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Old 08-13-2012, 07:58 AM   #46
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Meh...
I prefer bread pudding with raisins and pineapple chunks.

(Hey! An all-new conversation! Pudding wars!)
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I find conversations involving bananas to be of particular interest

Conversations about bananananas are all very well, it's writing about them that's difficult.
Like Nanny Ogg, I know how to start spelling bananananana but I never know when to stop.
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Old 08-13-2012, 08:24 AM   #48
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Old 08-13-2012, 08:26 AM   #49
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Conversations about bananananas are all very well, it's writing about them that's difficult.
Like Nanny Ogg, I know how to start spelling bananananana but I never know when to stop.
You're not alone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koO2n_78Mww

Note how it so closely mimics a lot of online debates.
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Old 08-13-2012, 08:30 AM   #50
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Realistically, I have been both reading and posting to some things on this site for over 2 years. Why are there no original thoughts? Always, there are the same questions of authoritarian ownership, best books, worst books, and other typically mundane things. Is there no one here to speak of real meaningful ideas of what authorship should or could be? Or maybe a more in depth look on what literary works have or possibly could shape the future? I am desperately woeful on what the great readers of my time ("you") can come up with. We keep regurgitating the same idealistic views, with no real insight, of the same topics that have beleaguered literary types for the length of time as recognizable to us. I have not posted much merely because it is irrelevant to what has already been spoken, even in this style. you can hate me for stating the truth, but so be it. I, personally, hoped for more from this group. You all, for the most part, are well read and know your own-selves. Yet nothing seems to be new, no new conversations, nor any new thoughts. I'm disillusioned and distracted by the thought of the readers ("us") into a spiraling downward spiral of mundane thoughts. Maybe a personal enlightenment could help me, or us all....
Since the site has over 2 million posts it is probably difficult to find something entirely original in a new post. I haven't read most of the posts, and I find out about new things all the time.

Maybe I'm more easy to please since I like technology and the News is always a good source for new information.

I've looked at what you posted and you only replied to 10 threads before deciding to start this one, and 5 of those 10 were threads that you replied in a single day. Apparently there was nothing posted in 2010 that was interesting enough for you to reply to, and only one in 2011.

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Well maybe that's the problem. If everyone does the same, there will never be anything new.


I once posted an innocent request here for what books have been published about a particular political topic I'm interested in. I had hoped to get some recommendations.

But instead, I got so much reproachful, scornful hate that the thread was banned.

Now I know that only a one-sided political view is tolerated on these pages. I don't want to be banned, so I just avoid politics altogether.

What are the non-mundane topics you seek? Political (caution), philosophical, scientific, linguistic, or other? About the publishing industry or about the contents of books?
There is a Politics and Religion forum on the site, and the discussions are rarely one-sided. This is not a forum that is viewed by the general public. If you want to know more about it and see how to join, read this: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=103942
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Old 08-13-2012, 10:39 AM   #51
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Old 08-13-2012, 10:51 AM   #52
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Atari ST all the way, here.
I'm looking forward to the release of a kindle app for my 1200xl.
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Old 08-13-2012, 11:16 AM   #53
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Old 08-13-2012, 11:29 AM   #54
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So, if you really want to discuss authorship and literature I'm sure you can either start a thread here or find a site where everyone wears jackets and sweaters with leather patches on the elbows and smokes pipes while pontificating on 'great literature'. Oh, and after a while you will find that they keep saying the same things over and over as well.


This is exactly what the initial post made me think of. Guys in tweed jackets with patches on the elbows smoking pipes, debating the value of great literature.
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Old 08-13-2012, 11:36 AM   #55
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This is exactly what the initial post made me think of. Guys in tweed jackets with patches on the elbows smoking pipes, debating the value of great literature.
thats "Great Literature" to you!
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thats "Great Literature" to you!
I don't think that red works. Doesn't it look better like this: Great Literature?
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Old 08-13-2012, 12:25 PM   #57
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Well maybe that's the problem. If everyone does the same, there will never be anything new.


I once posted an innocent request here for what books have been published about a particular political topic I'm interested in. I had hoped to get some recommendations.

But instead, I got so much reproachful, scornful hate that the thread was banned.

Now I know that only a one-sided political view is tolerated on these pages. I don't want to be banned, so I just avoid politics altogether.

What are the non-mundane topics you seek? Political (caution), philosophical, scientific, linguistic, or other? About the publishing industry or about the contents of books?
Actually Politics and Religion have their own separate sub-forum I believe. It's set up that way so that the topics won't get heated and spill over into the rest of the message board.
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:07 PM   #58
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I am desperately woeful on what the great readers of my time ("you") can come up with.
Since when have the great readers come up with all of these things? Isn't that the job of the great writers? Shouldn't the next Dostoevsky be writing great literature rather than posting on an internet forum?

And why diss the mundane. The mundane is the bulk of life.

As for why topics and ideas tend to regurgitate... While there is a vast chasm between the technology of today and the technology of ancient times, the people of today and the people of ancient times are fundamentally the same.

If you must have new ideas, here you go... Live the best that you can. Love the most that you can. Die contented. These are much more important than the great things that are going to change society. (I lied about the new ideas.)
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