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Post by redbeard on Oct 16, 2019 16:04:04 GMT -8
Good times!! Pissing through a strainer?? Took a month for me to recover from the gallstones and subsequent surgery. Again, good times!! tiny ass cup that you collapse. the shitty part is that it can come apart and you have to snap it back together. Could be worse. Back in the day, a friend of mine swallowed a quarter... There were two options, surgery and...well...you get the idea... |
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Post by Fugazi on Oct 17, 2019 9:06:59 GMT -8
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Post by Fugazi on Oct 18, 2019 7:33:20 GMT -8
Heading to the lake today. I hope I can watch the game tomorrow night. Later hosers
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Post by Fugazi on Oct 18, 2019 11:17:08 GMT -8
Hello from Lake Tullock. It's a little cool here today
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Post by Marbles on Oct 18, 2019 12:32:48 GMT -8
tiny ass cup that you collapse. the shitty part is that it can come apart and you have to snap it back together. Could be worse. Back in the day, a friend of mine swallowed a quarter... There were two options, surgery and...well...you get the idea... I've done that. Don't recall it ever coming back out and I still make it through TSA without issue. |
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Post by redbeard on Oct 18, 2019 14:09:11 GMT -8
Could be worse. Back in the day, a friend of mine swallowed a quarter... There were two options, surgery and...well...you get the idea... I've done that. Don't recall it ever coming back out and I still make it through TSA without issue. You probably already flushed that quarter. Why you didn't notice when it exited, well...that opens the back door for speculation!🤔 |
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Post by cjelli on Oct 18, 2019 14:42:34 GMT -8
cjellika is reading her first REAL BIG book - The Count of Monte Cristo (even Lord of the Rings with all due respect comes nowhere close to these classic masterpieces) - and she's baffled by the grandeur of the plot almost on every page.
Interestingly, the school library and most of the libraries around, and B&N only had an abridged version. Thriftbooks for $4.99 did the job, the 1250-page volume has all her attention now.
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Post by cjelli on Oct 18, 2019 14:43:13 GMT -8
I've done that. Don't recall it ever coming back out and I still make it through TSA without issue. You probably already flushed that quarter. Why you didn't notice when it exited, well...that opens the back door for speculation!🤔 It might've dissolved in everything marbles used to consume back in the days. |
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Post by redbeard on Oct 18, 2019 14:47:08 GMT -8
You probably already flushed that quarter. Why you didn't notice when it exited, well...that opens the back door for speculation!🤔 It might've dissolved in everything marbles used to consume back in the days. Nah...he crapped it out like it was nothing! Plenty of room!😝😝 |
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Post by Fugazi on Oct 18, 2019 20:01:05 GMT -8
Today was a very good day. Much beer was consumed and the food was great
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Post by Fugazi on Oct 19, 2019 6:37:10 GMT -8
Puck Night!!!!!
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Post by danvilleshark on Oct 20, 2019 10:42:55 GMT -8
Beer day!
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Post by Marbles on Oct 20, 2019 11:52:11 GMT -8
cjellika is reading her first REAL BIG book - The Count of Monte Cristo (even Lord of the Rings with all due respect comes nowhere close to these classic masterpieces) - and she's baffled by the grandeur of the plot almost on every page. Interestingly, the school library and most of the libraries around, and B&N only had an abridged version. Thriftbooks for $4.99 did the job, the 1250-page volume has all her attention now. LotR is about 1000-1100 isn't it? If you get the version that has all three books in a single volume? How old is she? Some of the longer ones I've really liked are likely a bit more mature, like East of Eden. Meanwhile, I'm about to re read The Sun Also Rises. Who knows, could maybe knock it out this afternoon. |
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Post by cjelli on Oct 20, 2019 12:21:21 GMT -8
cjellika is reading her first REAL BIG book - The Count of Monte Cristo (even Lord of the Rings with all due respect comes nowhere close to these classic masterpieces) - and she's baffled by the grandeur of the plot almost on every page. Interestingly, the school library and most of the libraries around, and B&N only had an abridged version. Thriftbooks for $4.99 did the job, the 1250-page volume has all her attention now. LotR is about 1000-1100 isn't it? If you get the version that has all three books in a single volume? How old is she? Some of the longer ones I've really liked are likely a bit more mature, like East of Eden. Meanwhile, I'm about to re read The Sun Also Rises. Who knows, could maybe knock it out this afternoon. Yes. But LOTR is not nearly as complex as TCMC.
She's 13, East of Eden and Steinbeck in general are still a bit out of reach - I want to take her to the museum in Salinas before she even starts reading him. Hemingway is one of the best writers in the history of literature, but definitely not a teenage read, with the exception of the Old Man and the Sea.
Meanwhile, I learned that one of the terrific novels of A&B Strugatsky, a fusion of mystery and sci-fi, has been recently translated. Highly recommended! |
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Post by Marbles on Oct 20, 2019 12:39:31 GMT -8
LotR is about 1000-1100 isn't it? If you get the version that has all three books in a single volume? How old is she? Some of the longer ones I've really liked are likely a bit more mature, like East of Eden. Meanwhile, I'm about to re read The Sun Also Rises. Who knows, could maybe knock it out this afternoon. Yes. But LOTR is not nearly as complex as TCMC.
She's 13, East of Eden and Steinbeck in general are still a bit out of reach - I want to take her to the museum in Salinas before she even starts reading him. Hemingway is one of the best writers in the history of literature, but definitely not a teenage read, with the exception of the Old Man and the Sea.
Meanwhile, I learned that one of the terrific novels of A&B Strugatsky, a fusion of mystery and sci-fi, has been recently translated. Highly recommended! Agree on the above. Definitely don't think Hemingway is great until you're older. I did read Farewell to Arms in highschool but even then I feel like his message ages with you, so revisiting him every few years (maybe 5-10) really helps to take more out of the novels. And with all the drinking and womanizing and brutality it's likely better to hold off for a while. I still haven't attempted to reread For Whom the Bell Tolls as that book just wrecked me. And I find it's a rare author that is able to so simply and beautifully crush you. East of Eden I read and loved when I was about 17. I think Steinbeck is good because you can appreciate him at a younger age and the subject matter while adult is not so mature that it can't be taken in as a teen. I'll need to keep an eye out for your recommendation. Honestly I had also been eyeing Asimov as I've never taken the plunge into his work and have been increasingly interested in the themes he covers. For the moment I was planning to take this quick break to revisit Hemingway and also a Canticle for Leibowitz, and then I need to wrap up the Dark Tower (one more book to go) which I've been reading with breaks in between books for the last year or so. It was kind of an interesting experience to also come back and read more Stephen King, makes me appreciate him more than the kind of pulp stuff of his I gravitated to as a kid. It's funny, I normally read a majority of non fiction but I really started to flip last year and gravitate more into fiction with an occasionally stop back in a history book. |
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Post by cjelli on Oct 20, 2019 13:00:16 GMT -8
Yes. But LOTR is not nearly as complex as TCMC.
She's 13, East of Eden and Steinbeck in general are still a bit out of reach - I want to take her to the museum in Salinas before she even starts reading him. Hemingway is one of the best writers in the history of literature, but definitely not a teenage read, with the exception of the Old Man and the Sea.
Meanwhile, I learned that one of the terrific novels of A&B Strugatsky, a fusion of mystery and sci-fi, has been recently translated. Highly recommended! I'll need to keep an eye out for your recommendation. Honestly I had also been eyeing Asimov as I've never taken the plunge into his work and have been increasingly interested in the themes he covers. This is very different from Asimov. It's even quite different from ABS's other work almost all of which is outstanding (although not as deep as Lem, who is just in a league of his own). |
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Post by carolinasharksfan on Oct 20, 2019 14:05:09 GMT -8
Yes. But LOTR is not nearly as complex as TCMC.
She's 13, East of Eden and Steinbeck in general are still a bit out of reach - I want to take her to the museum in Salinas before she even starts reading him. Hemingway is one of the best writers in the history of literature, but definitely not a teenage read, with the exception of the Old Man and the Sea.
Meanwhile, I learned that one of the terrific novels of A&B Strugatsky, a fusion of mystery and sci-fi, has been recently translated. Highly recommended! Agree on the above. Definitely don't think Hemingway is great until you're older. I did read Farewell to Arms in highschool but even then I feel like his message ages with you, so revisiting him every few years (maybe 5-10) really helps to take more out of the novels. And with all the drinking and womanizing and brutality it's likely better to hold off for a while. I still haven't attempted to reread For Whom the Bell Tolls as that book just wrecked me. And I find it's a rare author that is able to so simply and beautifully crush you. East of Eden I read and loved when I was about 17. I think Steinbeck is good because you can appreciate him at a younger age and the subject matter while adult is not so mature that it can't be taken in as a teen. I'll need to keep an eye out for your recommendation. Honestly I had also been eyeing Asimov as I've never taken the plunge into his work and have been increasingly interested in the themes he covers. For the moment I was planning to take this quick break to revisit Hemingway and also a Canticle for Leibowitz, and then I need to wrap up the Dark Tower (one more book to go) which I've been reading with breaks in between books for the last year or so. It was kind of an interesting experience to also come back and read more Stephen King, makes me appreciate him more than the kind of pulp stuff of his I gravitated to as a kid. It's funny, I normally read a majority of non fiction but I really started to flip last year and gravitate more into fiction with an occasionally stop back in a history book. Highly recommend you follow through on reading Asimov. I’ve read almost everything of his, fantastic stuff. |
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