A little introduction...

hello hello hello
Hope you don't get too bored with us here and you stay. Nice to meet you.
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Hi, this place is the internet on crack, but not really.

[QUOTE=Darren]Hi everyone. My name is Darren, I've been a visitor here for a while now... almost two years I think. I never took interest in the forums and things, but mostly took interest in learning from the Writer's Workshop and seeing all of Chuck's tips.

I'm on a one month premium membership, and if I like it (which I'm sure I will) I'll spring for the full year at the end of this month.

My favorite Chuck books are Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby, and my favorite non-chuck books are Hey Nostradamus by Douglas Coupland, The Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I'm a Canadian, born and raised in British Columbia, attending University at UNBC.

Glad to finally be a part of the Cult![/QUOTE]

Yes welcome, it's nice here.

I was not aware they had a one month membership. Hello Darren. Give up the dough and stay awhile.

[QUOTE=Smartazboy]I was not aware they had a one month membership. Hello Darren. Give up the dough and stay awhile.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the one month membership is $8 USD.

You have to understand, being a starving University student (with exchange rates... damnit), and with not much free time on my hands sometimes, a trial membership was the best plan for me.

welcome aboard

[QUOTE=Darren]... and my favorite non-chuck books are... The Catcher in The Rye by JD Salinger[/QUOTE]
I'll keep a skeptical eye on ya

[QUOTE=karbunkle]
I'll keep a skeptical eye on ya[/QUOTE]
Hahaha.... I now recall reading that Chuck didn't like the story and didn't relate to it, so maybe the people on this board aren't big fans either. Personally, I like the story, and it is one of my favorites, and even though the great Chuck P doesn't like it doesn't mean I'll withhold my opinion.

[QUOTE=Darren]Hahaha.... I now recall reading that Chuck didn't like the story and didn't relate to it, so maybe the people on this board aren't big fans either. Personally, I like the story, and it is one of my favorites, and even though the great Chuck P doesn't like it doesn't mean I'll withhold my opinion.[/QUOTE]
i'd say the consenus is 50/50 around here
same as donnie darko

[QUOTE=karbunkle]i'd say the consenus is 50/50 around here
same as donnie darko[/QUOTE]
Hmm... I'm a big Donnie Darko fan as well.

I'm screwed.

[QUOTE=Darren]Hmm... I'm a big Donnie Darko fan as well.

I'm screwed.[/QUOTE]
no, your good
your just in the 50 percent half i despise with all my little black heart is all
good luck !

[QUOTE=Darren]Hahaha.... I now recall reading that Chuck didn't like the story and didn't relate to it, so maybe the people on this board aren't big fans either. Personally, I like the story, and it is one of my favorites, and even though the great Chuck P doesn't like it doesn't mean I'll withhold my opinion.[/QUOTE]

hmmm... let's talk about this a little. What do you find so captivating about it? I read it and though it was OK, but I guess I missed something. I saw nothing in it that would seem to make is such a classic. Please enlighten me.

i think a lot of it has to do with how old you are when you read it
i didnt bother reading it until i was 31 and by then it was too late and i was too old to get anything out of it
but i dunno dr suess still has some good things to say to me even tho im old and decrepit

I read it when I was 24

[QUOTE=dzudzu]I read it when I was 24[/QUOTE]
i think you have to be between 13-20 to get the full effects of it but who knows maybe a severe blow to the head causing decreased brain activity does it as well

[QUOTE=karbunkle]i think you have to be between 13-20 to get the full effects of it but who knows maybe a severe blow to the head causing decreased brain activity does it as well[/QUOTE]

OK, It was always one of those books that I really wanted to like - just because it seems so classic but I was really disappointed.

[QUOTE=dzudzu]OK, It was always one of those books that I really wanted to like - just because it seems so classic but I was really disappointed.[/QUOTE]
thats got to have something to do with it as well because thats the reason why i read it because its been given this label as a "classic" but afterwards i kept asking why ?

[QUOTE=karbunkle]thats got to have something to do with it as well because thats the reason why i read it because its been given this label as a "classic" but afterwards i kept asking why ?[/QUOTE]
I think you have to look at a book like this in context. When it was written, it was something to talk about to be sure. Now it's so hyped as a classic that it's hard to read it without being even slightly dissapointed.

The same thing happens when someone who hasn't seen [B]Office Space [/B] or [B]Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail [/B] finally sees them. They're like "that was it?" often times, because all their friends have raved about it for so long. It can be a let down to see a movie like that so late in life, especially when you know all the quotes.

The same thing applies here. Most who read the book these days know what happens, and it ruins it from the begining. Plus they expect too much from the book because their English teacher or the Aunt or their best friend who always reccommends great books just lauded it so much.

It's a let down because it [I]was [/I] so good to so many people it just can't live up to the ... hype (for lack of a better term).

[QUOTE=ireLocus]I think you have to look at a book like this in context. When it was written, it was something to talk about to be sure. Now it's so hyped as a classic that it's hard to read it without being even slightly dissapointed.

The same thing happens when someone who hasn't seen [B]Office Space [/B] or [B]Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail [/B] finally sees them. They're like "that was it?" often times, because all their friends have raved about it for so long. It can be a let down to see a movie like that so late in life, especially when you know all the quotes.

The same thing applies here. Most who read the book these days know what happens, and it ruins it from the begining. Plus they expect too much from the book because their English teacher or the Aunt or their best friend who always reccommends great books just lauded it so much.

It's a let down because it [I]was [/I] so good to so many people it just can't live up to the ... hype (for lack of a better term).[/QUOTE]
i think what got me was the hype of controversy around the book and in context i could see how it was controversial when it was published but people still today that read it for the first time are all amazed over it
i definitely agree with your Office Space and Holy Grail connection except in this case i really had no idea what the plot or anything was about, heck i would have been hard pressed if someone asked me the main characters name to come up with an answer so the only thing i had going into it was the aura of 'controversial classic' around it
i still think its got something to do with its probably the first book a younger person would read thats got the word 'fuck' in it and that scars em for life or something

[QUOTE=karbunkle]i think what got me was the hype of controversy around the book and in context i could see how it was controversial when it was published but people still today that read it for the first time are all amazed over it
i definitely agree with your Office Space and Holy Grail connection except in this case i really had no idea what the plot or anything was about, heck i would have been hard pressed if someone asked me the main characters name to come up with an answer so the only thing i had going into it was the aura of 'controversial classic' around it
i still think its got something to do with its probably the first book a younger person would read thats got the word 'fuck' in it and that scars em for life or something[/QUOTE]
good point.

Fuckin' A, man, fuckin' A.

I read it a year ago, so I was 18. Maybe it is in the timing of reading it. I agree with the Office Space and Monty Python comments though.. I found Office Space hilarious because I knew nothing of it going in, but Monty Python was built up so much I felt very disapointed in it. It has it's moments, but my friends ruined most of those by over quoting it.

Welcome Darren.

Ive not read Catcher in The Rye

hmmm...I'm on the monthly as well though for what reason I'm not sure...perhaps it's the laziness that is so deeply inbedded within me...but more likely the fact that everytime it comes to the end of the month...I only have 8 bucks in my account...because I just had to buy that case of kaleidescopes from the dollar store to mail to various people across the country...hmmm Damn the Dollar store and it's incessive pull...

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Welcome to the insanity Darren.