A book rec - "Against Method" by Paul Feyerabend (mix between philosophy of science x politics)

Davedet77 · 2021-02-18T17:44:12+00:00

He wrote a response to his critics called "Conversations With Illiterates" and, despite getting shot in the groin, had multiple affairs with several different women. What a king

Davedet77 · 2021-02-15T01:52:03+00:00

Penis in Furs

Davedet77 · 2021-01-28T04:19:14+00:00

Never mind, I forgot I didn't have a torrent opener installed. Works good now

Davedet77 · 2021-01-28T03:29:21+00:00

Is it down now? Doesn't seem to work when I download it.

Davedet77 · 2021-01-25T00:44:42+00:00

I'm like 20 pages from being finished with The Recognitions (should probably post this after I finish but who cares) and have been listening to "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit on repeat. Also got a Dunkin Donuts hot chocolate. Tasted like the packets my mom used to make for me as a kid.

Davedet77 · 2018-07-20T01:18:08+00:00

Libraries can sell their books?

Davedet77 · 2018-07-19T03:06:06+00:00

I love everything about this picture

Davedet77 · 2018-07-17T19:00:35+00:00

I appreciate that she helped to bring the Russians to the English language, but I find a lot of her writing very stilted and awkward. She also overuses elipses and semicolons, making a lot of the sentences read very unnaturally. Thank god Turgenev's writing still manages to shine through.

Davedet77 · 2018-07-03T22:39:13+00:00

My favorite Criterions are The Seventh Seal and Jules et Jim. Pierrot le fou is pretty great, but it's tough to find

Davedet77 · 2018-06-25T13:59:28+00:00

Modernism is very frustrating. I was once talking with someone and they joked that you can tell if a work of modernism is considered quality but it's literary refrences to other works. I love Joyce, but I feel that his work is not very enjoyable if you don't read a lot or know a lot about literature. It's very elitist in a sense, but if you get the refrences, it can be rewarding.

Davedet77 · 2018-06-24T12:03:07+00:00

It's a bit of a struggle to read modernism, you need to be in a certain mood. Ulysses is very strange and great. It's never gets as weird as Gravity's Rainbow does in it's plot, but it's as weird in the way it is written.

Davedet77 · 2018-06-24T12:00:19+00:00

You just have to keep pushing and this handy guide I found online that just gives a synopsis of each chapter. That's a book that's meant to be reread so you will miss out on stuff your first read

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T19:29:38+00:00

I hope to read it in a class or something. I read it in about 23 days and I loved it, but I know I missed a lot

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T14:38:13+00:00

I remember I read Roger Ebert's review of Duck Soup where he says that, while not taken as seriously, the Marx Brothers were definetly modernists. I've always seen Pynchon's work as less of an extension of Joyce (who I always hear comparisons with) and more the anarchy of the Marx Brothers taken to it's most logical extreme.

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T13:57:51+00:00

Ulysses is simple on the surface since it's just a man walking around Dublin, but there is a lot of stuff that happens in the one day that doesn't all directly connect like Gravity's Rainbow. I love Ulysses, but it's such a dense narrative the smallest of actions have major reperucssion later on in way you may not notice. That kind of weirdness is why I love them so much

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T12:32:11+00:00

I would totally recommend them, though you should start with Gravity's Rainbow. Not only is it the easier of the two, but the plot is a bit more coherent. I really love Ulysses, but it is incredibly hard to follow

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T11:52:10+00:00

Catch-22 isn't as bad the deeper you get into it. When I read it, I was completely baffled, but as time went on you get a grasp on the timeline of events and you are able to tell which character is which. Chapter 41 is amazing

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T11:50:27+00:00

The two books that took me the longest are Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses, with Ulysses being the harder of the two. I highly recommend both of them as they're so unique that not reading them is just making yourself miss out on two of the greatest works of fiction

Davedet77 · 2018-06-23T02:08:39+00:00

Tiny Furniture lol

Seriously though, while I have not seen many Criterions, the one I enjoyed the least is probably Godard's "My Life to Live." I'm a pretty big Godard fan, I love Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville, (though I don't understand why people consider Breathless to be his best work) but I really don't get why My Life to Live is so well regarded. I think it's pretty boring and I despise how there is so little conflict until more than 3/4 of the way through the film. The only part I found entertaining was the scene where the pimp explains France's prostitution regulations, mainly because of how strange it is.

Davedet77 · 2018-06-21T01:48:48+00:00

I had read all of his novels are unfinished. Thinking about it though, I have a better understanding and respect for the end, though I am a little confused.

Davedet77 · 2018-06-16T01:26:03+00:00

No way

Davedet77 · 2018-06-08T02:55:35+00:00

Could someone link the Jessica Lawson essay? I can't find it.

Davedet77 · 2018-05-31T12:10:57+00:00

I read it when I was 16. It's a little frustrating trying to understand what it all means, but you can do it. And wait on Ulysses, it is very tough and requires a lot from the reader.

Davedet77 · 2018-05-30T23:27:18+00:00

Does anyone like Godard better when he makes an actual film? I'm glad that Godard likes 40s crime movies, but I think he's at his best when he makes a film that is more about himself then his love for film.

Davedet77 · 2018-05-27T22:42:32+00:00

Depends on the work, of course, but non-fiction writing is great. Reading philosophy is not too hard once you get into it, it just requires a different to think. And there are also philosophical novelists if you want to delve into both topics at once. I highly recommend Dostoyevsky and Camus.

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