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Reading A Farewell to Arms was like pulling teeth. Hemingway writes like a piece of wood. But I liked 1984; Orwell is the most readable of all modern-era writers, fictional or nonfictional, and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
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I don't know where you went to school, but I went to a private school that was half Mormon and half overachieving Asian-Americans. More than half the class just completely missed that Blanche's husband in Streetcar Named Desire was gay. But it was more fun in college. Huck and Jim? Gay. Ishmael and Queequeg? Obviously gay. Antonio from The Merchant of Venice? Possibly gay...
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17 years olds drink a lot and have sex.
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NikkolasKing posted:Why is a book about not being shamed by society offensive? I mean, I get that some people find the book boring, but offensive is a new one to me. Well, part of it was feminist, but most of it was "gently caress you, guy who thought laying in bed all day was a cure for depression."
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Nov 29, 2016 10:26
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Namarrgon posted:I liked the themes, I loved the setting. I hated the writing. A website about science fiction said that it's all about the concepts and what the author does with them, rather than the quality of the writing. So you lose practically nothing by just reading the wikipedia articles instead.
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