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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21243 Posts
January 13 2014 20:06 GMT
#81
On January 14 2014 04:45 dmnum wrote:
Finished Einchmann in Jerusalem. Interesting but not very good, it's a bit all over the place. Arendt's ideas are neat though and I'll eventually come back to her philosophy.

Also read Candide, which was funny but I studied Voltaire so I already knew most of the book.

Now reading Madame Bovary. I'm not really fond of Flaubert's description of places but he brings thunder every time he comments on human nature.


I remember quite liking Flaubert's setting. Often you see ham-fisted attempts at linking the external environment to the internal thoughts of characters that just come off as awkward and slightly amateurish, but from what I remember Flaubert did a good job of making it seem very natural :o
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dmnum
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Brazil6910 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-13 20:23:13
January 13 2014 20:22 GMT
#82
On January 14 2014 04:52 corumjhaelen wrote:
Did you read l'Education sentimentale ?
It's about 10 times better imo. And Mme Bovary is a great novel.
Edit : I also like Salammbô better, but I'm a bit crazy and the cruel poetry might get lost in translation :/

Nope, first Flaubert I've read. I'll read Sentimental Education some time soon.

On January 14 2014 05:06 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
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On January 14 2014 04:45 dmnum wrote:
Finished Einchmann in Jerusalem. Interesting but not very good, it's a bit all over the place. Arendt's ideas are neat though and I'll eventually come back to her philosophy.

Also read Candide, which was funny but I studied Voltaire so I already knew most of the book.

Now reading Madame Bovary. I'm not really fond of Flaubert's description of places but he brings thunder every time he comments on human nature.


I remember quite liking Flaubert's setting. Often you see ham-fisted attempts at linking the external environment to the internal thoughts of characters that just come off as awkward and slightly amateurish, but from what I remember Flaubert did a good job of making it seem very natural :o

The setting is fine, is his way of describing things that doesn't please me too much. He took way too many pages to estabilish the setting, while other writers I've read(Tolstoy jumps to mind) manage to paint broader pictures in fewer words. He toned it down a lot during the second half of the book(because there's no need for him to describe the same places again), so it didn't bug me too much.
Clbull
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1439 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-13 20:38:04
January 13 2014 20:29 GMT
#83
Jim B. Tucker M.D. - Return To Life
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In actuality, I finished this book in December last year but it's a very recent read. It's one of many books exploring the phenomenon that is past life memories. Jim Tucker explores a number of cases mainly within North America where children as young as two have started to recall living before. This includes a number of cases such as a child remembering that he died when his plane was shot down in Iwo Jima in 1945, another remembering that he used to direct Hollywood films and a third in Scotland remembering a life on the remote island of Barra.

There are some frightening consistencies in these cases. 1) Contradictory to what child psychologists say, these children don't constantly change their stories as they normally would if they were making stuff up, 2) Children have put a lot of emotiional attachment in each of these cases and 3) A vast majority of the details these children supposedly remember has been consistent with the actual previously living person investigated.

However, I do find his quantum mechanics theory for why this happens very farfetched and not based on a deep knowledge of the subject. It goes a lot into the idea of 'multiverses' and 'quantum consciousness' when findings in neuroscience have slowly contradicted this.

Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
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On the recommendation of a friend, I picked this book up and started reading it all the way to the end on a night where I wasn't feeling very well.

It focuses on a guy called Hajime and his childhood lady-friend, Shinamoto. Because of his own lack of self-esteem, he pretty much stops talking to her once they go to separate schools, doesn't approach her when he sees her a decade later then finally meets her again when he's married and in his mid-thirties and has to decide whether to plough her and ruin the sanctity of his marriage or keep her at a distance and risk losing her again.

I won't spoil what happens but the ending is messed all the way up and ends on such a twist that makes you wonder "What the fuck happened?"

When I mentioned this to my friend, she said that's how Murakami apparently loves to end his stories. Perhaps he's like the M. Night Shyamalan of novelists.

EDIT: I don't know what I plan to read next. People constantly tell me to get into ASOIAF but I didn't like the Game of Thrones TV series all that much.
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 13 2014 20:36 GMT
#84
Can anyone shed light on if Paglia is a good feminist?
sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
January 13 2014 20:39 GMT
#85
troll :p
shikata ga nai
corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
January 13 2014 20:40 GMT
#86
LOL.
Read the US politic megathread about twenty pages back or something :p
Also Flaubert's description in Bovary are very funny imo.
‎numquam se plus agere quam nihil cum ageret, numquam minus solum esse quam cum solus esset
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 13 2014 21:09 GMT
#87
I searched her on TL and found a bunch of incoherent posts. So is she not? If so who's a reasonable feminist?
sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
January 13 2014 21:14 GMT
#88
that really depends on what you mean by "reasonable"

she's a very controversial figure
shikata ga nai
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 13 2014 21:18 GMT
#89
I understand that, I just wanna ask if she's worth reading, I don't know anything about feminism.
sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
January 13 2014 21:22 GMT
#90
if you want to learn about feminism, don't start with camille paglia.
shikata ga nai
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 13 2014 21:25 GMT
#91
who is someone in her generation i can read then.
sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
January 13 2014 21:38 GMT
#92
I can't really recommend anything, sorry, I avoid gender politics like the plague
shikata ga nai
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 13 2014 21:41 GMT
#93
so how do you know shes not worth reading lol
sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
January 13 2014 21:48 GMT
#94
oh I think she probably IS worth reading, in fact I probably agree with her about a lot of things. I'm just saying that if you read her you should know that probably most mainstream feminists think that she is a dutiful daughter of the patriarchy or something.
shikata ga nai
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
January 13 2014 21:56 GMT
#95
I understand, I was interested because I read some article about her and found her lack of resentment refreshing.
Lysergic
Profile Joined December 2010
United States355 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 04:06:49
January 14 2014 02:34 GMT
#96
Steven Erikson - The Malazan Book of the Fallen

I just started reading the 4th book: House of Chains.

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Recommended if you like A Song of Ice and Fire (ASOIAF / Game of Thrones). First book is a bit confusing, and I didn't really get into it until ~halfway through the 2nd book. The 3rd book however, Memories of Ice, was really good.
Xxio
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada5565 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 04:07:03
January 14 2014 04:06 GMT
#97
yo, not cool
no links to torrents...
KTY
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
January 14 2014 14:30 GMT
#98
I'm currently reading The Prism Wars by Brent Weeks. It's not bad... not amazing though.
FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6173 Posts
January 14 2014 14:47 GMT
#99
Got this for chrismas. Just started reading it.

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TOCHMY
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden1692 Posts
January 14 2014 15:38 GMT
#100
On January 14 2014 23:30 KillerSOS wrote:
I'm currently reading The Prism Wars by Brent Weeks. It's not bad... not amazing though.


That's what I thought of his Black Prism book. Not bad but not amazing.
Yoona <3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Look! It's Totoro! ☉.☉☂
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