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Dead-Air · 05.27.2008, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by alteredcourse

I never got much further than when Jill "kidnapped" Valentine and brought him to Ben's apartment . I assumed that he made Ben a total pig on purpose to illustrate something , that or it was an example of the juvenile style of writing . Everything that was going on was like that for me - what was deliberate and what was nothing .

I suppose I really dont know enough about American politics, especially of the times back then , to really grasp it . What is an anarcho-socialist society ? Why was it needed then ?
Ha, thanks for replying though , I've wanted to ask someone about it for a long while !

This seems as good as any jumping off point for the concept and related variations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

Yeah, the book does seem to speak to American politics more than global. I wouldn't pigeonhole it to the time it was written though, as both Steve and I noted a lot of it is spookily prescient. I read it nearly two decades before he is reading it now (yet two decades after it was written still) and somehow we both found it eerily current.

Poor Immigrant · 06.17.2008, 06:17 AM

After reading Boyhood I started reading this. I really like it so far.

StevOK · 06.17.2008, 11:07 AM

Right now I'm reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

lucyrulesok · 06.17.2008, 11:17 AM

i am reading bertrand russel's sceptical essays.
its good and giving me a good perspective on life, which i think i'm in need of.

floatingslowly · 06.17.2008, 11:24 AM

on book 6 (of 7) of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

this would be the second time reading the entire series and the 4th or 5th for the first three books.

The Dark Tower > teh bible.

demonrail666 · 06.17.2008, 11:53 AM

demonrail666 · 06.17.2008, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Poor Immigrant

After reading Boyhood I started reading this. I really like it so far.

I keep meaning to read his stuff. Always hearing good things about it.

✌➬ · 06.17.2008, 12:01 PM

Rob Instigator · 06.17.2008, 12:05 PM

drrrtyboots · 06.17.2008, 12:14 PM

Alex's Trip · 06.17.2008, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

I have to read All The Pretty Horses for school, and as soon as I am done reading the whole Narnia series (in the order they were released) I'll start that one.

I'm own Dawn Treader now.

!@#$%! · 06.17.2008, 12:51 PM

^^ that's the cover of the 2008 summer fiction issue-- awesome! GET IT.

✌➬ · 06.17.2008, 12:52 PM

I always want to get that one everytime I pass it in the bookstore !@#$%!.

!@#$%! · 06.17.2008, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ✌➬

I always want to get that one everytime I pass it in the bookstore !@#$%!.

some of the best $5 you can spend this summer!

✌➬ · 06.17.2008, 12:55 PM

$5? You're kidding right? We are talking about Faulkner right?

uhler · 06.17.2008, 12:56 PM

i should pick up that new yorker.

demonrail666 · 06.17.2008, 12:58 PM

I always wanted to marry a woman that proof reads for the New Yorker. Always thought there was something unutterably romantic about the idea.

✌➬ · 06.17.2008, 12:59 PM

She will most likely be a grammar nazi.

EMMAh · 06.17.2008, 01:02 PM

Nothing at the moment.

I need to go to the library or something.

!@#$%! · 06.17.2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ✌➬

$5? You're kidding right? We are talking about Faulkner right?

i bought my faulkner on sunday at the used bookstore for $4.50

and the new yorker new last night for $5

i meant the new yorker cos i said this summer. i loved the story by nabokov & the essay/reflection/whatever by murakami. looking forward to the rest-- annie proulx...

well shit here's the table of contents:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/to...0080602/?yrail

plus, there's some web-only material.

the june 23 issue is already lsted so maybe subscribers are getting it already. im merely an occasional buyer.

---

but find yourself a good used bookstore yo. best place ever.

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