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« Reply #375 on: April 19, 2012, 11:42:39 AM »

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

I was thinking of getting that, is it worthwhile?

For me who had absolutely no clue who this woman was, absolutely. It's a bit light on the history of Burma 1947-1988, however.
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« Reply #376 on: April 20, 2012, 08:46:55 PM »

Managed to get my hands on a signed copy of The Speech by Bernie Sanders at some book store over in Vero Beach, FL. It's actually pretty good; some bits I do disagree with, but the man can write, or speak, as it is.
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« Reply #377 on: April 23, 2012, 10:20:11 PM »

As of right now I am reading The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is the only book I do not feel comfortable reading at work. Not that it has any "dirty pictures" but I do not want the looks it would attract.
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« Reply #378 on: April 24, 2012, 05:32:56 PM »

Finished "The Godfather" at like 12:30 this morning.
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« Reply #379 on: May 05, 2012, 04:13:06 PM »

coming soon!

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« Reply #380 on: May 05, 2012, 06:02:14 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
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« Reply #381 on: May 05, 2012, 07:49:34 PM »

Or you could read something good.
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« Reply #382 on: May 05, 2012, 08:18:26 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.
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« Reply #383 on: May 07, 2012, 06:08:36 PM »

Rajaa al-Sanea, Girls of Riyadh
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« Reply #384 on: May 07, 2012, 06:35:00 PM »

The Iron Heel by Jack London. I highly recommend it to all of you as there are many parallels to what is going on right now in spite of its being published over a century ago.
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« Reply #385 on: May 10, 2012, 08:39:34 AM »

been binging on New Left Review.  so good.

http://newleftreview.org/
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« Reply #386 on: May 10, 2012, 02:07:56 PM »



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« Reply #387 on: May 10, 2012, 09:41:11 PM »

chill w/ the bourgeois sh**t.  you're a good kid.  read some real sh**t.
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« Reply #388 on: May 10, 2012, 11:04:28 PM »

chill w/ the bourgeois sh**t.  you're a good kid.  read some real sh**t.

What would you suggest? Also, what's wrong with Krugman? He's the most the prominent anti-third way pundit out there at the moment and he also happens to be a brilliant economist.
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« Reply #389 on: May 10, 2012, 11:06:39 PM »

You have to be a "radical."
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« Reply #390 on: May 11, 2012, 04:42:35 AM »

To be honest, though, there's really no excuse for reading Fuckuyama.
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« Reply #391 on: May 11, 2012, 06:26:33 AM »

Not true; you need to read him to get a piece of paper.
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« Reply #392 on: May 11, 2012, 10:34:44 AM »
« Edited: May 11, 2012, 10:43:13 AM by TheDeadFlagBlues »

To be honest, though, there's really no excuse for reading Fuckuyama.

I forgot my kindle before a long flight so I picked it up on a whim to see what was so horrible about him. Surprisingly it wasn't that bad. At least a few of his assertions are somewhat interesting even if they're mostly based on pseudo-history and weak arguments.
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« Reply #393 on: May 11, 2012, 05:28:02 PM »

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.
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« Reply #394 on: May 11, 2012, 09:07:06 PM »

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power
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« Reply #395 on: May 11, 2012, 10:07:54 PM »

The Russian Revolution - Richard Pipes

I'm really starting to get into it - our school library had it in stock so I'm rushing to get it read before the end of the semester.
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« Reply #396 on: May 11, 2012, 10:10:46 PM »

Naguib Mahfouz, al-Karnak
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« Reply #397 on: May 11, 2012, 10:27:29 PM »

Romeo and Juliet
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« Reply #398 on: May 12, 2012, 12:42:04 AM »


School assignment?
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« Reply #399 on: May 12, 2012, 01:50:45 AM »

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power

I'm also reading this at the moment, although I haven't gotten far yet.
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