nonconformist
Miserable
The Last Conformist said:
He is, if you read attentively. If you let your mind wander, and wake up in the middle of "bourgoise nationalism", it gets confusing.
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He is, if you read attentively. If you let your mind wander, and wake up in the middle of "bourgoise nationalism", it gets confusing.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
I should perhaps say the only thing of Marx I've read is Das Kapital. Can't judge if the rest is equally readable.
nonconformist
Miserable
I thought Das Kapital was in three volumes.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Well, it is. The point being?
BassDude726
It's Just a Phase
Haha am I the only one that notices the irony of the Last Conformist and nonconformist arguing??
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
I'm not sure we're actually arguing ...
BassDude726
It's Just a Phase
Oh I know, but I couldn't think of a better word... exchanging verbal communications? But they wouldn't be verbal since it's typed...
nonconformist
Miserable
we are discussing Karl Marx. When we argue, it rapidly turns into a thread about how goons will eat my furniture, despite the fact that we haven't adopted the euro.
jack merchant
Internationalist
nonconformist said:[in response to the Archer mention].
Hey, I know he's a prat and is deservedly in jail. But somehow that doesn't detract from his ability to write enjoyable, albeit utterly lightweight, fiction !
Sometimes you want to just read and not think about the great issues in life but just enjoy a story, and Archer's pretty good at that.
But if you have nothing more constructive to add, hey, that's your prerogative !
Syterion
Voodoo Economist
Bassdude, I know you like Hemingway, but I seriously just cannot stand him. I treid reading A Farewell to Arms, but the way he writes is so boring. All he uses are simple sentences:subject-verb, subject verb OVER and OVER again. If you tell me the rest of his books are not like this, I might read them. I read the Old Man and the Sea, and it wasn't bad.
BassDude726
It's Just a Phase
That's the whole reason he's so great! While the other authors of his time were busy drowning their audiences in flowery prose, Hemingway's style was a refreshing change. His prose is brutal and direct, which I find enjoyable. Read a novel by Viriginia Wolff and then one by Hemingway and then tell me which one is better.
nonconformist
Miserable
jack merchant said:
As far as I know he was released.....
Cashie
King
Let me see here...
Bret Easton Ellis; Richard Adams (Watership Down); Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting); Frank Herbert; Philip K. Dick; Kim Stanley Robinson; Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Those Barren Leaves); George Orwell (Animal Farm - 1984 is quite overrated, though). And a couple of Aussies: John Birmingham (He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, the Tasmanian Babes Fiasco) and Andrew McGahan (Praise).
I used to like Grisham, but I eventually got bored with reading essentially the same book with a different title over and over again.
That's a few for the moment. I'm probably forgetting some, or many
Bret Easton Ellis; Richard Adams (Watership Down); Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting); Frank Herbert; Philip K. Dick; Kim Stanley Robinson; Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Those Barren Leaves); George Orwell (Animal Farm - 1984 is quite overrated, though). And a couple of Aussies: John Birmingham (He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, the Tasmanian Babes Fiasco) and Andrew McGahan (Praise).
I used to like Grisham, but I eventually got bored with reading essentially the same book with a different title over and over again.
That's a few for the moment. I'm probably forgetting some, or many
nonconformist
Miserable
Out of intrest, all you non- natural anglophones or people overseas, in what language(s) do you read?
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Original language, if that's English, German or Swedish. Otherwise Swedish or English.nonconformist said:
BassDude726
It's Just a Phase
The only other language I know is Spanish, and I have to admit, everything I've read in that language either was required for my Spanish Lit courses, or was a menu.
bobgote
Trousers
Watership down was a great book, but for me it's forever tainted by a take-off that the goodies (i think it was them - may have been monty python or someone similar) did of it.Cashie said:
Also the movie of he died with a felafel in his hand was excellent, haven't read the book though. maybe i should.
