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corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-04 17:40:48
June 04 2014 17:32 GMT
#821
On June 05 2014 02:30 Boblion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2014 01:54 corumjhaelen wrote:
On June 04 2014 22:35 Boblion wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection

Surprisingly good for lefties. Never bothered to read it before but it was quite interesting. Still a a lot of self-hate, way too much "we" and snobbery (they refuse to be called lefties lol). Looks like a good preview of "their" future.
I somewhat enjoyed the analyzis of the utter meaningless of the slave life tho (it's very Baudrillesque !) and how even lefties can make fun of other lefties lol. Alas their solutions are utterly retarded as always and the two last chapters are atrocious to read.

Recommended for our dear comrad Sam ! Igne and farvacola should also read it because they aren't edgy enough yet. (They are still talking about wages, GDP, unemployement and all the perverted capitalist concepts duh)

Lol, was reading a Julien Coupat's interview yesterday (he's been accused of writing the book). Interesting stuff, what seems to be a pretty nice marxist philo understanding

It was in a magazine/newspaper or on the internet ? (link pls).

It was in le monde, luckily one of their blogger still has it : http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/05/25/au-sujet-de-la-reponse-de-julien-coupat-au-monde-encore-un-radical-qui-nassume-pas/
‎numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
June 04 2014 17:41 GMT
#822
thanks !
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
dmnum
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Brazil6910 Posts
June 04 2014 19:49 GMT
#823
I'm in love with Roth's writing. Such tragicomic mastery, Portnoy's Complaint is without a doubt the funniest book I've ever read.

-

On a completely different note: I'm on college recess, so I finally have time to read À la recherche du temps perdu.
corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
June 04 2014 20:02 GMT
#824
Do iiiiiiit. Not that I'm a fanboy of course :D
‎numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset
bookwyrm
Profile Joined March 2014
United States722 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-04 23:46:52
June 04 2014 23:25 GMT
#825
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edit: oh this book is great
si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil
TOCHMY
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden1692 Posts
June 05 2014 07:16 GMT
#826
I found something interesting yesterday in Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase .

"The 'world' - the world always makes me think of a tortoise and elephants tirelessly supporting a gigantic disc. The elephants have no knowledge of the tortoise's role, the tortoise unable to see what the elephants are doing. And neither is the least aware of the world on their backs."

The book was released 1982 in Japan, the year before Colors of Magic was released. However, A Wild Sheep Chase wasn't translated to English until 1989. I doubt that Pratchett could read Japanese. Maybe something happened around 82-83 that both authors drew inspiration from. Or it's a huge coincidence.

This is fascinating for me as a huge fan of both authors!
Yoona <3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Look! It's Totoro! ☉.☉☂
bookwyrm
Profile Joined March 2014
United States722 Posts
June 05 2014 07:40 GMT
#827
It's a hindu thing, I think. Bertrand Russell tells a joke about this at the beginning of the 20th C, neither one of them invented it
si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil
Wesso
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands1245 Posts
June 05 2014 07:42 GMT
#828
On June 05 2014 16:16 TOCHMY wrote:
I found something interesting yesterday in Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase .

"The 'world' - the world always makes me think of a tortoise and elephants tirelessly supporting a gigantic disc. The elephants have no knowledge of the tortoise's role, the tortoise unable to see what the elephants are doing. And neither is the least aware of the world on their backs."

The book was released 1982 in Japan, the year before Colors of Magic was released. However, A Wild Sheep Chase wasn't translated to English until 1989. I doubt that Pratchett could read Japanese. Maybe something happened around 82-83 that both authors drew inspiration from. Or it's a huge coincidence.

This is fascinating for me as a huge fan of both authors!


It's an old Hindu myth apparently:

"The combination of tortoise and elephant is present in John Locke's 1690 tract An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which references an "Indian who said the world was on an elephant which was on a tortoise "."
TOCHMY
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden1692 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-05 08:06:58
June 05 2014 08:06 GMT
#829
Thanks for that clarification fellas. Still kind of funny that they both wrote similar stuff around the same time.
Yoona <3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Look! It's Totoro! ☉.☉☂
IgnE
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7681 Posts
June 05 2014 08:15 GMT
#830
On June 04 2014 22:35 Boblion wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection

Surprisingly good for lefties. Never bothered to read it before but it was quite interesting. Still a a lot of self-hate, way too much "we" and snobbery (they refuse to be called lefties lol). Looks like a good preview of "their" future.
I somewhat enjoyed the analyzis of the utter meaningless of the slave life tho (it's very Baudrillesque !) and how even lefties can make fun of other lefties lol. Alas their solutions are utterly retarded as always and the two last chapters are atrocious to read.

Recommended for our dear comrad Sam ! Igne and farvacola should also read it because they aren't edgy enough yet. (They are still talking about wages, GDP, unemployement and all the perverted capitalist concepts duh)


Glenn Beck recommends it. How can it be bad?
The unrealistic sound of these propositions is indicative, not of their utopian character, but of the strength of the forces which prevent their realization.
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18821 Posts
June 05 2014 14:46 GMT
#831
Good to know what sort of straw goes into the scarecrow, thanks Bob!
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
lungic
Profile Joined January 2012
Sweden123 Posts
June 05 2014 15:12 GMT
#832
On June 04 2014 04:49 FuDDx wrote:
last week and a half I have read

Prince of Thorns
King of Thorns
Emperor of Thorns

By Mark Lawrence

I enjoyed them. If I were to try to describe them Id say a mix of Salvatore meets George R R Martian kinda.....

...



Just finished Prince of Thorns a week ago. It was, interesting. Not a masterpiece, could've been a bit less simplistic at places, but still definitely worth a read. Perhaps one could call it "Easy reading dystopian fantasy featuring a destructive personality"?

How was King of Thorns? More of the same I'd guess?
dmnum
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Brazil6910 Posts
June 05 2014 15:26 GMT
#833
farva what is your opinion on Philip Roth? And should I read the Zuckerman books in order or go straight to American Pastoral?

If anyone else has an opinion, I'm interested in it.
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18821 Posts
June 05 2014 15:35 GMT
#834
I've only read 3 of his full length novels: Letting Go, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Plot Against America. I very much enjoyed each, as Roth's prose is well-oiled, easy to read, and lends itself to a variety of topics that make good novel fodder. If we are to follow the advice of Roth and those who love him, you should read the Zuckerman books in order given the proper time and patience. Otherwise, I don't think it really matters; the bits of the Zuckerman series that I've read seemed like they could stand on their own.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
bookwyrm
Profile Joined March 2014
United States722 Posts
June 06 2014 16:49 GMT
#835
Gonna pick up the second book of Don Quixote, which I didn't get to the first time around.
si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil
ahw
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada1099 Posts
June 06 2014 21:51 GMT
#836
I know there are some Murakami readers in here. I started with IQ84, which was alright, then Norwegian Wood, which was excellent, and I just finished Kafka on the Shore. I really enjoy his style and interwoven dream-like narratives, but the lack of resolution is starting to get at me. In particular in Kafka, the "meta"-ness of his novel was a bit tired. There are only so many allusions you can drop before its less of an allusion and more of a circle-jerk.

Anyway, I do enjoy his writing, would anyone suggest going after 'wind up bird' or some of his short stories next?
dmnum
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Brazil6910 Posts
June 06 2014 21:57 GMT
#837
Sputnik Sweetheart is my favourite Murakami novel.
bookwyrm
Profile Joined March 2014
United States722 Posts
June 06 2014 22:25 GMT
#838
I'm sorry you started with 1Q84, that book is a complete failure IMO

Some of his short stories are very brilliant. "The Second Bakery Attack" in particular is a masterpiece. I also recommend _A Wild Sheep Chase_
si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil
packrat386
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States5077 Posts
June 07 2014 04:13 GMT
#839
On June 03 2014 23:15 farvacola wrote:
Haha indeed. People have asked me what I like about the book and my response of "it's like the Bible but for Middle-Earth." Doesn't seem to win many people over

I've had the same issue. (Its seriously my favorite book though).

As for comparisons to the bible, its certainly the bible of its own genre, anything fantasy based from GRRM to Dungeons and Dragons draws heavily on Tolkien.
dreaming of a sunny day
lungic
Profile Joined January 2012
Sweden123 Posts
June 07 2014 07:08 GMT
#840
I had the privilige to get the "Tolkien Bestiary"* as a kid, to which I've devoted many hours while growing up. This book has a two page table in the beginning that describes the whole "genesis"* that is described in Silmarillion which I learned by heart.

When I read Silmarillion, I think I had a hard time taking it all in in it's written from, and I think that by studying the plotline for years, improved my understanding of great (read: big) the story is. Then upon realising that the Fëanor storyline is progressed over a couple of hundred pages, and in comparison the Ring line is like three pages long, what we could've had had Tolkien lived for another 200 years. It almost turns into a "you can't see the forest for all the trees" situation. But the forest is a most haunting beauty, even if one only get's to get a glimpse of it.

As for the bestiary, I really don't like the illustrations, but the book itself is a pretty nice summary of Tolkiens works.

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