Books you just couldn't get. - Democratic Underground

MercutioATC

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:21 PM
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Books you just couldn't get.

"A Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsey (out of print) is my vote. I've read this thing at least once a year for the last 10 years on the gut feeling that it contained some truth that was just barely eluding me. After a dozen or so reads, I'm no closer to understanding it.

You?

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HEyHEY

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:24 PM
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1. The Unconcious civiliazation

By John Ralston Saul...guess I could have gotten but it was so shitty I didn't want to try

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RandomKoolzip

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:27 PM
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2. "Minima Moralia" by Theodor Adorno

I can kinda understand the appeal of reading a very grumpy old German guy rant about the modern world and the meaning of art, but clearly this wasn't the book I was looking for in that department.

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kanrok

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:29 PM
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3. Green Eggs and Ham

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Wolfman 11

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:29 PM
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4. as read by Jesse Jackson?

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kanrok

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:32 PM
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6. Actually, I understood it better

because he e n u n c i a t e d!

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Maddy McCall

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Sun Oct-12-03 10:31 PM
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5. That Noble Dream...

a historic-discipline-specific book about objectivity, which concludes that objectivity isn't possible and is only a noble dream.

Can't remember the author's name at the moment. The book is like a dry, rocky field, and the average reader's mind is like a rusty blade trying to get through it.

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roughsatori

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Sun Oct-12-03 11:54 PM
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7. A Confederacy of Dunces. I thought is was boring and Unfunny

It also seems that every other person in the world LOVES it and thinks it is a comic masterpiece. It was one of the most tedious books I have ever read. (And I even love reading Adorno and Pater).

As I am suffering from a life of bibliophilia, I like to say "A Confederacy of Dunces" is a book to love for people who don't read much. (I don't really think so, but glorying in being a snob infuriates others so it is a fun pronouncement to make.)

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REP

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Mon Oct-13-03 01:51 AM
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10. Doesn't Mark You As a Snob

Just marks you as someone who didn't get it. Doesn't make me mad - just makes me laugh!

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Mon Oct-13-03 12:09 AM
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8. I didn't like

Cryptonomicon at all. It seemed very "male fantasy," and I had to struggle to get through it.

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NightTrain

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Mon Oct-13-03 12:30 AM
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9. Ulysses

Got about 70 pages into it and said, ":wtf: did I just read?" Then I put the book down and never looked at it again.

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