Giuseppe Zangara

The Beatles. I can only listen to Revolver if no one's around!

SOMEONE DIDN'T NOTICE PBONE'S INDIE THREAD

Discuss this album here. So far it's better than I remembered (it's been roughly five years since I last listened to it). The title track is still , but "Crippled Inside" and "Jealous Guy" are doing me right. Let's see if this holds up.

I really wasn't criticizing you over the lack of canon in your courses; I was more concerned over, in its place, the increasing use by teachers of decidedly, um, non-literary works. I know it's been happening in schools around here, and I've read about it occurring elsewhere. It's not easy, I realize. You're dealing with a lot more limitations than you would on a college-level. I could never teach high school. (By the way, Cormac McCarthy hasn't won the Nobel. Not yet, anyway.)

This would be assuming that the parents have read The Road and can make an informed decision on it. They'd just say, "It's on Oprah's list? That's fine". All it would take is one child to reveal to his mom that there's a scene where the main characters walk into a basement where people, naked and chained, were being held captive for an eventual meal, and that one of them was missing his legs but was still alive, AND the other scene where the father and son stumble across some savages by a campfire, where they are quite clearly roasting a human infant...all that would send that mom into a tizzy and demand that the teacher be reprimanded for making his students read such depravity.

Get on The Armies of the Night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armies_Of_The_Night The book works both as journalistic account of a particular Vietnam protest Mailer had participated in AND a trip in the mind of the man himself (though far more self-deprecating than his usual non-fiction work). The story is frequently funny, and, in parts, surprisingly moving. The Executioner's Song is a close second, but its 1,000+ page-length might be a little off-putting. Not really important, but Jim Morrison was supposedly a fan of Mailer's The Deer Park. It's a good, if trashy, book, made somewhat unintentionally humorous by the way the author circuitously writes about sex and drugs. (It was published in 1955, so you have adjust for standards of the time.)

Well, if you wanna go back a few years, you can throw in Kotz. I was thinking of myself, as well, but most of the threads about me were usually started by me, so.

Leena by a wide margin, sure. In spite of his various shenanigans on this and other boards, I don't think Fridge ranks that high; I'd wager you got him beat, Czech.

The House on Mango Street is fairly simple to read, contains little-to-no controversial content and teaches the reader about a culture he or she likely knew very little about beforehand.

I've noticed a trend in middle and high schools, where recent bestsellers have slowly been supplanting the "classics" that usually glut reading lists—goodbye, Nathaniel Hawthorne; hello, Jodi Picoult. I'm not completely opposed to the notion of not forcing kids to choke down stuff they're gonna hate (rare is the person who liked The Scarlet Letter when they were 16), but I don't think giving them Grisham or someone like Picoult is a good alternative. The Road is a good, recent choice, though. McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses would be good, too, but I wouldn't venture any further with that author, for obvious reasons. (Speaking of which, do your kids have to sign a permission slip to read The Road? What with those graphic depictions of cannibalism and whatnot.)

I've had the 120 a few times. It's good, but the 90 and the 60 are simply better/easier to drink. Speaking of Dogfish and insanely high alcohol-content, have you had their World Wide Stout? Also, have we discussed this before? I get the feeling we have.

The Vortex, home of the best goddamn hamburgers I've ever had. Sadly, it isn't located outside of Atlanta.

Dogfish Head makes a superb pumpkin ale, which should be coming out in a matter of weeks. I haven't had the Blue Moon one, but I can't imagine it being any good, considering how mediocre Blue Moon itself is.

His straight journalism is tolerable, but his essays are uniformly bad. The guy has terrible opinions and an equally terrible way of expressing them.

Have you had their Maximus IPA? So fucking hoppy. It's great. Also, Zappa was a big-time teetotaler, so it's amusing to see his mug on a beer label.

I don't get what this thread is trying to accomplish. It's a given that most videos are bad; putting a good one and a bad one together isn't terribly illuminating unless you can draw some connection between any chosen two outside of their both being promotional clips. Why not just make a thread where you only post good videos?

YOU SUFFER BUT WHY?

Another downside of frats is you meet people like UseTheSledgehammerUh.

Save for that brutally long exegesis on the various types of whale that weighs down the middle, Moby-Dick is good. Along those lines, the only flaw in Don Quixote is too many pages-long speeches on propriety and valor and such. Which is a minor quibble, really, as it don't take up much space in that wonderful novel's near-1,000 pages.

There's no set rule for what constitutes a short story/novella/novel, and generally, a novella will be marketed as a novel by its publishers, since the idea of a "novel" sells better. If you want something to bide by, there's this: A reasonable estimation. The other Hemingway I've read was The Old Man and the Sea, which I consumed when I was 14. I hated it, but, again, I was 14. Also, I acquired A Moveable Feast at the same time I did The Sun Also Rises, so I will get to that one soon.

Ernest Hemingway: hot or not? I read The Sun Also Rises recently, marking the first time I'd read one of his works since my freshman year of high school. I liked TSAR okay, but wasn't particularly moved by it.

Well, yeah.

Enter the 36 Chambers, 3 Feet High and Rising, Aquemini and Stankonia are the only rap albums to feature skits that manage to hold up under repeated listens. As for the topic at hand, Sonic Youth's "The Diamond Sea" could've benefited from about 10-12 minutes less feedback.

I cringe now when I read one of those "this thread would've been better if no one posted in it" posts.

You're 16, right? If so, yes, Angel Dust.