The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

Chula Vista · 06-28-2017, 03:12 PM

These last couple of pages are depressing. King, Poe, and Lovecraft all need to be devoured before you die.

Start here:

King - Salem's Lot
Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
Lovecraft - The Colour out of Space

LoathsomePete · 06-28-2017, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Holy moly. I hope that ignorant quack got fired.

Nope, she still has a job there.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I see your public schools are **** too.

Actually all things considered my high school was pretty decent, just that one class. AP English my junior year was awesome.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 06-28-2017, 03:26 PM

as long as they still read the outsiders idgaf

OccultHawk · 06-28-2017, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

as long as they still read the outsiders idgaf

I'm so glad I read that on my own and not through school. I read almost (maybe everything) she published.

The Batlord · 06-28-2017, 03:37 PM

I literally don't think we read anything longer than a short story during my entire time at school. American public schools + the South = retard factory

grindy · 06-28-2017, 03:40 PM

We read Kafka in school.
Win.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 06-28-2017, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

We read Kafka in school.
Win.

i had to in university. i know that doesn't count but still a win on its own.

**Frownland** · 06-28-2017, 03:42 PM

I read Hamlet, Turn of the Screw, Things Fall Apart (I was literally the only person in my class who saw the greatness), Catch-22, and A Clockwork Orange in high school, some of my favourite books.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 06-28-2017, 03:47 PM

we read Things Fall Apart too. i guess it was alright.

Pet_Sounds · 06-28-2017, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I read Hamlet, Turn of the Screw, Things Fall Apart (I was literally the only person in my class who saw the greatness), Catch-22, and A Clockwork Orange in high school, some of my favourite books.

Read Hamlet on my own when I was 11ish, just because there was a copy lying around.

Catch-22 and A Clockwork Orange are faves too. I'm (pleasantly) surprised a school would assign the latter.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	These last couple of pages are depressing. King, Poe, and Lovecraft all need to be devoured before you die. Start here: King - Salem's Lot Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart Lovecraft - The Colour out of Space __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	We read Kafka in school. Win. __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I read Hamlet, Turn of the Screw, Things Fall Apart (I was literally the only person in my class who saw the greatness), Catch-22, and A Clockwork Orange in high school, some of my favourite books. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x