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« Reply #225 on: October 13, 2011, 09:01:37 AM »

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« Reply #226 on: October 13, 2011, 09:03:31 AM »

I think that my favorite part of that book is that the name of the hypothetical Bangladeshi child making shoes in a factory is "bad shoe" in Bengali.

How to write "Xahar" in Bengali alphabet? (I'm asking because "Xahar", as transcripted, means "sister" in Farsi Tongue)
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« Reply #227 on: October 13, 2011, 02:07:54 PM »

Taking a break from the Carlyle (which is, need it be said, very entertaining) for some Houellebecq in the shape of Plateforme. The guy is such an incredible nazi, I like him very much.

The best bit so far has to be the narrator's throw-away remarl about pets on the opening page.
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« Reply #228 on: October 13, 2011, 09:19:09 PM »


I think that my favorite part of that book is that the name of the hypothetical Bangladeshi child making shoes in a factory is "bad shoe" in Bengali.

Thanks for reminding me! That was hilarious. I wonder how many people who read the book actually got it.
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« Reply #229 on: October 13, 2011, 10:00:06 PM »



Trying to read it at the advice of a more philosophically inclined friend... we'll see if end up finishing.
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« Reply #230 on: October 14, 2011, 11:12:10 PM »

I'm currently a few chapters into Confidence Men by Ron Suskind.  Good stuff.
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« Reply #231 on: October 15, 2011, 04:00:40 AM »


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« Reply #232 on: October 15, 2011, 05:35:24 AM »

Is it legal to read Mein Kampf in Germany?
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« Reply #233 on: October 15, 2011, 05:46:22 AM »



Trying to read it at the advice of a more philosophically inclined friend... we'll see if end up finishing.

Donīt bother... MacIntyre is the very definition of self-important indulgent nonsense.
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« Reply #234 on: October 15, 2011, 07:19:16 AM »

Is it legal to read Mein Kampf in Germany?
Yes... but it's illegal to publish without the consent of the copyright holder. Who happens to be the state of Bavaria, and not in the habit of consenting to anything of the sort. So you'd have to purchase used - which is perfectly legal - or have inherited some pre-45 copy. Or just import from somewhere, such as Britain or America or, well, most of the world, that doesn't recognize Bavaria's rather dubious claim to ownership of the copyright. (Turkey recognizes it, for instance... as a means to ban the book without officially banning it.) Will expire in 2016 (70 years after Hitler was officially declared dead), anyhow. What they'll do after that, I dunno.
Attempts to have the book put on the Index (which would ban any but over-the-counter sales, ostensibly to protect the youth) or declare its content seditious (and thus distribution illegal) have been made in the past and failed - the latter paragraphs are so tightly drawn that virtually nothing can be banned under them. Which I think is due to court interpretations aimed at not having to declare the law unconstitutional.
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« Reply #235 on: October 18, 2011, 02:46:04 AM »

Is it legal to read Mein Kampf in Germany?
Yes... but it's illegal to publish without the consent of the copyright holder. Who happens to be the state of Bavaria, and not in the habit of consenting to anything of the sort. So you'd have to purchase used - which is perfectly legal - or have inherited some pre-45 copy. Or just import from somewhere, such as Britain or America or, well, most of the world, that doesn't recognize Bavaria's rather dubious claim to ownership of the copyright. (Turkey recognizes it, for instance... as a means to ban the book without officially banning it.) Will expire in 2016 (70 years after Hitler was officially declared dead), anyhow. What they'll do after that, I dunno.
Attempts to have the book put on the Index (which would ban any but over-the-counter sales, ostensibly to protect the youth) or declare its content seditious (and thus distribution illegal) have been made in the past and failed - the latter paragraphs are so tightly drawn that virtually nothing can be banned under them. Which I think is due to court interpretations aimed at not having to declare the law unconstitutional.


I thought Mein Kampf sold pretty well in Turkey a few years back?

Anyway, I am currently reading Blood Meridian.
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« Reply #236 on: October 18, 2011, 06:11:31 AM »

Tableau politique de la France de l'Ouest sous la Troisieme Republique, the ultimate nerdy book.
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« Reply #237 on: October 18, 2011, 07:04:15 AM »

Anyway, I am currently reading Blood Meridian.

Very nice, that one.
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« Reply #238 on: October 18, 2011, 11:49:04 AM »


I thought Mein Kampf sold pretty well in Turkey a few years back?
It was de-facto-banned three years after the Turkish translation first appeared. It sold fairly well in the interim.
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« Reply #239 on: October 18, 2011, 04:34:33 PM »

In all fairness if an English translation were published tomorrow, and received an average degree of press coverage, it too would sell a decent number of copies. So no need to diabolize the scary muslems. (If anyone were intent on doing so.)
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« Reply #240 on: October 18, 2011, 04:58:50 PM »

And everyone who bought it would immediately regret having done so.
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« Reply #241 on: October 18, 2011, 08:05:50 PM »

And everyone who bought it would immediately regret having done so.

I've only ever had to read a 9 page excerpt.

It's the equivalent of smashing a brick into your head.
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« Reply #242 on: October 18, 2011, 08:11:58 PM »

And everyone who bought it would immediately regret having done so.

I've only ever had to read a 9 page excerpt.

It's the equivalent of smashing a brick into your head.

Except that doing that would probably be more productive.
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« Reply #243 on: October 18, 2011, 09:29:05 PM »

And everyone who bought it would immediately regret having done so.

I have a copy. It would be charmingly strange if it weren't so horribly real.
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« Reply #244 on: October 19, 2011, 02:36:57 PM »

And everyone who bought it would immediately regret having done so.

I have a copy. It would be charmingly strange if it weren't so horribly real.
Yes, that reminds of Andreas Maier's verdict.
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« Reply #245 on: October 31, 2011, 07:32:44 PM »



Bly makes some interesting points in regards to contemporary males becoming overly-feminized but I think he's mostly full of it and makes some broad assumptions to back up his theory. I absolutely hate his style, also. Very repetitive and draining to read.
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« Reply #246 on: November 01, 2011, 09:46:06 PM »



I've been reading this over breakfast and usually some Sophocles in the half hour before I go to bed.
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« Reply #247 on: November 02, 2011, 12:48:13 AM »

Just powered through this book for class yesterday, really good read.



This weekend I will be reading The Yankee International by Timothy Messer-Kruse and The First International in America by Samuel Bernstein. And also Greg Grandin's Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism if there is time.
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« Reply #248 on: November 22, 2011, 12:59:49 PM »

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« Reply #249 on: November 22, 2011, 03:04:56 PM »

The Little Ice Age:  How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan.  I've also read his book on the Medieval Warm Period, "The Great Warming" which focuses on the period 800-1300AD.

It's very interesting to learn how the natural climate processes researched in the past ten years have turned climate science on its head.
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