How are you feeling?

[Carl]

Happy, but cautious. I got a job interview and a phone case (TWD) in the same day... what's the catch?

[Marizzle]

Good.

[The Spirit of Life]

Tired, but decent.

[Gemini]

To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the most horrid reading experiences I've encountered in school. No disrespect to Harper Lee, but I found that book to be the literary equivalent of spending a day at the DMV with 200 people in line and their kids running around and throwing their toys at each other.

Did read the same book? You of all people I would have thought would have loved that book.

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Neutral.

What's there to love? I'd have more pleasure reading a dictionary from cover to cover. TKaM has a pace so slow that a turtle could outrun it, characters so unlikable I would rather hide in a closet than talk to them, and a plot so uninteresting that it could make chatting at the water cooler about taxes and fiscal reports the most exciting thing I'll ever do in my life.

Are we talking about the same book? Because most people I ever talked to agreed that TKaM was one of the few bearable pieces of literature we had to read. There were honestly only a handful of others that I liked.

I mean, could you argue that the prose and such was basic and the story was kinda simplistic? Sure. But considering most "literature" we were forced to read was just the confused ramblings of some random author with their head so far up their own a** that it's dizzying, and the resulting prose seems like them just jerking off for 384 pages, or however many... I'd sure as hell take TKaM any day of the week.

//Sorry but I hate literature courses so much. Especially given that I like to write as a hobby, I surprise myself with the amount of hate I have for them. If I have to hear any more gushing about books that are dry as dirt, uninteresting, and not even that well-written, I'm just gonna give up.

[Carl]

You must not have had literature classes like mine or something. To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the more boring things I ever read for a class and no one in my classes enjoyed it except like, one kid. I mean come on it doesn't compare at all to things like Frankenstein. It isn't necessarily a bad book, imo, but we read much better.

I'm feeling kinda confused.

[Marizzle]

Okay.

[Gemini]

You must not have had literature classes like mine or something. To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the more boring things I ever read for a class and no one in my classes enjoyed it except like, one kid. I mean come on it doesn't compare at all to things like Frankenstein. It isn't necessarily a bad book, imo, but we read much better.

I'm feeling kinda confused.

I actually kinda liked Frankenstein, story-wise... but I'll admit I didn't finish it. That book rambles like you wouldn't believe.

And really? I didn't find it all that boring. I don't think it was even that long, if I remember correctly. Maybe my memory is just faint because it's been several years, but I found it a light, easy read. Better than most school-assigned books. I feel like most people I've talked to who had to read it for school had the same opinion of it, for the most part.

Then again, I don't think we read all that many books. :s So I'm probably not an expert.

[Marizzle]

Frustrated.

[Carl]

I'm feeling awkward, but entertained.

[Marizzle]

A bit sleepy.