Sporting Events FAQ, Liveblog, and BANGERS - Page 1433 - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

Let me try again.

Infinite Jest is the best work of fiction to come out in the last 20 years and it is not even close. Additionally, the suggestion of listening to The Corrections (or Infinite Jest) on audiobook is laughable, since they both need to be read to be fully appreciated.

Infinite Jest is not for everyone. It's taken me months to get through it.

Quote

09-15-2012 , 10:59 PM

#35802

Rei Ayanami

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 11,685

I can't imagine listening to the audiobook version either. Even if it had the endnotes, which I don't think it has, the appearance of the text is a big part of enjoying it, and it's so heteroglossic that I can't imagine the voice actor managing to correctly capture all of the cadences of the different prose styles and **** like that.

edit: My favorite DFW story is "Good Old Neon" from Oblivion.

Last edited by Rei Ayanami; 09-15-2012 at 11:06 PM.

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:13 PM

#35803

mutigers

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 37,175

I just bought consider the lobster or whatever the **** its called at the student union. Never read a DFW thing but I played tennis so must be good or at least I can be a faux-intellectual talking about it which is the next best thing

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:18 PM

#35804

vaya

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,156

lol tuq

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:21 PM

#35805

PocketChads

guaranteed 42-10 finish

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 22,449

I thought infinite jest was centuries old

Weird

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:26 PM

#35806

tuq

TEEJ

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 46,365

Quote:

Originally Posted by nutshot2

This discussion is awesome

SIKE

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shark Sandwich

1. Infinite Jest ainec

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:26 PM

#35807

nutshot2

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 48,742

Chads do you listen to audiobooks or anything on those drives? Or music, or CB radio, or what?

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:27 PM

#35808

Shark Sandwich

1-2-teddied

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 20,503

heteroglossia itt

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:52 PM

#35809

vaya

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,156

lol @ tuq deleting the lol southern cal thread

just admit you made a mistake

Quote

09-15-2012 , 11:54 PM

#35810

tabbaker

2018 Swami Champion

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 13,788

gfy

Quote

09-16-2012 , 12:01 AM

#35811

Needle77

No Longer Protecting

Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 43,786

Quote:

Originally Posted by vaya

lol @ tuq deleting the lol southern cal thread

just admit you made a mistake

A lol ULMonroe would probably be a better thread.

Quote

09-16-2012 , 12:01 AM

#35812

tuq

TEEJ

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 46,365

I was tired of looking at its ugly face.

Go bump some more months old LOL threads like a little bitch, sick way to spend a Saturday night.

Quote

09-16-2012 , 12:14 AM

#35813

PocketChads

guaranteed 42-10 finish

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 22,449

Quote:

Originally Posted by nutshot2

Chads do you listen to audiobooks or anything on those drives? Or music, or CB radio, or what?

Ipod, Braves radio through phone (keep finding reasons not to get satellite radio)

Plowed through all the loveline (with Adam carolla, as if I'd listen to it without him) recordings I have, need to download more through truck stop WiFi. And need to get the Adam carolla show itself.

Any podcasts or radio shows anyone can recommend? Maybe I should just give in to sat radio convenience and listen to best of Howard stern on it or something

Quote

09-16-2012 , 12:15 AM

#35814

PocketChads

guaranteed 42-10 finish

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 22,449

Also, CB is dead. Silence for hours. I hear people stopped using it in the mid 90s

Quote

09-16-2012 , 12:21 AM

#35815

El Rata

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 31,720

Does the Henry17 ebook come in audiobook format?

Quote

09-16-2012 , 12:31 AM

#35816

ut2010

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 38,726

Feel like half of Henry17s book would be calling everyone on the forum misogynist nerds. Lol poor people.

Quote

09-16-2012 , 01:32 AM

#35817

Henrik Sedin

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 17,915

Quote:

Originally Posted by LuckyLloyd

Hmm, you have my jimmies rustled. I have no idea why you would choose this tone with me tbh...

was just messin' around, wasn't intending to troll or anything

so apologies if you took offense to my tone

Quote

09-16-2012 , 02:07 AM

#35818

nath

the second coming of the second coming

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 68,687

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pudge714

I have two free audiobook downloads. Suggestions?

I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan

Quote

09-16-2012 , 04:33 AM

#35819

shaft88

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 6,569

Lets say 6 weeks from now you are at a halloween party with ~60 people. How many do you think will be dressed like this guy:

Quote

09-16-2012 , 04:42 AM

#35820

Rei Ayanami

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 11,685

Quote

09-16-2012 , 04:55 AM

#35821

yeotaJMU

Shines ELIte's Shoes

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 22,414

Idk but I was originally thinking of going as Walter white until that **** hit and now am considering going as the dude from the elevator in he video, or psy when he is on the beach in the opening scene

Quote

09-16-2012 , 05:39 AM

#35822

shaft88

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 6,569

Yeah elevator guy and psy would be a great two-man costume. Even better if you had sliding doors to enter the party.

I'm getting a gorilla mask and rustling.

Quote

09-16-2012 , 09:18 AM

#35823

LuckyLloyd

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 11,484

Quote:

Originally Posted by Henrik Sedin

was just messin' around, wasn't intending to troll or anything

so apologies if you took offense to my tone

Quote

09-16-2012 , 10:08 AM

#35824

vaya

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,156

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuq

I was tired of looking at its ugly face.

Go bump some more months old LOL threads like a little bitch, sick way to spend a Saturday night.

Yeah, good call buddy since you were here to lock the thread in less than 5 minutes.

Also,

Quote:

3. Do not call people names. "You are a dick" "You are a ******" "You are a moron, donkey, *******, asshat" etc are not going to work. You can say someone's post is illogical, not thought out, ignorant, etc. But no direct attacks. Bastardizing peoples names counts. Douchesmeidreu is the textbook example.

Quote

09-16-2012 , 10:13 AM

#35825

diddy!

Twas diddyeinstein

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 10,849

Quote:

Originally Posted by PocketChads

Any podcasts or radio shows anyone can recommend? Maybe I should just give in to sat radio convenience and listen to best of Howard stern on it or something

I suggest How Stuff Works "Stuff You Should Know" primarily because if you listen to a few and like it, then you have like a 6 year, 400+ episode backlog you can also listen to.

Someone asked me yesterday if I thought the Gangnam Style dance would become a wedding staple in the months and years to come. I feel it will go by the wayside as quick as it hit, but who knows. Do you think people will be doing that dance at weddings in two years?

Quote

Page 1433 of 9458

First

433 933 1233 1333 1383 1413 1423 1428 1429 1430 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1443 1453 1483 1533 1633 1933 2433

Last

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 1433 of 9458

First

433 933 1233 1333 1383 1413 1423 1428 1429 1430 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1443 1453 1483 1533 1633 1933 2433

Last