<p>okay, "Heart of Darkness" and "awesome" cannot coexist in the same sentence. sorry :(</p>
<p>Except they can. Heart of Darkness, and the allusive Apocalypse Now are both awesome AND amazing.</p>
<p>i re read the book at least 10 times before i started my paper, and got more and more notes each time. it was crzy cuz every sentence is so loaded. it was the first paper that I actually enjoyed writing...</p>
<p>i hated heart of darkness.....lol</p>
<p>i think this is turning too one sided....nobody here likes the metaphysical and philosophical....DARN :p</p>
<p>I don't understand why Heart of Darkness gives people so much trouble. I love it!</p>
<p>it's because it's so dry :P. I bet you guys liked The Scarlet Letter too</p>
<p>has anyone heard the saying:</p>
<p>the thicker the file, the thicker the kid.</p>
<p>yes dave, filmxoxo already posted that, way to read the replies :P</p>
<p>I love The Scarlet Letter!!! :D</p>
<p>Not to mention Moby Dick ;)</p>
<p>I personally like "dry" books =p</p>
<p>MzLover3, the adcoms have about 30 minutes to read your application. And you're presenting them with a 78 page document. They're gonna be ****ed. No questions asked. If I had to read pages upon pages of applications, and a student who clearly didn't follow the guideliens presented themself, I wouldn't be in a good mood.</p>
<p>hum....I guess that's NO to the english paper....</p>
<p>I doubt they will actually read the thesis, page by page. As david stated, they have about 30 minutes (TOTAL, including commitee voting time probably) so chances are they'll just glance at it and move on. It may annoy someone, but it may also provide the concrete evidence of something that was only briefly mentioned in a reference letter or essay. It could go either way...</p>
<p>haha I do love the Scarlet Letter, enough that I've toyed with naming a child Prynne. And I read War and Peace last summer, by choice, so maybe I do love "dry" books (although that book was damn good when they were at peace) ;)</p>
<p>wow, thats a lot of reading lol</p>
<p>I had the two 1 page essays, one 2 page essay, and one page about an activity that I do in the optional stuff. </p>
<p>So not too much</p>
<p>prettyfish... you realize prynne is a last name and not a first of course? wouldnt hester be more suitable?</p>
<p>Um, I think prettyfish meant it as a pun ;)</p>
<p>How is it a pun? I'm dead serious. And I like the name Prynne a lot better than Hester. Hester sounds old. Also I like the look of names, and Prynne looks nice.</p>
<p>Of course I'll never actually do it, but in my dream world I would be naming all of my children (save one) after book characters: Prynne Hawthorne, Zooey Salinger, Marija Sinclair, Audley Braddon, and Esme Salinger. Or just a bunch of Salinger babies, but I wouldn't name any of them Holden.</p>
<p>Prynne rhymes with sin.</p>
<p>I want to change my last name to Daedalus and name my son Stephen :)</p>
<p>ahh, i see pretty fish.</p>
<p>mzlover... in what way does the name prynne qualify as a pun?</p>