TG posted:

babyfinland posted:
Ironicwarcriminal posted:
getfiscal posted:
we all know where baby finland stands.

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is that a nando's cause that's p. awesome chicken.

babyfinland posted:

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

is Clash of Civilizations worth reading?

it cops a lot of flack but the events of the past week make me think there's something in that theory



why dont you read the muslim equivalent, like maududi or qutb or somethign

haha im being made ot read samuel huntington for a shit class and ive already looked up qutb adn im trying to get a copy of zawahiri's knights under the prophets banner

aerdil posted:

hmmm i'm gonna go to this book talk methinks:

Please join 2011 Indie Publishing Contest Grand Prize Winner Michael J. Cooper for a discussion of his debut novel
BOOKSHOP WEST PORTAL
80 WEST PORTAL AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 7 PM

Imagine a novel in which you find Mozart and Nazis, archaeologists, hidden treasure, Knights Templar, lost loves, metaphysics and a little quantum physics…a rich, complex and erudite story.
Sasha Paulsen, Napa Valley Register

The tale is replete with love, war, wit and wisdom…filled with a striking mix of historical fact
and pure, simple fantasy.
Maayan Jaffe, Baltimore Jewish Times

… a tour de force, Cooper has created a composition of Jerusalem—contemporary and historical, earthly and celestial—all brought together with an intricate plot that leaves the reader guessing to the last minute. A winner.
Eylon Meroz –Mvaseret Tzion

In FOXES IN THE VINEYARD, Michael Cooper presents the birth of Israel in 1948 as multifaceted alternate historical fiction. On one hand the novel raises the specter of covert elements of the Third Reich secretly infiltrated into Palestine after WWII. Using counter-intelligence and terror, the Nazis seek to drive the Jews and Arabs to war, to drive the British from Palestine, and ultimately to seize Jerusalem as the new capital of a reborn Third Reich with the Temple Mount as their fortress and the Templar treasure as plunder. On another level, the Nazis serve as metaphor for any movement that invokes ultra-nationalism, militarism, and mystical religious fanaticism—a toxic mixture that continues to infect the Middle East conflict. On this level there arise broader questions about the challenge to act with responsibility and compassion to achieve a just and peaceful coexistence in the region.

A native of Berkeley, Michael Cooper graduated from Oakland High School and emigrated to Israel in 1966. He studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem before attending Tel Aviv University Medical School, where he graduated in 1975. With Northern California Kaiser-Permanente since 1983, he is clinical professor of pediatric cardiology at UCSF Medical Center. He returns to Israel at least twice a year for medical missions serving children with heart defects who lack adequate access to care.
Foxes in the Vineyard, grand prize winner of the 2011
Indie Publishing Contest, is his first novel.

thjat sounds rly bad

cleanhands posted:

also i burned thru 200 pages of the bourne identity, about halfway through that the main guy kidnaps a woman and hits her and threatens her w/ death repeatedly, and drags her into a situation in which she can never not fear for her life again, and then 100 pages later this woman asks him to 'make love' to her at which point i realised there were like 400 pages left and took it straight to the oxfam bookshop

don't like romance eh

deadken posted:

aerdil posted:

hmmm i'm gonna go to this book talk methinks:

thjat sounds rly bad

haha yeah it sounds like the worst book written this year and i wanted to write something snarky on my english department's facebook when i saw that but i'd probably get kicked out for being anti-semitic or something

babyfinland posted:

Impper posted:

beckett said he wrote the trilogy when he thought about how he could not measure up to joyce and decide instead to embrace stupidity and impotence

uh not really. he said he would write a negative (in the sense of absence) work rather than a positive one since he felt joyce had basically written the ultimate positive thing

let me just take this one for you impper, ill do my best impression

Lol no Gay

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

also: i'm reorganizing my bookshelf at the moment, moving out some of the old crud, moving in the new shiit i've got....what do you reckon a god way to sort it is

by author?
genre?
size of book?
some sort of Jewey decimal system?....

i want something aesthetically pleasing more than totally coherent

i did alpha by author for a long time but people seemed to think it was really weird for some reason?

for aesthetics maybe just focus on size and color and such. it would take forever for other people to find things though