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What are you currently reading? v2

Knock, yes it jolly well is out of context! You have been brainwashed ..' Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do...' (andrea)

I think youre going to need to listen to this short tape on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9zFJsEDHk
 
YellowPolkaDotHalo said:
Its not for you because its fucking vomit!
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no, it really isn't, well not just vomit for vomits sake anyway. it's much more than the sum of just a reaction to a selected extract, without an understanding of the intent of the author. which is always always always paramount with that kind of writing.

without taking the time to understand intent, there is no entitlement to write it off or dismiss it.

it's expansive, thorough, caring , without walls and completely sets out to understand fully the issues and behaviours of the subject matter to really get to the heart of the matter

it's my favourite kind of writing
 
Marmalade said:
no, it really isn't, well not just vomit for vomits sake anyway. it's much more than the sum of just a reaction to a selected extract, without an understanding of the intent of the author. which is always always always paramount with that kind of writing.

without taking the time to understand intent, there is no entitlement to write it off or dismiss it.

it's expansive, thorough, caring , without walls and completely sets out to understand fully the issues and behaviours of the subject matter to really get to the heart of the matter

it's my favourite kind of writing
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Oh my Lord! <3 <3 <3
 
Huckleberry Finn again... long time since I read it...need to finish it before cracking onto something new.
 
without taking the time to understand intent, there is no entitlement to write it off or dismiss it.
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I have to disagree Marmalade, I'm absolutely entitled to write off or dismiss an author for whatever reason I choose. Your criteria is your own :)

The portions of his writings Ive read are repugnant. I reject his work because its disturbing, dark and ugly I dont want it in my head.

The author takes pleasure from looking at pictures of dead molested children. It was his intention to share the darkness hes found in his psyche and hes making money from it. That to me is utterly perverse.

Dark stuff... I wouldnt want to be in his head and I want nothing from his head in mine. I feel very sorry for the guy.

when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you Nietzche.

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Its more revolutionary,imo, to think about knitted teacosys and pinnys :)
 
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YellowPolkaDotHalo said:
Its more revolutionary,imo, to think about knitted teacosys and pinnys :)
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If you demand that art is revolutionary then you attempt to chase it into a dreary Constructivist ghetto. That's where Billy Bragg has his well-kept council semi and we don't want to go down that road.

Having said that, I can certainly see how Sotos isn't everybody's cup of tea and I respect their right to that opinion. Even though it's wrong, wrong, wrong. ;)
 
My missis told me last week that Billy Bragg sends his kids to private school.

I'm no massive fan of his, but I can't imagine this is true.

I asked how she knew and a colleague had told her, so I think is just bollix, Billy Bragg turned up to Occupy Exeter sang a song and saluted the 5 or 6 occupiers and left, so they'd seen him that day....
 
I'll bet he does. And I'll bet his daughters are crap in bed.

Billy Bragg's fucking daughters, yo.
 
Mailmonkey said:
My missis told me last week that Billy Bragg sends his kids to private school.

I'm no massive fan of his, but I can't imagine this is true.
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It isn't. It's part of the black propaganda people like him have to put up with. "What, you have trousers and shoes yet you call yourself a socialist?" kind of thing. No fan of Billy (English political 'folk' is as dull as it gets for me) but people who talk of champagne socialists piss me off. From the right wing its always an attempt to smear and from the left its the politics of envy - which ain't my brand of socialism.
 
probably too many people are wrongly tarred with the 'champage socialist' brush, its an easy way to undermine someones political beliefs. there was a group in my uni halls who openly called themselves champagne socialists but i never did work out how they were socialists.

either way, i don't think parental decisions should be influenced by politics, it should be the best decision for the child, and hence shouldn't be intrpreted as a political decision. i also dont think that anyone without kids, and possibly anyone with kids, should make normative statements about parenting, so i'll shut up.

anyway- still reading the beginning of infinity. i've lost it a bit, i just can't see where he's been going with the last few chapters, and its long. deutsch should be beyond this, fucking ruining one of my heros.
 
Laurie Lee - As i walked out one summers morning.

Read it before years ago , but i'm a bit more clued up on Spanish history these days so it makes more sense . Also its just a great little book.
 
Bubble Butt Babes Of Brazil. The cultural differences are quite intriguing I find.
 
Just finished:
The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop - John Robb
Good insight into the band who could have been one of the greatest of all, instead of 1 and a half albums worth of greatness..

Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Anthropology student is introduced to the head melting Shamanistic rituals of the Yaqui Indians - Peyote, Datura and Psilocybe mexicana are given and some terrifying and revelatory trips ensue.
Second part of the book is a kind of scholarly analysis of the teachings, showing it was a cogent and internally logical belief system, rather than make it up as you go along hocus-pocus

Just started:
The Way of the Shaman - Michael Harner
A subject I've gotten into a bit recently - Harner says the states entered into by Castaneda can be reached without drugs too, and this book claims to demonstrate a practical system to achieve them
 
third eye squeegee said:
Finished:
Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Very detailed but interesting book on Elvis up until he was drafted.. I'm fascinated by America in the 50's and 60's and the author places his story well in its social context.
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Hmmmm, I've just been given Dead Elvis by Greil Marcus


"In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness - and the American subconscious. As he listens in on the public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks the path of Presley's resurrection. He grafts together scattered fragments of the eclectic dialogue and shows what this strange obsession with a dead Elvis can tell us about America itself. "

Oh and re Castaneda ^, Castaneda was proven to have been prone to flights of fancy and overexaggeration, a bit of a bullshitter. I read a load of his books when I was 19, 20 even though they get a bit boring after the first couple...in the end just flicked through for the druggy bits...entertaining stuff, but not to be taken as documentary fact ;)
 
I'm not a big reader in the slightest, to the extent that the last book I read was for my GCSE's I think! My Dad bought me this book though for Christmas and I can't put it down, it's fantastic.

It's called Gang War by Peter Walsh. It's all true stories about gang culture in Manchester. Some of the things that went on are unbelievable. If someone wants an interesting and different read I would defiantly recommend it and I'm only 30 pages in!

I mean the stories in there are extreme by anyone's standards, but what really hit home to me was e ages of the people doing Hess sick and disturbing things, they are all (well the majority) in their late teens / early twenties.... These people are younger than me, they are kids doing these things.

A very hard hitting book, worth a read. I'd be interested to see if anyone else has read this or intends to.

Oh, here is a link with. Further description and two reviews: -

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Gang_War.html?id=U2R4NwAACAAJ
 
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