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tommy[!!] wrote:

i like the subforum idea =\\. the main reason why is if i\'m looking for a good movie to watch, and i\'m at a lost, i could maybe come here and look at all the movie topics posted. if i have to sift thru every other media categories threads todo that then the laziness factor will play in and i just wont bother with it or making new threads as much heh.

Couldn\'t you implement thread tags/filters?

and nah, i dont read books. i dont find most of them entertaining. more of a tool to kill time.

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If you ever do decide to read one, try Albert Camus\' The Stranger, as translated by Matthew Ward. It\'s short, easy, moving, and a great introduction into literature.

Also, I think all people, but particularly black people, should read Ralph Ellison\'s Invisible Man (click me for Wiki). There is not a boring moment in the book. The (often racist) situations the protagonist finds himself in are shocking and unsettling, and the book does the best job of tackling racial identity in America, moreso than any book, movie, or album.

scubanhof wrote:

I was rereading Goethe\'s Faust earlier in the week. Got a far better translation with Books I and II. I was thinking about reading the invisible man. I\'ve heard great things about that and  surprisingly moby dick. I\'ve already read it, but that was a long time ago. I\'m more into epic poetry, a bit of nonfiction, and sometimes a good trash sci-fi/ fantasy novel.

Funny you should say that, I\'m on the last 30 pages or so of Moby Dick.

Plate of shrimp

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Moby Dick is excellent. I think it\'s interesting when approached as a precursor to existential literature, and there are allusions to Plato, Descartes, Locke, Kant. However, I wouldn\'t recommend it to anyone. It\'s one of those books that the reader just has to have an iron resolve to finish, as half of it reads like an encyclopedia.