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Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger
The only part of this that I thought was significant.
I have wasted a lot of time on a lot of stupid books. ... So you pick nothing but stupid books, cannot figure out how to get a good referral or find all books are stupid? I don't know if this is annoying or not; not everyone has to be a reader.
I generally don't listen to what the characters are saying, and focus on the interior and fashion design.. I'm suppose I'm just a VERY visual person.. ... Or very shallow. Or ADD afflicted. I really don't see the sense of this.
I was a stupid child. Thinking back, I deserved to be shoved into a meat grinder. (!) More disturbing than funny, and it raises larger questions about who that child has become.
What's your favorite band? I could never choose! No book, no film, no band. A caricature of a person struggles to not reveal itself.
The design stuff is very nice and you can probably even sell some of your stuff in the Shill section.
It may be everyone else here finds this intro to be interesting. And it may be that I will find you to be interesting once I see you post a bit. But for now, this just seems a bit vacuous to me. Meh.
Welcome to this place. I may come to look forward to your contributions.
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Glad I wasn't the only one........ although I guess asking for recommendations is better than just name-dropping Poe then never talking lit again.
Ask the Dust, Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, The Brothers Karamazov, Big Sur, Wuthering Heights, The Return of the Native, Waiting for Godot, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Half a Yellow Sun.... finding good authors is like finding good musicians - once you find out what got them writing, you'll want to hear that shit. It's well worth dipping your toe in. It's like finding a band you love, but better becaue you'll find whole philosophies you can identify with.
Ben - not everyone HAS to be a reader, but I find it ironic that people here wwill shit all over someone for naming the wrong band, yet don't give a shit if they write "don't read books" as an answer to the favorite author question. Art is art, and if you're not into it you're missing out.