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Wolter wrote:
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Big fan of Maron, so excited to read his first book. This is *ahem* a bathtub book, I think.
Does he say who his guys are and why Beefheart is better on vinyl?
I haven't started it yet, but I don't think he got into Beefheart until much later.
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Just picked this one up from the library. Randomly browsing and chosen simply because I like Roddy Doyle. Proving to be quite a good read. I'm about halfway through it and while it seems relatively - I don't know what word to use right now - maybe "calm" as a narrative - I get the feeling it is going to get more and more intense.
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WestwayKid wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 12:08pm
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Just picked this one up from the library. Randomly browsing and chosen simply because I like Roddy Doyle. Proving to be quite a good read. I'm about halfway through it and while it seems relatively - I don't know what word to use right now - maybe "calm" as a narrative - I get the feeling it is going to get more and more intense.
I can understand his appeal but could never take to Roddy Doyle personally. Hated all those early, supposedly hilarious, novels and have never been able to engage with him since.

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Low Down Low wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 1:01pm
WestwayKid wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 12:08pm
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Just picked this one up from the library. Randomly browsing and chosen simply because I like Roddy Doyle. Proving to be quite a good read. I'm about halfway through it and while it seems relatively - I don't know what word to use right now - maybe "calm" as a narrative - I get the feeling it is going to get more and more intense.
I can understand his appeal but could never take to Roddy Doyle personally. Hated all those early, supposedly hilarious, novels and have never been able to engage with him since.
Read the Barrytown Trilogy and Paddy Clarke years and years ago. The Snapper is the only one I'd ever be inclined to re-read.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 1:36pm
Low Down Low wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 1:01pm
WestwayKid wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 12:08pm
Roddy.jpg

Just picked this one up from the library. Randomly browsing and chosen simply because I like Roddy Doyle. Proving to be quite a good read. I'm about halfway through it and while it seems relatively - I don't know what word to use right now - maybe "calm" as a narrative - I get the feeling it is going to get more and more intense.
I can understand his appeal but could never take to Roddy Doyle personally. Hated all those early, supposedly hilarious, novels and have never been able to engage with him since.
Read the Barrytown Trilogy and Paddy Clarke years and years ago. The Snapper is the only one I'd ever be inclined to re-read.
I actually had never read any Doyle until I picked up this book. My kids and I go to the library on a regular basis and I quickly scan the new fiction and try not to overthink it. I enjoy kind of just taking a chance - but I need something to catch my eye - and I recognized his name and decided that would be the book I was going to try and it's been a good read - slowly paced - not really hilarious or funny - but I'm really curious to know where it ends up because I feel like it is going to end up somewhere unexpected.
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WestwayKid wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 11:57am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 1:36pm
Low Down Low wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 1:01pm
WestwayKid wrote:
04 Mar 2018, 12:08pm
Roddy.jpg

Just picked this one up from the library. Randomly browsing and chosen simply because I like Roddy Doyle. Proving to be quite a good read. I'm about halfway through it and while it seems relatively - I don't know what word to use right now - maybe "calm" as a narrative - I get the feeling it is going to get more and more intense.
I can understand his appeal but could never take to Roddy Doyle personally. Hated all those early, supposedly hilarious, novels and have never been able to engage with him since.
Read the Barrytown Trilogy and Paddy Clarke years and years ago. The Snapper is the only one I'd ever be inclined to re-read.
I actually had never read any Doyle until I picked up this book. My kids and I go to the library on a regular basis and I quickly scan the new fiction and try not to overthink it. I enjoy kind of just taking a chance - but I need something to catch my eye - and I recognized his name and decided that would be the book I was going to try and it's been a good read - slowly paced - not really hilarious or funny - but I'm really curious to know where it ends up because I feel like it is going to end up somewhere unexpected.
As long as the reader is curious to see where the tale ends, that's a success as far as I'm concerned. If you've never seen the film version of The Snapper, my wife loves it, and it'll likely help you figure out whether the book is worth checking out.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:45pm
Silent Majority wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:38pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:26pm
How's the immersion into Capital going, James?
Slow. It's a little like reading an old, old primary source from the Anglo Saxon days. Why have you chosen to tell me this part? Why aren't you explaining this other bit? I'm comprehending it, with help from Harvey, the rabbit, but it is sheer homework.
Yeah, that's familiar. I shake my head at scholars who marvel at it as a work of literature. Harvey and my field supervisor's helped me immensely, but even at that it took me awhile before shit started to click. Another thing that might be helpful is this essay by said field supervisor on an excellent interpretation of Marx, Moishe Postone (I also recommend Postone's book, Time, Labor and Social Domination, if you're still into this shit at the end).
I'm trying this again, once more with the Harvey course.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 1:21pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:45pm
Silent Majority wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:38pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:26pm
How's the immersion into Capital going, James?
Slow. It's a little like reading an old, old primary source from the Anglo Saxon days. Why have you chosen to tell me this part? Why aren't you explaining this other bit? I'm comprehending it, with help from Harvey, the rabbit, but it is sheer homework.
Yeah, that's familiar. I shake my head at scholars who marvel at it as a work of literature. Harvey and my field supervisor's helped me immensely, but even at that it took me awhile before shit started to click. Another thing that might be helpful is this essay by said field supervisor on an excellent interpretation of Marx, Moishe Postone (I also recommend Postone's book, Time, Labor and Social Domination, if you're still into this shit at the end).
I'm trying this again, once more with the Harvey course.
just don't listen to Jack about Harvey or other Marxians. He's with Kliman who thinks that corporate profits have been continually declining and are at their lowest in decades.
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eumaas wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 2:29pm
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 1:21pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:45pm
Silent Majority wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:38pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:26pm
How's the immersion into Capital going, James?
Slow. It's a little like reading an old, old primary source from the Anglo Saxon days. Why have you chosen to tell me this part? Why aren't you explaining this other bit? I'm comprehending it, with help from Harvey, the rabbit, but it is sheer homework.
Yeah, that's familiar. I shake my head at scholars who marvel at it as a work of literature. Harvey and my field supervisor's helped me immensely, but even at that it took me awhile before shit started to click. Another thing that might be helpful is this essay by said field supervisor on an excellent interpretation of Marx, Moishe Postone (I also recommend Postone's book, Time, Labor and Social Domination, if you're still into this shit at the end).
I'm trying this again, once more with the Harvey course.
just don't listen to Jack about Harvey or other Marxians. He's with Kliman who thinks that corporate profits have been continually declining and are at their lowest in decades.
Jack's also anti-Sweezy who I'm looking forward to getting to after Capital.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 2:35pm
eumaas wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 2:29pm
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 1:21pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:45pm
Silent Majority wrote:
13 Feb 2017, 12:38pm


Slow. It's a little like reading an old, old primary source from the Anglo Saxon days. Why have you chosen to tell me this part? Why aren't you explaining this other bit? I'm comprehending it, with help from Harvey, the rabbit, but it is sheer homework.
Yeah, that's familiar. I shake my head at scholars who marvel at it as a work of literature. Harvey and my field supervisor's helped me immensely, but even at that it took me awhile before shit started to click. Another thing that might be helpful is this essay by said field supervisor on an excellent interpretation of Marx, Moishe Postone (I also recommend Postone's book, Time, Labor and Social Domination, if you're still into this shit at the end).
I'm trying this again, once more with the Harvey course.
just don't listen to Jack about Harvey or other Marxians. He's with Kliman who thinks that corporate profits have been continually declining and are at their lowest in decades.
Jack's also anti-Sweezy who I'm looking forward to getting to after Capital.
Yep, those two things are connected. Klimanites believe neoliberalism is a purely political event that had no economic impact whatsoever. Sweezy and Harvey etc are on the other hand willing to revise Marx in light of evidence and, you know, historical changes.
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Kliman also thinks that imperialism doesn't exist.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman

I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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eumaas wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 2:39pm
Kliman also thinks that imperialism doesn't exist.
That's certainly a thing to believe.
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Wolter wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 3:02pm
eumaas wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 2:39pm
Kliman also thinks that imperialism doesn't exist.
That's certainly a thing to believe.
He also believes that working class incomes have not declined. Instead, it's the capitalists who have taken a hit.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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eumaas wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 3:19pm
Wolter wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 3:02pm
eumaas wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 2:39pm
Kliman also thinks that imperialism doesn't exist.
That's certainly a thing to believe.
He also believes that working class incomes have not declined. Instead, it's the capitalists who have taken a hit.
Well, I have been looking for a reason to pity the billionaire, lately.
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Research reading:
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The Manchurian Candidate is fiction … but this is real. Yup.
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