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this can go on for a while

the website is looking pretty good btw

yea it does. feel free to join us on GoodReads and contribute. And vote for February's book. RIght now The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov is winning

Oh I read that in high school.

Decent book, but not my type per se.

seriously you read it in High school? I had to be turned on it it in a slavic lit class in 2009

yeah hehe, well - we read a lot of slavic books here

barely anything from the US - I think we did Poe at some point

And Hemingway

but that's about it

that is true, we read a lot of books by black women who can't fucking write like Toni Morrisson

Poe is good, Hemingway was a communist

never heard of her

ohhh she's the liberal's favorite author

Oh I love Poe, one of the few poets I really enjoy reading (not into poetry most of the time)

she wrote this piece of shit novel called "Beloved" which every american has to read until they understand that black women are the most powerful thing on earth

Hah

I read Poe's Tell Tale Heart and it scared the shit out of me, that was in junior high school

also there is a horrible book called "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou with is just as bad

none of that here thankfully

i mean, just look at that title, doesn't it make you want to strangle the author with type writer ribbon?

we did things like "The Iliad", "Decameron", Shakespeare, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Goethe, etc...

yeah, it's pretty bad

goddamnit, that makes me mad

we read NONE of that in high school or my undergrad. i had to read it in a reading group I formed in grad school for Great Books from Europe

well....yeah...

you'd like our high schools and colleges a lot more I don't doubt

yea, i went to a US top high school, and the best high school in Texas that year, but we were overwhelmed with "diversity"

we had to read chinese poetry, and learn african tribal music. it was absurd

we had optional chinese poetry, I went once and never looked back

Hm, actually I think I used the wrong expression there

I mean, I never went again.

close enough, i knew what you meant. english is idiomatic so if you are kind of off we still understand the sentiment