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...it's well known.
But what else have you read since American Lit 101? Today I picked up Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1982 by Simon Reynolds. Looks fairly interesting.
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Ballad of a Thin Man. Great song.
"Because something is happening here But you don't know what it is Do you, Mr Jones?"
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I've recently discovered Evelyn Waugh. I never took English 101 though. I'm a bum like that. Is Fitzgerald really all that impressive though? I've yet to make up my mind. I've also been reading through some Wordsworth and Whitman. Waugh, Wordsworth, Whitman. Heh.
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I hope this thread wasn't specifically directed at American literature, like it appears to have been in hindsight. What a jackass this man is.
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I want to get The Great Gastby by Fitzgerald, but never do when I am in the bookstore.
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I am looking at everybody talking about about 'Fitzgerald' and imagining they mean me, not F. Scott.
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I like Gatsby. Tender is the Night also is not bad.
I'm finding Simon Reynolds' book fairly interesting so far. He does on in about the last 1/3 of the book a bit too long about what he calls the New Pop of the early 80s, something that doesn't interest me particularly. But he writes well about the early postpunk/art-punk bands like PiL, Wire, Mission of Burma, et al. Someday I intend to read Ulysses. My college prof only required us to read the first 100 pages or so and the last chapter, and said that was all we really needed to know about the book for his class!
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Oh yes, the faults in American hardcore are well known. But Simon Reynolds does have the advantage of having been part of the post-punk "scene" at the time it was happening, and is writing with a good deal of authority. I'm not saying the book is perfect, it's pretty heavy going at times, but it's not the work of a person who's seen a gap in the market, done some research and thrown a book together. Simon Reynolds' research was being done as the "scene" was happening, and his writing at that time was pretty revelatory.
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Okay. My knowledge of hardcore is pretty much limited to Black Flag and Minor Threat, and I've only ever seen reviews of that book, so I'm not going to say anything about its merits or otherwise, but I will say that I found Rip It Up... to be an excellent way of filling in gaps in my knowledge of an era that I caught wind of just as it was running out of steam.
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I find that he's one of the more articulate rock writers I've read.
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Here's his blog.
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Just read the Odyssey! It's better. Actually, that's a stupid thing for me to say because I haven't actually read Ulysses. But, I get the feeling he just wrote a long and incomprehensible book just so that for the rest of time people would talk about it. cf. Lord of the Rings. (Please don't shoot me)
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Yep. Very easy to read, but never condescending or dumbed down.
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