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04-25-2015, 08:46 AM | #5272 (permalink) |
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(hilarious read)
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05-06-2015, 07:15 PM | #5273 (permalink) | |||
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I was thinking about reading Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media so I watched the documentary about his life last week. (I confess - the documentary was poorly cut and amateur in its presentation.) But production value aside - there was a scene where Chomsky walks down a hall to his office, and a Bertrand Russell portrait is visible on the wall right at his office door.
I knew immediately what I'd be reading this weekend. I've put off reading his critical essays for far too long!
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05-09-2015, 08:48 AM | #5277 (permalink) | |
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05-10-2015, 06:21 PM | #5278 (permalink) |
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I'm about 10% in so far, and to be honest, I fully understand what Easton Ellis is doing with his writing, but I find it incredibly tedious reading pages upon pages of descriptions of products. I love feeling and language so much that regardless of what the intention is, I just feel like I'm wading through mud in this one. Patrick Bateman is played by Cillian Murphy in my head. |
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