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Caleb:
Thanks for suggesting that again. These are some really good quality paperbacks.
snalin:
Niels Klim is surprisingly funny at times for a book written during the 1700s. Although I suspect that I'm laughing in the wrong places as well as in the right ones. It's also pretty awesome to think of how a guy that early used a fictional world to write about contemporary issues. It's much more blunt than modern works doing the same, with the main character pretty much jumping up and down on the points the novel is trying to make at times ("I thought at the time that this gender equality/fair trial/whatever business was quite silly, but as I learned, it's much better than our society, really!"), but that's not really a bad thing - it's quite refreshing, really.
Tom:
That bluntness is entirely apparent in Moore's Utopia; Swift also did it before Kilm. It was one of the reasons why my class-mates despised it in high school.
Scandanavian War Machine:
god i love Rant so much. particularly the second time around cause you actually sort of know what it's about
i think it's pretty safe to say that it's Palahniuk's best
Joseph:
Currently in the middle of Edwin Muir's translation of Kafka's The Trial. Hoping to finish it off over the next day or two in the middle of studying for my cognitive science exam (reading a bunch of really not that interesting stuff for that as well). Also reading Slavoj Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology, which is pretty enjoyable, and definitely compelling in a lot of ways. It's finally providing me with an into to Lacan which overrides the aversion built by years of neuroscience classes, but, as is normal when I read Zizek, I don't find myself agreeing with much of what he says. But he's great at making one think.
And then lots of poetry. Went through all of Dennis Lee's Riffs yesterday, and am probably going to go through them at a more measured pace. Plus Lisa Robertson, Christopher Patton, Robert Bringhurst, Jan Zwicky, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov.
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