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Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:11 am

I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby btownmeggy on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:19 am

misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


Well, how many pages are in your copy?
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:19 am

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misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


Well, how many pages are in your copy?


250
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby btownmeggy on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:22 am

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misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


Well, how many pages are in your copy?


250


What was happening in the last bit you read?
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:24 am

btownmeggy wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


Well, how many pages are in your copy?


250


What was happening in the last bit you read?


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Postby btownmeggy on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:26 am

Ok, ok, ok, ok, wait a second. You don't mean you have to finish before class tomorrow, but before school starts in a month!?!

You might as well read it. I, too, don't really like the book at all, but you might as well finish it. You can close the book after reading the last page, be as disgusted as I was with the ending, and then feel truly satisfied in having read the ENTIRE book, really having given it a chance, and still having hated it.

You've come this far. Just finish it.
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Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:28 am

btownmeggy wrote:Ok, ok, ok, ok, wait a second. You don't mean you have to finish before class tomorrow, but before school starts in a month!?!

You might as well read it. I, too, don't really like the book at all, but you might as well finish it. You can close the book after reading the last page, be as disgusted as I was with the ending, and then feel truly satisfied in having read the ENTIRE book, really having given it a chance, and still having hated it.

You've come this far. Just finish it.


school starts next thursday for me, but I also have to read 19 varieties of gazelle (which I havent even started)
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Postby btownmeggy on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:30 am

misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:Ok, ok, ok, ok, wait a second. You don't mean you have to finish before class tomorrow, but before school starts in a month!?!

You might as well read it. I, too, don't really like the book at all, but you might as well finish it. You can close the book after reading the last page, be as disgusted as I was with the ending, and then feel truly satisfied in having read the ENTIRE book, really having given it a chance, and still having hated it.

You've come this far. Just finish it.


school starts next thursday for me, but I also have to read 19 varieties of gazelle (which I havent even started)


Hmm, that is rather soon. Well, I say give it your BEST GO. Poetry doesn't take long to read, and no one really expects you to UNDERSTAND IT, so the other book shouldn't take up too much time.
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Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:32 am

btownmeggy wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:Ok, ok, ok, ok, wait a second. You don't mean you have to finish before class tomorrow, but before school starts in a month!?!

You might as well read it. I, too, don't really like the book at all, but you might as well finish it. You can close the book after reading the last page, be as disgusted as I was with the ending, and then feel truly satisfied in having read the ENTIRE book, really having given it a chance, and still having hated it.

You've come this far. Just finish it.


school starts next thursday for me, but I also have to read 19 varieties of gazelle (which I havent even started)


Hmm, that is rather soon. Well, I say give it your BEST GO. Poetry doesn't take long to read, and no one really expects you to UNDERSTAND IT, so the other book shouldn't take up too much time.


yup, except I have two-a-days from monday to wednesday (SHIT :twisted: )

oh well, i should probably start reading instead of posting
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Postby chessplaya on Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:11 pm

btwonmeggy : if u have read the book why did u ask how many pages there r ??? ( scratch that i didnt notice the word ur copy)


and misterman : be a man for 1 time in ur life and finish the damn book ! :lol:
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Postby MeDeFe on Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:46 pm

I know a guy who used to buy the same interpretations of the books we were reading as our teacher used. He never bought the books themselves, though. For some reason he always got pretty good marks.
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Postby Gold Knight on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:01 pm

misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:Ok, ok, ok, ok, wait a second. You don't mean you have to finish before class tomorrow, but before school starts in a month!?!

You might as well read it. I, too, don't really like the book at all, but you might as well finish it. You can close the book after reading the last page, be as disgusted as I was with the ending, and then feel truly satisfied in having read the ENTIRE book, really having given it a chance, and still having hated it.

You've come this far. Just finish it.


school starts next thursday for me, but I also have to read 19 varieties of gazelle (which I havent even started)


Hmm, that is rather soon. Well, I say give it your BEST GO. Poetry doesn't take long to read, and no one really expects you to UNDERSTAND IT, so the other book shouldn't take up too much time.


yup, except I have two-a-days from monday to wednesday (SHIT :twisted: )

oh well, i should probably start reading instead of posting


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Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:35 pm

Gold Knight wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
btownmeggy wrote:Ok, ok, ok, ok, wait a second. You don't mean you have to finish before class tomorrow, but before school starts in a month!?!

You might as well read it. I, too, don't really like the book at all, but you might as well finish it. You can close the book after reading the last page, be as disgusted as I was with the ending, and then feel truly satisfied in having read the ENTIRE book, really having given it a chance, and still having hated it.

You've come this far. Just finish it.


school starts next thursday for me, but I also have to read 19 varieties of gazelle (which I havent even started)


Hmm, that is rather soon. Well, I say give it your BEST GO. Poetry doesn't take long to read, and no one really expects you to UNDERSTAND IT, so the other book shouldn't take up too much time.


yup, except I have two-a-days from monday to wednesday (SHIT :twisted: )

oh well, i should probably start reading instead of posting


Thats puss. My doubles start Monday and go til Saturday, and the same next week. But I guess this weakness is to expect from a 49ers fan... :roll:

school rules buddy, besides, I've been practicing/conditioning/working out 4 times a week this entire summer
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby luns101 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:41 pm

misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


I thought I was the only one that hated that book. I also hated Call of the Wild. Give me just about anything written by Alexandre Dumas any day over some of the crap they made me read from a required reading list in school.
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:43 pm

luns101 wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


I thought I was the only one that hated that book. I also hated Call of the Wild. Give me just about anything written by Alexandre Dumas any day over some of the crap they made me read from a required reading list in school.


good news, i am now on page 209 :D
I'll try to finish it up tonight and give my report of how stupid it was
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby static_ice on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:45 pm

misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


its a very good book and if you don't appreciate it so far then no, you shouldn't finish it just drop out of high school :)

and meggy what was so bad about the ending?
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:47 pm

static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


its a very good book and if you don't appreciate it so far then no, you shouldn't finish it just drop out of high school :)

and meggy what was so bad about the ending?


I really don't appreciate it at all, I liked his collection of short stories a lot (forget the title of the book) but so far, this book has just sucked ass, maybe I'm too young to understand it or something but IMO it is a shit piece of writing
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby static_ice on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:49 pm

misterman10 wrote:
static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


its a very good book and if you don't appreciate it so far then no, you shouldn't finish it just drop out of high school :)

and meggy what was so bad about the ending?


I really don't appreciate it at all, I liked his collection of short stories a lot (forget the title of the book) but so far, this book has just sucked ass, maybe I'm too young to understand it or something but IMO it is a shit piece of writing


maybe if you have a teacher explain all the meaning to you you'll like it better

btw ever heard of sparknotes?
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Postby luns101 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:50 pm

misterman10 wrote:good news, i am now on page 209 :D
I'll try to finish it up tonight and give my report of how stupid it was


I think as long as you are somewhat professional in the way you word things, it's totally appropriate for you to rip it to shreds if that's your opinion of it. There are many so-called "classics" which I just couldn't stand. I know, I know...I'm just not sophisticated enough to get it. Good luck on your report.
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:51 pm

static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


its a very good book and if you don't appreciate it so far then no, you shouldn't finish it just drop out of high school :)

and meggy what was so bad about the ending?


I really don't appreciate it at all, I liked his collection of short stories a lot (forget the title of the book) but so far, this book has just sucked ass, maybe I'm too young to understand it or something but IMO it is a shit piece of writing


maybe if you have a teacher explain all the meaning to you you'll like it better

btw ever heard of sparknotes?


nope, never heard of sparknotes. Last year when we read his collection of short stories, we went way in-depth with Hemingway and his iceberg theory and writing style. We even had to write a short story using his style. I understand his style and methods, I think I am just missing the overall theme right now. maybe if i finish the book it would help.
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:51 pm

luns101 wrote:
misterman10 wrote:good news, i am now on page 209 :D
I'll try to finish it up tonight and give my report of how stupid it was


I think as long as you are somewhat professional in the way you word things, it's totally appropriate for you to rip it to shreds if that's your opinion of it. There are many so-called "classics" which I just couldn't stand. I know, I know...I'm just not sophisticated enough to get it. Good luck on your report.


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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby static_ice on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:56 pm

misterman10 wrote:
static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


its a very good book and if you don't appreciate it so far then no, you shouldn't finish it just drop out of high school :)

and meggy what was so bad about the ending?


I really don't appreciate it at all, I liked his collection of short stories a lot (forget the title of the book) but so far, this book has just sucked ass, maybe I'm too young to understand it or something but IMO it is a shit piece of writing


maybe if you have a teacher explain all the meaning to you you'll like it better

btw ever heard of sparknotes?


nope, never heard of sparknotes. Last year when we read his collection of short stories, we went way in-depth with Hemingway and his iceberg theory and writing style. We even had to write a short story using his style. I understand his style and methods, I think I am just missing the overall theme right now. maybe if i finish the book it would help.


well sparknotes is great, if you're too lazy to finish the book just go to sparknotes.com or something like that, just make sure that you don't copy the summary word for word
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby misterman10 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:00 pm

static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:
static_ice wrote:
misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


its a very good book and if you don't appreciate it so far then no, you shouldn't finish it just drop out of high school :)

and meggy what was so bad about the ending?


I really don't appreciate it at all, I liked his collection of short stories a lot (forget the title of the book) but so far, this book has just sucked ass, maybe I'm too young to understand it or something but IMO it is a shit piece of writing


maybe if you have a teacher explain all the meaning to you you'll like it better

btw ever heard of sparknotes?


nope, never heard of sparknotes. Last year when we read his collection of short stories, we went way in-depth with Hemingway and his iceberg theory and writing style. We even had to write a short story using his style. I understand his style and methods, I think I am just missing the overall theme right now. maybe if i finish the book it would help.


well sparknotes is great, if you're too lazy to finish the book just go to sparknotes.com or something like that, just make sure that you don't copy the summary word for word


alright, thanks, I'm gonna finish the book though no matter how boring it is
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Re: The Sun Also Rises

Postby luns101 on Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:50 pm

misterman10 wrote:report? that would suck, we just have to read it, and on the first day of class we discuss it


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Postby waradmiral on Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:57 pm

misterman10 wrote:I am on page 175 of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and I need to finish it before school starts. It is pretty much the stupidest book I have ever read and I was wondering, is there any point in finishing, or is it just complete shit till the very end?


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