BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR: The Guardian has an excerpt from MG Durham’s interesting new book The Lolita Effect, in which she discusses the sexualization of young girls in our society, and why this is deeply damaging for them (and, one would argue, older women). Check it out. [Guardian]
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Posted in Books on 09/18/2009 | Leave a Comment »
George W. Bush An Actual Insane Person; Attempted To Coerce Jacques Chirac Into Helping Him Bomb Iraq in 2003 By Mentioning Fictional Bible Demons Gog and Magog
Posted in Atheism, Books, Politicking, Religion, Terrorisms, The End of the World, War, Wingnuts, World News, tagged ...craaaaazzzy..., fancy book learnin', France, George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac, politics, Religion, Terrorisms, the Bible, the Bush legacy, War on 08/06/2009 | 2 Comments »
WHAT THE FUCK WAS PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY FROM 2000 TO 2008? EH, HERE’S YOUR LEAD: “Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.”
FINE BY ME. Now, as we all strongly [...]
Books to Read: A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories
Posted in Books, tagged A Good Man is Hard to Find, Art, Books, Flannery O'Connor, good reads, Literature, Reccs on 08/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is difficult to write a review for a collection of short stories – while there are only ten in the volume, each is unique and brilliantly powerful, inasmuch as the collection itself is an impressive, living thing. To attempt to describe or summarize the stories would only diminish their impact, and insult Ms. O’Connor [...]
Osama Bin Laden’s Son IS John Travolta In Battlefield Earth, And He Thinks His Dad Sucks
Posted in Animals, Books, Terrorisms, World News, tagged Bin Laden, books we won't read, Dad!, tough love on 07/10/2009 | 4 Comments »
Omar Bin Laden is none too pleased with his dad – who is, really? – and is penning a new book to prove it!
Written with the help of his mother Najwa, Omar Bin Laden’s book “Papa Was A Rolling Stone” “Growing Up Bin Laden” will recant the time his father took away his pets dogs [...]
Rude Bloggers Who Force You To Read Novels *and* Their Blogs
Posted in Books, tagged apparently there are other websites on the internet, blood meridian, cormac mccarthy, Reccs on 06/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A while back I wrote an abridged and rudimentary (but also quite brilliant – haha not really) review of Cormac McCarthy’s celebrated novel Blood Meridian, and now The A.V Club has come along to trump that review with a more verbose and detailed one of their own. This is known in street parlance [...]
Books to Read: American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination
Posted in Books, tagged American hypocrisy, American Methods, book reviews, Books, politics, Reccs, torture, violence on 06/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little while back I finished reading Kristian Williams’ American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, and sadly forgot to post and recommend it here. I don’t often quote publishers’ descriptions of works, but in this case, I think South End Press gets it pretty accurately, so here it goes: “American Methods is a [...]
Books To Read: Elmer Gantry
Posted in Books, Religion, tagged book reviews, Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis on 04/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hmm it seems I’ve not addressed my latest read as of yet. So here:
I offer up to you, friend(s) the 1926 novel Elmer Gantry, written by Sinclair Lewis. The book tells the tale of a boisterous, drinking, carousing, womanizing, and silver-tongued Elmer, who, though not especially religious, finds his calling as an [...]
Good Reads
Posted in Blogs, Books, tagged Books, Reccs, The Book of Night Women on 04/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maud Newton has a very good interview with Marlon James posted over at maudnewton.com. James is the author of the much anticipated (and finally released) novel The Book of Night Women.
Set on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the height of 18th century Caribbean slavery, The Book of Night Women centers around Lilith, one of [...]
Books To Read: Blood Meridian
Posted in Art, Books, tagged blood meridian, book reviews, cormac mccarthy on 03/27/2009 | 2 Comments »
With a second venture into this book review/recommendation bidness, I bring to attention Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed 1985 novel Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.
The book more or less chronicles the story of the unnamed character ‘the kid’, and his experiences with a clan of marauding and scalp-hunting mercenaries through the U.S/Mexico border [...]
New Books: The Last Eunuch of China
Posted in Books, tagged last eunuch of china on 03/16/2009 | Leave a Comment »
HERE’S THE LEAD FOR THIS STORY: “Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting’s eyes in old age — the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.”
And it gets worse. An amateur historian, [...]
Books To Read: The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War
Posted in Art, Books, tagged book reviews, Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek on 02/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I interrupt this processional of jokes about losers to direct our reader(s) to some planetary good things. I suspect we will do this arbitrarily. Sometimes it will be about books, at other times music. Maybe film, on occasion. We will pretend we are cultured and refined. Then we will go [...]
How to Spend Your Unemployment Check
Posted in Books, Economy, tagged Reccs on 02/23/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it looks like we’ll all be joining that unemployment line pretty soon. Why not bring a good read with you for the wait? And if you think you can’t fit all that literature in between Maury and Days of Our Lives, don’t worry, you won’t be able to apply for a job [...]
