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04-16-2012, 08:33 AM | #17 |
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Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
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04-16-2012, 08:33 AM | #18 |
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04-16-2012, 08:34 AM | #19 |
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04-16-2012, 08:39 AM | #20 |
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I found most of the stuff we had to read to be very uninteresting. Especially ****ing Shakespeare and his stupid-ass shit.
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04-16-2012, 08:40 AM | #21 |
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Yep,you're definitely a NASCAR fan
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04-16-2012, 08:40 AM | #22 |
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Does Penthouse forum count? I can even remember much of it.
"I never would have believed it until it happened to me. I was a freshman at a small midwestern university hitchiking home durin g a break when a group of naked hot cheerleaders from a neighboring university stopped in their convertable mustang and picked me up for what would come to be known as the ride of my life." I can't say that I couldn't put it down because after about 10 minutes I read enough until about an hour later then it started all over again. |
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04-16-2012, 08:43 AM | #23 |
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04-16-2012, 09:01 AM | #24 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird. We read it in 8th of 9th grade, and I was totally absorbed. It changed the way I read literature from that point onward really. I expected more from books than I had before.
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It was most certainly not Moby Dick.
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04-16-2012, 09:42 AM | #28 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird. Loved the hell out of that book. If I recall it was the only book I read cover to cover in HS. Also liked Old Man and the Sea.
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Some of the ones mentioned here were the very books that stirred my love for reading:
Voltaire's Candide Flowers for Algernon On the Road Catcher in the Rye Catcher in the Rye was the book that did it for me. I had a cool teacher then and he suggested I read Kerouac's On the Road. It was then that I stopped reading Cliff Notes and started getting more engrossed in books. I never had the chance to thank him.
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