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The hobo and criminal Jack Black, who was active in the late 1800s and early 1900s,
is best known for writing the autobiography You Can't Win (published in 1926)
about his life of crime, and for his later work in prison reform.

He also wrote essays on prison reform, plays, and articles for magazines.

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Jnowhere said:
I mean you acted like I didn't imply that. I was trying to figure if he was a true outsider, so to speak.

Oh, did you see the Back book cover with a review of The Death of Bunny Munro?
Cormac McCarthy is mentioned.
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Not quite sure what you mean with the first bit, but let's move on shall we?

So Cormac McCarthy is mentioned on the back of The Death of Bunny Munro?

I'd never heard of it, but I've just seen that it was written by Nick Cave, and has had some good reviews.

Is the dust jacket review a kind of "echoes of Cormack McCarthy" type of review?
 
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Aurelius on - ' finding one's place in the universe.'
 
SotPoker1012 said:
If you like Buddhism you'll probably like some of Guenons other books too, as he wrote extensively on Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
He was a perennialist philosopher, which basically means he tried to find the common essence and truth in the major world religions. This is not to be confused with universalism which demands compromise of the religions to be more like each other, perennialism is more about what they already have in common. As such he extensively studied and compared all the major religions of the world. He ultimately settled on sufi Islam as his personal path, but his works are all fairly unbiased. He tried hard not to lean into orientialism or eurocentrism.
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Good answer, Good answer, I like that. Hehe, gotta get that DVD. ( Back to School, Sam Kinison, sort of stole a Rodney Dangerfield's movie, with one scene. Yes he was in more than one scene. One of the best scenes in comedic cinema history. Find it on..


Ok, but seriously I liked that you understand about the difference in universalism and perennialism. I am neither, but having understanding beyond any drug shit.....

Good Answer. Good Answer. I personally disagree, with all three of those religion/ philosophies, but it is good to know that there are others who have a decent or better understanding of, deeper topics.

Other than how to properly smoke crack properly.lol Seriously.
 
Bleaney said:
Not quite sure what you mean with the first bit, but let's move on shall we?
So Cormac McCarthy is mentioned on the back of The Death of Bunny Munro?

I'd never heard of it, but I've just seen that it was written by Nick Cave, and has had some good reviews.

Is the dust jacket review a kind of "echoes of Cormack McCarthy" type of review?
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" Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they may have come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands, though, this novel emerges emphatically as the work of one of great cross-genre storytellers of our age: a compulsive read possessing all of zNick Cave's trademark horror and humanity, often thinnly disquised in a galloping, playful romp."
-Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting

That is on the back part of the dust jacket of my hardcover copy. That is why I asked you, bro.

You almost immediately, brought up Cormac McCarthy.lol

Yo, maybe that one member would like it. Didn't he say Kafka?🙂
 
Jnowhere said:
Antway to carefully describe why. ( I am unfamiliar with his worh or the other one)
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Samuel R Delay ,I rather not describe...its the darkest book,theres many sites explaining it,there's a summary site that goes through each chapter,BooKey..and Cows by Matthew Stokoe, both very disturbing...to say the least
 
Hmm, they say ignorance is bliss. Is teaching literacy cruel. Am I in the wrong section again, if sorry. haha Time for some Jefferson Airplane.
 
streaM Freak said:
Has anyone opinions on Dean Koontz, I've only read a couple of his but liked them
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Yeah Koontz is top tier author. Consistently produced quality tales. Ok, some better, some not so. Some fucking amazing. Takes a real master of their craft to do that.

Is easy to repligate Koontz to run of the mill horror if you don't know them. But if you don't then I'd seriously recommend you try.

While we're talking horror any love for James Herbert British horror author? The rats/lair/domain and so many other original tales.
 
Robi said:
Read The Stranger by Albert Camus,
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I read this in high school and it might have been the first book I’ve where appreciated the writing itself in addition to the plot.

I’ve been on a Pynchon bender since this summer. Reread Gravity’s Rainbow for a third time (giant, encyclopedic novel full of nasty and holy tendrils, weirdly slapstick moments and moments of sheer bleakness).

He had a new book, The Shadow Ticket, drop in October, and it was a fun read. It is a detective novel set in Milwaukee, about a private eye tracking down the eloped daughter of “the Al Capone of cheese”.

I’d say to read “The Crying of Lot 49” first, because it is a short little novella, and it pretty perfectly captures Pynchon’s style. If you like that, you will like pretty much everything else he’s done.
 
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