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Posted: 11/6/2007, 5:54 pm
by Lando
They're not all snobs! just the ones who think they're right about their formed opinions of literature while thinking others with a lesser education's opinion is less important or valid.
Posted: 11/6/2007, 11:25 pm
by laurel
which are exactly the same ones i was talking about in all my posts.
Posted: 11/7/2007, 5:13 am
by Dr. Hobo
wait... so all i had to do to bring life back to the CM wasnt spam various threads and tell the awesome story about how i created the internet but talk about books?! :O
Posted: 11/7/2007, 9:27 pm
by myownsatellite
Well, if you wanted to make the CM alive with arguments, it looks like it!
Posted: 11/7/2007, 10:06 pm
by saman
hey, i take full credit for this aliveness of this thread, since i was the one who revived it.
also, megan, it's very possible that orson scott card is a bigot, but i don't care, because he's a genius and his writing style is brilliant.
most of the time
Posted: 11/7/2007, 10:35 pm
by myownsatellite
He's like Goethe!
Posted: 11/7/2007, 11:41 pm
by saman
you're like goethe!
...what's wrong with goethe?
Posted: 11/8/2007, 9:29 am
by myownsatellite
He was a Nazi sympathizer.
But he wrote beautiful music, so people excused him for it.
"You want to kill all the Jews? Oh, that's okay, your symphonies are beautiful, I think we can overlook your racism."
Posted: 11/8/2007, 11:35 am
by saman
what? orson scott card doesn't want to kill jews! and i certainly wouldn't excuse him if he did. i just don't judge his writing by his personality, that's all
Posted: 11/8/2007, 12:13 pm
by myownsatellite
*shrug* I don't care what you read, you're free to read him all you want, he's one of the top bestselling science fiction writers ever. I was just making commentary on his political and social views that I find to be quite offensive.
Posted: 11/8/2007, 6:35 pm
by Random Name
Lando wrote:They're not all snobs! just the ones who think they're right about their formed opinions of literature while thinking others with a lesser education's opinion is less important or valid.
Yes. Thats exactly what it is.
Posted: 11/8/2007, 7:10 pm
by Lando
Random Name wrote:Lando wrote:They're not all snobs! just the ones who think they're right about their formed opinions of literature while thinking others with a lesser education's opinion is less important or valid.
Yes. Thats exactly what it is.
damn straight.
Posted: 11/8/2007, 11:41 pm
by Johnny
So, is this a bad time for a Holocaust joke?
Posted: 11/10/2007, 12:03 am
by Johnny
I'll take the lack of respones as a yes!
Posted: 11/10/2007, 3:38 am
by Lando
I was going to say: Ralph Macchio.
Posted: 11/10/2007, 7:44 pm
by afealicious
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Stop spleening me!
Posted: 11/10/2007, 8:10 pm
by myownsatellite
How is that? I wanted to read it but never got around to it.
Posted: 11/10/2007, 8:59 pm
by beautiful liar
oh my god that book was so good, but so sad. i bawled at several points. the narrative was really well constructed though.
the movie wasn't bad either.
Posted: 11/11/2007, 1:32 am
by myownsatellite
I didn't realize they made a movie out of it. Did they title it the same, or is it titled something else?
Posted: 11/11/2007, 8:59 am
by beautiful liar