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Old 08-04-2010, 02:37 PM   #2741 (permalink)
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Rereading A Song of Ice and Fire and I now believe that so far it is the best fantasy series, ever.
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Old 08-04-2010, 07:51 PM   #2742 (permalink)
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See. Used to be cool.

Anyhow, I started reading this the other day. Never read it but I liked 2 of his other books so I thought "let's shoot for the hat-trick"
catcher in the rye doesn't really compare to moby dick (the great american novel) but it's not too bad.
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Old 08-04-2010, 07:54 PM   #2743 (permalink)
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catcher in the rye doesn't really compare to moby dick (the great american novel) but it's not too bad.
I like Salinger, but I didn't think Rye was more than cobbled together caricatures.

I always thought Great Gatsby was the Great American Novel. Anyhow, I'm liking it so far, though I think I'm finding it funnier than I probably should.
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Old 08-04-2010, 07:55 PM   #2744 (permalink)
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catcher in the rye doesn't really compare to moby dick (the great american novel) but it's not too bad.
I thought Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was largely considered to be the great American novel.
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Old 08-04-2010, 08:11 PM   #2745 (permalink)
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everyone thinks the GAN is something different, that's half the fun i guess. imo, melville is the best writer this country has produced, so i'll give the honor to moby dick.
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Old 08-04-2010, 08:43 PM   #2746 (permalink)
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Whoa. Thats a pretty tall order my friend. I don't know if I disagree but I hope you've thought about this.
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it's a tall order but it's fucking melville.
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Old 08-04-2010, 09:42 PM   #2748 (permalink)
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it's a tall order but it's fucking melville.
When you Italicize it like that it looks like Smallville.

And now I've got this in my head:



I don't know why the hell the Punisher is in this, but its what came up when I googled

"Smallville Melville"
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yeah, but are you honestly telling me a guy missing how stuff was when he was young and a relationship where both people are aware of it's finity is on par with the same level of depressing as 50+ pages of a guy getting tortured, beaten and becoming a literal shell of a man while being told that this is the way that it will always be and that there's no escape at all?
Well the ending was the most depressing, but there's plenty of stuff to be sad about in the rest of the book.

Edit: Think I'm gonna start this one now

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Cider House Rules was excellent, Hotel New Hampshire was better. What else of his have you read?
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I've read: A Prayer for Owen Meaney (excellent), Trying to Save Peggy Snead (okay), ...Garp (very good, but a bit overrated by most), Widow for One Year (very good), Until I find you (meh), and Son of the Circus (good)
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