What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Nighthawk]

How about when you have a friend who's taller than you, so you can hardly realize there's an age difference between the two of you. In reality, you're 17 and she's 13. She has a crush on your 11 y/o brother. Now that's awkward. XD

[Xuut]

XDD Holy crap that takes the cake. 

 

I'm also short, so 99.99% of the time I look 12/13 instead of 15/16. Gotta love genetics and a round, chubby face.

[Nighthawk]

XD Yep, I'm 5'2". The other day a freshman thought I was only a sophomore, not a senior. Sigh.

[EndOfTheEarth]

I know you've read some of these. If you have, I'm interested in your thoughts:

Peircy--Woman on the Edge of Time (1976 Random)
Sincliar--Jungle (2003 Norton)
Bellamy--Looking Backward 200-1887 (2003 Broadview)
Kushner--Angels in America (1995 Perseus D)
Griggs--Imperium in Imperio (2003 Random)
Solanas--Scum Manifesto (2004 Norton)
Gilman--Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (1999 Penguin USA)

Conrad--Heart of Darkness, Unabridged (1990 Dover)
Melville--Bartleby and Benito Cereno (1990 Dover)
Chopin--Awakening (1993 Dover)
Poe--The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (1991 Dover)
Mason--In Country (Revised 2005 Harper Pub.)
Bonnycastle--In search of Authority (2007/3rd ed Broadview)
Tolstoy--Death of Ivan Ilyich (2008 Penguin USA)
Barth--Development (2011 HM)
Roth--Nemesis (2010 HM)

Everett--Erasure (2001 Harper Pub.)
Palahniuk--Lullaby (2002 Random)
Lethem--Gun, with Occasional Music (2003 HBC Trade)
Chabon--Gentlement of the Road (2007 Random)
Mclain--Paris Wife (2011 Random)
Johnson--More of this World or Maybe Another (Harper Pub.)

 

Dickens--Great Expectations (Norton)

And numerous other post-Elizabethan works.

 

And no, these aren't my options. That's the list. I'm reading all of them.

[Fake]

Haven't read any of them. :D

 

Mind, I don't read that many pieces of, "Literature," as such--For one thing, the 'rents ban reading during the school year, and I'd much rather read good genre fiction than literature.

[Xuut]

... Your parents ban reading during the school year....? Wut.

[Fake]

In their defense, it's not entirely irrational to do so.

 

Basically, reading interferes with my school work. Quite a bit.

[Ovie! Ovie! Ovie! Oy! Oy! Oy!]

They'll learn their lesson when the world is yours.

[EndOfTheEarth]

The bottom six, at least, aren't literature, but popular fiction. The top seven I believe to be contemporary nonfiction.

[Contradiction]

I have heard of literally three of them, and read none. Sorry.

[Fate]

I enjoyed the Yellow Wall-Paper quite a bit. It was kind of like the inner thoughts of a woman going mad. Not a lot of people in my class enjoyed it though. It's a little hard to follow (but I expect you can manage it, unlike the high school students I was reading it with). I liked the psychology of it. It's the only one that I've read and remember.

 

The only thing I know about Awakening is that it was quite controversial in its time and that Kate Chopin was...in essence, 'bat-shit crazy'.

[Fake]

Working on an RPG PBP.

 

One of my classes is, "Packmule," who specializes in Infinite Pockets (He can hold stuff for his comrades) Charisma (Allows him to make people like him) and Attractiveness (Does bugger all.)

 

Methinks I'll make anyone who chooses it a living God.