Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part II
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Just started Martin Amis' autobiographical novel Inside Story. Really looking forward to it as conversational Amis is a delight to be around.
Doctor tries to unravel the mystery of why people with virtually identical health afflictions, can have very different outcomes.. I guess it's somewhat intuitive that happy people & people with a sense of purpose will fare better, but she documents it..
New 2021 book.. Don't know why I'm reading another Washington biography, I'll already know all this sh*t..
I love me some King Kong.. this is a cool resource for the movie's backstory & technical details. Softcover with lots of photos. Published in the 7os..
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Good theory on who was Jack on the Ripper. There's an early chapter on Victorian criminal psychology ('Setting the Stage'), that I feel runs too long. But this is one of the more credible, substantiated Ripper theories I've heard. Ordered this one from Wal*Mart
, and it got here in a hurry.. impressive delivery time for a book.
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You f***ers never post what the book is about like we're all literary nerds that will just know based on cover.
Anyways, reading The Foundation, first Anisimov book I've read. He does create a real sprawling world and I can see why he was respected, tiring read though two-thirds of the way in but a good one. Gonna go with something more grounded next though, Anxious People.
Anyways, reading The Foundation, first Anisimov book I've read. He does create a real sprawling world and I can see why he was respected, tiring read though two-thirds of the way in but a good one. Gonna go with something more grounded next though, Anxious People.
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Back to reading again. Dealt with some serious personal things and I quit reading bc of it. So being able to enjoy books again is very welcoming.
About 2/3’s through and I can’t help but think that world is going to be a mish mash of Blade Runner and The Running Man. Some of the material being discussed is eerie as f***.
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I'm almost finished with this read.. something the author definitely gets right in my opinion- the contemporary debate over Columbus usually isn't about the merits of Columbus' life. It's really a referendum on how the debaters feel about the spread (and content) of Western civilization. I think Royal does a good job presenting Columbus' life in that context.
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Actually, I was re-reading this howler of a quote and decided I'll make quick work of The Double again before going with Revolutionary Road. Dostoyevsky was a comedic genius:
“He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there...”
So...
“He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there...”
So...
Each chapter is a different writer briefly commenting on themes and characters from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'.
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I can never see that name and not crack up if only because of A Confederacy of Dunces.
Have you read it?
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