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Old 10-15-2017, 04:38 PM   #231 (permalink)
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She blew a bunch of **** up iirc.
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Old 10-15-2017, 04:40 PM   #232 (permalink)
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Not quite the same when it's in a book.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 10-15-2017, 05:48 PM   #233 (permalink)
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Fair enough. He's pretty formulaic. What don't you like?
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It's very plain and he puts so much time into boring and irrelevant details.
On the nose. On. The. ****ing. Nose. Spot on. I started reading Salem's Lot for Karen, the guy took like thirty pages or something to introduce one character, or concept. I don't remember which but damn it was boring.

Another author who does this, but who I like, is Stephen Donaldson. My brother has a phrase: "Donaldson has to describe every blade of grass on the journey." It's not far from the truth. I do a lot of exposition and setting up with my own work, but I try to check it when it looks like it might be getting boring (which is never, of course!)

I just don't get King. He's dined out on Carrie, The Shining and Salem's Lot, maybe Pet Semetary and a few others for decades now, but most of the stuff he writes seems to be pretty standard grade, yet you'll meet many people who will tell you "Oh all I read is Stephen King." In some ways, he's both cornered the market on, and simultaneously ruined, the horror novel genre. Give me Barker any day.
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Old 10-17-2017, 10:39 AM   #234 (permalink)
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Old 10-17-2017, 10:40 AM   #235 (permalink)
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I am also just here to say that I have nothing to say.
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Old 10-24-2017, 09:47 PM   #238 (permalink)
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From what I've seen, common core math makes a lot of sense and most likely helps kids understand large numbers and how to approach using them in math a lot better.
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Old 10-24-2017, 10:52 PM   #239 (permalink)
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What they expect is reasonable. The kids stop doing math after 3rd grade. Try teaching fractions to kids who don’t understand what division is. If the people who profit from common core would back a system that doesn’t allow 5-10% of the students to make the class unteachable it would be fine. No one. And I mean literally no one. Can teach or learn with five kids shouting profanity non-stop for the entire class. And the way they test common core is insane. You give a three hour exam broken into four segments on computer in schools that only carry enough bandwidth for one grade to take it at one time. Other classes have restricted movement all day and drive the teachers insane. The kids being tested sleep through the exam. Then the teacher gets branded unsatisfactory. But yeah, it’s pretty good. Give it a try. See how those low income So Cal students react to it. I’m sure they would love your white ass.
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Old 10-25-2017, 12:42 AM   #240 (permalink)
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From what I've seen, common core math makes a lot of sense and most likely helps kids understand large numbers and how to approach using them in math a lot better.
I heard otherwise, that common core math is very difficult. That is why grade people refer to it as "hardcore" math.
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