A Good Old Fashoned Bookburning - Page 3

Shawnee123 · 09-10-2008, 12:35 PM

I'm just being cynical Cloud...it's what I get so it's what I expect. Please don't be offended, I'm not feeling well and I'm tired of mean people (which turns me into what I hate.)[/whining threadjack]

Cloud · 09-10-2008, 12:41 PM

I think we've had this conversation about SF before, Shawnee. We can disagree. Sorry you're not feeling well!

Sundae · 09-10-2008, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I was messing with what I know are a ton of SF fans here. At least I didn't want to kill everyone or puke for having read any.

It's okay - it only made me retch, not puke

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Originally Posted by Cloud

We can disagree. Sorry you're not feeling well!

Ditto me - I only acknowledged you in my post because you like the book and you know I hate it and it felt worse not to say so.

But completely each to his (or her) own, and sorry you're feeling grim.

wolf · 09-10-2008, 03:11 PM

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Stern (had to read it for a college class, I'm still scarred.)

Anything by Nora Roberts, including all of her pseudonymous tripe.

The Lineage of the Code of Light - Jessie Ayani (which is a load of new age hoo hah that's been put in a blender and frapped. Ascended masters, Christ Consciousness, mystical vibrations, and pseudo-herstory abounds. Only reason I can't burn it is that it belongs to a friend who was very anxious that I read it. I don't know if I can make it beyond the one and a half chapters I've already finished.)

Trilby · 09-10-2008, 03:38 PM

"The secret life of bees" or whatever total waste of my life that book where those black ladies kept pouring honey on a statue of Mary...YUCK.

DanaC · 09-11-2008, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

"The secret life of bees" or whatever total waste of my life that book where those black ladies kept pouring honey on a statue of Mary...YUCK.

Now, see, I rather enjoyed that book. I like bees.

Sheldonrs · 09-11-2008, 09:46 AM

I'd also not mind if someone torched "The Silmarillon" by Tolkien.
I've tried to read it at least 5 times and 10 pages is all I could slog through.

Flint · 09-11-2008, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

I'd also not mind if someone torched "The Silmarillon" by Tolkien.
I've tried to read it at least 5 times and 10 pages is all I could slog through.

They recently went off on The Silmarillon, on the Radiohead board at Audiogalaxy.

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I don't think anyone made it that far in to tell. Like Godboy, I read about one paragraph, some such about some spirit gods or somefuck and then threw it over my bookshelf into my pile of cumrags.

Sheldonrs · 09-11-2008, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

They recently went off on The Silmarillon, on the Radiohead board at Audiogalaxy.

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"I don't think anyone made it that far in to tell. Like Godboy, I read about one paragraph, some such about some spirit gods or somefuck and then threw it over my bookshelf into my pile of cumrags. "

I couldn't do that! My cum rags are "precious" to me.

Cloud · 09-10-2008, 03:39 PM

(chuckle out loud)

Shawnee123 · 09-10-2008, 03:42 PM

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Philistinism is a derogatory term used to describe a particular attitude or set of values. A person called a Philistine (in the relevant sense), is said to despise or undervalue art, beauty, intellectual content, and/or spiritual values. Philistines are also said to be materialistic, to favor conventional social values unthinkingly, and to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal (e.g. kitsch).

Now come on, let's kitsch and make up.

Flint · 09-10-2008, 03:55 PM

Wasn't that an Emerson Lake and Palmer album?

Shawnee123 · 09-10-2008, 03:56 PM

THNORT (THQUARED)

Sheldonrs · 09-10-2008, 05:23 PM

The Bible. Aside from it being a long, boring read with so many plot holes you'd think it was swiss cheese; it has caused more problems than any other book I know.

Number 2 Pencil · 09-10-2008, 09:29 PM

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to come up with the Bible. Sure, that one collection of books has caused a lot of problems, but is it irredeemably bad? You are possibly right though in that it has caused more problems than any other book - but I think maybe the communist manifesto might be a bigger problem causer perhaps?

09-10-2008, 12:35 PM	#1
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I'm just being cynical Cloud...it's what I get so it's what I expect. Please don't be offended, I'm not feeling well and I'm tired of mean people (which turns me into what I hate.)[/whining threadjack] __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-10-2008, 12:41 PM	#2
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	I think we've had this conversation about SF before, Shawnee. We can disagree. Sorry you're not feeling well! __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

09-10-2008, 03:11 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Stern (had to read it for a college class, I'm still scarred.) Anything by Nora Roberts, including all of her pseudonymous tripe. The Lineage of the Code of Light - Jessie Ayani (which is a load of new age hoo hah that's been put in a blender and frapped. Ascended masters, Christ Consciousness, mystical vibrations, and pseudo-herstory abounds. Only reason I can't burn it is that it belongs to a friend who was very anxious that I read it. I don't know if I can make it beyond the one and a half chapters I've already finished.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-10-2008, 03:38 PM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	"The secret life of bees" or whatever total waste of my life that book where those black ladies kept pouring honey on a statue of Mary...YUCK. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

09-11-2008, 09:46 AM	#7
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	I'd also not mind if someone torched "The Silmarillon" by Tolkien. I've tried to read it at least 5 times and 10 pages is all I could slog through. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

09-10-2008, 03:39 PM	#10
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	(chuckle out loud) __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

09-10-2008, 03:55 PM	#12
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Wasn't that an Emerson Lake and Palmer album? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

09-10-2008, 03:56 PM	#13
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	THNORT (THQUARED) __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

09-10-2008, 05:23 PM	#14
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	The Bible. Aside from it being a long, boring read with so many plot holes you'd think it was swiss cheese; it has caused more problems than any other book I know. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

09-10-2008, 09:29 PM	#15
Number 2 Pencil Not too hard, not too soft Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Next to a yapping dog Posts: 75	I was wondering how long it would take for someone to come up with the Bible. Sure, that one collection of books has caused a lot of problems, but is it irredeemably bad? You are possibly right though in that it has caused more problems than any other book - but I think maybe the communist manifesto might be a bigger problem causer perhaps? __________________ Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? -Poe

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