How to Kill a Mockingbird

Fullcircle · Post by **Fullcircle** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:16 pm

I just wasted about 20 minutes of my life with this. The most creative book report I've ever seen. /(^v^)\ I haven't been around the boards much lately, but this was something I just had to share with you guys... It takes a while to load but... /(Ovo)\... Enjoy!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird.php

~SR

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:59 pm

I've been meaning to read that book, and don't have to now. Thanks!

(It sounds a LOT more interesting than I thought...)

Smight · Post by **Smight** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:05 pm

I should have taken that "wasted 20 minutes of my life" warning more seriously. I'll buy Pirates flying through space on flaming sharks along with ninjas and dead presidents portraits to fight the mockingbird armadda.
But seriously, who would hide treasure in a tree?

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:25 pm

I wish someone had done this when I had to read Catcher in the Rye...

Jha'Meia · Post by **Jha'Meia** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:31 pm

Eugh. Catcher was awful. I regretted buying it. But it's a classic, I'm sure it is one for a reason.

Saw that flash a while ago! I was like, "Oh my god, are they feeding these kids acid?"

The narrator's voice sounded like the guy who did the Metallica: Napster, BAD! flash movies. Anybody care to take me up on confirming that?

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:45 pm

"Catcher in the Rye" wasn't that bad. You haven't seen bad until a pseudo-intellectual asshole makes the class read beat poetry. Seriously, all they did was get high next to a typewriter. If I wanted to see that, I'd just give an insane homeless man a pencil.

Literature, like physics, is all relative.

Jha'Meia · Post by **Jha'Meia** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:56 pm

The Neko wrote: Literature, like physics, is all relative.

That is true, which is why I haven't thrown Catcher away yet. There're a lot of great classics which I've been trying to get myself acquainted with, and they're not neccessarily my type. Is it possible to look at a story objectively?

Great for conversation, though.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:41 pm

Certainly. I'm not such a big fan of Joyce or Eliot, but I can still appreciate the complexity of their work.

The Neko wrote:"Catcher in the Rye" wasn't that bad. You haven't seen bad until a pseudo-intellectual asshole makes the class read beat poetry. Seriously, all they did was get high next to a typewriter. If I wanted to see that, I'd just give an insane homeless man a pencil.

Nah, the worst thing is sitting in a creative writing class and listening to some whiny girl go on and on about her latest love, else her latest breakup, with every over-used metaphor in the book. *clenches jaw*

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:08 pm

The Neko wrote:"Catcher in the Rye" wasn't that bad. You haven't seen bad until a pseudo-intellectual asshole makes the class read beat poetry. Seriously, all they did was get high next to a typewriter. If I wanted to see that, I'd just give an insane homeless man a pencil.

Literature, like physics, is all relative.

After "The Devil Wears Prada" I was longing for Catcher in the Rye.
And nothing is worse than Dickens. Although I may be unfairly adverse to him because my teacher at the time was...well...
Same with Catcher in the Rye. My teacher had us write an essay about how the author was writing a story about America moving away from its spirituality. Unfortunately, I didn't really see that connection, so it made my life miserable.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:10 pm

I read "Catcher in the Rye" of my own volition; perhaps that makes a difference, as I fail to see why everyone finds it so offensive. It was a little strange, I'll give you that, but it was a fairly short and easy read, which is more than you can say for most books that make the reading lists.

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:11 pm

I've never read Catcher in the Rye, but most of my friends tell me I'd love it *shrug*

It's by James Joyce? Was he the one who wrote Dubliners? Because I love that book/collection of short stories. Man, good times in English class!

Worst thing is when a girl in your history class decides to compare everything to L.A. "The whole Communist thing reminds me of this time, when my friends in L.A. decided to throw me a party..." and so on. Bleaurgh.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:15 pm

Alaina wrote:It's by James Joyce? Was he the one who wrote Dubliners? Because I love that book/collection of short stories. Man, good times in English class!

No, it's by J.D. Salinger. I was just talking about authors that seem to incur universal hatred.

But yes, Dubliners was alright. I'm not too fond of most of the "Great Contemporary Writers".

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:23 pm

Keffria wrote:I read "Catcher in the Rye" of my own volition; perhaps that makes a difference, as I fail to see why everyone finds it so offensive. It was a little strange, I'll give you that, but it was a fairly short and easy read, which is more than you can say for most books that make the reading lists.

I didn't find it offensive. I found it boring. And it was hard to find the whole moving away from spirituality thing amid the complaining about phoney people and suitcases.
Now, The Devil Wears Prada, that I found offensive.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:28 pm

Heh. I meant "offensive" as in "bad". ;>>

I don't think I've ever read anything that has actually "offended" me. "The Devil Wears Prada"? Never heard of it... Do tell.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:32 pm

You know it's odd... with all the books I've read, I've NEVER read Catcher in the Rye, Charlotte's Web, or Black Beauty.

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:41 pm

Keffria wrote:Heh. I meant "offensive" as in "bad". ;>>

I don't think I've ever read anything that has actually "offended" me. "The Devil Wears Prada"? Never heard of it... Do tell.

Well, it's about this woman who gets a job working for the editor of a big fashion magazine (I think that the fact that this is based on a true story is what makes it so offensive).
Now, the editor is a stuck up, evil bitch. But she's got so much influence that she can get her workers a position anywhere. And the woman in the story wants a job in the New Yorker. She's told that all she has to do is stick with it for a year.
Of course, it's a horrible job. She loses tons of weight because she can't even leave the office for lunch. She's at this woman's every beck and call. She blows off her boyfriend all the time, and he's a complete sweetheart. She ignores her best friend's serious drinking problem. It's really horrible, because she's blowing off the important things in life to take the easy road to what she wants.
So finally she cancels going to the high school reunion with her boyfriend (after she begged him to go) to go to a fashion show with her boss. And while she's there her friend gets in a car accident and goes into a coma. And she decides to stay! She's all like "well, I only have one month to go and then I can get that job at the New Yorker". She does end up telling her boss off and going home, but not right away.
I suppose the book wasn't an offensive book, just the character's personality offend me on a personal level.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:05 pm

rkolter wrote:I've NEVER read... Charlotte's Web

Sacrilege!

Children's classics should be read more.

Of course, in this specific case I'm biased. Gotta love a book where farm animals can spell better than I can.

(not that that's hard)

Jha'Meia · Post by **Jha'Meia** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:10 pm

godoftarot wrote: I didn't find it offensive. I found it boring. And it was hard to find the whole moving away from spirituality thing amid the complaining about phoney people and suitcases.
Now, The Devil Wears Prada, that I found offensive.

I stay away from Chick Lit ALL the time.

This winter I've finished off Dosteovsky's The Idiot, Nabokov's Lolita, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and uh, yeah, I don't really see what was so great about the story per se.

The Idiot was brilliant in how Dosteovsky could keep his characters straight

And the brilliant interaction.

Godoftarot · Post by **Godoftarot** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:16 pm

Pillywiggin wrote:
rkolter wrote:I've NEVER read... Charlotte's Web
Sacrilege!

Children's classics should be read more.

Of course, in this specific case I'm biased. Gotta love a book where farm animals can spell better than I can.

(not that that's hard)

Awww, you spell good! Sacrilege can be a hard word!

Black Beauty is really good. And I'm not usually big on anything written in that oldish dialect, but there's just something about it. And it has a happy ending! ^^ Yay.

Collapse · Post by **Collapse** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:38 pm

I hate lots of books they make us read.

Heh, I like the rocket launcher sound effects from the original Doom in the flash movie.