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« Reply #350 on: April 02, 2012, 10:23:45 AM »

re-read the opening parts of David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism; picked up Civilization and Its Discontents from an (awesome) used bookstore on Saturday night.
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« Reply #351 on: April 08, 2012, 06:46:42 PM »

The Double by Dostoevsky

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kessey

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« Reply #352 on: April 08, 2012, 08:00:52 PM »

I didn't know OFOTCN was a book. It disgusts me no one comes with great films themselves.
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« Reply #353 on: April 08, 2012, 08:46:39 PM »


insufferable in parts.  still worth reading, to see where he came from.
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« Reply #354 on: April 09, 2012, 04:10:11 AM »

I didn't know OFOTCN was a book. It disgusts me no one comes with great films themselves.
And as ever, the book is even better than the film. Though the film is very good, too.
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« Reply #355 on: April 09, 2012, 07:50:53 PM »


Meant to add this a while ago: it's actually very, very good. My Nan's from that corner of the world as well, which gives a degree of added meaning or something.
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« Reply #356 on: April 09, 2012, 08:01:01 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

It looks like we're going with the Great Transformation by Polyani, which I am looking forward to.
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« Reply #357 on: April 09, 2012, 08:29:40 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

It looks like we're going with the Great Transformation by Polyani, which I am looking forward to.

I didn't like it as a reading-book but I suppose it's something that you 'should' read.
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« Reply #358 on: April 11, 2012, 08:28:38 PM »

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« Reply #359 on: April 12, 2012, 06:51:44 AM »

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.
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« Reply #360 on: April 12, 2012, 11:08:52 AM »

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.
You naughty boy...
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« Reply #361 on: April 12, 2012, 12:10:58 PM »

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.
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ah, I was just about to tell you how that sounded creepy, and I only like it when women talk to me like that, and in clicking through to your profile I discovered that you were a woman.  keep it up!
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« Reply #362 on: April 12, 2012, 04:50:48 PM »

Which Hobsbawm book?  I'm quite fond of Nations and Nationalism Since 1780.
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« Reply #363 on: April 12, 2012, 08:01:12 PM »

How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
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« Reply #364 on: April 14, 2012, 11:51:38 PM »

Just finished Atlas Shrugged. Amazing book Smiley
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« Reply #365 on: April 15, 2012, 09:57:01 AM »



Really nice romance novel that I enjoy reading around this time of the year.
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« Reply #366 on: April 15, 2012, 10:04:30 AM »

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.
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« Reply #367 on: April 15, 2012, 10:21:21 AM »

Beyond terrible, really. Some bleak netherworld of antiliterature.
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« Reply #368 on: April 15, 2012, 12:12:39 PM »

The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung Sang Suu Kyi
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« Reply #369 on: April 16, 2012, 05:13:42 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.
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« Reply #370 on: April 16, 2012, 05:16:31 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.
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« Reply #371 on: April 16, 2012, 07:01:19 PM »

bought my first Eric Hobsbawm book yesterday, his most recent.  though I had pirated .pdfs of about three others.
You naughty boy...

ah, I was just about to tell you how that sounded creepy, and I only like it when women talk to me like that, and in clicking through to your profile I discovered that you were a woman.  keep it up!
Way to not come off as creepy, Bro Tweed.

And I'm reading Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett, though I'm supposed to be reading The Importance of Being Earnest.  School; bleh.
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« Reply #372 on: April 17, 2012, 05:07:11 AM »

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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« Reply #373 on: April 17, 2012, 07:16:51 AM »

The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung Sang Suu Kyi

I was thinking of getting that, is it worthwhile?
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« Reply #374 on: April 17, 2012, 10:40:30 AM »


atta boy!
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