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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey, are you a fan of Jose Saramago?
I really liked Blindness when I read it in undergrad but I never felt a desire to go much further. In terms of Brazilian writers I'm more interested in Clarice Lispector and João Guimarães Rosa.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
The first 30 or so pages were alarming in their blandness. I was deeply worried. But things picked up and I'm 100% invested in this thing. I still don't like it as much as the two other books by Krauss that I've read but it's good.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
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After the “war with no name” a cat assassin searches for his lost love in Repino’s strange, moving sci-fi epic that channels both Homeward Bound and A Canticle for Leibowitz.
The “war with no name” has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who, for thousands of years, have been silently building an army that would forever eradicate the destructive, oppressive humans. Under the Colony's watchful eye, this utopia will be free of the humans' penchant for violence, exploitation and religious superstition. As a final step in the war effort, the Colony uses its strange technology to transform the surface animals into high-functioning two-legged beings who rise up to kill their masters.
Former housecat turned war hero, Mort(e) is famous for taking on the most dangerous missions and fighting the dreaded human bio-weapon EMSAH. But the true motivation behind his recklessness is his ongoing search for a pre-transformation friend—a dog named Sheba. When he receives a mysterious message from the dwindling human resistance claiming Sheba is alive, he begins a journey that will take him from the remaining human strongholds to the heart of the Colony, where he will discover the source of EMSAH and the ultimate fate of all of earth's creatures.
I wouldn't compare this book to either Homeward Bound or Canticle for Liebowitz (not least because that's one of my top five post-apocalyptic books ever)...I'd say it's more like a weird Animal Farm. There's even a pig named Bonaparte because - get this - there are too many other pigs named Napoleon. I'm at about the midpoint of the story and I'm starting to put some clues together to get ideas about where they story is going. I read the blurb for book 1.5 and it didn't give anything away but then I read the blurb for book 2 and it basically starts "after this happened in the first book" and it was like well fuck. Really it's only like reading a sparknotes version of the ending so all I know is the end, not the route taken to get there.
It's weird because the story is ostensibly about the 'war with no name' but the part about the war is pretty short and truly glosses over a couple really big battles. I don't really appreciate the author's use of "people" when talking about the population of animals, it feels like a word-replacement that didn't get completed before the book was sent to the publisher.
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Joined: Sun January 06, 2013 6:05 pm Posts: 743
I've gotten back to the Dark Tower series. After some time off, it was fun coming back to the main characters here. A lot of people on the board seem to really like this particular book in the series (Wizard and Glass), so I have high expectations. Off to a good start so far (a couple hundred pages in), and I like that I'm finally getting some real Roland backstory.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 3:35 pm Posts: 32236 Location: Buenos Aires
VinylGuy wrote:
From Bret Easton Ellis´s new book which im dying to read it...
“This is an age that judges everybody so harshly through the lens of identity politics that if you resist the threatening groupthink of ‘progressive ideology,’ which proposes universal inclusivity except for those who dare to ask any questions, you’re somehow fucked. Everyone has to be the same, and have the same reactions to any given work of art, or movement or idea, and if you refuse to join the chorus of approval you will be tagged a racist or a misogynist. This is what happens to a culture when it no longer cares about art.”
The first 30 or so pages were alarming in their blandness. I was deeply worried. But things picked up and I'm 100% invested in this thing. I still don't like it as much as the two other books by Krauss that I've read but it's good.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19717 Location: Cumberland, RI
My daughter (3) reached a point recently where she has started to want to read stories with discernible plots and ideas in them, which is quite a moment. Latest was "Where The Wild Things Are," which we read last night for the first time--she also likes "Corduroy." I have never noticed how many of these books are about loneliness, but she loves them so far.
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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