I guess we lost Perg...

[4est_4est_Gump]

Having not read it once, is the Master And Commander series worth a fourth read?



I could maybe see the Lit version, Master and Slave, taking off though...

... and my hamster yells, "ROW! ROW!..."

 

[Peregrinator]

Greatest historical fiction ever. It's like reconnecting with old friends. And there's twenty books in the series, so you have plenty to enjoy; it doesn't end to early on you.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah, I've never actually made it through the movie...

 

[Sean]

Yeah, I've never actually made it through the movie...

The film is actually two of the books shoehorned into one.

 

[Peregrinator]

Yeah, I've never actually made it through the movie...

Philistine.

The film is actually two of the books shoehorned into one.

Yeah, this. I really wish they'd make a whole bunch more of them.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What? So now Russell Crowe is some sort of great actor?






I've been reading only non-fiction for about a decade now.

 

[Peregrinator]

Apparently he's a bit of a prodigy on the violin. The guy who coached him to play Aubrey couldn't believe what he was doing after a remarkably short time.

I read a lot of both. Balance, hoppah.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

On my command unleash hell, Josey.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Apparently he's a bit of a prodigy on the violin. The guy who coached him to play Aubrey couldn't believe what he was doing after a remarkably short time.

I read a lot of both. Balance, hoppah.

Balance my ass.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

On my command unleash hell, Josey.

"Tell old God that the last man you saw on earth was Quantrill."

 

[Peregrinator]

Balance my ass.

Can't survive on nothing but protein.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Can't survive on nothing but protein.

Can't survive on Ice-9 either...


Doesn't make it real though.

 

[Peregrinator]

Society without art or music or poetry. Name one.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Society without art or music or poetry. Name one.

You said "Fiction."




Nobody, but nobody reads poetry anymore. That requires hard and fast rules to an age of meandering consensus.

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[4est_4est_Gump]

The USSR and East Germany were HUGE on the arts, education and subsidizing them...




After all, non-fiction was government decree.

 

[Peregrinator]

Fiction is an art.

I read poetry.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Of course it is an art, but we were talking about our reading habits, now weren't we...


Of course you do. You're also, l1k3 111-11 d00d...


Lots of fiction under Communism, I can see their need for escape and "code."

 

[Peregrinator]

That's my point. Balance.

Ask Solzhenitsyn.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The movie sucked.


Books rule.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That's my point. Balance.

Ask Solzhenitsyn.

Again, look at his circumstance.

I much would prefer liberty and the enjoyment of history, economics, etc., rather than choosing to escape.

In short, why would I read a fictionalized account of history when I have history, biography and an active imagination of my own?



I did used to read a lot of fiction. Of course, I did a lot of drugs too...



Why would I choose a life of listening to and searching for 'hip' music when I can pick up an instrument and join a band?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The movie sucked.


Books rule.

If you're a big fan of things like the Torah, Bible and Koran.






More great fictionalized "History!"

 

[rosco rathbone]

If you're a big fan of things like the Torah, Bible and Koran.






More great fictionalized "History!"

Show me a work of nonfiction that teaches you how to splice the mainbrace, climb the ratlines and fight off a Dutch frigate in the teeth of a howling gale and I'll be glad to ditch the fiction.

 

[Peregrinator]

The movie sucked.


Books rule.

I liked the movie, but then I saw it before I read 'em. Might have been different else.

Again, look at his circumstance.

I much would prefer liberty and the enjoyment of history, economics, etc., rather than choosing to escape.

In short, why would I read a fictionalized account of history when I have history, biography and an active imagination of my own?



I did used to read a lot of fiction. Of course, I did a lot of drugs too...



Why would I choose a life of listening to and searching for 'hip' music when I can pick up an instrument and join a band?

Why look at pictures when you can actually go there? Why look at a painting when you could meet Mona Lisa?

Why listen to someone play an instrument you don't know how to play, who's spent fifty years practicing it? Just grab a cello. I'm sure you'll sound just like Yo Yo Ma.

 

[Wife of Bath]

Why look at pictures when you can actually go there? Why look at a painting when you could meet Mona Lisa?

Why listen to someone play an instrument you don't know how to play, who's spent fifty years practicing it? Just grab a cello. I'm sure you'll sound just like Yo Yo Ma.

Hear, hear!

 

[Peregrinator]

Show me a work of nonfiction that teaches you how to splice the mainbrace, climb the ratlines and fight off a Dutch frigate in the teeth of a howling gale and I'll be glad to ditch the fiction.

He'd rather read a list of provisions than enjoy Jack's tribulations with tying to acquire them.