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15 November 2018
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Jules said
50yearslate said
What you’re describing sounds pretty Hufflepuffish to me. Didn’t go behind his teammates’ back– Hufflepuff. Listened to the ideas of others– Hufflepuff. Wouldn’t betray you– Hufflepuff.
Maybe, but Ringo is definitely the Hufflepuff leader and the second closest thing to a “warmth” attitude would be Gryffindor
Also Paul had original ideas and he would sometimes try to impose on other people (kindly, but with the ultimate intent of things going his way).
But why does there have to be one in each house? Can’t they both be Hufflepuffs?
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BECAUSE B a l a n c e
Oh shush ya Rising Libra 
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Oh shush ya Rising Libra
I was hoping you’d catch that 
I admit I play it up a little bit, but it does stem from an honest inclination.
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BECAUSE B a l a n c e
Precisely
Otherwise I would put them all in Ravenclaw as a punishment for their awful haircuts.
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5 December 2019
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Beatlebug said
BECAUSE B a l a n c e
Precisely
Otherwise I would put them all in Ravenclaw as a punishment for their awful haircuts.
The only Beatles haircut that I have ever thought as “awful” was Paul McCartney ‘s Wings-era mullet
*shudders*
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Jules said
Beatlebug said
BECAUSE B a l a n c e
Precisely
Otherwise I would put them all in Ravenclaw as a punishment for their awful haircuts.
The only Beatles haircut that I have ever thought as “awful” was Paul McCartney ‘s Wings-era mullet
*shudders*
Perm George and Mullet Paul are fantastic looks.
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5 December 2019
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lovelyritametermaid said
Jules said
Beatlebug said
BECAUSE B a l a n c e
Precisely
Otherwise I would put them all in Ravenclaw as a punishment for their awful haircuts.
The only Beatles haircut that I have ever thought as “awful” was Paul McCartney ‘s Wings-era mullet
*shudders*
Perm George and Mullet Paul are fantastic looks.
I have no quarrel with Perm George
George Harrison has the best hair of the Beatles period. The man has never had a bad hairstyle– his hair is just *chef’s kiss* gorgeous at all times
And I admit Paul’s mullet looked better once it was more grown out, but when he first got it *shudders*
The man looks like a young, Liverpudlian Joe Exotic.
There’s also this unfortunate style he had going on
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I’m pretty sure I know who’s got the best hair. But George has had some killer styles as well. I’ve tried to copy them all
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Wait , what was the topic again?
Getting to know BBers through questions
I’ll help:
What is y’alls favorite book and why?
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26 January 2017
Offline Hmmmm… favourite book.. If we’re talking fiction, then The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami would have to be my top three, and I think overall it would have to be the first one. I just love how subversive it is (without coming across as trying to be edgy for its own sake), and I also particularly love how it fuses that slight element of the supernatural into the story without it being overpowering. If I was shocked reading it in 2017, or whenever it was, then I can’t imagine what it must have been like reading it in the 1890s.
Non-fiction wise, David Byrne’s How Music Works is always a great read that will give you a new appreciation for music as an art form, and in terms of philosophy I’ve not read much that manages to be as insightful and entertaining as Slavoj Žizek’s Violence.
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8 August 2019
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Jules said
Wait , what was the topic again?
Getting to know BBers through questions
I’ll help:
What is y’alls favorite book and why?
I have minus zero reading experience. I’ve been in movies for the past six years and in music for the past two so maybe one day I’ll get into books. Other than that every book (over 100 pages) I’ve ever read has been A) fiction, and B) a movie I saw previously.
So that means the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings books, Stephen Kings’ Misery , The Green Mile, Carrie and The Shining. I would pick Carrie out of the bunch.
I read To Kill a Mockingbird, in English actually. I wanted to make a gift to a friend for his birthday so I bought that book, read it, and then I gave it to him. That book was fantastic (but it was almost identical to the movie so there wasn’t much DISCOVERY when I read it you know). Last month I finished The Great Gatsby and it was a great read. A couple of years ago now I’m remembering I read from front to back The Godfather & Dances with Wolves that I took from an old collection my father had (both actually took me a long time to finish).
Finally 1984 & Fahrenheit 451, after I got into old sci-fi films.
So you see all of them I saw as films first and I just wanted to compare them to their source material, so it was very much like a comparison thing more than actually reading for pleasure.
The only book I ever read that wasn’t a movie was Martian Chronicles out of a recommendation and I liked it enough so I started to turn it into screenplay I never finished. Maybe one day I’ll follow it up.
Other than that a famous Argentine book called Rayuela (“Hopscotch” in English), also a recommendation, and I thought it was fairly good.
I can’t really say any are my favourite because I don’t have anything to compare them too. Those are ALL the books I’ve ever read.
If I had to pick favourites maybe it would be
The Great Gatsby: I really like how he describes in first person the 1920s as the ultimate celebration decade and how much depth the characters have.
Martian Chronicles, which is a weird-ass book that encapsulates a lot of science fiction imagination that is hard to find at that level of originality. It plays with consciousness and the soul in a way not unlike 2001: A Space Odyssey which is one of my favourite movies or
To Kill a Mockingbird, a film I love as well, Atticus Finch is a role model in every sense of the word and the book is filled with personal advice and morals everyone should hear and learn from. It is a story that has been told a million times when it comes to racism in general but it is a milestone with a lot of heart, especially with the children’s point of view.
I also started War & Peace because I have an old copy but it’s a very long book so I left it there. Not that it was boring but I need to find a moment in my life where I don’t have much going on to resume reading. Also my mother has been bugging me to read Angela’s Ashes so that will probably be my next (even tho I don’t know when will that be).
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Hmmmm… favourite book.. If we’re talking fiction, then The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami would have to be my top three, and I think overall it would have to be the first one. I just love how subversive it is (without coming across as trying to be edgy for its own sake), and I also particularly love how it fuses that slight element of the supernatural into the story without it being overpowering. If I was shocked reading it in 2017, or whenever it was, then I can’t imagine what it must have been like reading it in the 1890s.Non-fiction wise, David Byrne’s How Music Works is always a great read that will give you a new appreciation for music as an art form, and in terms of philosophy I’ve not read much that manages to be as insightful and entertaining as Slavoj Žizek’s Violence.
I love The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pride and Prejudice both 
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I’ll have to add Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami to my reading list– it sure sounds like an interesting read. And of course I have to read How Music Works as well, given that I’m a huge Talking Heads and David Byrne fan.
Jules said
I read To Kill a Mockingbird, in English actually. I wanted to make a gift to a friend for his birthday so I bought that book, read it, and then I gave it to him. That book was fantastic (but it was almost identical to the movie so there wasn’t much DISCOVERY when I read it you know)
I love To Kill a Mockingbird as well. Atticus Finch is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time– though I was never able to finish the movie. Not because I found it bad (b/c it was quite good), it’s just that every time I started to watch it I ended up getting busy and never returned to it.
My favorite thing about TKAM, though, is how Lee manages to sneak in the fact that Scout and Jem have a gay uncle– it’s not groundbreaking but I appreciate it.
To answer my own question, my favorite read of all time would have to be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Close seconds would have to be Uprooted by Naomi Novik and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, though I’m always looking for other great reads to grab my attention (so recommendations are welcome 
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Offline Great taste, both of yas 
Gatsby is another great one, the symbolism throughout is so brilliant, particularly the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, which always unnerve me, even just to think about. I actually have copies of Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451, the latter being a friend’s copy I borrowed in exchange for my copy of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, but I’ve never gotten round to reading them. Glancing over at my bedside pile of books, there are currently 14 either in progress or waiting to be read, so unfortunately it’ll probably be a while before I get to either of them.
Any Beatlefan will probably enjoy Norwegian Wood , if just for the references to Beatles songs, @lovelyritametermaid , but it does also have a very moving story and some wonderfully rich description, especially of the suburbs of Tokyo. I believe one of the reviewer comments in my copy describes Murakami’s style as ‘gossamer’, which I think puts it beautifully. However, I will say that, as others have pointed out on here in the past, Murakami’s way of describing female characters does tend to focus on their physical appearance in a way that isn’t always comfortable, but luckily the characters themselves are always interesting enough to not make it too much of a detriment.
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15 November 2018
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Beatlebug said
BECAUSE B a l a n c e
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Otherwise I would put them all in Ravenclaw as a punishment for their awful haircuts.
Punishment?!?!?!? What do you have against Ravenclaw (besides the fact a good number of Ravenclaws, myself included, have a tendency to be pedantic a******s)?
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Offline My favourite book…
It’s probably a book.from when I was 5. It got me interested in maths.
It’s called The Number Devil, and it was a beautifully written book that made maths fun and interesting.
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Jules said
Beatlebug said
BECAUSE B a l a n c e
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Otherwise I would put them all in Ravenclaw as a punishment for their awful haircuts.
Punishment?!?!?!? What do you have against Ravenclaw (besides the fact a good number of Ravenclaws, myself included, have a tendency to be pedantic a******s)?
People say Gryffindors are the house of newbies but I see far more professed Ravenclaws on da interwebs. Who all swarm and join team Mythic on Pokmeon Go
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Offline Favorite book? Well… it’s a toss-up between The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (absolutely magical setting, I want to live there, and a thrilling garden labyrinth of a book to wander through whilst slurping dark chocolate), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, and The Secret Garden. 1984 is a contender as well, but I’ve gotta be in a certain mood to read it because it is h e a v y.
(Don’t @tt me, my taste in literature has hardly advanced beyond middle school. 
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Nonfiction would have to be
– Understanding Perennials by William Cullina (it’s obscure, I know, but he explains practical botany in a way that’s entertaining and useful)
– or the one volume of A History of US by Joy Hakim that I have* (it’s about the Revolution /inception of the country), which is a very balanced and lucid American history primer which is directed toward children but it’s not too simplistic for adults to read. I just think it’s very well-written and the volume I have also contains the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (which I love to read just because Jefferson was such a superlative writer), which is useful.
*I really should check out the rest of the series, ostensibly for my kid sister but I wouldn’t be above reading it myself
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Offline In order, Lord of the Rings, Cryptonomicon and Neverwhere. But I haven’t actually read books for a good while since the stroke and I’m finding it a lot easier to listen to audiobooks now so I guess I’ll have to listen to them instead of read.
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