Werther's World, Werther's World, party time, excellent!

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    I hated this book when we were reading it in school, and didn't even finish it, so don't expect me to stay until page 50.
    I mean - from the point of view of today's 16 year olds, this story is shit. He falls in love with a girl, they do basically nothing interesting, until he kills himself. Didn't look like a role model to me; I used to prefer actually doing interesting things with girls, instead of yearning for them and killing myself.
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    Not really familiar with Goethe's poems (blame the science degree!), but awesome thread title anyway!

    You know what would've cheer Werther up though? Cuddly polar bears! :D
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    ahh, the universal themes of literature ...

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uwK3R8jwhY"]YouTube- Henry Rollins Band Gun In Mouth Blues NYC Cat Club 5/12/1987[/ame]
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    From Werther's Wiki entry:

    Wow....I had no idea Goethe started the Emo trend, the bastard!
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    Don't you follow youtube?
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPzoh-UHGZI"]Goethe was Emo[/ame]
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    Really? I thought it was pretty good. I'd take that over Jane Austen any day of the week.
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    I never had to read boring stuff like that. The only other book I refused to read in school was Isabel Allende's House of the spirits; couldn't connect to it, it just didn't become interesting or important to me.
    Well, I can't complain about my German (or to some point English) teachers, we've read a lot of good stuff, also then-contemporary works like Eco or Havel, and I did my exam in German. I just don't like books about people doing nothing.
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    Is this a book worth purchasing? I am attempting to self educate myself on German history and culture so any classics that I can grab I would.
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    Well, I don't like it; but it's definitely among the Top 50 German literature all-timers, arguably among the Top 10. And you should really have a good knowledge of German, it isn't today's everyday language.
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    Can anyone explain to me what "emo" means? Never heard that over here in the Land of Hope and Glory.
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    Think goth, without guts (with even crappier music). It really caught on a few years ago.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo
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    Gruftis are the best, however.
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    I only 'had' to read Faust in high school, but never Werther. Really liked Faust, and from what I heard it's the better Goethe classic.
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    But 16 year olds suck. Without exception. And it's sad that we let kids read all that modern crap in school theses days.

    And reading Eco in a German class is a travesty.
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    Is the sky blue? Do bears shit in the woods?

    There are cheap editions of all of Goethe's works, and no reason not to get them (Faust I&II are a must if you want to learn about German culture).
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    Personally, I've always preferred Schiller over Goethe, Faust however is definitely a must read. Almost every other sentence has become a proverb or a figure of speech in the German language.
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    Wilhelm Meister is worth a gander as well

    Nimm meine Verehrung und meinen Dank, fühle, daß wir alle dich bewundern, und vertraue uns, wenn du etwas bedarfst!

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    Just saw that Theo Albrecht of Aldi Nord died. There is an Aldi less than a mile form my house, but I just discovered that it is part of Aldi Süd, at least according to how the sign looks.

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    speaking of young and destructive, the Replacements in Minneapolis in '81

    The Twin/Tone showcase
    http://www.twintone.com/video/mats/

    for example:

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLJwHRJcn4&feature=related"]YouTube- The Replacements '81 Somethin' To Du[/ame]
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    ^^^^

    Viva The Mats!
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    Aldi Nord sucks. Aldi Süd even beats Lidl (if you leave work ethics aside)
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    I've only read Faust in English (obviously), but loved it. Actually come to think of it, it's the only Goethe work, I've read. :eek:

    The 1926 film is a classic too, but it's loosely based on Goethe's version.
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