Wait so you said the estimate was 9 million based off someone else’s estimate, or am i misunderstanding?
I believe she was dangerously close to failing her English class because she was busy writing it. She was also in the film - she was Dally’s nurse.
Useless trivia for the day.
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My mind is just completely fucking blown. I don’t even know how to manage this reality shift.
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I’m surprised at this surprise of who SE Hinton is. When did people read the book? My copies always had those discussion ideas for students at the end of them, maybe they always made a point to the mention her age.
I like That Was Then, This Is Now way more than The Outsiders. I enjoyed the Ponyboy cameo in it. Actually, forget that, Rumble Fish is my favorite. @The_Myth - any opinion here?
The music discovery section of MySpace may bear the largest overall responsibility for my musical tastes. Found Shinedown before they broke out (read: way before they sold out) and some other real gems of non-major label music. Spotify ain’t bad but you almost have to know exactly what you’re looking for to find it.
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I managed to read this before you deleted it, so I don’t know if you want a response or not but-
I think this is why you’re in college and given projects like this. It’s really important to fail when the stakes are not terribly high so that you learn from it!
This is why you need project leads or managers who know their shit to keep an eye on everything.
I’m a cynic by nature, a misanthrope by training. I was pretty young when I read The Outsiders and never went on to read other Hinton books. Upon maturation, I found The Outsiders simplistic and trite. I was somewhat ashamed of my original adoration of the novel.
However, it’s a case of hindsight - seeing the curtain pulled back and realizing the wizard is just an impotent old man. Other novels have been the same experience. I really liked The Fault in Our Stars when I first read it, but came to loathe it as I taught it to successive classes in my Contemp Lit class. The Art of Racing in the Rain was similar, although I never came to loathe it.
My fifteen year old son is on the other end of the spectrum. He read Lord of the Flies in school this year and loved it - he is beginning to understand organic unity and how authors achieve it. In a few years, he will be mad at himself for being so easily manipulated by a journeyman author.
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I generally avoid reading or watching fiction besides those designed purely for entertainment these days because I almost always find the “point” behind them annoying.
Heck, I started watching Silver Linings Playbook while scrolling for things to watch on Netflix a while ago and never finished it because I found the film’s seeming attempt to deal with its subject matter ridiculous. And thus ended my attempt at watching the critically acclaimed films of the 2010s.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to finish Lord of the Flies if I started reading it for the first time ever at my current age and worldview too.
I’m bipolar, have had my share of manic episodes and depression although I’ve managed to never be hospitalized. I thought the movie did a decent job of capturing it.
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I think Bradley Cooper gave a great performance. I suppose it would be better to say the film “triggered” me, since I regularly deal with family members who I strongly suspect has manic tendencies but never got formally diagnosed, and so I viewed the entire thing critically.
I was siting in the car waiting to pick my kids up from school yesterday afternoon with the window down and forearm resting on the bottom of the window opening and I noticed in the side mirror that I could see my main forearm vein pronounced through my work shirt. This made me way happier than it should have.
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I like MS Edge a little more than Chrome now. But can anyone please tell me how, if possible, how to get rid of BING from the list of browsers? I know there’re some pretty accomplished techies here. Don’t have to go into details. Just point me in the right direction with a single statement or post a web link or something it you have one bookmarked with this topic in it.
I understand that it doesn’t really matter if I set the default to google but it matters TO ME because when I had some fucking MacAfee free trial thing installed on Chrome, it constantly changed my default search engine to Bing, which started pissing me off.
This is shit has become PERSONAL.
I don’t ever to see anything to do with fucking Bing ever again. FUCK BING.
I absolutely LOVED both of those books! So you’re saying I really shouldn’t ever re-read them??
Definitely don’t teach them multiple times. Re-reading may not be as traumatizing.
The previews for the movie, and the reputation this author had among teenage girls, stopped me from ever reading this one, haha. I was in high school when it was written.
Never read Lord of the Flies either.
I’ve never experienced this but I’m curious….have people ever assumed you were dumb or treated you a certain way because you lift/look good.
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Unfortunately this is common.
Confession:
I am thinking about setting a goal to do an Olympic length Triathlon before the end of the year.
Confession Part Deux:
I want to enjoy running but never have.
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I frequently have to overcome the meathead image of me people have already constructed.
I honestly prefer that. It’s nice to let people think I’m dumb. It lowers their guard.
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This is exactly what Sparta had a reputation of doing.
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Even their laconic style of speach fit in this image. Laconic; in the style of the Lacedaemonians.
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