, I still haven't read it, but some girl I know that was bored with Less Than Zero while reading said that Lunar Park is one of her favorite books. I think I'm going to pick it up from her tonight.

i've always liked shakespeare, but i'm not a fan of reading plays really so i don't really go out of my way to read his stuff.

currently:
last exit to brooklyn - hubert selby jr.

ive always wanted to read that, and requiem for a dream. I've been working on [I]The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test[/I] by Tom Wolfe for a while but school reading has interfered with that. Not that I'm complaining though, one of the readings for my environmental class is [I]Hot, Flat And Crowded[/I] by Thomas Friedman, great book. I re-read [I]Animal Farm[/I] and read [I]Post Office[/I] by Bukowski (one of the funniest books ever written, immediate favorite) this summer which was great and read [I]On The Road[/I] which was long overdue. Next on my list is probably [I]The Road[/I] by Cormac McCarthy.

Cob: Read it man! It's a fantastic book, relatively easy read. It's definitely got that dark Ellis humor which goes great with the heavy emotional and psychological implications the book offers. Do you know the premise at all? It's like a pseudo-autobiography but it's reeeeeealllly out there with all these weird supernatural elements. It's like Stephen King mixed with [I]The Informers[/I] or something. I would also suggest to you [I]White Noise[/I] by Don DeLillo, one of the best books I've read. Or [I]Naked Lunch[/I] by William S. Burroughs if you enjoyed the really graphic, intense subject matter of [I]American Psycho[/I]. Or [I]Post Office[/I] if you're in the mood for something lighter and ridiculously funny.

give me realism to read guys.

chris, def pick them up if you get a chance. great great reads, and requiem is a far more satisfying read than a movie, and i LOVE that movie. be prepared to feel like all kinds of hell though afterwards. i cried when i read what happened to sara goldfarb.

i'm looking at a list of realist authors and I've only read works by Twain and Jack London. And [I]The Jungle[/I] by Sinclair which is awesome

oh yeah and cob, i would say pick up [I]Bright Lights, Big City[/I] by Jay McInerney. He was part of the 'literary brat pack' with Ellis and they swap characters a lot in their novels.

I understand the basic premise of Lunar Park, yeah. The girl that read it said it actually got her a bit scared in some parts.

I've been told to read White Noise before, I think I'll add that to my long list of books I want to check out.

Thanks for the recommendations.

np, also virgin suicides if you haven't read that

I haven't read much fiction, so chances are, any recommendation will be something new to me.

[QUOTE=cbmartinez;17530108]np, also virgin suicides if you haven't read that[/QUOTE]

great read. love the point-of-view.

less than zero was one of the few books i finished and thought to myself

"****... what a waste".

:lol:

My mom and I used to watch the movie a lot when I was a little kid

**** all that ****, but [I]The Jungle[/I] is soooo classic.

[QUOTE=cobert;17530100]I understand the basic premise of Lunar Park, yeah. The girl that read it said it actually got her a bit scared in some parts.

I've been told to read White Noise before, I think I'll add that to my long list of books I want to check out.

Thanks for the recommendations.[/QUOTE]

Just finished White Noise myself and loved it. I recommend that and Underworld by him.

Ellis was only good for American Psycho, the rest of his work is average at best.

Check out The Third Policeman by Flann O' Brien, it's what I'm reading now and it's very cool.

Dostoevsky is my favorite writer, and anything by him is a sure hit.

Kosinski - The Painted Bird is an awesome, brutal war novel.
Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon does that whole dystopia thing perfectly

Edwin Abbott's Flatland is one of my favorites too.

Flatland is cute

[QUOTE=Matt?;17530151]less than zero was one of the few books i finished and thought to myself

"****... what a waste".[/QUOTE]

yr gay

I never read that book but I've heard mostly good things about it. I gotta buy it.

which one?

also, lol at you reading a book

Dude **** off I'm mad literate.

which book are you talking about

Less Than Zero derp.