lol.
Because a book is only as good as its protagonist is likable.
lol.
"Question the world man... I know the meaning of everything right now... it's like I can touch god." - bbobb the ggreatt
I dare you all to read something happened.
Here is Vonnegut's review: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/1...something.html
Last edited by Cowutopia; 12 Jul 2016 at 12:48 AM.
Ofcourse not, but it makes it hard to continue to read a book when you're hoping the protagonist dies a gruesome horrible slow death. Also if you're going to make an unlikable protagonist at least make their story interesting, compelling, or have it say something unique.
Catcher in the Rye is at least worth quoting for minion memes to post on facebook
I'm finally getting around to reading Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf.
It answers a lot of questions not explored in the popular narrative of ww2. Usually people approach ww2 like a timeline and sometimes delve into economic and political causes and outcomes. Stuff like, "the Versailles treaty sucked and it combined with the depression made Germany ripe for hate mongers" etc.
But the hate mongers didn't appear in a void, and hunger only motivates people so long after they've been fed. It also doesn't explain how the National Socialist were able to recruit the wealthy. Or the scientists and engineers.
And the people that have watched double their share of the History Channel may raddel something off like "well nietzsche"
Well, this book delves deeper. It talks about the political philosophy of many of the groups in Germany before WW1, during the Weimar and during WW2. It discusses how short the Enlightenment period was in Germany and how fast Germany modernized compared to others. And because of that, Germany did not have the same history England, the US and even France had with modernism, enlightenment and even liberalism walking hand in hand with industrial advancement. It goes on to talk about how Germany felt negatively to the UK and US after WW1 and then developed a pro technology but antimodern romantic outlook on how society should behave in response. And lastly it discusses some of the key thinkers in developing this antimodern romantic outlook AND the philosophies of The Will and the volk. It even names periodicals these people wrote for (something like our early self printed fanzines you used to pick up in shops. I wonder if anyone has written anything on how early social media helped cause ww2).
Anyway, Reactionary Modernism, interesting stuff. I suggest at least reading the wiki page on the term, if you pass on the book. It is essentially antimodernism, Romanticism, and protech. It does a pretty good job of describing terrorist and extreme religious conservatives.
Last edited by Fe 26; 20 Jul 2016 at 01:47 AM.
Reading Don Juan in proper for the first time. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read. Certainly one of the funniest books about war. The diss track that opens it where he beefs with the other (surviving) romantic poets is "you claim to be a player but I fucked your wife" tier. I want supahotfire.gif with Byron's Yoshitaka-Amano-character-lookin'-ass face in the middle.
I was also thinkin': would anyone be up for a poetry club? We could take turns submitting a poem ~a week and talk about it. It might work because poems are short, not like books or movies or Xenogears.
Last edited by A Robot Bit Me; 19 Sep 2016 at 04:41 AM.
It still wont work. TNL sucks at these types of things.
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