Which Book Are You Reading Now? Volume XII
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Lexicus
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See, I feel like you're only saying that because you feel personally attacked because you like Peterson.
Also, I found it ironic that the Vox article you linked contains this line:
Peterson knows all about that.
You keep giving opinions, but you don't seem to get that they have to be argued for.
I don't see how he's 'reassuring' anyone. Can you point me to specific things Peterson has said?
Lexicus
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Matters of taste can't really be argued. It's not an opinion that Peterson knows nothing about the philosophical traditions he attempts to criticize, but since you basically stuck your fingers in your ear and started imitating a fire truck when I tried to explain that, on what basis can we 'argue' anything moving forward?
Dude, the genre of his book is self-help.
Only a short way into it so far. Not really a page turner, not at first at any rate. And I've been too run down to give it proper attention.
Got this back from the library. We'll see how far I can get this time before having to return it.
Wouldn't that rather require Kyriakos to be a "liberal", however you're defining that?
^^
Well, i am pro-being humane, fwiw. I don't care about left-right (eg i did vote for Syriza in the main previous election). I plan to vote for Varoufakis this time.
Snerk
Smeghead
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything by New Scientist. I like it a lot.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
I assumed self-help books are intended to help by explaining how the reader operates.
I keep telling Mouthwash to read what he's just written before hitting the ‘post reply’ button and he still doesn't pay attention.
Much the same?
Well, yes, but that was to be expected
I am re-reading them due to an ongoing seminar i am presenting.
Zkribbler
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The Case of the Purloined Pyramid
Cairo, post WWI, a disfigured British vet.
Very good so far, very authentic, gives off an Indiana Jones vibe.
Oops, more a mystery than an action story.
McLachlan knows Egypt. He uses this knowledge to weave a totally immersive mystery set in post-WWI Cairo. Hieroglyphs, black markets, street beggars, independence riots, antiquity forgeries, haughty Europeans, and dangerous locals fill a cauldron of intrigue.
Sir Augustus Wall is the mysterious, reclusive, half-masked Englishman who sets rumors buzzing when he moves into an old villa in an out-of-the-way neighborhood. Early on we learn that a good chunk of Wall's face was blasted away in the trenches of the Great War. I kept expecting this fact to play a major role in the plot, but alas it never did. Sir Augustus is soon joined by a beefy "Soudanese" with extraordinary language skills and by a wily street rat. Riots have tied up the police, and thus the investigation of a murder in Wall's villa falls to this trio.
Purloined Pyramid is a great tale. It loses points because McLachlan repeatedly refers to Sir Augustus as "Sir Wall" and because the story ends with the stereotypical blaze of gunfire and explosions while I was hoping for the snap of an intellectual mousetrap.
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