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indigi posted:it's so funny when teachers try to stop kids from reading books they like and instead make it a stupid chore  That also reminds me that in like third grade my teacher said to write a book summary "like on the jacket of a book" (or something like that) and so I wrote it exactly like it would be on a book jacket and omitted the conclusion and then they were like "why didn't you describe the ending of the book?" and I felt incredibly dumb but looking back on it I feel like it's 100% their fault, so there.
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Achmed Jones posted:assuming you mean redwall stuff, idk, but im lookin forward to reading these to him as well yeah that’s the one
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No, just read George R. R. Martin to your child
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mystes posted:This happened to me constantly in elementary school even when it wasn't for reports or anything. I was reading above my grade level so they could have not harassed me if I sometimes wanted to read choose your own adventure books or whatever during the time when we were allowed to read whatever we wanted. it was their fault!!! I had an assignment like that in a history survey course where had to write about, I forget the exact ethnic subgroup, as if we were the area's governor (who happened to be an orthodox bishop at the time) informing the new Kahn about the peoples under his rule. so I did exactly that (minus the racist hypothesizing) I went to office hours to dispute my grade and she said "why did you spend so much time on their failures/lack of education/etc but not mention their advances in agriculture or cultural achievements, you only did half the assignment" my argument was "I’m a bishop writing about Muslims why would I even consider that stuff" and got my grade raised from C+ to A
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in primary school i was reading way ahead of what i was "supposed" to be, the teacher didn't believe me until i read one of the more advanced picture books out loud to her. the teacher went to my parents and said "he's great at reading but he needs to get the breadth of vocabulary, have him go through this stack of picture books and then he can read what he likes".
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mystes posted:No, just read George R. R. Martin to your child or martin the cobbler, take your pick
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indigi posted:I went to office hours to dispute my grade and she said "why did you spend so much time on their failures/lack of education/etc but not mention their advances in agriculture or cultural achievements, you only did half the assignment" my argument was "I’m a bishop writing about Muslims why would I even consider that stuff" and got my grade raised from C+ to A Jabor posted:in primary school i was reading way ahead of what i was "supposed" to be, the teacher didn't believe me until i read one of the more advanced picture books out loud to her.
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they probably mean illustrated books, more Dr Seuss than Goodnight Moon
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they were a series of books (organized by reading level) where each page had a big picture, and then a sentence below it describing what was happening in the picture and as you went through the series the sentences got more complex (and more interesting, which is why I was wanting to skip ahead in the first place)
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wow, Hackers is very silly.
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psiox posted:bonus Geraint Wyn Davies / Sandra Bullock attack gif the guy in the trench coat is moose milky about to hit the post button. sandra bullock throws a 1 at him causing him to drop it
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Chris Knight posted:wow, Hackers is very silly. yes. it's a wonderful movie
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OH MY GOD NANA VISITOR HAS POODLES i didn't know i could love her more, but here we are
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a few months(?) ago there was a little behind the scenes thing in paramount+ for when she did a voiceover for lower decks, she's still very cute lol
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Chris Knight posted:wow, Hackers is very silly. weirdly somehow only the second queerest 90s movie about computer hacking
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infernal machines posted:what was the queerest? Sneakers
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the matrix. also i just watched happy death day and that was fun and clever and i enjoyed it
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i watched down by law. i enjoyed it very much at this rate i'm gonna end up a legit jarmusch fan. not sure if i'll follow through with my plan to watch coffee and cigarettes next, but it'll be a jarmusch film either way
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ive never seen a jim jarmusch film i didnt like
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:Glen Cook, The Dragon Never Sleeps. Awesome single novel scifi with superships with immortal/undead crews enforcing pax romana over space. Great political intrigue, competent characters with blindspots that doom them, space battles etc. Gets it all done in one (long) book instead of being a unnecessary seven book series. what really carries it through is the pacing - it just hurtles forward and never gets bogged down in its own worldbuilding or in navelgazing over its invented details. stuff happens, and then you turn the page, and more stuff happens. the style reminded me of early gibson (throwing a bunch of terms and proper nouns at you and not bothering to slow down and explain them, counting on you to have to run to keep up with it) crossed with james ellroy (the clipped, short writing that seems to have been deliberately shorn of unnecessary words). i wonder if it was originally meant to be a bigger series and then got cut down at some point, forcing cook to compress a planned 800 page epic down to 250 pages? regardless, the result is an unusually strong done-in-one military space opera novel recommended
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Casual Encountess posted:also i just watched happy death day and that was fun and clever and i enjoyed it the sequel is good too i saw uncharted. good action scenes and effects. uninteresting story and characters. oh look they're going to double-cross each other again. they should've just adapted the first game, even if the tomb raider movie already ripped it off.
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im kind of enjoying this new crop of self aware sly comedic horror. its a nice breath of fresh air after all the edgy torture porn
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FMguru posted:your review prompted me to reread it (i remembered really liking it when i first read it mumblemumble years ago, but i couldnt recall many details) and it was as good as i remembered (and as you found it) hey cool, thanks yall. i had $10 in kindle credits so i bought this for forty-nine american cents.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:Glen Cook, The Dragon Never Sleeps. Awesome single novel scifi with superships with immortal/undead crews enforcing pax romana over space. Great political intrigue, competent characters with blindspots that doom them, space battles etc. Gets it all done in one (long) book instead of being a unnecessary seven book series. im curious - what length do you consider 'average'? i ask cause you said long and im like 'oh no it's gonna be 700 pages' but it was ~250 which i think of as the book equivalent of a a 105 minute movie. it is possible my brain is completely broken, too, im not trying to say that one judgment is right or wrong or whatever
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Achmed Jones posted:i watched down by law. i enjoyed it very much
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Chris Knight posted:have you seen any Aki Kaurismäki? very same deadpan style. never heard of him, thank you! any specific recommendations of where to start after my jarmusch stint?
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if you liked Jarmusch, how do you feel about Soderbergh? I rewatched THE LIMEY end of last year and it's still a fine film.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:if you liked Jarmusch, how do you feel about Soderbergh? I rewatched THE LIMEY end of last year and it's still a fine film. The Knick is an awesome show he made about 1900s NYC doctors staring Clive Owen. The techno soundtrack makes the whole production feel modern and vaguely cyberpunk, which matches how these characters feel about their own changing world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rKY8MLWTU
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Analytic Engine posted:The Knick is an awesome show he made about 1900s NYC doctors staring Clive Owen. The techno soundtrack makes the whole production feel modern and vaguely cyberpunk, which matches how these characters feel about their own changing world this looks really good
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Shaggar posted:The Knick is excellent i got around to finishing it last year and it holds all the way through
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I screamed at the ending of s01 NO! Don't show it! Don't show it you idiots! ...
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I have obtained the Knick and will be watching it tonight. thanks folks!
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I have obtained the Knick and will be watching it tonight. thanks folks!
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