Great masterpieces... that suck!
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20000 Leagues Under the Sea could have been an amazing book, incredibly creative, well-told, the characters were time-bombs, each with their own kind of detonation, but halfway through, it turns into an aquatic biology lesson. The descriptions get weary, the characters don't do shit, the scientist ends up describing all of the fish in the sea by their latin scientific subgroups. I couldn't stand it.
Ah yes the upgrade your plasmids options. Now they'll only be slightly less useless. Tell me which plasmid was your favorite? The one that stunned enemies but did no damage not that you could break cover and take advantage of his immobility because then his eight buddies will tear you apart before you can say "wrench damage bonus"? One of the two that do very little damage and don't even serve as a distraction? You'd think being swarmed by angry bees or on fire would be distracting, but no they're still perfectly able to keep shooting at you with near flawless accuracy from their bottomless magazines. Is it the one that's only useful against nitro splicers since they're the only ones with attacks you can catch? Or maybe it's the one that freezes enemies but has the same problems as the first one in addition to the fact that if you kill him like that you can't loot the corpse and he'll probablt thaw before then, and you can't damage his actual health anyway? Oh and Like I said in a later post, hacking is easy, unless it makes the board unwinnable as it often doesn, like when it surrounded the end point with two layers of alarms.jboking said:
Mmmm...I might. I thought I'd like Eraserhead, though, because a friend of mine said it was like Un Chien Andalou's two-hour brother...but I just couldn't sit past the first ten minutes. :TWinterOrbit said:
Mr.Squishy said:
I just don't like any of Shakespeare's stories. Sure, he introduced a heck of a lot of new words, phrases and insults and much of his work is used as a frame for many other stories, but I recently did Macbeth in English, and I just couldn't get into it and it didn't interest me.
You have it backwards, the universe and stories are great, but his prose is terrible. Try reading The Silmarillion sometime. It contains some of the worst writing I've ever seen, but once you get past that, it also contains some incredible stories. He does write really good alliterative poetry, but he never finished any of his attempts at epic poetry, which is a real shame -- he had several attempts at both The Lay of Leithian and the Narn i Hin Hurin, better known as the tale of Beren and Luthien and the Children of Hurin, respectively. They were great, but as I said earlier, he never finished any of them.tellmeimaninja said:
OT: For the most part, classics are classics for a reason. However, I remember trying to read The Rape of the Lock in high school and hating it, but I may have been missing the point. I also have no intention of reading anything by either Marcel Proust or James Joyce, after the excerpts in my college Humanities textbook showed me just how annoying their writing styles were. With Joyce in particular, the man wrote his stuff to be as obtuse as possible in order to be immortalized by English teachers forever attempting to analyze his work. Sadly, he succeeded.
I'm aware of that, since I looked up the metacritic score, though last time I checked Halo has a better one; better than HL2 as well.TomLikesGuitar said:
My biggest issue is that they can get away with having sub-par plots so long as they say something interesting about something. One of the biggest examples contradicting my point is Candide, by Voltaire. It makes an obvious point, has a hilarious plot, and is short and sweet. I feel Candide embodies what books of literary merit should be. Also, The Stranger did a similar job, albeit with a far less interesting plot.M Rotter said:
A lot of my hatred for these books comes from the fact that they're compulsory. The arguments for making them required readings are pretty much some variations of: "They're classics, you should learn them" and "It'll make you more well-read and therefore smarter". That's true, they'll probably make you smarter to some degree. Chess does that too. So does playing an instrument. Neither of these are required, however, because it's ridiculous to mandate something which should be considered a hobby. Reading should be something kept fun. Different people will have different reactions to different activities. It's ridiculous to expect everyone to enjoy it and even more ludicrous to force them to read these books.
Since I started taking these literature-based classes, I've not picked up a fiction book of my own desire. I've ultimately become desensitized to the most important question of reading: "is it interesting? My friends tend to feel the same way, which I think is the sad part.
/rant about AP English.
Okay yeah there's one moment at the end where it stocks you up on ammo because your going to be going through a very long passage where you'll find literally no ammo at all and will have to fend off wave after wave after wave of fucking splicers because the stupid ***** you're supposed to be protecting is to busy cannabalizing a corpse to keep moving. Why my character didn't just carry the little dipshit all the way will always be mystery. And as I've corrected myself before now, yes hacking is easy, unless the board sets itself up to be unwinnable, and you won't know if it is until you start hacking.Glademaster said:
To Kill a Mockingbird. I'll admit that it does get better about half way through, but the first 90 pages are just so boring... If I wasn't required to read it I never would have.
Don't bother--and again, this is coming from someone who's nuts enough about Shakespeare to get two degrees in the subject and is working on a third.[footnote]The third one's a little tangentially related, but still...[/footnote] It's very much a C-list play of his. You'd be better off reading something like Titus Andronicus, which is also considered a lesser play of his, but has murder, adultery, rape, dismemberment, and cannibalism. It's good clean family fun.SquirrelPants said:
Come now at least give me some credit... I DO realize that courting was quite different and is easy to see as ridiculous from the modern viewpoint, (dowerys, bethrothment, and such) but I must stand by my view point that even some characters in the play itself have. The view that Romeo and Juliet's relationship finds more foundation in lust than love. In the beginning of the story Romeo was in love with Rosaline and you know why he fell so hard for Juliet? Rosaline wanted to remain celebate! Romeo was distraught over this one little detail and became depressed over it, and his depression (Over Rosaline not putting out) is what led him to be so willing to sneak into the Capulet party where he met (and fell in "love" with) Juliet. If one observes this it becomes obious that Romeo is as fickle as the wind and thinking with the wrong head.Archangel357 said:
Next time you try to critize you should first analyze both sides, my dear Archangel.
I can't stand W.B. Yeats. We studied his poetry in high school, and I didn't like most of it. Even the ones that I thought were okay didn't stand out to me as being anything particularly special.
Then again, maybe I just don't like poetry all that much on the whole.
Then again, maybe I just don't like poetry all that much on the whole.