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Daystar -- why Dharma Bums over On the Road or Big Sur (Big Sur being my favorite)


just a personal preference, i guess.
'on the road' is probably my second favorite.
but 'dharma bums' spoke to me more.
it took everything i loved about 'on the road'
but with the added search for inner englightenment.
zen.
(and i love the japhy ryder/gary snyder character.)
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What about Scarlet Letter relates to anyone born after 1856?


<== never read past the preface to Scarlet Letter, Cliff Noted the entire thing. Awful, awful piece of literature.


I have never read a page of it, or the Cliff Notes.

I DID, however get an A on my final paper, and write another, on a different topic, for a friend of mine.

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DayStar Wrote:
Sen. Lost Highway LooGAR Wrote:
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Daystar -- why Dharma Bums over On the Road or Big Sur (Big Sur being my favorite)


just a personal preference, i guess.
'on the road' is probably my second favorite.
but 'dharma bums' spoke to me more.
it took everything i loved about 'on the road'
but with the added search for inner englightenment.
zen.
(and i love the japhy ryder/gary snyder character.)


Funny, I think that zen.inner enlightenment thing is why I didn't prefer it. The DTs/Paranoia of Big Sur really drew me in, though.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)

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Sen. Lost Highway LooGAR Wrote:
DayStar Wrote:
Sen. Lost Highway LooGAR Wrote:
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Daystar -- why Dharma Bums over On the Road or Big Sur (Big Sur being my favorite)


just a personal preference, i guess.
'on the road' is probably my second favorite.
but 'dharma bums' spoke to me more.
it took everything i loved about 'on the road'
but with the added search for inner englightenment.
zen.
(and i love the japhy ryder/gary snyder character.)


Funny, I think that zen.inner enlightenment thing is why I didn't prefer it. The DTs/Paranoia of Big Sur really drew me in, though.



different strokes. :)
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The best book I have read in a long time is:

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown


I also liked in grade/high school:

"A Light In The Forest" by Conrad Richter about a white boy raised by native americans, and then when the white people discover him they take him back.

"The Chosen" by Chaim Potok about a Jewish kid and a Catholic kid becoming best friends after a dramatic opening chapter about their baseball duel. (one is a pitcher and the other is a slugger)


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The best book I have read in a long time is:

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown



i have that sitting out for me to start soon too.
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not to be the asshole, but am I the only person who just can't stand Kerouac?
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not to be the asshole, but am I the only person who just can't stand Kerouac?


Maybe..why do you not like him?

Is it the whole "That's not writing its typing" thing?

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)

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It looks very cheesy but I love it. It's kind of like a much better version of Saw 2.

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timmyjoe42 Wrote:
The best book I have read in a long time is:

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown


I also liked in grade/high school:

"A Light In The Forest" by Conrad Richter about a white boy raised by native americans, and then when the white people discover him they take him back.

"The Chosen" by Chaim Potok about a Jewish kid and a Catholic kid becoming best friends after a dramatic opening chapter about their baseball duel. (one is a pitcher and the other is a slugger)


Oh boy. Dan Brown was preeee-dictable. I wanted to like it so much, but you knew what was coming every time... meh.

and Chaim Potok = standard issue 9th grade. I recall liking it, but can't remember much else.

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Sen. Lost Highway LooGAR Wrote:
Maybe..why do you not like him?
Is it the whole "That's not writing its typing" thing?


no, that's bullshit anyways. I just read it as self-indulgent and scatterbrained.
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Is it the whole "That's not writing its typing" thing?



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no, that's bullshit anyways. I just read it as self-indulgent and scatterbrained.


Potato, Potahtoe

Seems like a more succinct, quipp-y way of saying the same thing to me.

I like him, but understand why some people don't.

Not sure if I would love it if I picked him up for the first time right now, tho.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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not to be the asshole, but am I the only person who just can't stand Kerouac?


I started reading 'On The Road' but tossed it aside after a few pages.
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not to be the asshole, but am I the only person who just can't stand Kerouac?


I started reading 'On The Road' but tossed it aside after a few pages.


You're not the only one.

I don't really have a favorite book or author, but there are books that always conjure positive images for me, just in the mere absorption into a story. Douglas Coupland achieved this with "Girlfriend in a Coma" for me. Don't know if I'd go back and read it now with the same feelings, but at the time, it spoke to me, and it was what I needed to hear. Some of the classics (Tale of Two Cities, Dracula, and Lord of the Flies) still resonate with me. As trite as it may sound, the Dark Tower series by Stephen King stuck with me (although I'm not sure I'd hold it up as a perfect example of good literature). Funny thing, I read "A Perfect Storm" several years ago, and then handed it off to my dad. He read it, returned it to me, with some notes he had written about familiar places in the book. I still have the book and the notes, and will probably always keep them together.


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I just started 'Where I'm Calling From' this afternoon. I'm only one story in but I haven't tossed it aside yet and, with my fickleness and snap judgments, that's a good sign.
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Favourite book is probably Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for the same reason that Loogs stated, consistently funny no matter how many times I've read it. He ranks as one of my favourite writers as well.

I'm a big JD Salinger fan, but mainly his non-Catcher stories about the Glass family. And I love some Stephen King, especially those Dark Tower books. And shiv, you reminded me that I haven't read any Michael Slade in a long time. Damn, I totally forgot about his stuff, pretty nasty.

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I just started 'Where I'm Calling From' this afternoon. I'm only one story in but I haven't tossed it aside yet and, with my fickleness and snap judgments, that's a good sign.


cathedral was the first story i ever read by him and it blew me away.
right up there with chekov.
that collection is where i'd start.
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