[What are you currently reading?]

It's a movie now, too.

[What are you currently reading?]

There have been some threads lately that have gotten political, and this one is about reading, so…

 

Just suppose you could make everyone, especially your political opponents, read, and think seriously about, a particular book, or monograph, or essay. What would it be? Personally I am not interested in partisan political polemics, as they are just red meat for the already convinced. I am more interested in works of political theory, economics, or some specific aspect of public policy, like health care, education, national security, or some such.

 

I would make one recommendation to both opponents and allies: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a very rare bird, he is both black, and conservative. None the less, I think this book very fair to both the right and the left.

 

 

What say you all?

 

 

 

Anthem ... Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged ... Ayn Rand

The Road to Surfdom ... Friedrich Hayak

The Federalist Papers ... Hamilton and Madison

Das Kapital ... Karl Marx

1984 ... George Orwell

 

 

 

When you've read those, you can join me in bed.

[Stafford needs to go]

 

We could really make this into a fun game, Try and Guess what Lindy said, ending with Stafford Saying "I Know, I Know"

 

"My extension is longer and less deserved than yours!"

[What are you currently reading?]

I don't see any Flyer fans trolling THIS thread!

[What are you currently reading?]

Forget the Sabres. I want to "book club" with you cats.

 

Neo, on 16 February 2012 - 10:13 PM, said:

I have notes and the web. It is an experience. Every paragraph drives me to research. I was hooked at:

 

That passage cost me a week.

 

i've read that book three times in my life. it provides more insight into the human condition than any other thing i have ever read, or, frankly, experienced.

 

sizzlemeister, on 17 February 2012 - 01:46 AM, said:

Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake ultimately have no meaning. Joyce is just using highly stylized word-smything to put pedestrian ideas into your brain. I was so disappointed when I realized that.

 

Of course, it was during my second expedition into Ulysses.

 

 

Wholehearted. I used the phrase "cost me a week." I should have added "and worth every penny."

[What are you currently reading?]

I have notes and the web. It is an experience. Every paragraph drives me to research. I was hooked at:

 

INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.

Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the nacheinander. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the nebeneinander ineluctably. I am getting on nicely in the dark. My ash sword hangs at my side. Tap with it: they do. My two feet in his boots are at the end of his legs, nebeneinander. Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los Demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand? Crush, crack, crick, crick. Wild sea money. Dominie Deasy kens them a'.

 

 

That passage cost me a week.

[What are you currently reading?]

Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol

Ulysses, James Joyce (in it for a year; every sentence is an adventure)

 

Last finished ... Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (maybe the best novel I've ever read)

 

You folks are all interesting reads.

 

The multi quote's confusing me ..

 

Hayak ... niiiice ...

 

The Art of War ... I have

 

The Odyssey .... assignment or pleasure or both?

[Things that are AWESOME...]

Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

Sophia Loren in anything .. or nothing

 

Ok, those are human beings ... ooops.