770312
Gravedigger
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Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
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Post by 770312 on Sept 13, 2016 21:16:27 GMT -6
Go read it.
Then cry with me. >_>
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Killa.Ounze
Board Witch
...it's all water under the fridge
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Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:45:03 GMT -6
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Post by Killa.Ounze on Sept 13, 2016 22:55:17 GMT -6
Aren't we suppose to laugh with stoner protagonists? What's with the tears? Was the bag just sticks and beans?
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770312
Gravedigger
Letters and stuff. Maybe some numbers.
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Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
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Post by 770312 on Sept 13, 2016 22:58:27 GMT -6
The character it follows is name William Stoner.... It's not about drugs. XD
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Killa.Ounze
Board Witch
...it's all water under the fridge
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Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:45:03 GMT -6
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Post by Killa.Ounze on Sept 13, 2016 23:43:32 GMT -6
Woah, misleading title for sure  And for the sake of conversation whom is this William Stoner? |
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770312
Gravedigger
Letters and stuff. Maybe some numbers.
Posts: 121
Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
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Post by 770312 on Sept 14, 2016 7:51:08 GMT -6
He's a very unassuming man who goes to university and after graduating teaches there... It's about his very mundane life and all that he didn't become. D=
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770312
Gravedigger
Letters and stuff. Maybe some numbers.
Posts: 121
Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
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Post by 770312 on Sept 14, 2016 9:03:03 GMT -6
Two quotes that I love dearly and connected with from the book...
“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered in his words; and what moved him most became cold in its utterance . And the consciousness of his inadequacy distressed him so greatly that the sense of it grew habitual, as much a part of him as the stoop of his shoulders.”
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
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Ric
Spookyman
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Date Registered: Sept 14, 2016 10:44:59 GMT -6
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Post by Ric on Sept 14, 2016 11:15:29 GMT -6
I'll keep an eye out for it next time I go to Goodwill or the bookstore.
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770312
Gravedigger
Letters and stuff. Maybe some numbers.
Posts: 121
Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
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Post by 770312 on Sept 14, 2016 12:30:59 GMT -6
Definitely do!
It's my favorite book, it's so damn relatable it hurts. Sometimes when I think about the thing, I get a little teary eyed. >_____>
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Killa.Ounze
Board Witch
...it's all water under the fridge
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Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:45:03 GMT -6
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Post by Killa.Ounze on Sept 15, 2016 7:18:25 GMT -6
He's a very unassuming man who goes to university and after graduating teaches there... It's about his very mundane life and all that he didn't become. D= Sounds interesting, definitely a thinking persons title. Personally, that sounds like it strikes a little too close to home, and I am trying to break away from the mundane, and achieve something more like I originally planned in life before it's many distractions, diversions, and devastations detoured me from my desired destinations. Aside from that, it does sound intriguing like I said |
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770312
Gravedigger
Letters and stuff. Maybe some numbers.
Posts: 121
Date Registered: Sept 13, 2016 21:15:13 GMT -6
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Post by 770312 on Sept 15, 2016 17:43:28 GMT -6
Sometimes I read worthwhile novels. I typically read fantasy as I couldn't care to read more about what's going on in the world or my life, but I stray and read literature here and there. This one really showed me that there are other people like me out there, it was refreshing... and depressing as I really feel like there's not much I'll do in life, but there's so much potential. |
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