What Do You Do When You are Feeling Down?
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Goombella said:
I have tried talking to him. I sent him a PM on Facebook almost 2 weeks ago. No response from him even though he has been on facebook...So I tried...
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I've got a book from Barnes & Noble called The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe that's got pretty much everything the guy ever wrote (including a novella called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym), so yes. That one's one of my favorites as well (about equal to The Fall of the House of Usher).
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That is neat! I also read The Fall of the House of Usher in English class 6 years agoMario4Ever said:NintendoQueen said:
I've got a book from Barnes & Noble called The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe that's got pretty much everything the guy ever wrote (including a novella called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym), so yes. That one's one of my favorites as well (about equal to The Fall of the House of Usher).
That's a good one too.There is another short horror story called The Monkey's Paw; it's not by Edgar Allan Poe, but someone else whose name escapes me. Have you ever read that one before?
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It's by W.W. Jacobs (had to look it up, since I forgot what it was about), but yeah, I've read it. It doesn't resonate with me as much as Poe's works do, though. However, it brings to mind another story I read around the same time: Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game." While it's not a horror story, I have fond memories of it, which would make it applicable to this thread as a "spirit lifter."
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Mario4Ever said:
O M G. I read The Most Dangerous Game as well in high school! I loved that story too, I am not kidding. Haha we seem to like a lot of the same stories...did you read Lord of Flies? Another great book!
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When I'm down, I watch a Godzilla movie. It's fun to watch my childhood hero beat up aliens. sigh good times. good times.
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NintendoQueen said:
Let's see how long we can keep this going...I have read Lord of the Flies (love the ending). I've also read Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, The Scarlet Letter and The Sound and the Fury (both by William Faulkner), The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Dante Alighieri's Inferno (though I've also read his Purgatorio and Paradiso), Homer's Iliad and Odyssey...I think that about covers it as far as classics are concerned (excluding the works of Shakespeare).
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Bleah. Though I know people like it, so...Mario4Ever said:
Ugh. That was awful. There are only a few books I rank as low as Things Fall Apart.Mario4Ever said:
Haven't read either of those but I've heard that Faulkner's writing style is horribly boring.Mario4Ever said:
Never heard of those.Mario4Ever said:
Man, the Odyssey was kind of boring, but from what I can tell the Iliad is awesome.Mario4Ever said:
So there's a curse that the first person to land on Trojan soil will be the first to die, right? So what does Odysseus do? He throws his shield on the beach and lands on it, and the guy who jumps after him and lands on the soil is the first to die. That's just awesome.
Not to mention the greatest trick of all time: the TROJAN HORSE.
A lot of those books you've listed are like....typical books read in highschool English classes. I don't know many people who haven't read those.
Also, contributing to the topic. It sounds silly, but I focus on homework and stuff. It forces me to think about other things with the benefit of being productive.
Also, contributing to the topic. It sounds silly, but I focus on homework and stuff. It forces me to think about other things with the benefit of being productive.
