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Anacardo
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Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck
#8389496 - 12/12/06 02:50 AM

Hi gang.

In this thread we will list, and probably argue about, various books that the tiresomely pretentious love to talk about, but which are either impossible reads or have no real intellectual value.

I'll open with: Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics, one of the more lightweight reads of my 'serious reading' career, that goes to show why, hey, it is a bad idea to try to write an entire book without a thesis. Oh, hey, 'Lemonjello' looks bad on a resume, imagine that.

Rattle 'em off.

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lippy
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Anacardo]
#8389520 - 12/12/06 02:53 AM

Quote:

Hi gang.

In this thread we will list, and probably argue about, various books that the tiresomely pretentious love to talk about, but which are either impossible reads or have no real intellectual value.

I'll open with: Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics, one of the more lightweight reads of my 'serious reading' career, that goes to show why, hey, it is a bad idea to try to write an entire book without a thesis. Oh, hey, 'Lemonjello' looks bad on a resume, imagine that.

Rattle 'em off.

I enjoyed this book, however the rambling about child's names was pointless to me.

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Shadowrun
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Anacardo]
#8389543 - 12/12/06 02:55 AM

i will probably be tarred and feathered for this: crime and punishment
also great expectations

Edited by Shadowrun (12/12/06 02:57 AM)

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miajag
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Anacardo]
#8389549 - 12/12/06 02:56 AM

Finnegans Wake seems like an obvious answer. I got 6 pages in before quitting.

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Anacardo
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: miajag]
#8389574 - 12/12/06 02:59 AM

Gentlemen and eventual ladies:

Please give us at least a line or two re: the appropriateness of your nomination.

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Golden_Rhino
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Anacardo]
#8389593 - 12/12/06 03:02 AM

Anything by Shakespeare. Is it good? I suppose. Is it worthy of the cult like obsession people have with it?? No.

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ooinsight
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Golden_Rhino]
#8389624 - 12/12/06 03:05 AM

Fight Club, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

No explanation needed

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Nate.
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Golden_Rhino]
#8389651 - 12/12/06 03:07 AM

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Anything by Shakespeare. Is it good? I suppose. Is it worthy of the cult like obsession people have with it?? No.

Yikes. Sorry, dude, I think you're just ignorant here. Certain Shakespeare works might fit -- I've heard reasonable negative critiques of his sonnets, for example -- but very very few informed reasonable people doubt the greatness of his major works.

--Nate

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Blarg
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Anacardo]
#8389662 - 12/12/06 03:10 AM

On my hate list:

Ayn Rand
Joseph Conrad
Nathaniel Hawthorne

On my list for ringing false and/or being vastly overrated:

Faulkner
Most poetry of the last 50 years
Anything by William Bennett

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SNOWBALL
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Re: Show Library: Pseudointellectual Books That, in Fact, Suck [Re: Golden_Rhino]
#8389668 - 12/12/06 03:10 AM

Quote:

Anything by Shakespeare. Is it good? I suppose. Is it worthy of the cult like obsession people have with it?? No.

Man o man. I think you just ruined the entire thread with this post.

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