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Post by GeneralMoltke on Dec 12, 2003 23:37:48 GMT -5
What did you guys major in College to study so much into one book?  |
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Post by ProdigalSon on Dec 12, 2003 23:39:09 GMT -5
I can't stand Norman Mailer.
P.S. Rusalka, check your PM.
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Post by Prove on Dec 12, 2003 23:43:09 GMT -5
What did you guys major in College to study so much into one book? It was more than just Foucault. That syllabus also included: Dostoyevsky, Schivelbusch, Adolphe Quetelet, Francis Galton, Baudelaire, Cronin, Bertillon, Walter Benjamin, Deboarah Coon...etc. It was a very deep and heavy course. I was arguably the "numbskull" in the class. |
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Post by GeneralMoltke on Dec 12, 2003 23:45:28 GMT -5
Damn, my future looks like more work! ;D
Right now i'm in High School taking AP English - taking a peek in College English, and it doesn't look so bad. However, this seems like a lot of work for one semester.
By the way, is this Philosophy or English class?
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Post by Artemisia on Dec 12, 2003 23:45:42 GMT -5
Least favorite author: Hmmmmm, Martin Bernal because he has very stupid ideas!  I also agree that Mark Twain is way over-rated! Oh, and by the way, will this forum still censor Dickens.....one of my favorite authors?  |
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Post by GeneralMoltke on Dec 12, 2003 23:46:28 GMT -5
This forum is over censored. ;D
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Post by Artemisia on Dec 12, 2003 23:50:04 GMT -5
Yup, looks like the forum's moderators don't like Dickens! ;D
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Post by GeneralMoltke on Dec 12, 2003 23:52:02 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by rusalka on Dec 13, 2003 0:16:12 GMT -5
Least favorite author: Hmmmmm, Martin Bernal because he has very stupid ideas! Right! I couldn't agree more. I really, really can't stand Martin Bernal and his Black Athena series. They're just SO over the top and politically driven I cannot believe that the guy is actually respected by anyone. Same goes for Molefi Kete Asante, the one time Chair of African American Studies at Temple University and writer of books like, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change, The Egyptian Philosophers, The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism, The Afrocentric Idea; Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge; and similar "works". I remember watching this documentary about Egyptian Art and Symbolism; and this guy was one of the people in it.. He looked like a televangelist more than he looked like a professor. |
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Post by rusalka on Dec 13, 2003 0:21:12 GMT -5
I took a half-credit course called "Modernity and Modernism" and one of the books on the syllabus was Foucault's "Discipline and Punish". That book went waaaay over my head, and I guess it somewhat jaundiced my opinion of Eco's novel before I started it. I find his interests in Paleography, Semantics, and the Freemasons very enjoyable. Other than that, I found the novel labourious to read. Perhaps because I was trying to read too much into it. Maybe I'll read it again. I've read one of his books; on Aesthetics, which I cannot remember the name of in English. Anyway, I could only read like 3-4 pages a day, and I'm usually a very fast reader  So, I hear you, he's sometimes laborious to read; but I believe if you were to read Foucault again, at your own pace and purely for your own enjoyement, I think you'd like it. |
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Post by Dienekes on Dec 13, 2003 0:21:39 GMT -5
Did you read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco? You have mentioned that you like his work. I found it very difficult to keep pace with his narrative. Foucault's Pendulum is the exact opposite of the Glass Bead Game, a real page turner. Of course, it's not for everyone, but if you like the kind of arcane stuff that it deals with, it's very enjoyable. |
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Post by Dienekes on Dec 13, 2003 0:23:22 GMT -5
Oh, and by the way, will this forum still censor d*ckens.....one of my favorite authors? D ickens magic? |
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Post by rusalka on Dec 13, 2003 0:29:36 GMT -5
Hey, I saw your trick when I hit the reply button!  D ickens, with an unused italic, yes sir. |
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Post by AWAR on Dec 13, 2003 0:54:36 GMT -5
D *ckens Pontikos ;D The author I hate the most is Marion Cimmer Bradley, she wrote MISTS of AVALON. I think it has more than 1000 pages, I read them all, I might as well could have watched all 400 episodes of some Venezuelan low-budget telenovela, the result would be the same. It's a book about Morgana, the sister of King Arthur. Basically, the story could have been translated into 1920's Brazil, it would make absolutely no difference. Arthur and the knights are there just for the setting, everything else is a cheap life & romance novel. You can even read about a threesome with Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot The book is very annoying, yet it has very vibrant characters, so I recommend you read it just for it's cheese factor. Edit: Someone should DO something about the forum's censorship, or I can never again mention my favourite writer d*ckens or my favourite Anime character prince A shitaka. ;D |
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Post by LuvSpune on Dec 13, 2003 3:01:32 GMT -5
wow, a really reall overrated book : Watership DOwn, oh my that was bad
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So, I hear you, he's sometimes laborious to read; but I believe if you were to read Foucault again, at your own pace and purely for your own enjoyement, I think you'd like it.
