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"gringospeak" haha Nazi Literature in the Americas...?! And you haven't found it untranslated, yet? hot damn. that sounds like a book worth reading. what appealed you to bolano?? for me it was his poetry; he's a great poet.
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ive just heard great reviews from people whose taste i respect and it's made me mad curious. strangely enough in y2K i took a course in chilean literature w/ a chilean prof but she made no mention of him. none whatsoever. literatura nazi de las americas is i think a series of reviews of non-existent books, like borges. borges is my first literary hero, split my skull open when i was 12 or 13. until that it had been jules verne books and astérix and more traditionalkid narratives (pirates, adventures, & shit). his "anthology of fantastic literature" got me hooked first, and then i got a huge fat book with all his writings-- anyway, bolaño is supposed to be one of his heirs, but with a different political cant (borges turned conservative during the peron government in argentina, and then really made some fucked up statements in his old age, whereas bolaño was a proper commie shit-stirrer and a temporary prisoner of the monster known as pinochet). anyway, i haven't read a single line by him, but i'm stoked, and i really really hope he doesn't disappoint-- im pretty sure he won't-- though who knows-- i'm very excited. |
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the... interwebs? ps- im no fan of paz as a thinker. he's anti-historicist, and i believe he uses myth as a cop-out. sort of like a surrender flag. as a poet, his only really good poem is "piedra del sol", the rest is a bunch of formalistic pap. i know he's made an impression on sharon stone though. |
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![]() Finally reading this seriously. I needed to read Brief Interviews... first before I found the love of DFW I needed to get into this... And I've been taking breaks from Infinite Jest to read some graphic novels: ![]()
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while I enjoyed the League of EG comics, I found a lot of it "off" probably because I am americana nd do not get the references to British colonialism and culture.,
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I LOVE "Infinite Jest", one of my 5 favorite novels written in the last 15 years.
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I bet anyone here would get a real kick out of Transmetropolitan. It is a great "post-cyber-punk" read, and reminds me a lot of the kind of laughs I'd get out of this board.
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transmetropolitan is nice, yes.
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+1 I read it recently, on my second attempt. Well worth persevering . It left me in an unusual state for a week or two after reading. |
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![]() Awesome book....def. check it out if you have any interest in what's going on in Afghanistan or just to see what these dudes go through on a daily basis. Junger does a great job of depicting how combat becomes becomes both intoxicating and addictive.....there is no turning back. I love crap like this.
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rereading...
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i like it. reads a bit dated today but still cool. spider jerusalem is hilarious. |
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The complete collection of Michel de Montaigne's Essays.
Free from Project Gutenberg. Fucking 900 pages. Fuck yeah. I remember my Aristotle professor slagging off Montraigne and all the modernists he had influenced. |
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aristotle's followers stagnated thought for millenia
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Perhaps in religious philosophy but not across the board. I would say he was very well influential on the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, and Martin Heidegger (via destruktion).
I haven't read Alasdair MacIntyre but I know he's advocated an anti-elitist Aristotelian tradition. |
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I shoudl clarify, aristotle and Plato stagnated scientific endeavour, unknown to them, but becauze people love to assign "correctness" to someone and never ever question it again.
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