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Typing posts entirely in ~*speshul italics*~ is jaw-achingly pretentious.
Nobody cares that your mom took away your cellphone. We also don't care about what music you're listening to. Really, we don't.
The Twilight series reads like mid-grade fanfic and legitimizes abusive relationships. If it appeals to you, consider reading Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), Wicked (Gregory Maguire), The Giver and Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry), and The Harmony Silk Factory (Tash Aw) as well. Your local library system will have several copies of each.
If ever you are tempted to write the words "It's 12:18 P.M in Texas and I am sitting here on a friday night blogging about nothing.", stop writing. Delete the post, and come back when you have something to say.
If you like Debussy, listen to Beethoven's Pastoral (6th) Symphony, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and The Sun Whose Rays from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. That is, assuming you like Debussy for reasons other than incidental usage in
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A lame one by the sounds of it~ Pokemon and Britney Spears is what kept me busy when I was 13, not Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Memoirs of a Geisha.
I played Pokemon and listened to Stars and the Dresden Dolls. The reason I'm recommending classical music is because the kid says he's into Debussy, not because I think everyone should have symphonies memorized by age 14.
Being harsh is fine for people who have dropped the ball. They screwed up. This kid hasn't done anything and you chastise him for not reading novels most adults havent even heard of. Basically for acting like a 13 year old.
All of the books I suggested regularly appear on middle-school curriculums. You think thirteen-year-olds should be reading Beatrix Potter and Captain Underpants?
- Memoirs of a Geisha was published in 1997 and didn't fall off the NYT bestsellers list until 2001: this wasn't some unimportant little novel nobody heard of, it's one of the bestselling modern books with a female protagonist. It has since appeared on an incredible number of "Top 100 Books Ever" lists. - Wicked didn't sell quite as well initially (it's an extremely dark YA novel), but since it spawned one of the best-received musicals of all time, a lot more people are reading it. It's very well-written, and if you like it, there's a series to follow. - Lois Lowry is perhaps the best-known YA author in the world. By no stretch of the imagination is anything she's written too high-brow or elitist or advanced for a thirteen-year-old. - The Harmony Silk Factory has begun appearing on middle-school reading lists because of its innate simplicity and unusual form. It's really
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What's wrong with The Brothers Karamazov? That was the stuff we read, and I say, if it was good enough for our generation, then its good enough for theirs.
Typing posts entirely in ~*speshul italics*~ is jaw-achingly pretentious.
Nobody cares that your mom took away your cellphone. We also don't care about what music you're listening to. Really, we don't.
The Twilight series reads like mid-grade fanfic and legitimizes abusive relationships. If it appeals to you, consider reading Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), Wicked (Gregory Maguire), The Giver and Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry), and The Harmony Silk Factory (Tash Aw) as well. Your local library system will have several copies of each.
If ever you are tempted to write the words "It's 12:18 P.M in Texas and I am sitting here on a friday night blogging about nothing.", stop writing. Delete the post, and come back when you have something to say.
If you like Debussy, listen to Beethoven's Pastoral (6th) Symphony, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and The Sun Whose Rays from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. That is, assuming you like Debussy for reasons other than incidental usage in ( ... )
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A lame one by the sounds of it~ Pokemon and Britney Spears is what kept me busy when I was 13, not Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture and Memoirs of a Geisha.
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- Memoirs of a Geisha was published in 1997 and didn't fall off the NYT bestsellers list until 2001: this wasn't some unimportant little novel nobody heard of, it's one of the bestselling modern books with a female protagonist. It has since appeared on an incredible number of "Top 100 Books Ever" lists.
- Wicked didn't sell quite as well initially (it's an extremely dark YA novel), but since it spawned one of the best-received musicals of all time, a lot more people are reading it. It's very well-written, and if you like it, there's a series to follow.
- Lois Lowry is perhaps the best-known YA author in the world. By no stretch of the imagination is anything she's written too high-brow or elitist or advanced for a thirteen-year-old.
- The Harmony Silk Factory has begun appearing on middle-school reading lists because of its innate simplicity and unusual form. It's really ( ... )
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of that information. I'll wait.
You were being a jerk.
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