Jasmine’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2010)

Jasmine’s comments from the The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) group.

for example, in 5 years I will not have been part of the 2010 age on facebook, because I might have an account, but I have almost no friends on it, and prefer to avoid my mother and therefore it.

I will be remembered as part of the 2010 age of goodreads , I hope. even if I have to be remembered as an annoying part.

socially active years, which are then further split into the "I talk to my real life friends online" and "i'm here for the party years"

Eh?Eh! wrote: "Hah! But remember high school or college? At the time it was so totally serious and you'd DIE if they didn't accept you! It's better and easier to try to look back on it, like with high school and college now, right? "

In high school people only talked to me cause I was smart. Once in physics someone tried to ask me for help and I told them to fuck off. The teacher thought it was hilarious. and now they have babies and I have new york city. I win!

Mike wrote: "You're all full of baloney--well, 'cept for Josh, and Esteban, and Jasmine, and Michael, and prob Eh? Eh! but I haven't had the pleasure of talking with her yet."

you should now go out of your way to do that. she is lovely

MyFleshSingsOut wrote: "It's just like high school or college. Freshmen become Seniors, etc. Just the way of the world. Nothing to take too seriously."

agreed.

as long as the seniors will still be moderately nice to me I have no desire to be older.

What's myspace?

yeah I've never heard that one before.



But I also don't, because there are new funnsies to be had.

Eh I totally agree, plus so much of that stuff is colored by nostalgia it wouldn't be nearly as fun to be there as it is to here the stories.

Esteban wrote: "Nostalgic BS circle jerkery."

someone's jealous.

eh's right. I hang out on a myspace forum and there are "golden agers" and it's basically the crowd that is allowed to thread hijack without getting punished.

really I've been here longer than you?

but in reality I get what you are saying but there is a difference I think too between here and "here" I mean I made the account because karen told me to, I wasn't particularly attached to the site until much later... I know at the orientation party for grad school I was reading book reviews on my ipod, so like... fall 2009. In reality if I had created the account when she told me I probably would have been here in '07. But not in the actual "I'm here for the party kind of way."

Does that make sense? I feel like this theory might require new media philosophy.

I don't know I just don't want to be associated with new age ever.

I also think it's weird cause david said:

AND he hasn't been active since December 2008. Now THAT is straight-up Golden Age, kiddies!

I was here then and I don't think anyone would count me as being here in the golden age.

I tend to like michael's reviews they (at least the ones I've read) tend to be fun and kinda gimmicky.

I am really bad at picking favorite reviews, but the most recent review that made me feel inadequate as a reviewer was this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

as long as I"m not a newager I don't care

Don't let someone else's opinions override your own to the point you won't even formulate one. If my friends(imaginary, of course) gave me hell for not liking something as much, or at all, I'd just shrug it off and move on. To each their own and all that.

I don't let them inform my opinion, I just refuse to read more books by those people.

no worries. it's one of my favorite books.

I love ulysses, I think that you shouldn't really worry about decoding it. I used one of those annotated books for the first half, I enjoyed it more once I stopped. But it is a book where you kind of have to accept that you aren't going to know whatever is going on.

dubliners and portrait of an artist are both suppose to be easier.

basically remember joyce is funny, and the entire book is sex jokes, you'll be fine.

Ala wrote: "Too intimidated to read a book? Which ones and why?

As for the original question: I feel the exact same as Mariel."

have you read finnegans wake? I have read the first chapter 15 times, then I always get scared.

there is a factor for me of authors my friends love that I don't like that is intimidating. reading more jonathan coe or salinger ever would be very tough for me because I would worry about judgment and head shaking.

There are some philosophers who intimidate me because they like to pretend normal philosophy students know quantum mechanics.

sometimes I'm terrified a book will be bad. I love chuck palahniuk and I have signed copies of rant and snuff, but I can't bring myself to read them because I worry my entire idea of him will crumble if they are bad.

i use to feel that way a lot, now I tend to be fine with reviewing almost anything. there are books I'm too intimidated to read.

Mykle wrote: "Lemme tell ya ... Amazon.com is the #1 book reviewing site, in terms of reviews read. That's 'cuz Amazon plants book reviews next to the books themselves, on the page where the Amazon visitor is d..."

I can copy mine for you. although amazon gets annoyed with the language I use in reviews and commonly refuses to post them

I think the annoying trend I got is that I felt like I sounded stupid. but when I slow down and I like it everyone else finds it super OCD

I don't use any punctuation. I don't ever say who's talking. I almost never split paragraphs.

god I could have hit 50000 so much faster.

Jason (FNORDinc) wrote: "Jasmine wrote: "I think maybe just don't use adverbs.

does that sentence have an adverb... This is going to require phrase trees."

maybe can be noun or adverb
based on its usage above i have no i..."

I don't use adverbs.

better.

this is about simplifying writing, correct?