amused wrote:So this is where the fourth wall was broken? This is hip? I found an online PDF because they can't fucking sell the goddamn ebook on Amazon because it might cut sales to every poor fucking high school student forced to read this drek. Fuck.
Oh yeah, and this:
I can't remember if it was here or on ref, but I have ranted about this shitty little book before.
It is crap.
FUCKERPUNKERSHIT!
Wanna buy some pegs Dave, I've got some pegs here...
hadespussercats wrote:I don't think I grokked Stranger in a Strange Land.
Really? Or just a clever play on words?
Really. It left me cold.
Maybe I missed my window...
It spoke to the times. I think younger people sometimes miss the fact that all that free love and questioning established religion was a pleasant surprise to the youth of the '60s. Here was a well established author saying what the kids in the street were thinking. We were coming out of a rather repressive few decades in the US, and we had our own Roaring Twenties to play with.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
amused wrote:So this is where the fourth wall was broken? This is hip? I found an online PDF because they can't fucking sell the goddamn ebook on Amazon because it might cut sales to every poor fucking high school student forced to read this drek. Fuck.
Oh yeah, and this:
I can't remember if it was here or on ref, but I have ranted about this shitty little book before.
It is crap.
It should be in the Whinging section of the library. I felt no sympathy for the little jerk. I was the only one in my class at high school to give it a negative review and the teacher had me read it to the class. I started off a little nervous, but quickly got as worked up as I was when I wrote it. I was actually cussing a bit when I finished, something that was a total no-no then. The teacher let it slide and told the class I had been brave enough to say what I thought rather than what I thought she wanted to hear.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
TBH, the entire content of the book is crowded out of my memory by the fact that it got a mention in a Refresment's song
You used to write me those
Funny little letters
In a language ours and ours alone
I gave my "Catcher in the Rye"
For your "Cats Cradle"
And I gave my "White" for your "Abby Road"
Although I liked Stranger a lot. It didn't strike a deep chord, but it was still a great read.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
The Net is best considered analogous to communication with disincarnate intelligences. As any neophyte would tell you. Do not invoke that which you have no facility to banish.
Audley Strange
Coffee's MUCH better.
there are other drinks that are better still - but we may disagree about which one's best. 
