Huffy Crew Non-Denominational Class Hiatus Period reading club
Hello everyone--
In honor of Kwanzaa/ Christmas/ Hannukah/ Solstice/ Just another Sunday/ Saturnalia/ My doing some serious movie-watching over the break and not thinking about thesis/ My doing some serious masturbating over the break while possibly thinking about my thesis/ Iraq elections (hooray for religious Shiite factions!)/ The end of transit strike/ Seating/ Gargoyles/ Psychics/ Ivory combs/ Looking glasses/ Journals/ The Coronation of Charlemagne in 800 on Dec 25 (courtesy Wikipedia)/ The Christmas truce of World War I/ The loss of the Mars space probe in 2003 (courtesy BBC)/ And the NSA, which is currently reading this ever since Sherief linked to Al-Ahram...
I propose the official ballot for the 2005 Non-Denominational Class Hiatus Period Book Selection. We should keep our minds sharp during our leisure time and come back ready to discuss one of these books. Thus I unveil them:
Fiction
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
John Fowles, The Magus (in honor of his death)
Classic pick: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Non-Fiction
Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy
P.W. Singer, Children at War
James T Patterson, Restless Giant
Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future
Alain Badiou, Metapolitics
Tony Judt, Postwar
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
Leszek Kolakowski, My Correct Views on Everything
Amazon 'em, add your own, vote, etc. I don't expect everyone to participate or read some of these monsters in their entirety, but anyone who wants to work on one with me, let me know. Peace, from the Last Man in the Arc.
In honor of Kwanzaa/ Christmas/ Hannukah/ Solstice/ Just another Sunday/ Saturnalia/ My doing some serious movie-watching over the break and not thinking about thesis/ My doing some serious masturbating over the break while possibly thinking about my thesis/ Iraq elections (hooray for religious Shiite factions!)/ The end of transit strike/ Seating/ Gargoyles/ Psychics/ Ivory combs/ Looking glasses/ Journals/ The Coronation of Charlemagne in 800 on Dec 25 (courtesy Wikipedia)/ The Christmas truce of World War I/ The loss of the Mars space probe in 2003 (courtesy BBC)/ And the NSA, which is currently reading this ever since Sherief linked to Al-Ahram...
I propose the official ballot for the 2005 Non-Denominational Class Hiatus Period Book Selection. We should keep our minds sharp during our leisure time and come back ready to discuss one of these books. Thus I unveil them:
Fiction
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
John Fowles, The Magus (in honor of his death)
Classic pick: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
Non-Fiction
Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy
P.W. Singer, Children at War
James T Patterson, Restless Giant
Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future
Alain Badiou, Metapolitics
Tony Judt, Postwar
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
Leszek Kolakowski, My Correct Views on Everything
Amazon 'em, add your own, vote, etc. I don't expect everyone to participate or read some of these monsters in their entirety, but anyone who wants to work on one with me, let me know. Peace, from the Last Man in the Arc.
posted by to scranton at 4:41 PM
8 Comments:
And that's the "Last Man" as in I'm a Mad Max-style survivor, Sheriff, not a "Last Man" who waits for the cross walk.
crosswalk thing: go to germany. it's sickening.
Books:
Give me Rushdie or Fowles. The following is from a review that gave Fowles one star on Amazon: "The primary theme being that of a lonely old man revealing a little more of his self-loathing and ineptitude than any of us really wanted to know". Besides writing sentence fragments, this guy incorrectly uses the first-person plural. As evidenced by my unstoppable urge to read everything by Bellow and Roth, there is nothing I love more than listening to the complaints of angry old men. One despotic vote for Fowles.
crosswalks are indeed for last men, witness how the blonde beasts jaywalk at all capable opportunities. In lacanian terms, the very prohibition creates the desire for transgression. Libertarians would have us believe that by eliminating crosswalk signals, people would, out of fear for their own safety, cross in a more orderly fashion. This simply proves the first point, and makes my desire to cross even at the cost of getting run over even greater. There is pleasure in a toothache too!
As for books, how about the new Zadie Smith
PS. Dear NSA,
Lick Balls. Thank you.
Sheriff- My point is actually the exact opposite. The slave revolt has succeeded to such an extent that the blond beast himself is the most ardent supporter of the "walkman". One receives stares for crossing, even very late at night, without the approval of the walking man. The white crosswalk man is the pictograph of the ideal aryan: he who has conquered his barbaric instincts with lutheran asceticism. He works 35 hours a week, is unbelievably tall and good looking, wears a collared shirt when he goes out, plays Fussball daily and spends the rest of his time feeling guilty for the holocaust while simultaneously hating America and the Turk.
I got your point, I just wanted to emphasize mine out of fear for your outcome.
I might as well post my own vote(s)
For fiction, McEwan or Fowles.
For non, Wilentz or Kolakowski
Check out the Kolakowski on Amazon, this guy is the shit. A little right-wing, but we need more intelligent conservatism in the discourse. Oh yeah, he's virulently anti-Marxist, so Sheriff and Fishstix, nay vote, matter of principle, whatever.
I like Kolakowski, Rushdie, and Fowles, in that order.
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