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I actually think that naming your children things like Atticus Finch and Holden Caulfield is a little silly. Edward, Thomas, Atticus and Holden are fine but this is too much. It's so bad I kind of like it.
I guess it bothers me because these are all characters from books that people read in High School. Classics, but so obvious and psuedo-intellectual they make me cringe.
I guess it bothers me because these are all characters from books that people read in High School. Classics, but so obvious and psuedo-intellectual they make me cringe.
This message was edited 12/30/2009, 9:06 PM
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what I want to know is
Why are there no Virgil Tibbs or Anne Franks. Or even Calpurnias. Those are required reading characters too. LITERARY RACISM. No blacks or Jews allowed, or what.
j/k
but seriously.
And also Kitty, I agree, lifting the whole name out of four books is more lazy than liteary in my opinion. Like yeah ok, we get it. You can read.
Why are there no Virgil Tibbs or Anne Franks. Or even Calpurnias. Those are required reading characters too. LITERARY RACISM. No blacks or Jews allowed, or what.
j/k
but seriously.
And also Kitty, I agree, lifting the whole name out of four books is more lazy than liteary in my opinion. Like yeah ok, we get it. You can read.
This message was edited 12/31/2009, 9:08 AM
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Hey, come on
It's not pseudo-intellectual to like the books you read (or were supposed to have read) in high school. I think it's really pretty bold of them, and not in a bad way, to be so obvious in their tribute to books. You'd rather pick more obscure characters and show off just how wonderful and erudite you are?
That said, I wouldn't do it, that thing they did.
That said, I hope their next one is Vardaman Bundren, and then a Lennie Small, and then a Nellie Oleson.
It's not pseudo-intellectual to like the books you read (or were supposed to have read) in high school. I think it's really pretty bold of them, and not in a bad way, to be so obvious in their tribute to books. You'd rather pick more obscure characters and show off just how wonderful and erudite you are?
That said, I wouldn't do it, that thing they did.
That said, I hope their next one is Vardaman Bundren, and then a Lennie Small, and then a Nellie Oleson.
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You'd rather pick more obscure characters and show off just how wonderful and erudite you are?
I guess if books are your life, wouldn't you have kept reading after the age of 17?
I guess if books are your life, wouldn't you have kept reading after the age of 17?
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Exactly. And before...
When I was in 7th grade, on my own accord (although I did end up doind them for book reports) I read the Red Badge of Courage, Jane Eyre, and Pride and Prejudice. To this day Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice are still two of my favorites (I'm going to do another report and Pride and Prejudice), and I do like the RBoC. I would not mind naming a child Edward Rochester, or Fitzwilliam Darcy. I think it's kind of cool. And as for you people who say your supposed to read those books in high school? I didn't get to read To Kill a Mockingbird because I was in honors, but I'd have liked to because I'm related to the author; I'll just read it over the summer, I think. Tom Sawyer I was in fact forced to read, but that was in 7th grade, not in high school.
When I was in 7th grade, on my own accord (although I did end up doind them for book reports) I read the Red Badge of Courage, Jane Eyre, and Pride and Prejudice. To this day Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice are still two of my favorites (I'm going to do another report and Pride and Prejudice), and I do like the RBoC. I would not mind naming a child Edward Rochester, or Fitzwilliam Darcy. I think it's kind of cool. And as for you people who say your supposed to read those books in high school? I didn't get to read To Kill a Mockingbird because I was in honors, but I'd have liked to because I'm related to the author; I'll just read it over the summer, I think. Tom Sawyer I was in fact forced to read, but that was in 7th grade, not in high school.
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