NBA OFF TOPIC THREAD

[DJ Fieri]

Don’t hate it

They needed more s depth although he’s more of a nickel lb at this point

Was it the vet minimum?

 

[The Q]

Was it the vet minimum?

Haven’t seen money

But Apparently the new dc was his position coach when the jets drafted him

 

[DJ Fieri]

Haven’t seen money

But Apparently the new dc was his position coach when the jets drafted him

Googled it after asking you.

1.1 mill. That's a low risk, but high reward if he has something left. And I think he does.

 

[fightinfunbags]

The movies never go for the actual ending either

But I’d love to see what you got over that (if it goes in off topic that would be cool)

I’m really curious

Here’s my personal top 25 - this isn’t a “best” list. This is just me and what I like and enjoy

1984 - Orwell
Adventures of Huck Finn - Twain
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Hobbit - Tolkein
Song of Ice and Fire series - GRR Martin
Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
Confessions - St Augustine
A Time To Kill - John Grisham
Patriot Game - Tom Clancy
A Brave New World - Huxley
Animal Farm - Orwell
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Shack - William P Young
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Outsiders - Hinton
The Making of the President 1960 - White
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlam
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - HS Thompson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Flies - Golding
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

There’s more than 25 here but I couldn’t have a list without Hemingway and I couldn’t pick one text out of Song of Ice and Fire. You can tell based on my choices that I fell in love with reading as a pre/teen and teenager.

 

[The Q]

Here’s my personal top 25 - this isn’t a “best” list. This is just me and what I like and enjoy

1984 - Orwell
Adventures of Huck Finn - Twain
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Hobbit - Tolkein
Song of Ice and Fire series - GRR Martin
Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
Confessions - St Augustine
A Time To Kill - John Grisham
Patriot Game - Tom Clancy
A Brave New World - Huxley
Animal Farm - Orwell
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Shack - William P Young
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Outsiders - Hinton
The Making of the President 1960 - White
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlam
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - HS Thompson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Flies - Golding
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

There’s more than 25 here but I couldn’t have a list without Hemingway and I couldn’t pick one text out of Song of Ice and Fire. You can tell based on my choices that I fell in love with reading as a pre/teen and teenager.

I read some of those when I was like 13, 14 and 15


Probably too young

I think I’d have liked them more when I was older

 

[fightinfunbags]

I read some of those when I was like 13, 14 and 15


Probably too young

I think I’d have liked them more when I was older

Stuff is always more memorable when you’re younger. Many of the themes in these texts occur in numerous texts. But they’re often the very first time I’ve seen it.

 

[Think McFly Think]

Here’s my personal top 25 - this isn’t a “best” list. This is just me and what I like and enjoy

1984 - Orwell
Adventures of Huck Finn - Twain
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Hobbit - Tolkein
Song of Ice and Fire series - GRR Martin
Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
Confessions - St Augustine
A Time To Kill - John Grisham
Patriot Game - Tom Clancy
A Brave New World - Huxley
Animal Farm - Orwell
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Shack - William P Young
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Outsiders - Hinton
The Making of the President 1960 - White
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlam
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - HS Thompson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Flies - Golding
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

There’s more than 25 here but I couldn’t have a list without Hemingway and I couldn’t pick one text out of Song of Ice and Fire. You can tell based on my choices that I fell in love with reading as a pre/teen and teenager.

Hell of a list, I’m a huge Orwell fan myself and one I would add of his that I read when I was older is Road to Wigan Pier.

Brave New World is one of my favorite books period, similarly themed to 1984.

I would add a couple Vonnegut books also, Slaughterhouse Five, and Breakfast of Champions probably my favorites of his.

 

[The Q]

Hell of a list, I’m a huge Orwell fan myself and one I would add of his that I read when I was older is Road to Wigan Pier.

Brave New World is one of my favorite books period, similarly themed to 1984.

I would add a couple Vonnegut books also, Slaughterhouse Five, and Breakfast of Champions probably my favorites of his.

I hated BNW

But then again I read it when I was 13 and just thought they were creepy weirdos lol

 

[fightinfunbags]

Hell of a list, I’m a huge Orwell fan myself and one I would add of his that I read when I was older is Road to Wigan Pier.

Brave New World is one of my favorite books period, similarly themed to 1984.

I would add a couple Vonnegut books also, Slaughterhouse Five, and Breakfast of Champions probably my favorites of his.

Yeah I enjoy dystopian literature. Orwell and Huxley had my two favorite.

 

[fightinfunbags]

I hated BNW

But then again I read it when I was 13 and just thought they were creepy weirdos lol

One of my favorite things to do is reread different texts from my youth. Totally different experience. If you get a chance maybe revisit some texts. It delivers.

 

[Think McFly Think]

One of my favorite things to do is reread different texts from my youth. Totally different experience. If you get a chance maybe revisit some texts. It delivers.

I need to do that with Great Gatsby, I read it once as a teenager and remember thinking the first few chapters being a bit of a slog, about as entertaining as reading stereo instructions.

I need to give it another chance sometime. I’ve liked movie adaptations of it.

 

[The Q]

I need to do that with Great Gatsby, I read it once as a teenager and remember thinking the first few chapters being a bit of a slog, about as entertaining as reading stereo instructions.

I need to give it another chance sometime. I’ve liked movie adaptations of it.

Same

I have to say I don’t remember most of them fondly or barely at all in some cases

So finding time to reread may not be a terrible idea

 

[The Q]

Here’s my personal top 25 - this isn’t a “best” list. This is just me and what I like and enjoy

1984 - Orwell
Adventures of Huck Finn - Twain
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
The Hobbit - Tolkein
Song of Ice and Fire series - GRR Martin
Seven Story Mountain - Thomas Merton
Confessions - St Augustine
A Time To Kill - John Grisham
Patriot Game - Tom Clancy
A Brave New World - Huxley
Animal Farm - Orwell
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Shack - William P Young
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Outsiders - Hinton
The Making of the President 1960 - White
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlam
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - HS Thompson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Flies - Golding
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

There’s more than 25 here but I couldn’t have a list without Hemingway and I couldn’t pick one text out of Song of Ice and Fire. You can tell based on my choices that I fell in love with reading as a pre/teen and teenager.

I forgot to say thank you

And second, I made an of nice and men reference about the cba, but I think you were still banned lol

 

[bksballer89]

 

[DJ Fieri]

John Cena is hosting Shark Week.

@Mecca and all the other wrestling affiocionados.....have you guys noticed how he is starting to look like Earnest as he gets older?

LOL.

 

[DJ Fieri]

I forgot to say thank you

And second, I made an of nice and men reference about the cba, but I think you were still banned lol

The Grapes of Wrath was a fucking great book.

Also, To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

[The Q]

The Grapes of Wrath was a fucking great book.

Also, To Kill a Mockingbird.

It needed more fruit in it….

 

[The Q]

John Cena is hosting Shark Week.

@Mecca and all the other wrestling affiocionados.....have you guys noticed how he is starting to look like Earnest as he gets older?

LOL.

Oh yes

That is definitely a thing

 

[DJ Fieri]

Some of my fave novels.

Lord of the Flies
To kill a mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath

As an adult I am a huge horror fan and those include an obscure writer by name of Richard Laymon and Bentley Little. Stephen King too of course but those first 2 write about some pretty twisted shit.

And A time to kill
Dead Poets Society
Shawshank Redemption (short story)

 

[DJ Fieri]

Oh yes

That is definitely a thing

For fucking real....

LOL.