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the Vegetarian
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hey rigoberto how come you haven't reviewed anything in a month and a half?
i went snooping there for something fun and realized you've been idle |
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I am 600+ pages into Alan Moore's new novel, Jerusalem. It is 1280 pages long. Shit's been hectic at casa instigator and at work so my reading time has been cut down. Should get back on the horse after this weekend (wedding anniversary on friday)
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1280 pages!!! looking forward to your review
meanwhile, getting your take on the golden bough, which i haven't read in ages but still remember. hilarious digs at the anti-science crowd there! well i should continue == ETA--good intro and summary, i enjoyed it btw you MUST watch THE WICKER MAN. original version. the one in blu-ray you can rent from netflix. it's all there. all there. check it. |
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THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY by Boethius
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1432...-h/14328-h.htm ripe for the annus horribilis that begins today |
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How was Book of the New Sun? Clearly you're done with it by now. |
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I don't think we have a dedicated comic book thread. Maybe we should. Assuming others would post in it as well.
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not sure if "uhhh... yeah" means "yeah good idea! I would discuss comics with you!" or something sarcastic?
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As usual, this thread.
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Th'Fuck dude, really? Sorry, I thought we'd been over this. I am a well documented comic book culture obsessive. "Uhhh... yeah" means YESLETSFUCKINGDOTHAT!" |
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I knew
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![]() Brilliant so far. It does kinda highlight how the ridiculousness of 'The Thick Of It' is incredibly close to the bone.
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Currently reading Flann O'Brien's 3rd Policeman.
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right now:
Black Wave by Michelle Tea Naked Lunch by William Burroughs The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson ...
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(inspired by robigator's blog)
NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS a field guiide to edible and inedible fungi a bit boring, this one. mostly a long list. |
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new Freud bio out, I've read the long one, so doubt I'd get too much out of the new one, but it did inspire me to reread Totem and Taboo and Civilization and Its Discontents, which I think were his 2 best (in reverse order)
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There's a new Freud biography? Don't tell any of my former profs or the folks who think of me as a hard-science stickler, but I've always LOVED Freud, and been fascinated by his life and "theories," not to mention his unintentional contributions to popular culture. In fact I once did a semester-long literature review of Freud, and it was a blast. I absolutely agree that Civilization and its Discontents is essential and extraordinary (as is Totem and Taboo, to a lesser extent), especially if taken as a philosophical text... it's certainly not a psychological or psychiatric one in any way shape or form, but that should be immediately obvious to any reader who is familiar with proper scientific theory, and I think it's a real shame that the scientific community largely disregards it. There's a lot of interesting ideas (no, not data, but ideas) about the nature and dynamics of social and cultural conflict. It's not like it should be taken as gospel, but it's worth reading for anyone with more than a one dimensional interest in understanding how the world works. Sorry I got to babbling ... what's the bio like? |
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yes, Sigmund was a deep thinker. Civilization and is a critique of society at large and has a lot of parallels to Nietzsche. Much there about religion, tribalism, law and other societal concepts.
new bio is here, I don't think I'm going to get it as I have a lot of other books on my shelf now. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.p...=9780674659568 one I've read is this'n https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393328619/ref=rdr_ext_tmb |
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currently in this one to about 200 pages, it is pretty fantastic. Spain during the nadir of the downturn in a small insular community with deep ties to Franco and organized crime. Protagonist is slowly drowning in this. It has some really dark humor and I recco it HIGHLY.
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