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The Road by Cormac McCarthy - awesome book
Tom:
Johnny, once again, hit the nail on the head here but I can see where you coming from Harry.
People should be allowed to be read almost everything from sacred religious texts and political treatises to poorly written children's novels. Reading is a form of self-expression and discovery. There are things you can learn from reading that you can't learn from life and vice versa. Things like elitism and on a larger scale, political and religious bans shouldn't viciously ignore this in favour of being indignantly self-righteous. Reading is for everyone.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 20 Feb 2008, 23:47 ---Reading is for everyone.
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Awww!
By the way, having gone to a Catholic school for 8 years awhile ago, despite being an Agnostic, I can say--if your read the bible as just a book, it's atrocious. I mean, the characterizations, dialogue and plot are pretty terrible.
TheFuriousWombat:
I'm excited! I get to re-read The Road (for the third time) for my Narratives of Suffering class. Can't wait (even though it's not until the end of the semester).
Inlander:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 21 Feb 2008, 13:00 ---By the way, having gone to a Catholic school for 8 years awhile ago, despite being an Agnostic, I can say--if your read the bible as just a book, it's atrocious. I mean, the characterizations, dialogue and plot are pretty terrible.
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Man, tell me about it. I finally finished ploughing my way through the Old Testament this week. Only the Apocrypha and the New Testament to go!
Shadows Collide:
SPOILER ALERT!! The earth is destroyed by satan at the very end. Metal nerds will note that the most kickass verses are included on the Satyricon album "Nemesis Divina". Oh, as an angry teen at a Catholic school, such imagery filled me with incredible joy and malice: I suggest you skip to Revelations. God really redeems himself with the novel's conclusion, as the tedious prose of the previous books showed a first-time author struggling with his style.
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