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[Back Door Skip]

Diarrhea

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[chygry]

Actually I'm suffering from some pain in my stomach and kidneys from all this drinking, but luckily no diarrhea.

 

[Mandieta6]

That's kind of what it looked like, actually.

 

[Zlatan]

Diarrhea

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Wow... That's old school.

 

[Zyreq]

Currently reading Fifty Shades of Grey~

 

[Mandieta6]

I read the Wikipedia summary and nearly vomited. If I were a woman I'd find these novels, and the Twilight novels, hugely offensive.

 

[1966+2006]

Stiglitz - Price of Inequality.

 

[Mandieta6]

Recently read:

The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Complete Sarah Kane
Lord of the Flies - Golding

Enjoyed them. Loojed forward to Camus the most and was kinda disappointed because it didn't elaborate much on the issues that interested me. Sir_Didier_Drogba, have you ever seen a Kane play live? They sound interesting.

Gonna have a year-round American lit class next year so I bought some of the texts in advance. Have to read a short story by Poe, Melville, Faulkner and Hemingway, can't remember which. I got lare, collected stories editions thpugh, if anyone (now Shifty's back especially) got any recommendation for one I might like.

Also, we'll have to link one of the works we study to any other i. existence in an essay. I like the idea of discussing the 'failure' of the American Dream in Gatsby. Anyone know any novel that deals with that (or perhaps glorifies it)? I figure Steinbeck and Arthur Miller might from my rexollection of them. Can someone confirm? Any other suggestions or ideas?

 

[MaestroZidane]

Recently finished the last book in Game of Thrones - Dance with Dragons. Great Book...


Wish I hadn't read it at all though.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Gatsby is awesome.

 

[Zlatan]

I started The Great Gatsby some while ago, but didn't finish it yet. I should pickup reading again, certainly now that summer holidays have started for me aswell.

 

[fender]

Gatsby is awesome.

He's back.

 

[Sir Didier Drogba]

Recently read:

The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Complete Sarah Kane
Lord of the Flies - Golding

Enjoyed them. Loojed forward to Camus the most and was kinda disappointed because it didn't elaborate much on the issues that interested me. Sir_Didier_Drogba, have you ever seen a Kane play live? They sound interesting.

Gonna have a year-round American lit class next year so I bought some of the texts in advance. Have to read a short story by Poe, Melville, Faulkner and Hemingway, can't remember which. I got lare, collected stories editions thpugh, if anyone (now Shifty's back especially) got any recommendation for one I might like.

Also, we'll have to link one of the works we study to any other i. existence in an essay. I like the idea of discussing the 'failure' of the American Dream in Gatsby. Anyone know any novel that deals with that (or perhaps glorifies it)? I figure Steinbeck and Arthur Miller might from my rexollection of them. Can someone confirm? Any other suggestions or ideas?

No, I havent.

If you want modern "reverse American dream" novels there are many of them. In fact one is called "An American Dream", by Norman Mailer. Also there is Rabbit, Run by Updike, American Pastoral by Roth and Bonfire of the Vanities by Wolfe and many more.

If you are looking for older and more political works, there is a wonderful satire of the "gold rush" era by Mark Twain called The Gilded Age.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Native Son by Richard Wright is a little simplistic, but I really liked it when I was younger. Read a review or something. Basically how blacks in the 40s were fucked and had no American dream.

 

[CarlosDanger]

The American dream is such a lie fed to the peasants by the elite to keep them in their place.

 

[Sir Didier Drogba]

The American dream is such a lie fed to the peasants by the elite to keep them in their place.

The Canadian dream is a much more modest. For America it's "work hard and you can be anything you want to be", in Canada it's "work a tiny bit and you can afford your pot".

 

[CarlosDanger]

Canada's dream ls just as much of a lie as anywhere else.

 

[Stevie B]

Curently reading Snuff.

It's heavy going, as the wind keeps blowing it away!






Just kidding.

I'm actually reading "Snuff" by Terry Pratchett

 

[Jaboldinho]

Finnish dream is winning the lottery.

 

[vitranc]

stephen king

the dark tower- the gunslinger