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toyotathon posted:

land, climate change, end of earthly life, south american revolutions? or literally anything


What kind of politics do the people in the reading circle practice

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we should just read moby dick or something. can't be thinking about politics 24/7
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agatha christie
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literally read Jurassic Park
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but if i'm being serious: literally read Jurassic Park
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The boojie revolutions.
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in Jurassic Park, the man who uses his fortune to build Jurassic Park is going around the park after the climax is already done, when the big scary dinosaurs are all under control again, and he gets scared by his grandkids playing a fake T-rex sound effect. He falls down a hill and breaks his leg and then a bunch of little dinosaurs with sleep venom bite him until he dies. Literally read Jurassic PArk
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Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:

we should just read moby dick or something. can't be thinking about politics 24/7


I agree. Anyway toyote you should start with ECOLOGY OF DEVASTATION: INDOCHINA by John Lewallen

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is moby dick good? i never read it because the premise sounds fucking dumb as hell
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Petrol posted:

is moby dick good? i never read it because the premise sounds fucking dumb as hell



it's fine but it's also like everything else considered a classic of English-language literature from that era, they felt they had just then invented symbolism in fiction so when symbolism shows up it's like when CGI shows up in a Hollywood movie from 1993-2003, it goes on forever and they need to make sure you understand that it's there and it's blowing your mind

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Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:

we should just read moby dick or something. can't be thinking about politics 24/7



Can't go cold turkey

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overall moby dick 5/5
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swampman posted:

Chthonic_Goat_666 posted:

we should just read moby dick or something. can't be thinking about politics 24/7

I agree. Anyway toyote you should start with ECOLOGY OF DEVASTATION: INDOCHINA by John Lewallen


i have this book

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moby dick is good especially if you like whales or the ocean (which should not be nuked from space)
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The main problem with Moby Dick is that it led a lot of people to believe whales were deadly to people which contributed to their endangered status. In response, Melville wrote non-fiction works about the sea and about whales advocating their conservation. Among these was his book entitled Whale Trouble, which illustrated how hype and news sensationalism can help undermine the public's need to understand marine ecosystems and the potential negative consequences as humans interact with it. This work, which had editions in 1855 and 1857, was written to help a post-Moby Dick public to more fully understand "the sea in all its beauty, mystery and power." It details the ways in which man seems to have become more of an aggressor in his relationship with whales, acting out of ignorance and greed as several of the species became increasingly threatened by overwhaling.
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your posts are increasingly confusing to me cars...
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you can just copy them into a search engine and see where i stole them from
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Petrol posted:

is moby dick good? i never read it because the premise sounds fucking dumb as hell


moby dick absolutely rules and more than half of it is just whaling facts and digressions with no plot happening

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it's cool when the narrator says that scientists classify whales as mammals but they don't know what they're talking about and whales are fish. or the chapter where he just talks about how most depictions on whales throughout history have been wrong, because they were done by landsmen who havent seen the true nature of the whale for themselves
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yea the mammal/fish part is sick lol
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I need an audio tape of someone reading melville describing the ocean for when I have deep dementia and every four minutes i can't put together how I got trapped in this mummy body
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cars posted:

Petrol posted:

is moby dick good? i never read it because the premise sounds fucking dumb as hell

it's fine but it's also like everything else considered a classic of English-language literature from that era, they felt they had just then invented symbolism in fiction so when symbolism shows up it's like when CGI shows up in a Hollywood movie from 1993-2003, it goes on forever and they need to make sure you understand that it's there and it's blowing your mind


so it's the lawnmower man of books. got it

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read ursula le guin in honor of their passing.
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JohnBeige posted:

in honor of their passing.


fuk

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Petrol posted:

is moby dick good? i never read it because the premise sounds fucking dumb as hell



consider that it has all the surface elements of a book that should have fallen out of fashion in English departments long ago:

- a style that no one writes in anymore, and (unlike someone like Hemingway or Twain) is pretty difficult to trace any contemporary writer's style back to
- an approach to race that can be described, at best, as "Kipling-esque" and no women characters of note
- as noted by other posters, features many long digressions from the plot, including lengthy descriptions of whale butchering and an argument that whales are actually fish

and yet it sticks around, for all its faults, because it's an electrifying work that's absolutely worth the time and effort to read it

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shapes posted:

Petrol posted:

is moby dick good? i never read it because the premise sounds fucking dumb as hell

consider that it has all the surface elements of a book that should have fallen out of fashion in English departments long ago:

- a style that no one writes in anymore, and (unlike someone like Hemingway or Twain) is pretty difficult to trace any contemporary writer's style back to
- an approach to race that can be described, at best, as "Kipling-esque" and no women characters of note
- as noted by other posters, features many long digressions from the plot, including lengthy descriptions of whale butchering and an argument that whales are actually fish

and yet it sticks around, for all its faults, because it's an electrifying work that's absolutely worth the time and effort to read it


so it's the lawnmower man of books. got it

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moby dick is brilliant but why cant we read the new sakai book
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Petrol posted:

is moby dick good?


7.4 on imdb

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how about something commie that is difficult and takes some outside context and is important to zhe verrkers
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animedad posted:

how about something commie that is difficult and takes some outside context and is important to zhe verrkers


agatha christie