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#261408 - 02/12/10 11:34 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/07/06
Posts: 4268
Loc: Portland
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Finally, reading "Fiasco":
Given some time for it to settle down, and read
THE best-written account of the so-called "Phase IV" of the Iraqi invasion of 2003...
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looks like the "super smart" Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld/Cheney/Bush consortium really fucked up...
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#261409 - 02/12/10 11:45 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/07/06
Posts: 4268
Loc: Portland
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Fallujah I: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/297677/the_battle_of_fallujah/ hopefully we convinced the citizens that we came in peace...
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#261412 - 02/13/10 10:01 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/07/06
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Loc: Portland
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And Bremer.
And maybe Bush Jr. if he gets over his case of retardation...
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#261413 - 02/24/10 10:03 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 14160
Loc: NYC
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The Japanese Skincare Revolution -Chizu Saeki
The New Rules of Lifting for Women -Lou Schuler
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#261414 - 02/25/10 12:35 AM
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Bukkake Boy
Registered: 06/13/06
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#261415 - 02/25/10 02:23 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 11/27/07
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In the Land of Invented Languages
I'm enjoying this book, especially the section on the earliest attempts to invent a universal language. Some of them combine charts with symbols and numbers as their alphabets. Have not hit Esperanto or Klingon yet.
I recommend this and from the web site it should be fairly obvious whether you would like it.
Attachments
472432-book-cover.jpg (4 downloads)
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#261416 - 02/27/10 02:22 PM
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Human Garbage
Registered: 04/02/09
Posts: 1541
Loc: Mississippi
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Been doing a bit of traveling recently which always means packing something to read. I got a weird urge to learn more about the causes of World War I after an interesting conversation with somebody who I was quite sure had no idea what they were talking about, but didn't personally know enough about the subject myself to call bullshit. Got this book and thought it would be a bitter pill to swallow, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I'm only about 40% through it, but it is a great read and well written.  Now, if I can just find that fucker and steer the conversation back to the causes of WW1...
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#261417 - 02/27/10 03:39 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 4856
Loc: The 4th International
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Recently:
Exodus by Leon Uris
Good, not excellent. I guess I expected a bit too much.
Nicolai Gogol - The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a Madman
Very powerful and funny short stories.
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#261419 - 02/28/10 05:48 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 4856
Loc: The 4th International
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^^ Which book by Dostoevski you would recommend?
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#261420 - 02/28/10 12:04 PM
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Human Garbage
Registered: 04/02/09
Posts: 1541
Loc: Mississippi
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If you haven't read "Crime & Punishment" yet, and aren't fluent in Russian, be sure to get the Jessie Coulson translation.
On a similar note:
I wish I could find a version of Tolstoy's "War & Peace" that didn't have extended passages in French. I have been unable to read that book because I can't find a copy that is completely translated into English.
When it comes to reading a book that has been translated, I have found that who did the translation makes a tremendous difference.
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#261421 - 02/28/10 03:53 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 4856
Loc: The 4th International
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My Russian is a tad bit rusty, so, mostly, I read translations (English or Dutch).
I have "War & Peace" in a translation by Constance Garnett, first published in 1904. It's pure awesomeness, in my opinion. Descriptions, atmosphere, dialogue, all very fluently and accurately done. I think Tolstoy could be happy with this translation.
Re. "Crime & Punishment". I have a 1951 translation (Penguin Classics edition) by David Magarshack. I've found that, especially with 19th century Russian writers, the older translations are often the better. Somehow, the 'Zeitgeist' shows more through the eyes of a contemporary translator.
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#261424 - 05/05/10 02:02 PM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/19/08
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I've been working my way through the third Dune book, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert for a few weeks now. I blazed through the first two Dune books, but this one doesn't hold my interest nearly as well. Perhaps it's because I'm using a netbook rather than a dedicated reading device, so I always find something else to do instead.
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#261425 - 05/05/10 03:11 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/28/07
Posts: 4856
Loc: The 4th International
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Today, I started in Isaac Deutscher's biography of Lev Trotsky. It's a well-written piece about a great thinker/orator/writer, who was also a fine humanist.
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#261427 - 05/10/10 01:55 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 14160
Loc: NYC
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"Just Kids" by Patti Smith about her early life with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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#261429 - 05/10/10 08:28 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/07
Posts: 5186
Loc: Joshua Tree National Park
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The latest Public Severe Weather Statements from the Storm Prediction Center. The Whorebot is definitely going to hit the fan somewhere in southern Kansas/northern Oklahoma today.
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#261431 - 05/10/10 02:45 PM
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Porn Icon
Registered: 02/04/05
Posts: 3499
Loc: The Dirty: 480
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The latest Public Severe Weather Statements from the Storm Prediction Center. The Whorebot is definitely going to hit the fan somewhere in southern Kansas/northern Oklahoma today.
Have fun, stay safe. I miss the excitement and theater that is Spring weather in the Midwest.
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#261433 - 05/16/10 03:17 PM
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Whoremaster
Registered: 06/16/07
Posts: 2512
Loc: Slumberland
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I wasn't talking about the man's actions as Commissar of the Red Army (at which he did a phenomenal job), but about his writings in which he describes his vision on the future. Did you read anything written by Trotsky?
I've read sections of his history of the revolution and his essay Terrorism and Communism. All the Bolsheviks, including Lenin and Kautsy, talked a good game about the future society, but their actions were another matter.
He was certainly a good military tactician during the Civil War, and a great liquidator of his opponents after, if you consider the latter something to be proud of, but obviously Stalin was even better than he was at outmanoeuvring and murdering those who disagreed with him.
From what I've read seems most of his promotion of democracy comes after he was kicked out of the party by Stalin, when he was in power he didn't have any problems with a lack of democracy within or without the party.Even after going into exile Trotsky defended the murder of the socialists. He is an interesting writer though.
On a similar theme, right now I'm reading Violence by Slavoj Zizek, I've always kinda liked his crazy readings of films and popular literature but here he comes across as a fairly simple-minded old school Bolshevik who is trying to revive the legitimacy of Leninism. Odd.
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#261434 - 05/28/10 01:05 AM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/19/08
Posts: 286
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The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
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#261435 - 05/29/10 07:47 PM
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#261438 - 05/29/10 08:21 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 09/01/08
Posts: 9782
Loc: Hillbilly Holler
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Fuck me ! Another misspelled fuck up !
Edited by backdoorman (05/29/10 08:22 PM)
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#261441 - 05/29/10 11:02 PM
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#261443 - 06/11/10 01:17 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/17/04
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exiles in the garden.
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#261446 - 06/11/10 07:27 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 04/17/04
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i'm supposed to go get some free shit done at the dealership today, their mags are shit.
the books that sit in the trunk are ones i can beat to death.
think it's got "the sportswriter" by richard ford and rabbit is rich by updike.
oh, and the sportswriter is why "indy day" got hit with a pulitzer. good book, but when there's a sequel to the real deal that took years to make it into the hands of those who proclaim greatness it's a make-up call david stern would love.
i just ordered the granta they gave ford the keys to. i hate short stories, but "rock springs" was honestly fucking genius in being the only thing i've read where the weirdness of the residents in the mountain time zone is done right. if his granta is close, it'll be decent fast shit.
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#261447 - 06/11/10 09:59 AM
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Max Hardcore Prison Bitch
Registered: 04/09/09
Posts: 152
Loc: Phantom Zone
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I just started reading the Death Note manga. I already watched the anime but was told that the manga dwells deeper into the morality aspects of "L" vs. Kira.
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#261449 - 06/12/10 06:43 AM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 12/09/08
Posts: 8433
Loc: Great Pacific Northwest
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Bathroom: Ambrose's Undaunted Courage
At work: The Cell by John Miller and Richard Stone
At my parent's house: An autobiography of ex- Seahawk and current douche Brian Bosworth
In the car: The Vanity Fair issue with Jessica Simpson on the cover
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#261453 - 06/15/10 11:42 PM
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Whoremaster
Registered: 06/22/07
Posts: 2656
Loc: Polekatz, Rte 43
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the new release "Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal" will be a run away smash! http://www.amazon.com/Negrophilia-Pedestal-Americas-Racial-Obsession/dp/1935071823
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#261455 - 06/16/10 03:12 AM
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the author is a jewboy? what a shock!
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