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« Reply #300 on: February 04, 2012, 11:58:07 AM »

The Shining by Stephen King
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« Reply #301 on: February 04, 2012, 12:23:05 PM »

Andreas Maier & Christine Büchner, Bullau. Versuch über Natur and Jörg Heinisch, Mehr als nur der 12. Mann: Ein Streifzug durch die Fanszene von Eintracht Frankfurt
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« Reply #302 on: February 05, 2012, 01:23:56 AM »

Is that an academic paper on the fan culture of Eintracht Frankfurt? That sounds pretty cool. Didn't know anyone wrote about things like that.
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« Reply #303 on: February 05, 2012, 04:39:15 AM »

Is that an academic paper on the fan culture of Eintracht Frankfurt? That sounds pretty cool. Didn't know anyone wrote about things like that.
No, it's a fullscale nonfiction book. And not particularly academic. (And not as well put together as the same publishers' books on, say, Eintracht Frankfurt's 59-60 European run. Or the quite academic one on the club's pre-45 history. Both of which I own, while I checked this one out of the city library.)

But such academic papers exist as well, of course.
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« Reply #304 on: February 05, 2012, 11:39:58 AM »

Lord of Discipline by Pat Conroy
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« Reply #305 on: February 09, 2012, 03:32:14 PM »



I'm feeling sorta open-minded today, so.
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« Reply #306 on: February 12, 2012, 07:04:11 AM »

Finished The Corrections, which was good but a bit depressing. Then I read The Imperfectionists.

Now, it is time for Heidegger if the plan holds up.
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« Reply #307 on: February 14, 2012, 12:09:52 PM »

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« Reply #308 on: February 14, 2012, 03:56:16 PM »

just picked up Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.  they reputedly go through and tear Lacan, Kristeva, etc. a new asshole.  I don't plan to read the whole thing, just to amuse myself.
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« Reply #309 on: February 15, 2012, 01:13:28 AM »

The Hunger Games
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« Reply #310 on: February 15, 2012, 10:26:40 AM »

The Satanic Verses
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« Reply #311 on: February 15, 2012, 10:45:38 AM »


How do you like it? It's been a while since I read it, but I still have quite good memories of it. Might be my favourite Rushdie novel (for some reason I can't finish Midnight's Children, I still liked Shalimar the Clown a lot, though.

I'm currently on a bit of a Louis Paul Boon binge. Tremendous writer and great man, even if he might accurately be described, in the words of a friend of mine, as a bit of an 'outdated Flemish socialist'. Just finished his war memoir Mijn Kleine Oorlog (which *google google* is availabe in English as My Little War). Next up is semi-historical work Het Geuzenboek which deals with the Eighty Year's War, but rather than looking at the birth of the Republic in the north, Boon focuses on the end of the uprising in the South, with all the doom and gloom that should accompany such a theme.
Maybe afterwards I'll have a go at his magnum opus: the diptych De Kapellekensbaan-Zomer te Ter-Muren. Both of which are mainly concerned with the rise of socialism in Flanders from the late 19th century onwards.
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« Reply #312 on: February 15, 2012, 01:11:39 PM »

Very short book then?
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« Reply #313 on: February 15, 2012, 03:15:50 PM »


My Little War?

Yes, very. About a hundred pages*, depending in what version the translation uses: the slightly shorter and 'harsher' 1946 version, or the slightly longer and 'cleaner' 1960s version. (Main difference would be the tidying up of the language though, as the early Boon is much more radical in choosing an undeniably Flemish language, which is an important part of Boon's greatness. You wouldn't notice that in translation, I suppose. In fact I'm having some doubts about the possibility of a good translation of any Boon novel, but I'm not going to criticize what I haven't read.)

*: Descibing it as a 'memoir' might be a bit misleading. 'Impressions' would be a better fit.
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« Reply #314 on: February 15, 2012, 07:47:04 PM »

No, it were a little (unfunny) joke. You mentioned two books dealing with the rise of Socialism in Flanders. Thus the joke.
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« Reply #315 on: February 16, 2012, 08:34:52 AM »

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« Reply #316 on: February 17, 2012, 07:21:44 AM »

No, it were a little (unfunny) joke. You mentioned two books dealing with the rise of Socialism in Flanders. Thus the joke.
The rise of socialism in Flanders from the late 19th century onwards has been and will continue to be slow but inexorable. The book deals with the entire period from humble beginnings in the 19th century to unanimous socialist victories - in free and fair elections - in the 74th century, and deals with every episode in painstaking detail. It has 374,597,816 pages.
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« Reply #317 on: February 18, 2012, 11:10:40 AM »

How do you like it? It's been a while since I read it, but I still have quite good memories of it. Might be my favourite Rushdie novel (for some reason I can't finish Midnight's Children, I still liked Shalimar the Clown a lot, though.

I'm enjoying it immensely. Rushdie's writing is beautiful, and there's a fantastic magic realist element to the plot. I can see why it would offend certain Muslims, though...
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« Reply #318 on: March 02, 2012, 03:24:23 PM »

Currently reading 'The Coup' by John Updike. Not what I was expecting, to be honest.
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« Reply #319 on: March 06, 2012, 09:20:10 AM »

The collected Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot, love The Hollow Men.
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« Reply #320 on: March 08, 2012, 09:23:07 PM »

Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand
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« Reply #321 on: March 09, 2012, 06:42:26 AM »

The Stand by Stephen King
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« Reply #322 on: March 09, 2012, 03:30:30 PM »

Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Lowell Dittmer
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« Reply #323 on: March 09, 2012, 03:42:23 PM »

recently read 'The Inspector General' by Gogol and 'A Very Brief Intoduction to Socialism' by Michael Newman.  currently working on 'From Ritual to Record' by Allen Guttman and Susan Brownell's 'Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China'.


significantly cutting back on / ceasing alcohol use has made reading much more enjoyable/possible
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« Reply #324 on: March 15, 2012, 08:18:19 AM »

I'm reading War With the Newts by Capek.

Fascinating and pretty funny book. Also read his play, R.U.R.
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