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Title: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 04:41:51 PM
What a stupid book.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 09, 2007, 04:42:34 PM
I like when Piggy gets owned.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 04:43:56 PM
That's because you're a facist.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 04:53:58 PM
its a great book to get people into reading; good middle school book. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: demi on April 09, 2007, 05:11:07 PM
Why read the book when you can watch the live action movie: http://www.neogaf.com/forum (http://www.google.com/)
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Beezy on April 09, 2007, 05:13:16 PM
Read it freshman year of high school and loved it.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Cheebs on April 09, 2007, 05:20:50 PM
I loved it in high school
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 05:32:36 PM
One of the best books written in the last 100 years.

The movie is hilarious too lol
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 05:33:14 PM
Phoenix Dark: Wrong on Films, Awful on Books!  One of the best books written in the past 100 years? :lol
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 05:33:36 PM
One of the best books written in the last 100 years.

The movie is hilarious too lol

top 100 maybe?  top 25 no. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 05:34:33 PM
Phoenix Dark: Wrong on Films, Awful on Books!  One of the best books written in the past 100 years? :lol

It's a fact!
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 09, 2007, 05:35:12 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2007, 05:41:21 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 05:42:44 PM
The best book I was forced to read in school was Ender's Game.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 05:43:58 PM
Willco if you want to discover a truly horrible book filled with feminist propaganda I suggest The House on Mango Street.
http://www.amazon.com/House-Mango-Street-Sandra-Cisneros/dp/0679734775

Everyone should rent it from the library and we can have a discussion. The only C I've ever gotten on a paper was due to this book, and the fact that my teacher was a feminist UGH.

Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 05:45:11 PM
Willco if you want to discover a truly horrible book filled with feminist propaganda I suggest Handmiads Tale.


Fixed. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: demi on April 09, 2007, 05:48:15 PM
The best book I was forced to read in school was Ender's Game.

You just like it because it had naked boys wrestling in the shower.

I read Of Mice and Men, that was cool.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 05:49:08 PM
I guess I'm the only one that read dickens in highschool.   :-\
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Beezy on April 09, 2007, 05:51:50 PM
I read Of Mice and Men, that was cool.

Yeah, that one was good too.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2007, 05:52:26 PM
I guess I'm the only one that read dickens in highschool.   :-\
nah.  dickens was good stuff.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 05:52:44 PM
You just like it because it had naked boys wrestling in the shower.

See, I don't even remember that part.  I just remember it as a fun sci-fi read.  Of course, you think of the nudity!
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 05:53:43 PM
I guess I'm the only one that read dickens in highschool.   :-\
nah.  dickens was good stuff.

Thats what I was saying, its disappointing no one has mentioned him yet,

Great expectations is may favorite book ever. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: demi on April 09, 2007, 05:53:50 PM
It just shows I paid attention to detail. It's no wonder you failed. Dunce.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 05:54:14 PM
I didn't fail anything!
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 05:55:01 PM
WHAT DOES THE CONCH REPRESENT OMG
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: demi on April 09, 2007, 05:57:57 PM
WHAT DOES THE CONCH REPRESENT OMG

Did you notice there were no african americans in space? We left them behind while our genius white men went off to save the galaxy.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 05:59:53 PM
WHAT DOES THE CONCH REPRESENT OMG

Did you notice there were no african americans in space? We left them behind while our genius white men went off to save the galaxy.

(http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/5112/salyut6wg3.jpg)
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 09, 2007, 06:02:09 PM
He looks Indian.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:02:09 PM
I don't mean to be a racist but clearly thats a monkey not a man - I mean look at the hands.  Also the guy in the back is a lepercon. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 06:02:45 PM
He looks Indian.

Aren't you on Lent still? Go dig in your pockets
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 09, 2007, 06:03:35 PM
He looks Indian.

Aren't you on Lent still? Go dig in your pockets

I don't even know what that means.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 06:04:01 PM
He looks Indian.

Aren't you on Lent still? Go dig in your pockets

I don't even know what that means.
:lol

Welcome back duder I missed you
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: brawndolicious on April 09, 2007, 06:04:19 PM
I guess I'm the only one that read dickens in highschool.   :-\
A tale of two cities was pretty shitty.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2007, 06:05:06 PM
...

And here we go again
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:05:31 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too

I hate that book. It sucks.

To Kill A Mockingbird and Dante's Inferno were the definitive school books.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Beezy on April 09, 2007, 06:08:32 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too

I hate that book. It sucks.

To Kill A Mockingbird and Dante's Inferno were the definitive school books.

Yeah, Great Gatsby gets a big meh from me. Never read Dante's Inferno, but To Kill A Mockingbird OMG. One of my favorite H.S. books.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:08:45 PM
I guess I'm the only one that read dickens in highschool.   :-\
A tale of two cities was pretty shitty.

 :o  Your dead to me. 

himu you read the inferno in school?  that pritty bad ass. I read the first 2 cantos in grade 9 and gave up - I didn't have enough history knowledge to get half the shit he was saying.

Mocking bird is outdated trash. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:09:27 PM
AP classes read Inferno in HS.

Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2007, 06:09:58 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too

I hate that book. It sucks.

die in a fire you homo.

you're not cool enough to read dante's inferno.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:11:17 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too

I hate that book. It sucks.

die in a fire you homo.

you're not cool enough to read dante's inferno.

Meh. His writing was really annoying. The story was interesting, but the way he presented it made reading it tedious.

Another good one, which many people I know hated, was Brave New World.

I still have fond memories reading Princess Bride for school in 7th grade. I love that book.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:12:20 PM
Mocking bird is outdated trash. 

No it isn't.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:13:13 PM
Paradise Lost is knocking my socks off right now, though every once in a while I hit a horrible horrible 300 lines or so and just give up reading for a month.  I loved the odyssey, iliad, and anied in grade 9. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2007, 06:13:37 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too

I hate that book. It sucks.

die in a fire you homo.

you're not cool enough to read dante's inferno.

Meh. His writing was really annoying. The story was interesting, but the way he presented it made reading it tedious.

Another good one, which many people I know hated, was Brave New World.

I still have fond memories reading Princess Bride for school in 7th grade. I love that book.
I don't know anyone that hated Brave New World.  Quit making shit up.

And it was only tedious because you have ADD and you're probably autistic.  You're making me so mad today himumu  >:(
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:13:53 PM
I was about to bring up Paradise Lost as well. That's a great read.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2007, 06:14:05 PM
Paradise Lost is knocking my socks off right now, though every once in a while I hit a horrible horrible 300 lines or so and just give up reading for a month.  I loved the odyssey, iliad, and anied in grade 9. 
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG PARADISE LOST IS GLORIOUS GLORIOUS GLORIOUS

I read it after the devils advocate came out.  so awesome
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:14:20 PM
1984 and The Catcher in the Rye are pretty much the only books I read in school that I really enjoyed.
The great gatsby rocked all sorts of nuts too

I hate that book. It sucks.

die in a fire you homo.

you're not cool enough to read dante's inferno.

Meh. His writing was really annoying. The story was interesting, but the way he presented it made reading it tedious.

Another good one, which many people I know hated, was Brave New World.

I still have fond memories reading Princess Bride for school in 7th grade. I love that book.
I don't know anyone that hated Brave New World.  Quit making shit up.

And it was only tedious because you have ADD and you're probably autistic.  You're making me so mad today himumu  >:(

I'm not dude. In my class at least, a lot of folks hated it. It was fucking distinguished mentally-challenged.

Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: brawndolicious on April 09, 2007, 06:14:49 PM
:o  Your dead to me. 
No it was absolutely horrible, read like something a 13 year old wrote while jacking off.  Did he write any better books?
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:14:49 PM
Mocking bird is outdated trash. 

No it isn't.

Yes it is.  It only has one chacter of any merit, and while the child learning the evils of the world was great for its time, there are lots of books that do it better.

Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:16:15 PM
:o  Your dead to me. 
No it was absolutely horrible, read like something a 13 year old wrote while jacking off. Did he write any better books?

how so?  I prefer great expectations, but most of his books are all similar in style. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:17:37 PM
Mocking bird is outdated trash. 

No it isn't.

Yes it is.  It only has one chacter of any merit, and while the child learning the evils of the world was great for its time, there are lots of books that do it better.

The story is an interesting portrayal of the racist times of early 1900's America. It's an emotional book, and I don't see how it's dated at all.

Canturbury Tales. :) King Arthur stories. :)

I loved English in HS.

Oh, and another good one is 12 Angry Men. The movie is an exact translation from the book. Good shit.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: max_cool on April 09, 2007, 06:21:07 PM
favorite HS reading

Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
All Quiet on the Western Front


Brave New World sucks, it's total crap. Read 1984, Fahrenheit 451, then BNW. Shit, Catch-22 is more entertaining (despite not fitting in the same category) than BNW. Great Gatsby is better and Great Gatsby is meh. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:21:22 PM
Just read the intro to Canturbury Tales.  It was ok, does it get better readint he characters tales?

Another one I liked was They cage the animals at night, but I don't remember what it was about at all besides a kid in an orphanage.  I found it really sad though. 

EDIT:  for BNW I really wish the whole book would have been like the first 3 chaptrers where its just a tour of the facility.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: brawndolicious on April 09, 2007, 06:22:23 PM
how so?  I prefer great expectations, but most of his books are all similar in style. 
if I wanted to watch a bunch of uptight, nationalistic dicks I would watch the news.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:23:12 PM
Just read the intro to Canturbury Tales.  It was ok, does it get better readint he characters tales?

Another one I liked was They cage the animals at night, but I don't remember what it was about at all besides a kid in an orphanage.  I found it really sad though. 

EDIT:  for BNW I really wish the whole book would have been like the first 3 chaptrers where its just a tour of the facility.

It's not all that great, but it entertained me.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 06:27:56 PM
Fuck how could I forget Hitchhikers saga. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 09, 2007, 06:29:46 PM
favorite HS reading

Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
All Quiet on the Western Front


Brave New World sucks, it's total crap. Read 1984, Fahrenheit 451, then BNW. Shit, Catch-22 is more entertaining (despite not fitting in the same category) than BNW. Great Gatsby is better and Great Gatsby is meh. 

Oh yeah, Animal Farm was good too. Orwell FTW. I've been meaning to mean Fahrenheit 451. Recently read BNW and enjoyed it, but the writing style was pretty godawful.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:31:24 PM
We didn't read Hitchhiker's in HS. I read the first book. I like it. The wacky writing style is...odd.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: TVC15 on April 09, 2007, 06:31:40 PM
Willco doesn't like a book intended for someone roughly half his age.  Tune in tomorrow to see his shocking opinion on Superfudge.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Disposable White Guy on April 09, 2007, 06:32:28 PM
I read a lot of junk in HS that was, well...junk.  Honors/AP classes at my school would read over-the-top analytical snorefests while the dumb kids got to read fun books, but they also had to suck on Maya Angelou's dick so I guess it all worked out.  From what I remember being required reading, Slaughterhouse 5 and The Secret Sharer were what I enjoyed.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:32:41 PM
:lol
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 06:37:45 PM
TVC is wrong, yet again!  Despite my reading level, I still read this on the shitter to this day:

(http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/11600000/11600216.jpg)
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Robo on April 09, 2007, 06:40:34 PM
Jane Eyre is far and away the worst thing I read in my academic career.  And to top it off, due to truancies, I got stuck doing a fucking book report on Wuthering Heights at the same time.  I should have been placed on suicide watch -- those assholes are lucky I'm a pussy.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: TVC15 on April 09, 2007, 06:43:16 PM
Jane Eyre is far and away the worst thing I read in my academic career.  And to top it off, due to truancies, I got stuck doing a fucking book report on Wuthering Heights at the same time.  I should have been placed on suicide watch -- those assholes are lucky I'm a pussy.

Worst book I ever read was probably Ethan Frome.  I giggled when an Edith Wharton adaptation was mentioned as Vince's next potential movie on Entourage.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:43:30 PM
What is that school book that was popular back in the day? The setting was an elementary school and they did absolutely ridiculous shit. In one of the chapters the they got a new computer, and the teacher threw it out the window.

Another episode saw the school get destroyed.

They were awesome. Anyone remember the name?
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: demi on April 09, 2007, 06:47:23 PM
WHAT DOES THE CONCH REPRESENT OMG

Did you notice there were no african americans in space? We left them behind while our genius white men went off to save the galaxy.

(http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/5112/salyut6wg3.jpg)

Three whites and one black. I wonder who got chosen as the fuck doll on that trip.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2007, 06:50:43 PM
The Joy Luck Club rocked....






.....


*cricket*
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: The Fake Shemp on April 09, 2007, 06:53:07 PM
What is that school book that was popular back in the day? The setting was an elementary school and they did absolutely ridiculous shit. In one of the chapters the they got a new computer, and the teacher threw it out the window.

Another episode saw the school get destroyed.

They were awesome. Anyone remember the name?

I just posted it!
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:56:37 PM
That's the name? It seemed familiar but I wasn't sure.

Another fave of mine when I was little was this one with a mean ass teacher. I forgot the name.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: TVC15 on April 09, 2007, 06:56:58 PM
I think we should start an Evilbore Book Club and pick this as our first book:

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689841582.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

From what I understand it is like Carrie without the good parts.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Himu on April 09, 2007, 06:57:34 PM
Christ, TVC.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 07:12:32 PM
 :lol white man.


I'd be all for a REAL book club in a few months or so. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: makaveli on April 09, 2007, 07:16:56 PM
ive only seen the movie it blew but the piggy getting owned makes it own
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 09, 2007, 07:19:41 PM
ive only seen the movie it blew but the piggy getting owned makes it own

and you bitch about not being able to go to collage.  Read a book man. 
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: CoolGuyChris on April 09, 2007, 07:22:39 PM
He's so sexy holding that martini glass.. If  he had a pussy, i would turn it inside out....lmao.... :supergay HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 09, 2007, 09:29:44 PM
oh willco. oh, willco.

mupepe :heart great gatsby :heart
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Scurvy Stan on April 09, 2007, 09:50:34 PM
This is one of those books in school that I skipped reading all together and watched the movie the night before I was supposed to finish it.
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: Candyflip on April 09, 2007, 10:18:23 PM
Fuck how could I forget Hitchhikers saga. 
Yeah, who could forget that steaming pile of shit? Lord of the Flies was okay in Junior High. I can't really remember what I've read in highschool. Of Mice and Men was good. So was To Kill a Mockingbird. I need to start reading again...................
Title: Re: Lord of the Flies is crap
Post by: xnikki118x on April 10, 2007, 03:29:33 AM
AP classes read Inferno in HS.



Mine didn't, we did read To Kill A Mockingbird though. I had already read it twice by then--once in 6th grade and one in 10th--but every time I read it I understood more I guess.



I HATED Lord of the Flies. I think we read it junior year if I'm not mistaken. It was just so unrealistic to me--12-year-old boys just aren't mature enough to create some kind of little organized society like that.

I did like when they burned the island up or whatever, though. Also the whole "KILL THE PIG CUT HER THROAT SPILL HER BLOOD" or whatever bit. There were some good laughs there.