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MiscellaneousFiles

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Apparently the world is going to end in 2012. [Frown]
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Benny the Ball
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Oh misc [Roll Eyes]

it's okay - it's only the end of this stage of humanity and life as we know it - after December 12th 2012, the human race will evolve into a wonderful new era of love and understanding...

or everything goes to shit. it's fifty fifty really.

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Oh at least it's not until December, so London will get to do the Olympics.
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MiscellaneousFiles

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Top ten books that best define the 20th century (in order of publication) according to a *poll.

quote:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Put them in rank order, suggest your own top ten or just have a bit of a rant. Bring cakes.

Hang on...
Bridget Jones's Diary

[Confused] zeitgeisty [Confused]

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dang65
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I've read two of those, and I'd be much happier if modern life was "Hellerian" than "Orwellian". In Catch-22, life is completely ridiculous and frustrating, but there's plenty of characters ready and willing to stand up to it and rip it all to bits anyway. Nineteen Eighty-Four is just pure, hopeless bleakness and it's incredible that it's actually been taken as almost an inevitable prophesy of the real future. It's like, "Ah, yes, that was in 1984... I've been expecting that to happen. *sigh* Never mind, eh."

"GIMME EAT" should be the response on everyone's lips the minute some twat starts laying down new rules and regulations, not "Oh, it's Big Brother look. Awright Big Brother?"

I don't want to read any of the others because they're probably even more depressing.

(I think I read The Grapes Of Wrath once, but it doesn't fit in with my comments, so fuck it.)

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Brave New World is definitely worth a read, Dang.

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Originally posted by dang65:
(I think I read The Grapes Of Wrath once, but it doesn't fit in with my comments, so fuck it.)

Time for a haemmorrhoid gag?

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dang65
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quote:
Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
Time for a haemmorrhoid gag?

It's always time for a haemmorrhoid gag, especially as everyone else seems to have gone out somewhere for the day.

Is Brave New World good for a laugh then? We've got a copy at home but it has this kind of depressing aura about it similar to Marvin the Paranoid Android so I've never picked it up.

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Benny the Ball
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Very boring

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

Whatever

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

It's alright

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

S'okay

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Prefer East of Eden

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

I like this one

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Oh boo hoo - it's rubbish.

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Fuck off you stupid disaffected yoof, he isn't you.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Yeah, this one's good

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Fuck right off

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There you go, ladies. In order to cut it as a twentieth-century great you have to either, a. get murdered by the Nazis or b. be a caricature of shallow materialist ditz.
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The Diary of Anne Frank isn't a "real" book, if you know what I mean, so it doesn't count to my mind.

If the list is specifically "define the 20th Century", then there should be at least one movie tie-in novel, plus a Jeffery Archer, as a reminder that most people in the last century either couldn't read or didn't deserve to be able to.

P.S. Only a godless savage would find Heart of Darkness boring. It's only about 90 pages long ffs.

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Benny the Ball
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God is dead, Veep. Don't you know anything...

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Heart of Darkness is great but I'd go for The Secret Agent, a novel that casts a gimlet eye over the potential political upheavals of a scary century pregnant with change.

All Quiet On The Western Front, anyone?

Bulldog Drummond by Sapper is an interesting thumbnail of the bullet-headed spawn of a brutal and ignorant Empire sniffing its imminent demise.

The Bond novels, of course, should be in there somewhere.

Um, Burroughs' Junky or Algren's Man With the Golden Arm, Puzo's The Godfather or Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run, or towards the end, you should have Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail as a diagnosis of a very sick superpower.

Um...

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Luigi Barzini's The Europeans.

Alan Moore's From Hell entertainingly describes the traumatic birth of the Twentieth Century.

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I suppose Marx's Capital should be in there, if anyone could be fucked to read it.

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Jimmy Big Nuts
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The list of defining books of the 20th century is probably very, very large. We could go on all day, tossing names into the hat like grains of sand into the gritty cauldron of "20th century literature soup", or somesuch other ludicrous analogy.

To get a top ten out of it is ridiculous. Although you could do that google wars thing maybe to get an idea of perceived importance, which although differs from actual legacy, is probably more valid. If. Or. Maybe actually perceived importance is the most useful thing though. It's not like anybody actually reads books.

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quote:
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All Quiet On The Western Front, anyone?

Not a very witty remark.
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quote:
Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts:


To get a top ten out of it is ridiculous.

You're right.

Top thousand?

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quote:
Originally posted by dang65:
Not a very witty remark.

Remarque, shurely?

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*Punches self in pipe

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*punches Zygote in the testicles
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*punches Primo Levi in the pyjamas

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*punches Nelson Mandela in the freedom

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*Punches Hemingway in the corrida

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*punches Zygote in the testicles

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good lad.
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*punches Jimmy in the Big Nuts
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I only got round to reading Heart of Darkness a couple of years ago. Suddenly, the point of Apocalypse Now became much more clear.

I didn't even make it past the first twenty pages of Catcher in the Rye, I have an inbuilt Wiganners loathing of Orwell, the rest of 'em are alright, apart from Catch 22, what rocked.

I also second Benny's Steinbeck preference. And why no American Psycho?

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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine is the only book you need to grasp that bullshit century.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
i liked it. i did the right on thing by reading things fall apart after.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
not read it.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
is ok.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
loved it. when i was 18ish. haven't read it in a while. liked bumblepuppy.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
its not of mice and men.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
oh no. rats.
really liked this. especially the ever shifting alliances of the countries at war.


The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
where's the sex gone?

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
crumby.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
how much do these eggs cost?
loved it. so much i bought closing time.

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
v v poor.

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quote:
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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine is the only book you need to grasp that bullshit century.

Hmmm...

Just the one book?

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quote:
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Spider-Man 3...coherent

Man, I totally should have added this to yesterday's lol-list.

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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Black Mask:
Spider-Man 3...coherent

Man, I totally should have added this to yesterday's lol-list.
What, did you have trouble understanding Spider-Man 3?

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Just for the StevieX of it...:

co·her·ent (k-hîrnt, -hr-)
adj.
1. Sticking together; cohering.
2. Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts: a coherent essay.
3. Physics Of, relating to, or having waves with similar direction, amplitude, and phase that are capable of exhibiting interference.
4. Of or relating to a system of units of measurement in which a small number of basic units are defined from which all others in the system are derived by multiplication or division only.
5. Botany Sticking to but not fused with a part or an organ of the same kind.

com·pre·hen·si·ble (kmpr-hns-bl)
adj.
Readily comprehended or understood; intelligible.

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