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Patrick:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 10 Apr 2008, 19:22 ---Oh dude...you did NOT just recommend Mein Kampf. I am the only person I know who owns and has read through the book. Trust me, it's not worth it. The writing itself is only ok, the ideas aren't....well-developed. There's nothing insightful in it, he wrote it before he became the Fuhrer....and it's really....bad.
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I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here and guess that nobody reads Mein Kampf for the literary or philosophical value.
Border Reiver:
And it certainily isn't for the inspiring story line. I have my grandfather's copy, purchased in the early 1930s and I've managed to get through it - barely. But man, turgid prose, really bad philosophy that is disturbing in its unreasoning hate and a view of history that was discredited before this book was even written. It is a hateful book, but for all that it is a useful tool to understand what happened and why.
Uber Ritter:
Siegrfried Sassoon is also really good. Anyone ever read Isaac Rosenberg? Bit more abstract that Owen or Sassoon.
William Carlos Williams is one of those poets that I need to read more of.
-Wilhelm
TheFuriousWombat:
On the subject of poets, I've been reading quite a bit more contemporary poetry. Since John Ashbery, Michael Ives and Robert Kelley teach in the poetry dept. here, and since I'm taking classes in that department, I decided to check out their stuff and found all of it to my liking. Ashbery in particular is really excellent although the prose poetry of Michael Ives is very much to my liking. One of the best living poets is, in my opinion, Charles Simic. He writes in both prose and verse and he's utterly brilliant.
Just One More...:
I'd go for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson. He's a pretty good author, and if you're in for a short read, I'd suggest his book Feed.
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