Unpopular Opinions: Entertainment edition

[mistakey]

hemingway spends pages upon pages talkin about the weather and everyone acts like he's not wordy cause he doesnt use big words

[SlevinKelevra]

7 minutes ago, mistakey said:

hemingway spends pages upon pages talkin about the weather and everyone acts like he's not wordy cause he doesnt use big words

wow. just wow.

 

[scar988]

4 minutes ago, mistakey said:

hemingway spends pages upon pages talkin about the weather and everyone acts like he's not wordy cause he doesnt use big words

Hemingway is ****. 

 

Dickens is the GOAT of the classic writers because he doesn't sit there and drone on for ages. 

But, hot take, Classic writers for the most part are ****. Their stories are great without considering any of hte context of their era.

[mistakey]

Just now, SlevinKelevra said:

wow. just wow.

 

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”

--ernest hemingway

[Tetsujin]

57 minutes ago, scar988 said:

Friends comes off a bit creepy at times.

 

2 guys and a girl had a fantastic cast too. 

 

I think Season 1 was a bit weak, but it took off when Fillion joined and they took the focus off the pizza place.

[mistakey]

3 minutes ago, mistakey said:

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”

--ernest hemingway

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves. The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery. In the dark it was like summer lightning, but the night were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming. Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors. There was much traffic at night and many mules on the roads with boxes of ammunition on each side of their pack-saddles and gray motor trucks that carried men, and other trucks with loads covered with canvas that moved slower in traffic. There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors. To the north we could look across a valley and see a


first page of farewell to arms

[THE DUKE]

30 minutes ago, seminoles1 said:

I can no longer watch sitcoms that have laugh tracks. Friends used to be my favorite show, but I can barely stand it now. Not because of the quality (I still enjoy it, but not as much), but because of the annoying *** laugh track.

Wasn't Friends filmed in front of a live audience?

[SlevinKelevra]

1 minute ago, mistakey said:

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”

--ernest hemingway

that has NOTHING to do with your claim that he was overly wordy (and incorrect definition of the term).  He was the literal opposite of wordy, and he's just as well known for his short stories as his novels, so your whole pages on pages.....

[mistakey]

1 minute ago, SlevinKelevra said:

that has NOTHING to do with your claim that he was overly wordy (and incorrect definition of the term).  He was the literal opposite of wordy, and he's just as well known for his short stories as his novels, so your whole pages on pages.....

bro his runons are completely disregarded by his fanboys

[mistakey]

1 minute ago, mistakey said:

bro his runons are completely disregarded by his fanboys

https://sunalsorises.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/ever-wondered-about-hemingways-longest-sentence/

 

From what I found (correct me if I’m wrong), the longest sentence Ernest Hemingway ever wrote consisted of 424 words in Green Hills of Africa (page 148):

“That something I cannot yet define completely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally you have written in that way and those who are paid to read it and report on it do not like the subject so they say it is all a fake, yet you know its value absolutely; or when you do something which people do not consider a serious occupation and yet you know truly, that it is as important and has always been as important as all the things that are in fashion, and when, on the sea, you are alone with it and know that this Gulf Stream you are living with, knowing, learning about, and loving, has moved, as it moves, since before man, and that it has gone by the shoreline of that long, beautiful, unhappy island since before Columbus sighted it and that the things you find out about it, and those that have always lived in it are permanent and of value because that stream will flow, as it has flowed, after the Indians, after the Spaniards, after the British, after the Americans and after all the Cubans and all the systems of governments, the richness, the poverty, the martyrdom, the sacrifice and the venality and the cruelty are all gone as the high-piled scow of garbage, bright-colored, white-flecked, ill-smelling, now tilted on its side, spills off its load into the blue water, turning it a pale green to a depth of four or five fathoms as the load spreads across the surface, the sinkable part going down and the flotsam of palm fronds, corks, bottles, and used electric light globes, seasoned with an occasional condom or a deep floating corset, the torn leaves of a student’s exercise book, a well-inflated dog, the occasional rat, the no-longer-distinguished cat; all this well shepherded by the boats of the garbage pickers who pluck their prizes with long poles, as interested, as intelligent, and as accurate as historians; they have the viewpoint; the stream, with no visible flow, takes five loads of this a day when things are going well in La Habana and in ten miles along the coast it is as clear and blue and unimpressed as it was ever before the tug hauled out the scow; and the palm fronds of our victories, the worn light bulbs of our discoveries and the empty condoms of our great loves float with no significance against one single, lasting thing—the stream.”

 

[SlevinKelevra]

1 minute ago, mistakey said:

bro his runons are completely disregarded by his fanboys

care to actually rebut what I mentioned?  

[Deadpulse]

5 minutes ago, THE DUKE said:

Wasn't Friends filmed in front of a live audience?

It sure was

[mistakey]

1 minute ago, SlevinKelevra said:

care to actually rebut what I mentioned?  

see above, quoted an actual 424 word sentence 

[seminoles1]

8 minutes ago, THE DUKE said:

Wasn't Friends filmed in front of a live audience?

Laugh track or live audience. The point was I get very annoyed when I hear an audience laughing, whether live or not.

[Fl0nkerton]

25 minutes ago, mistakey said:

great gatsby top 1 most overrated novel of all time
followed by gravity's rainbow
fitzgerald is the lana del rey of literature.  beautiful and boring as hell and everyone loves her

Ahh this hurted, I love Lana 😭