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07 Sep 2016, 5:15 am

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Hard Times - Charles Dickens

The part at the beginning about the dog being beaten always makes me really sad. Great book.

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07 Sep 2016, 5:21 am

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struggling through two online, The Sublime Object of Ideology (The Essential Zizek) & The Anxiety Code: Deciphering the Purposes of Neurotic Anxiety

Do you like Zizek? I have one book, but can't stand it.

that right, it's a disappointing, boring, dated, lacanian-puffed up something
http://sites.middlebury.edu/soan365/fil ... eology.pdf

the "anxiety code" spiraled into micro-observations and never got round to make the big picture of that to society as a whole, and *personally* i range valueing anxiety as a negatif aspect of "feminisation", anxious being put on a pedestal, define it as feminin and from there make feminin defined by anxiety. (same as it ever was, the trick of playing the same tricks again)

Hahaha! I love your description of the book. In regard to anxiety code, do you mean anxiety is part of a code to control women by making them anxious over pressure to be feminine?

Yes, many do play the same tricks again, if you mean Zizek is just rewording earlier writers.

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07 Sep 2016, 6:33 am

HighLlama wrote:

In regard to anxiety code, do you mean anxiety is part of a code to control women by making them anxious over pressure to be feminine?

Yes, many do play the same tricks again, if you mean Zizek is just rewording earlier writers.

i didn't mix zizek into the anxiety code,
just taking the mantra that society gets feminised in (spurious) correlation with generalised anxiety

(none of these claims can be verified)

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09 Sep 2016, 1:21 am

"Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" by Chrissie Hynde

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09 Sep 2016, 3:44 am

jurgen ziewe- "vistas of infinity- how to enjoy life when you are dead."

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11 Sep 2016, 6:00 pm

Badasses Of The Old West.

Collection of biographies of both well known and hardly known robbers and killers who put the wild in the wild west. These were truly dangerous men who lived on the edge, from the mid 19th century, to the early 20th century.

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15 Sep 2016, 3:59 pm

Aspergirls by Rudy Simone.

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15 Sep 2016, 4:01 pm

Send In The Idiots by Kamran Nazeer

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15 Sep 2016, 6:12 pm

the mother tongue- English and how it got that way.

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15 Sep 2016, 8:43 pm

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the mother tongue- English and how it got that way.

Sounds fascinating.

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15 Sep 2016, 8:44 pm

it is, but it is dense reading :tired: the book that kept me more alert, that was less of a slog to read, was "vistas of infinity" which I highly recommend. :star:

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16 Sep 2016, 11:34 am

1984 by George Orwell

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16 Sep 2016, 11:50 am

The Postman, by David Brin. Post-apocalyptic sci-fi, (also a movie starring Kevin Costner, which I haven't seen).

Excellently written, he makes a case for the efficacy of mythology.

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16 Sep 2016, 11:58 am

Speaking of George Orwell, I'm currently reading 'Animal Farm'.

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17 Sep 2016, 9:36 pm

The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco

it's a bit too much for me.

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17 Sep 2016, 9:53 pm

^^^umberto eco is too much for many, don't feel alone in this.

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