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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Jan 25, 2019 2:06:18 GMT
Well, it can be one correctly and effectively. Problem is that a lot of charlatans out there will have 10-12 in their movie, half of which being some derivative of "character hears noise, walks over to window, cat jumps out with corresponding musical flare" and it's stupid. It's what amateurs do. If you're all jump scare and zero suspense, tension, character, etc., then you're not a filmmaker, you're just some asshole with a camera and money to burn. The new Halloween movie did this a few times, it was awful. I was totally baffled by the praise that movie got, it was just terrible. No sense of dread or build up to anything. Just a bad guy stabbing people all over the place. I literally couldn't finish it. There were a couple lame "jump scares" that weren't scary. Total amateur movie. That Gordon Green director guy is brain dead.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Jan 29, 2019 6:27:05 GMT
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 6:28:40 GMT
Daughter's final year uni undergraduate dissertation.
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Post by Zos on Jan 29, 2019 11:49:48 GMT
Daughter's final year uni undergraduate dissertation. Don't give away the ending.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 12:05:10 GMT
Daughter's final year uni undergraduate dissertation. Don't give away the ending. The ending... "The discovery, predictably, resulted in historians assuming this meant a sad ending to Honor's story. So sad that she even took her own life. Analysis of the remains found that she in fact lived at least sixty years"
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Post by Zos on Jan 29, 2019 12:09:58 GMT
Don't give away the ending. The ending... "The discovery, predictably, resulted in historians assuming this meant a sad ending to Honor's story. So sad that she even took her own life. Analysis of the remains found that she in fact lived at least sixty years" Enigmatic.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 12:17:38 GMT
The ending... "The discovery, predictably, resulted in historians assuming this meant a sad ending to Honor's story. So sad that she even took her own life. Analysis of the remains found that she in fact lived at least sixty years" Enigmatic. Well, it proves one thing... historians just talk shite. Archaeologists, on the other hand, deal with actual physical evidence of the past.
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 29, 2019 12:25:28 GMT
Well, it proves one thing... historians just talk shite. Archaeologists, on the other hand, deal with actual physical evidence of the past. I don't know if you are serious or just having a bit of light-hearted jab at historians (I guess the later) but I actually do believe that most of the historians talk nonsense. I believe history is written by the victors and for that mattter there is a lot of propaganda. And I also agree on the evidence argument. You have evidence for archaeology and many other fields of study but the evidence presented by historians are not very trustful.
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 29, 2019 12:29:19 GMT
At the moment I am reading about some of the weirdest sounding things I have ever come across. Heteroskedasticity, homoscedasticity, multicollinearity and serial correlation. It's awesome to try to pronounce 8-syllable words that you haven't heard before.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 12:29:47 GMT
Well, it proves one thing... historians just talk shite. Archaeologists, on the other hand, deal with actual physical evidence of the past. I don't know if you are serious or just having a bit of light-hearted jab at historians (I guess the later) but I actually do believe that most of the historians talk nonsense. I believe history is written by the victors and for that mattter there is a lot of propaganda. And I also agree on the evidence argument. You have evidence for archaeology and many other fields of study but the evidence presented by historians are not very trustful. I'm an archaeologist... we don't care for historians. It's all rubbish.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jan 29, 2019 14:49:44 GMT
I suck at reading. Don't care for fiction, thought I did like LOTR, Gone with the Wind, and Don Quixote. I have Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" out of the library. Hope I can start it and get into it.
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 29, 2019 15:01:30 GMT
I suck at reading. Don't care for fiction, thought I did like LOTR, Gone with the Wind, and Don Quixote. I have Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" out of the library. Hope I can start it and get into it. My unsolicited advice is that go for the best of them all. Charles Dickens is one of the best ever and I never had a problem going through his works. His language is very simple but very effective. Great depiction of what life was in that era. You may try Great Expectations, Hard Times and Dombey and Son to begin with. Very exciting stuff.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jan 29, 2019 15:06:09 GMT
I suck at reading. Don't care for fiction, thought I did like LOTR, Gone with the Wind, and Don Quixote. I have Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" out of the library. Hope I can start it and get into it. My unsolicited advice is that go for the best of them all. Charles Dickens is one of the best ever and I never had a problem going through his works. His language is very simple but very effective. Great depiction of what life was in that era. You may try Great Expectations, Hard Times and Dombey and Son to begin with. Very exciting stuff. I know I read a couple decades ago. Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Feb 23, 2019 17:24:52 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Feb 24, 2019 17:53:26 GMT
millar70 TheGoodMan19 you sox fans might like this: About the Book From the sandlots of San Francisco to the power centers of baseball, this book tells the story of Joe Cronin, one of twentieth-century baseballโs major players, both on the field and off. For most of his playing career, Cronin (1906โ84) was the best shortstop in baseball. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1956, he was a manager by the age of twenty-six and a general manager at forty-one. He was the youngest player-manager ever to play in the World Series, and he managed the Red Sox longer than any other man in history. As president of the American League, he oversaw two expansions, four franchise shifts, and the revolutionary and controversial introduction of the designated-hitter rule, which he wrote himself. This book follows Cronin from his humble beginnings to his position as one of the most powerful figures in baseball. Mark Armour explores Croninโs time as a player as well as his role in some of the gameโs fiercest controversies, from the creation of the All-Star Game to the issue of integration. Bringing to life one of baseballโs definitive characters, this book supplies a crucial and fascinating chapter in the history of Americaโs pastime.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Feb 24, 2019 20:29:32 GMT
This - - which is fascinating if not especially uplifting. Kim Roosevelt (grandson of Teddy) gets quite a few mentions, as he was an enthusiastic (and tbf pretty successful) meddler in the region. That looks like a good read! Have you ever read โThe Great Gameโ, by Peter Hopkirk? Itโs a book about Britain and Russiaโs struggle for dominance in Central Asia for the past 3 centuries or so. Very good book about the ambitions of empires.
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Post by nutsberryfarm ๐ on Feb 25, 2019 2:34:38 GMT
Sounds good... www.uticaod.com/ZZ/blogs/20190223/game--baseball-book-literary-blissAfter reading 600 pages of The Game, Iโm convinced author Jon Pessah is to baseball writing what Picasso remains to art. No kidding. Pessah delivers a masterpiece with his 2015 release of The Game. When you can cover in detail two decades of anything, thereโs a lot of homework to be done. When a project [...] After reading 600 pages of The Game, Iโm convinced author Jon Pessah is to baseball writing what Picasso remains to art. No kidding. Pessah delivers a masterpiece with his 2015 release of The Game. When you can cover in detail two decades of anything, thereโs a lot of homework to be done. When a project as The Game is your first try at a book, the planning can be (and was) monumental.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Feb 25, 2019 12:57:09 GMT
The Birth of the West by Paul Collins.
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Post by sdm3 on Feb 25, 2019 15:46:36 GMT
After reading 600 pages of The Game, Iโm convinced author Jon Pessah is to baseball writing what Picasso remains to art.
No kidding.
Pessah delivers a masterpiece with his 2015 release of The Game. When you can cover in detail two decades of anything, thereโs a lot of homework to be done.
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Post by fjenkins on Feb 25, 2019 15:53:11 GMT
I just finished a book on Bill Watterson, who did Calvin and Hobbes, it was pretty boring, sadly.
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