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Gustaf
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« Reply #400 on: May 13, 2012, 08:10:14 AM »

there's nothing wrong with Krugman, except that he is limited.  it is without argument a good thing that he and Stiglitz (among others) emerged as a neo-Keynesian counterweight during the neoliberal grand slam era of the 90s.  but he basically beats concepts into the ground, ruing the fact that policymakers don't listen... and herein lies the limitation: he has no serious understanding of why neoliberal policies persist, no functioning theory of state power is deployed in his work.  this is likely a product of the absolute taboo on Marxian thought within economics in academia.

Saying there's a taboo on Marxian thought in economics is like saying there is a taboo on Ptolemy thought in astronomy.
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« Reply #401 on: May 17, 2012, 06:00:27 PM »

The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine by staffers at Media Matters.
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« Reply #402 on: May 29, 2012, 01:47:55 AM »

Fifty Shades of Grey
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« Reply #403 on: May 29, 2012, 05:47:54 AM »


Indeed it was.

I'm currently reading The Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi. Interesting read, but I don't have much time to read it as I'm juggling a sudden barrage of schoolwork and loads of band practice.
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« Reply #404 on: May 29, 2012, 01:32:39 PM »

I just finished The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco. It was exactly as terrifying, disgusting, and evil as everybody (including Eco) told me it would be. A work of genius that I couldn't in good conscience recommend to anybody and will never read again.

I'm starting on The Violent Bear It Away, the only Flannery O'Connor book I haven't yet read. I also have to reread St Augustine's Confessions over the summer, and want to try to parse Yoshiya Nobuko's Hana monogatari and Onibi.
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« Reply #405 on: May 29, 2012, 02:11:23 PM »

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« Reply #406 on: May 29, 2012, 03:42:51 PM »

Just finished Atlas Shrugged. Amazing book Smiley

no.  say whatever you want about the 'theme', she is a formally terrible writer.  read some real literature.
I thought her writing was "ok". Keep in mind, I am only a 9th grader who has not read anything really amazing besides a few Orwell books and a bunch of Ron Paul/Barry Goldwater books.

Seriously, my friend, read some George Eliot or Alexander Pushkin and you'll realize that Atlas Shrugged is an egregious waste of paper. Take my word for it: I've read Atlas Shrugged three times.
I will consider it Wink I just read Ayn Rands Anthem in a day, and it was pretty good. Its only 90 something pages, and of course, the rest of my English class is complaining about it. I can't wait to see them try and read Atlas Shrugged Tongue

Sanchez, you're a smart guy; you really do need to get some good literature into you. If you were able to get through Atlas Shrugged you should be able to get through at least some of the shorter Dostoevsky, for one thing, or Tanizaki. You also might like Ayako Miura, particularly Freezing Point.
Thank You Smiley I am reading a Russian book....by Ayn Rand. But I intend to read War and Peace sometime soon. But to fill the time in between, I think I will rent one of Pat Buchanans many books from the library.
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« Reply #407 on: May 29, 2012, 07:42:57 PM »

The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth Pollack. Pretty in-depth history of US-Iran/Persia relations.
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« Reply #408 on: May 29, 2012, 08:06:58 PM »

But to fill the time in between, I think I will rent one of Pat Buchanans many books from the library.

Or you could, you know, read something good.
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« Reply #409 on: May 29, 2012, 09:15:32 PM »
« Edited: May 29, 2012, 09:17:04 PM by MustCrushCapitalism »

One of the classic, most socially conscious works of our time.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71610F1MDNL._SL500_AA300_.gif

I have Crime and Punishment and The Secret History as summer reading for AP Literature. Thoughts on these?
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« Reply #410 on: May 29, 2012, 10:13:18 PM »


I have Crime and Punishment and The Secret History as summer reading for AP Literature. Thoughts on these?

Crime and Punishment is one of the most amazing books I've ever had the pleasure to read (though, now that I've read The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment needed a bit of a demotion).  IMO, Dostoyevsky ranks with Goethe and Shakespeare on my very short list of authors who truly understand and can vividly depict the inner workings of the human mind.
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« Reply #411 on: May 29, 2012, 10:21:37 PM »

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

The European Union: A Very Short Introduction by John Pinder and Simon Usherwood
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« Reply #412 on: May 30, 2012, 08:54:55 AM »


I have Crime and Punishment and The Secret History as summer reading for AP Literature. Thoughts on these?

Crime and Punishment is one of the most amazing books I've ever had the pleasure to read (though, now that I've read The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment needed a bit of a demotion).  IMO, Dostoyevsky ranks with Goethe and Shakespeare on my very short list of authors who truly understand and can vividly depict the inner workings of the human mind.

Yes. I aim to finish my Tolstoy short stories and then move to Pynchon.
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« Reply #413 on: May 30, 2012, 09:31:48 PM »

Stephen Fry in America.
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« Reply #414 on: June 02, 2012, 07:13:52 AM »

Rebel cities by David Harvey.
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« Reply #415 on: June 02, 2012, 12:23:05 PM »

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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« Reply #416 on: June 02, 2012, 11:16:49 PM »


Thoughts? I've read a few of Harvey's short pieces for class, and A Brief History of Neoliberalism has been on my reading list for a while.

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« Reply #417 on: June 04, 2012, 12:26:58 PM »

'Serious:' The Last Great Senate by Ira Shapiro

Fiction: Women by Charles Bukowski
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« Reply #418 on: June 04, 2012, 01:22:59 PM »

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
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« Reply #419 on: June 04, 2012, 02:33:02 PM »

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« Reply #420 on: June 04, 2012, 02:38:15 PM »

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« Reply #421 on: June 04, 2012, 02:42:38 PM »

But to fill the time in between, I think I will rent one of Pat Buchanans many books from the library.

Or you could, you know, read something good.
I could always read 50 Shades of Gray when my mom is done with it. Tongue
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« Reply #422 on: June 04, 2012, 03:21:19 PM »

But to fill the time in between, I think I will rent one of Pat Buchanans many books from the library.

Or you could, you know, read something good.
I could always read 50 Shades of Gray when my mom is done with it. Tongue

"Don't knock Fifty shades," I said, as I cocked my head to the right and bit my lip. I was turning eighteen shades of blush. I took a sip of my favorite English Twinnings tea and thought about my next flight to Seattle.
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« Reply #423 on: June 06, 2012, 12:58:12 PM »

I'm listening to Tom Delay's autobiography on audiobook. As much as I detest what he did politically, he had a pretty interesting life.
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« Reply #424 on: June 06, 2012, 05:09:36 PM »

My history teacher gave me an extra copy of a Jefferson biography that he was given. One I'm done with "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" I guess I'll start it.
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