2the9s said:

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

I've just decided I want to read this...

retina said:

my friend read the Fountainhead just cause she is an architect and came to my house and was like

2the9s said:

No, I've never read Hermann Broch. Who's that?

I've bought the first part of 'The man without qualities'. Maybe I'll read the second part in ten years.

So far I don't know what to think. Some parts are really interesting, or even rather poetic and sublime, but others are just... too long and boring.

just finished this one last night it made me sad.

starting this one now

i'm reading alot of books for my WW II research and rereading books on that subject as well.

2the9s said:

Hamlet

tznekbsbfrvr said:

Don't know what kind of research you're doing, but I loved Is Paris Burning? (don't know the author offhand). It's historically based--it tells the story of the German officer in charge of occupied Paris and how Hitler would tell him the only way they would surrender Paris was if they destroyed it on the way out...Hitler wanted it destroyed and would ask him everyday, "Is Paris burning?"

Also read parts of The Order Has Been Carried Out for a course I took on oral history (Alessandro Portelli). It examines a partisan attack in Rome and the retalitory Nazi massacre. And of course, Night (Elie Wiesel) or The Drowned & The Saved (Primo Levi) are first hand accounts from Holocaust survivors.

I'm thinking about picking up Anne Rice's JESUS CHRIST book. Has anybody read it?


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

DON'T DO IT!

Janfriend said:

Really? Was it just bad or did you think it was sacrilegeous?

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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

More like blasphemous

Janfriend said:

READ IT, READ IT, READ IT!!!! I stumbled onto a PBS interview with Anne Rice about this book right when it came out (Janfriend and I had a heated discussion about it over Christmas dinner with the Muse and Supa!!! ). She wrote the book after reconciling with the Catholic Church after being away all of her adult life. I was in the process of a similar reconciliation at the time, so her interview affected me deeply. My parents gave me the book for Christmas. It's a beautiful story that is filled with love and wisdom.

read it Miguel, what you take from it is up to you but as a baptist girl who went to catholic school it was intriging for me to see what her idea of the little boy Jesus was like. I love how she does her research and whether you like her writing or not it still is a good read, I think.

this is worth a look, transcripts of conversations hitler had when he was "chilling with his homies":

butterfli25 said:

Sorry Janfriend. I think I'm going to have to get it.

I've been on somewhat of a spiritual journey. I think I finally have my beliefs in place, but haven't stopped questioning. Although I know Anne's book is fiction I'd still like to see her view on things.


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jone70 said:

I study the war (WWII) overall, but my focus point of interest is the Third Reich, Eugenics, and the holocaust. The books u mentioned are really good,and I'm glad to know they're getting attention. Levi has another book out "Survival in Auschwitz" that also tells his memoirs from the Holocaust. Its a good read too.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

What do you think she is going to do for your spiritual journey? I suggest non-fiction for that

MarieLouise said:

If you prefer the poetic and the sublime you might prefer Broch, especially The Death of Virgil, an incredibly lyrical book about the last days of the Roman writer.

Broch and Musil were contemporaries. They were both from Austria I think.

I'm currently reading Martha Nussbaum's The Clash Within, where she gives the lie to Samuel Huntington's juvenile "Clash of Civilizations" theory from the early '90s.

It's a book about India that focuses on the massacre of Hindu pilgrims in Gujarat in 2002 and the resulting retaliation and carnage that followed against the Muslim population. She describes the rise of Hindu nationalism and the Hindu right, and suggests that the current paradigms of West vs. East don't really hold and that rather than a clash of civilizations, every country is facing a clash within its own borders and cultures between extremist ideologies (that in the case of the Hindu right, with its notion of "Hindutva," has certain disturbing similiarities to mid century European fascism) and progressive thought.

You might want to re-punctuate that last sentence on your own!

It's also a thesis that for all its geographical and cultural specificty is clearly intended as an allegory and a warning for the US.

I just finished this pile of week old dog shit. Don't waste your time.

WOW ur all good...does the school news letter count?

NDRU said:

I finished it last night! hooray! finally!

i'm waiting for the last Harry Potter book. is anyone else here an HP fan?

tznekbsbfrvr said:

evenstar3 said:

wohooo! i preordered it last year for my brother- he reads it then i borrow it. i can't wait!

tznekbsbfrvr said:

me too!

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