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Jerry Mumphrey posted:in an intro philosophy class in university we had to buy a play that the prof wrote. it was plato fan fiction and you better believe plato did some loving in it link??
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i read a Shakespeare play a year in high school and they got progressively better. Romeo and Juliet sucked, Julius Caeser was okay, Hamlet was great, and Macbeth owned bones. strange.
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symbolic posted:i read a Shakespeare play a year in high school and they got progressively better. Romeo and Juliet sucked, Julius Caeser was okay, Hamlet was great, and Macbeth owned bones. strange. same thing with if you read a lot of late 19th century poo poo lit for the masses, i marathonned even the most boring and unknown sherlock holmes stories a couple years ago and now dickens is a lot easier to read. still paid by the word though
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symbolic posted:i read a Shakespeare play a year in high school and they got progressively better. Romeo and Juliet sucked, Julius Caeser was okay, Hamlet was great, and Macbeth owned bones. strange. Hamlet's the best, but Macbeth is good too.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Some believe the play is actually a parody of the utra-violent revenge plays that were really popular in the era. We enjoyed Macbeth. I think it was mostly the violence.
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Feb 2, 2016 21:45
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Nanomashoes posted:Hamlet's the best, but Macbeth is good too.
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symbolic posted:i read a Shakespeare play a year in high school and they got progressively better. Romeo and Juliet sucked, Julius Caeser was okay, Hamlet was great, and Macbeth owned bones. strange. We did Shakespeare-a-Year too, except it was: 9: Romeo and Juliet 10: A Midsummer Night's Dream 11: Julius Caesar 12: Macbeth I hated Romeo and Juliet but we at least had the opportunity to watch the insane Baz Luhrman adaptation after going through the script. Caesar was okay and Macbeth owned. A Midsummer Night's Dream was so incredibly loving dumb and everyone hated it. I didn't do Hamlet until first year of university.
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Feb 2, 2016 21:57
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symbolic posted:i was a lot more into the story of Macbeth, dunno why. maybe because it was 12th grade AP English, so anything that was actually semi-entertaining was a godsend. Macbeth is one of his shortest plays and Macbeth the character has like 60% of the total lines in it, and it's mostly focused on the Christian implications of Macbeth's actions and and his wife's guilt. Hamlet is his longest and has all sorts of poo poo in it besides the general revenge play on life, death, depression, war, love, surveillance, paranoia, insanity, etc. and you get amazing and beautiful speeches like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXixlEy5Gfc
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Feb 2, 2016 22:13
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Mak0rz posted:We did Shakespeare-a-Year too, except it was: we did macbeth my sophomore year, which i think maybe fits that age better because it's got plenty of blood and ambition, and throne of blood for the weebs. we did twelfth night my senior year. young enough to still enjoy nonstop sex jokes and toilet humor, experienced enough to kinda decipher shakespearean english a part of me wants to drop romeo and juliet from high school curriculum. it's a story about young love, but also a huge parody of it. 14-year-olds will really only see the first half of that
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i'm trying to find it! i wish i could remember the title e: oh poo poo found it all in glorious pdf https://www.uleth.ca/dspace/bitstream/handle/10133/2147/retreat.pdf?sequence=1 Jerry Mumphrey fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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Feb 2, 2016 22:23
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gently caress you if you don't like Twain, Chaucer, Doyle and Faulkner . Kids who wouldn't shut up about Poe were always tremendous self important fuckheads
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what the gently caress?
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FishionMailed posted:what the gently caress? this is a book i was required to purchase and may still own somewhere
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Booblord Zagats posted:gently caress you if you don't like Twain, Chaucer, Doyle and Faulkner .
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Feb 2, 2016 22:36
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This thread is for bad books, pal, not good ones.
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Feb 2, 2016 22:38
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best Poe is the one where Scheherazade tells another story on the 1002nd night about Sinbad riding Cthulhu around the world and it's so dumb the sultan has her killed
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what I'm saying is lovecraft nerds are worse than poe nerds
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Plato with the literal balls of steel
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The White Dragon posted:
I also did a Sherlock Holmes marathon and enjoyed it, there's a really well formatted collection in the kindle store 19th century writers are pretty cool. Poe is good, and I liked a lot of his short stores, despite the fact that he likes to use French and Latin quite a bit and the kindle collection I had didn't have translations for some reason. I tried to enjoy Kipling to read more about colonial India, after having to read a passage to India by E.M. Forster for a history class, but didn't get through the man who would be king.
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boom boom boom posted:In some middlechool class the textbook just like, a collection of several classic short novels. I was always a fast reader, so when he were supposed to be reading a chapter of whatever we were actually reading, I would get done like halfway through the allotted reading time, so i just started reading Where the Red Fern Grows by myself. I have zero memory of what the actual book the class was reading was, but I still remember that Where the Red Fern Grows owned. my only memory of where the red fern grows is when we watched the movie, and that little kid fell on the axe, and i had to leave the classroom because i laughed so hard
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I remember we read a short story about a teacher who went loving nuts and went on a murder spree with a katana and grenades and made poo poo puns like, "FIRST COME FIRST SEVERED!" And even as a dumb kid we knew it was really loving retarded.
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Feb 2, 2016 23:30
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in high school we had to read this book out loud in class taking turns and it was about some black slave kid on a plantation, and every student kept pausing uncomfortably and then saying ahem... 'the ennnn werdddddd' every time it came up. at one point i actually read aloud the word friend of the family (heh... im a edge lord  ) and people were like 
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Erothymia: I'll get you to agree to my theory. More wine? (She circles both nipples with her fingers.) If you agree that this whatever-you-call-it-theory is true, you can have me. (She lifts her tunic, exposing herself to Plato.) Oooh, what's this? Something you want? Plato: (Indifferently) Your theory is false  just picturing ur professor having ur class read this lol
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Feb 3, 2016 00:56
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this is the author of plato's sex journey: Sean O'Connell  u can buy the plato sex book for $400 used, $700 new 
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i dont know what the best was but it really stuck in my mind how shite the old man and the sea was
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when is oprah going to join our book club and give us all free cars
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Feb 3, 2016 01:07
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you have to write a false autobiography about your exciting life first
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I like the stealthy cave pun/reference. 5/5
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9th grade, Ethan Frome. That book sucked balls.
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The Scarlet Letter and anything by James Joyce (except for his fart fetish letters to Nora Barnacle those were great)
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Cuckoo posted:The Scarlet Letter and anything by James Joyce (except for his fart fetish letters to Nora Barnacle those were great) Finnegans Wake is really good if you get drunk, open to a random page, and read it aloud through a drunken slur until you get bored. I can't imagine anyone forcing Joyce on high school students though.
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happyhippy posted:Far from the Madding Crowd I had to read this for academic decathlon and it was loving awful. Of course CliffNotes were a thing, so I just read those and got 3rd place at regionals on the essay we had to write on it. Thomas Hardy sucks rear end and I wish he would have died before he wrote this piece of poo poo. I mean come on, who the gently caress has a character named Bathsheba?
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gently caress da Mods posted:this is the author of plato's sex journey:   (on ebay for like $5)
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Feb 3, 2016 03:59
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Plato's Retreat by Sean O'Connell.
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Ryoshi posted:I can't imagine anyone forcing Joyce on high school students though.
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gently caress da Mods posted:this is the author of plato's sex journey: drat i should check my parents house, that's walkin around money
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240 pages of Plato rebuffing the advances of a super-hot chick who like totally wants to do him, but Plato's like "Nah, babe. Philosophy is the only woman for me". 
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