Sunday, October 30, 2011

THE BEST OF OCTOBER

FREUD - THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

"The evidence is mounting that Freud murdered his patients according to the serial killer model that Harold Shipman, Herman Mudgett et. al. would later follow - that of a Jewish/circum-stumped, opiate-prescribing doctor who killed his patients for money and circum-revenge against their yenta mothers.
...
Freud was a misandrist (faggot). Some of his kosher partners in anus worship were Willhelm Fliess and Edward Silberstein, and he broke up with Carl Jung over misandrist attraction."


MILTON - PARADISE LOST

"I'm supposed to have read PL already, it having been assigned reading in my Christianity and Literature course; but I have no idea how anyone can read a twelve-book epic poem of enormous depth in one semester amidst a full schedule of courses. The prof had to have known that."


NABOKOV - LOLITA

"I read this book at age thirteen. It was in my parents basement. I was so jealous of Lolita. I wanted to be a nyphette, but I knew I was not. Still when I think about the book, I grow jealous of that girl."

"I want to say that I completely understand Humbert's preference, however I didn't find the guy to honestly be such an intellectual, but more of a person who is simply mixed up about his choice in women. A more normal person in his situation would marry a women that could make him feel loved, and masturbate to child porn in secrecy like an actual person, but there is not a single nymphet in the world that would actually be like any of the ones in this book."


SHAKESPEARE - ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

"It's supposed to be a comedy, but when you think about what is happening in the plot with lots of lying, deception, characters working angles, and impure motives, it really isn't all that funny."


THE BIBLE

"Above all, maintain a superior attitude when dealing with lesser cultures than your own. Know that God will punish them all for their disbelief."


FAULKNER - THE SOUND AND THE FURY

"Twas ok, people read too much into it though. I mean, I could write a book like this, exactly like this, but it wouldn't be as acclaimed..I've always wondered why that is. How do uninteresting books win awards? Of course I mean hypothetically I could write a book like it, but realistically I would probably lose interest"

Thursday, October 27, 2011

SPECIAL: KILL ALL ENGLISH MAJORS

"I adore children’s literature and I am an english major. I love the child-like innocence of children who do not completely grasp the idea of death."


"Nothing is sexier than a book.
That said, I absolutely ravish mine.
Pages will be bent, notes will be written in the margins, exciting phrases or quotes will be underlined and spines will be cracked.
When others see my books, they know I've loved these books long enough not to be shy with them anymore."


"With regards to studying songwriters in English courses, I actually wrote an entire paper on 'Tangled Up in Blue' by Bob Dylan for my AP English Literature class in High School. Once I actually started researching it, I was shocked to find every verse (there's seven of them) was its own Shakespearean Sonnet. I find it amazing that people can write one Shakespearean Sonnet, and here there were seven that not only told their own story, but tied together to tell an overarching story. Writing the paper made me appreciate the song on a whole new level, and really opened my eyes to how truly poetic songs can be."

YOU KNOW, IF YOU MAKE UP LIES ABOUT THEM


"You will learn to love the characters, and its remarkable how vivid he made them in a way we can relate to today for a book written in the 1950's."


THIS MAN IS TALKING ABOUT JOSEPH HELLER'S CATCH-22:

"I really appreciate it when a book respects the intelligence of its readership. If a book is going to be 'experimental' in any way, I love those that throw you into a world with no explanations - a literary baptism of fire (ie: Orwell's 'Animal Farm')."


"I'm writing an essay right now on Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods.' Storms play a large part in the book. You have NO idea how RIDICULOUSLY happy I was when I typed down the phrase 'the oncoming storm.' In the context of the essay, it has nothing to do with Doctor Who, but in my head, I can't help but feel ridiculously happy that I managed to write about Neil Gaiman AND sneak in a Doctor Who reference. That's all. =D"


"So, out of curiosity, am I the only nerd that has 'favorite words'? Two of mine are Juxtaposition, and Nihilist. I usually find every reason to use them when I can (although, this is much more successful with the former than the latter)."


"Yeah, I'm a heathen
Yeah, I'm an anarchist
Yeah, I abuse Heroin
And yeah, I'd rather be hated for what I am, than loved for what I am not.

Fuck Cobain and Lennon
Fuck Osbourne and Clapton
Fuck the Music
Fuck the drifting Clouds
Fuck the sea and trees
Fuck the sky and birds
Fuck the rabbits and fuck the sunshine
Fuck your plum cakes and your apple pies
Fuck your mind and rape your soul
Fuck Marx and Nietzsche
Fuck Aeschylus, fuck Wordsworth, fuck Milton
Fuck Fidel and Gandhi
Fuck De Broglie and fuck Bohr
Fuck Wagner and Tchaikovsky
Fuck democracy and communism
Fuck crack and weed and speed and mead
Fuck the mushrooms and the grass
Fuck Martha Stewart and Tyler Durden
Fuck Darwin and fuck I-Ching
Fuck Branson, fuck Trump, fuck Hefner, fuck Gates
Fuck Johnnie Walker and Zino Davidoff
Fuck Joseph
Fuck Mary
Fuck Jesus
Fuck Vishnu
Fuck Allah
Fuck your God
Fuck all your Idols
Fuck Bush, fuck Blair, fuck Gyurcsany, fuck Jintao
Fuck the system, fuck the government
Fuck controversy and censorship
Fuck commercialism and materialism
Fuck Education and thought control
Fuck the Establishment
Fuck the Revolution
Fuck Freedom
Fuck Anarchy and Nihilism
I'm sick of all this shit
Fuck the whole motherfucking thing
All I want now is my life back
So my soul can sing"


"99% of the books I read (except school ones) aren't 'literature'. Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer 40k, etc. I see no problem with this."


"I am a comma WHORE."


"I'm also good at math. That's right, an English major who's good at math. In 6th grade I memorized 26 digits of pi for fun. I still know them."


"I hate poetry is what it really comes down to. And most classic literature. Jane Austen? Can't read it. Am I in love with the masterpiece theatre's version of Pride and Prejudice? Hell yes. Something about the pacing of books from that time bore me to tears."


"I don't enjoy reading books ... honestly, the medium just doesn't hold my attention. I know I don't have a short attention span, because I can read a multiple-page thread on a forum in one sitting, so that's not it. I can't quite put my finger on what makes me dislike books as much as I do, I do spend a lot of time reading; I'm just not reading printed words. There was an article in Publisher's Weekly a while ago about how people who cry that teens these days aren't reading as much are wrong, because they are reading, but rather than reading books, newspapers, and magazines, the'yre reading wikis, blogs, and forums. That's my reading habits in a nutshell."

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury III

BEHOLD

"This book made me feel dumb. Probably because I am."

A PERFECT REVIEW


"It's about as fun as watching paint dry. Just another case of The Emperor's New Clothes. If you don't say it's great, then you must be derided as an idiot -- not unlike Benjy. Boring - with a capital B."


"There seems to be no effort at word economy, particularly in dialogue. There are endless rambling paragraphs and only four 'chapters' for the 400 pages of text.

Worst of all, there is inadequate exposition throughout the book. There is no introduction telling the reader how the book is constructed, most notably, that it begins with an account by an idiot. The idea of having a family's story related by several members if fine, so is writing in stream of conscious, but adequate exposition is needed to orient the reader.
...
Frustrated during the reading, I thumbed through it and discovered the appendix which described the Compson family. Most of this material should have been presented early in the book, but even that would not have provided adequate exposition. After reading the book, I learned that the appendix was added some time after the first edition to help the reader. That should be a big hint that the book is lacking in exposition. I believe that good exposition is the responsibility of a writer.

This book is more of a puzzle than a story, and the latter is sacrificed for the former. The author does not lead you through the story; he throws you into it. For those who marvel at the literary value of this book, I say, 'The emperor has no clothes.'"


"for Christ's sake, the plot is completely unintelegible!"


"I don't see the point. It's like the Emperor's New Clothes. Everyone says it's a great book, but I'll bet a lot of those who do are only saying it because they're afraid to admit that Faulkner's too smart for them. Life is too short to read lousy books. Skip this one."


"If I want a brainteaser, I'll buy a crossword puzzle book."


"This story has no point. I'll say it again: THIS STORY HAS NO POINT! Many say that this story is about the symbolic moral decay of the south and the Compton family. Symbolism is one of the worst literary techniques of all time. In most cases, the so-called literary experts have made up the symbolism in a story, and end up changing a story's emphasis from something meant to entertain to a long editorial it was never meant to be. Faulkner seems to have taken in this literary junk hook, line, and sinker. Faulkner took the rather mundane and misguided cry of moral decay and wrote an entire novel on the subject. Morals don't decaying!"


"This book is a perfect example of people in ivory towers, and those who are afraid to admit they don't get it, jumping on a 5-star bandwagon."


"Caddy, the main character in a novel of stereotypes and pitiful prose, is actually a despicable trollop."


"Did this author have an LSD addicition"


"I'm not afraid to say that 'the Emperor has no clothes' when it comes to Faulkner. If you've tried to slog through his stuff and are tempted to blame YOURSELF - don't! You aren't dumb, you aren't illiterate, and you aren't the only one 'not getting it'. He's a fraud."


"Is this stream of consciousness realistic? That's hard to say. Certainly not for everyone. Even if it is, so what? It's frustrating, and it isn't particularly interesting. Even if one grants that Faulkner has masterfully displayed the way the human mind works, so what?"


"If you really tried, you could take any book and search for symbolism in it...so why are some books given such scrutiny and proclaimed great, whereas others are simply dismissed as poorly written and dropped from sight?"


"I take issue with the fact that Faulkner says this is a story about two fallen women, when the story does not focus on the two women in question, but rather on the way they have affected those around them. It would seem that Faulkner doesn't understand his own story ... If you just want to be moved by the book's theme, just read a synopsis ... The only people who enjoy this convoluted mess only claim to like it, which is a testament to their snobbery. People will not say anything against this book for fear of appearing uneducated and/or uncultured."


"As a writer and a student of English literature (by the way, for those who think only the 'uneducated' don't like this book, I am proof to the contrary) I believe a writer must give us, as readers, at least some clear indication of what we are supposed to take away from his or her piece of writing"


"Maybe if I read novels for a living I would appreciate the challenge, but this book is like an ungreatful girlfriend. You do your best to understand her and get nothing back in return."


"Remember that story? It was about a kingdom of people who were so afraid of looking foolish that they went along with whatever they were told. They took their cue from their vain and silly king, who had so little character that he let a conman convince him to walk naked in a royal procession. Enough said."


"they should publish an edition all strightened out and in order"


"Thank heavens I read, and read the readers' reviews for this Oprah selection. Although I am a college educated person of very eclectic reading tastes, I have never read Faulkner...and now I never will!! At 56 I have more important things to do with my time than to read depressing 'literature'."

Monday, October 24, 2011

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury II

"Twas ok, people read too much into it though. I mean, I could write a book like this, exactly like this, but it wouldn't be as acclaimed..I've always wondered why that is. How do uninteresting books win awards? Of course I mean hypothetically I could write a book like it, but realistically I would probably lose interest"


"I HATE that about poets and writers, that not all writing is accessable to all people"


"it has some really good themes. but honestly, was he totally wasted while writing this?"


"My English teacher said that Faulkner was a writer's writer (in that he wrote to impress other writers). It's pretty apparent this is the case. He could've written in a straightforward fashion and maybe I would like him, but no, he has to make everything confusing so when you're done with a chapter, you think 'What the hell just happened?' He is the face of pretentious know-it-all writers everywhere."


"A much different book than I was expecting from what little I knew of it. This was not really a positive, because I imagined a book that I would like"


"Faulkner explores the decay of one particular Southern family, which stands as a proxy for the fate of the South after the Civil War. Not a subject that seems very relevant anymore and certainly not very interesting."


"Such a strange phenomenon - the individual words I could understand, even the occasional phrase, but by the time I closed the novel all I felt was how generally pissed-off my brain was at me for forcing it to impose sense on the nonsensical for such an extended period of time. Granted, Faulkner's brilliant. And most definitely unique. But not even Marquez is half this much work."


"Very specifically, I observe from my own daughters that they are much more interested in their own emotional state than in observing what other people are saying or doing around them; Benjy, as portrayed by Faulkner, is completely the opposite, and I found that so contrary to my own experience that I could not engage with the story at all."


"To this day, I am unsure of whether the main character of this novel was male or female, human or animal (for several chapters I was certain that he (she?) was a dog), living or dead (for several chapters I thought he (she? it?) was a ghost), etc."


"It's a shame I don't drink or do drugs because I honestly thought I was supposed to alter my mind in some way in order to make it through this thing."


"Did Faulkner invent the run-on sentence? If not, he certainly perfected it. I abhor him and I'm glad I'm not alone."


"I can read an entire chapter and then realize I didn't catch anything that went on. I now intend to lock any copies of his books I find in a vault and then drop it into the ocean."


"The biggest problem with this style is that it's used for a novel."


"one of those books that people like to like just to feel better and smarter than others."

I GUESS I DO FEEL A LOT BETTER AND SMARTER THAN YOU


"This book was considered a classic! I consider it a book with unsolved circumstances, a family that can't get a long, and a concept for bad grammar! I hated reading this book, but read it all the way through! I prefer Wuthering Heights of this sh*t!"

Saturday, October 22, 2011

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

"Probably one of the worst travesties ever to mar the concept of literature."


"Why is it all the 'great novels' the 'classics' seem like crap to me?"


"I don't know how this pile of crap ever got published, let alone became a classic! It's absolutely unreadable! Pure upchuck in print."


"This book has inspired me to start a list of crap that is admired only because no one has the guts to admit they have no idea what the hell is going on."


"When I read reviews on books like this I can only come to two conclusions; 1) I am an idiot or 2) It is a case of the Emperor's New Clothes."


"Damnit, i'm not stupid. I graduated with honors, i went to a prestigious college on a merit scholarship, I majored in English, and I have read many books that others consider a 'difficult read.' I am not some schmuck who only reads supermarket paperbacks. And if a book is so d*mned inaccessible as this one, that a college graduate, writer and dedicated reader can't get it without three readings -- then to hell with it. For me, the book is a failure and a bastardization of what a book is truly supposed to be."


"I, the reader, was treated to run on sentences, random thoughts unrelated to the events at hand, inventive punctuation, and little back-story to help stake this jumble down."


"seemed incomprehensible and I thought it was printing mistakes but is apparently written through the eyes of a retarded man."


"there was no regard for correct grammar"


"It’s needlessly abstract. To jump around spatially and temporally with little rhyme or reason forces the reader to pay attention not to the narrative they are reading in a linear fashion, but to the meta-narrative—what exists when you step back, when you examine and play around with all of the pieces. That’s truly the only way to come to understand the precise events of the novel and the actions of the characters. How does that make an enjoyable story for a reader? A novel should never be a jigsaw puzzle."


"If I have to be all 'literary' to appreciate and understand this book, then I don't want to be literary ... Perhaps I'm missing something great here. Or perhaps there are too many 'good' books out there to waste my time on this 'literary' one."


"A painful and objectionable experience. This book is written in such an offensively obtuse manner that it was probably an instant classic among the pretentious."


"I love classics and was attracted just by the power of the title, but I couldn't follow the story at all when it jumped between 4 different time periods without any indication to the reader."


"Why anyone would choose to voluntarily read this book is completely beyond me. Just because someone says this is a work of literature, does not make it worth the pages it was printed on. As an English major, I have read a lot of 'literature' books that I would not pick up if I had the choice ... Do yourself a favor and skip this book."


"Obviously he was drunk when he wrote this book."


"Faulkner tries too hard to be 'deep'"


"This is the literary world's equivalent of a blank white canvas hanging in an art museum with a pompous five paragraph description of the artist's 'inspiration' next to it."


"This made me roll my eyes and sigh and scream in frustration."


"It's so old that the price of the novel was only $1.95."


"Ugh. Are you kidding me?! Too complicated. I had to exert too much effort to understand the style."


"Too many folks confuse challenging with good. Hey Faulkner, if you're going to write in that ridiculous stream of consciousness style, at least have the balls to do so for the entire novel. It's like he just got tired halfway through the book and decided to change the style up. Sorry guys, the emperor truly has no clothes on this one."


"Absolutely, positively the WORST book that exists on the planet. I call it The Sound of My Fury. Ahhhhhhhhh.... Truly awful. Whoever called this a 'classic' must be illiterate. :)"


"A Great American Classic? Not in my opinion."


"Faulkner has a lot of 'issues...'"


"I wanted to read this because he deals with the Blacks and comes from a famous author. Wayne understood what I meant when I said I couldn't handle the author's lurky-jerky style. There were so many conversations that went like this, 'What a nice morning.', Tom said. 'Yes, it is.', Bob added. 'What are you going to do?' Tom asked. 'Not sure.' Bob replied."


"Wow, this book sucked. Stream of consciousness of a retarded man?"


"My mother is a fish"


"Denoting nothing."


"it's hard 2 read ><"


"Yeah... Boring. Sorry Willy."


"I read this at a time when I was reading tons of books...and this book cured me. I don't think I read one single book after reading The Sound and the Fury."


"If you like Hemingway, as I do, there is really no chance you can also like Faulkner."


"This book was a piece of shit. Faulkner was obsessed with his penis and was a total pervert. Either that or he really hated Southerners ... Oh, and one more thing. Faulkner, if you can read this from wherever you are, stream of consciousness is a bullshit way out of writing a coherent story. Asshole."


"I'm sorry, if I could go back in time and drown Faulkner before he ever had the opportunity to write something that a teacher would one day force me to read, I would. I absolutely would. That probably makes me a bad person."

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Jean Racine - Phedre

"Bah"


"Blah."


"Racine sucks dick-hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


"seriously. don't read this.
damn harvard made me read this... it blew."

Monday, October 17, 2011

The Bible III

"what a load of shit. i burned it with gas right away after sterilizing it with urine."


I RESERVED THIS POST FOR SNARKY YOUNG MEN WRITING COMEDY REVIEWS OF THE BIBLE AND GETTING DOZENS OF BASIC FACTS AND READINGS WRONG. THE BIBLE IS AN IMMENSELY COMPLEX BOOK THAT DEMANDS AN IMMENSELY COMPLEX RESPONSE. IT IS SELF-REFERENTIAL TO THE EXTENT THAT IT CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD UNTIL EVERY PAGE IS READ, FROM FRONT TO BACK.

OF COURSE THIS TAKES SOME WORK, SO MOST CUNTS FIND IT MORE CONVENIENT TO TAKE WHATEVER THEY'VE LEARNED BY OSMOSIS (ALL WRONG) AND EITHER PRETEND THE BIBLE IS A "PERFECT" (WHATEVER THAT WOULD MEAN) SET OF "INSTRUCTIONS" FOR "LIFE ON EARTH" OR, IF THEY ARE HOSTILE TO CHRISTIANITY, TO PRETEND IT'S AN "IMPERFECT" SET OF INSTRUCTIONS. ON THE HOSTILE SIDE YOU END UP WITH SELF-SATISFIED SMUGGERY OVER THE PROHIBITIONS IN EXODUS AND LEVITICUS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S TOTALLY EXPLICIT WITHIN THE PENTATEUCH THAT THEY'RE DIALOGUE, PRESENTED BY A LITERARY CHARACTER, TO OTHER LITERARY CHARACTERS. (AND LATER, A VERY IMPORTANT CHARACTER ACTUALLY DENIES THEIR UNIVERSALITY AND RELEVANCE.)

FOR NO OTHER BOOK WOULD IT BE ACCEPTABLE TO MAKE JUDGMENTS BY TAKING SINGLE LINES OF TEN OR TWENTY WORDS OUT OF CONTEXT AND ARRANGING THEM HOWEVER ONE PLEASES. THIS KIND OF BULLSHIT HAS RESULTED IN AN ALMOST TOTAL CULTURAL IGNORANCE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE BIBLE, ON THE PART OF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE QUITE AS MUCH AS NONRELIGIOUS. IT IS SOMETIMES A SURPRISE TO THE FIRST-TIME READER THAT THE FIRST THIRD OF THE BIBLE, THE SIXTEEN BOOKS FROM GENESIS TO NEHEMIAH, ARE A SINGLE CONTINUOUS DRAMATIC NARRATIVE -- A FACT COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED WHEN ONE READS SELECTIONS, OR READS EXPECTING A LIST OF COMMANDS. THERE ARE VERY FEW INSTRUCTIONS TO THE READER IN THE BIBLE. THERE ARE A LOT OF STATEMENTS AND IMPERATIVES MADE BY CHARACTERS TO OTHER CHARACTERS. BUT EVEN THE EPISTLES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT ARE ADDRESSED TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCES, AND MUCH OF THEIR ADVICE, ESPECIALLY THAT OF PAUL, IS UNDERCUT BY WHAT CHRIST SAYS IN THE GOSPELS, OR WHAT OTHER APOSTLES SAY IN THEIR BOOKS.

IT IS, OF COURSE, A MISTAKE TO IMAGINE THAT ALL THIS WEAKENS THE WORK INSTEAD OF STRENGTHENING IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE SOME TWAT SAYING "NYAH THE BIBLE HAS CONTRADICTIONS WHAT AN AWFUL BOOK," ESPECIALLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CLUE FOR WHAT HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REASON THEY MIGHT EXIST OR WHAT LITERARY PURPOSE THEY MIGHT SERVE. WITTGENSTEIN, FOR EXAMPLE, SUGGESTED THAT THE GOSPELS DIFFER IN SO MANY DETAILS IN ORDER TO PREVENT READERS FROM FIXATING ON BULLSHIT LIKE WHETHER JESUS HEALED THE LEPER BEFORE OR AFTER VISITING SIMON PETER'S HOUSE, AND TO KEEP PEOPLE FOCUSED ON THE CENTRAL STORY: THAT JESUS HEALED A LEPER.

FOR A UNIFIED SET OF RULES FOR FOUNDING A SOCIAL ORDER, WE CAN READ THE KORAN. THE BIBLE IS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. SELF-COMMENTARY, CONTRADICTION, MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES: ALL ARE PART OF THE GRAND SCHEME OF THE BOOK, AND ALL MAKE IT SO MUCH MORE VALUABLE AND INTERESTING THAN THE BIBLE AS IMAGINED BY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED READING THE DAMNED THING.

SO THIS POST IS FOR, AND DEDICATED TO, EVERY STOMPY SNIDE FUCK WHO THINKS WILLFUL IGNORANCE OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN THE WESTERN WORLD IS ACERBIC AND HILARIOUS; I HOPE IT'S ALL TRUE AND I GET TO WATCH YOU WEEPING AND GNASHING YOUR TEETH BESIDE ME IN HELL



"This book was terrible. The characters are two dimensional, the plot is all over the place and the author can't keep his story straight. Then halfway through they just introduce a new protagonist out of nowhere who dies within 4 chapters and they spend the rest of the book trying to work out what his deal was.

Genesis and Numbers are a huge yawn fest, I'm not even sure what the lengthy genealogies and census information had to do with the fisherman because everybody dies in the end anyway."


"I had great expectations for this book based on other readers' reviews, but the work suffers from several flaws. First of all, it seems the author couldn't decide what kind of book he or she (no author name or bio is provided) wanted to write. The end result of this indecision is a book that is part history, part poetry, part self-improvement manual, part science fiction, part children's fable, and so on. Also, the narrative doesn't really hold together very well; it actually seems like a whole bunch of different stories that have little connection to one another all thrown together haphazardly. There is no clear plot that links the different sections together, character development is uneven, and some of the chapters that ostensibly describe the same historical events contradict one another, which I found confusing. All in all, this book has several enjoyable chapters, some of which even rise to the level of literature, but as a whole it's simply too long and poorly organized."


"I was very disappointed in this. I don't understand why the God character is so involved in punishing everyone in the first 'book', and then in the second, 'HE' sends his son (Himself?) to Earth, to be born as a human, only to die for the 'sins', or mistakes, of all of humankind. I just think it's a very confusing message to send to people, that says they will be destroyed with floods, and all sorts of tortures, only to decide later that you should send yourself as a relative of yourself, and as some ghost/spirit, so that all of those sins can be forgiven. Isn't that kind of weird?

There is lots of violence, war, a passing reference to the rape of a man's own female relatives in place of a male stranger as fair, slavery is condoned, and it just seems really sexist...

I don't know. It's such a dated and vague story. I'm surprised it's so popular."


"what mostly gets me is the blatant plagiarism and how the author doesn't even cite his sources."


"This is one of those bad fiction novels that is so bad that it develops this cult classic status. Just as too many cooks in the kitchen ruin a meal, too many authors ruin a book. The authors constantly contradict the main murderous story line. Probably more than 31 million murders in this over the top book. To make it worse, the mysogony is way over the top and the glorification of owning slaves makes this an unbearable travisty. Skip this one! You will be happy you did."


"I often get the impression that this book was written by a series of people just coming out of pre-history. They seem to know so little about the world around them and how it works. It's as if they weren't aware that the earth revolves around the sun and our planet exists in a solar system that orbits the center of our galaxy! Where's the mention of dinosaurs? It's missing presumably because they didn't have the intellectual know how to dig for fossils. Often problems are solved in this book by sacrificial slaughter when a simple scientific test would have shown that the local well was infected with germs!"


"Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, it's more like religion is the skirts feebleminded people hide behind to flee from personal responsibility and thought.

Sad this bunch of dross inspired so much violence and hatred through the centuries and still does.

ETA: Had to read this again for summer 2009 class - it's even more unbelievable to me after a refresher that anyone could believe one word of this and think it's the word of anything but humans bent on building a power base. the Old Testament doesn't even pretend there aren't 'other gods' at the time of Jehovah's attack on every poor soul who happened to live where he wanted the tribes of Israel to settle. It's basically a chronicle of how some bumpkins who had the attention span of a fly were bullied and forced into mass murder so one 'god' could become famous and powerful."

Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Bible II

"So many lovers of William Shakespeare do not seem to be aware of the fact that the Bard took part in translating the King Jame's Version of the Bible into English."

AH, YES, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T


"The bible is one of the worst pieces of literature ever compiled. I actually cringe to even call it literature. Its best classified as toilet paper!"


"So full of shit."


"They should sell this in the 'sleep aid' section of the drug store."


"I am an atheist, and I believe this book is full of evil lies"


"A book that everyone should read at least once in their life. [Just as they should read the Koran, Buddhist, Hindu, and even Wicca ... [As well as ethnic religious works.]"


"why post about the Bible??

don't read the entire Bible

read John 1 - 4

these 4 chapters will tell you the entire story

read and pray and read it again


God Bless
...
no one said it was a Book!

There is the old and the new

The old tells the story of the birth of Jesus

The new tells the story of Jesus

At the end it's still all about Jesus!!!"


"As for the recommendations in the Bible.....yeah I think its great to love our neighbour as ourself....I think to put others first.....instead of this Age of the Ego, this Age of Me-ism....is wonderful....imagine that....no war, no violence, no abuse, no stealing.....what was it John Lennon wrote about in 'Imagine'?"


"I like to read the Bible because I'm a Christian"


"LIES!!!!! NOTHING BUT LIES!!!! Theres no scientific proof for a god with freaky powers."


"I went back the second time from a non-biased point of view and looked at it in a professional capacity and can easily see how it led to the bloodiest, most violent culture in human history. Unfortunately I still can't see how decent, normal, intelligent people can fall for what is inside it's far too numerous pages."


"A flat, fictional work, describing the lives of neanderthals who believed they met Jesus, the supposed 'sun of god.' This book is full of lies, fallacies, and contradictions."


"This book is filled with all sorts of stories about God's AWSOME LOVE for us"


"How many christers have real true faith?

Zero.

Not one christer is willing to drink anti freeze or Drano.

Christers are all phoneys, liars, and hippocrits."


"Crappy stories, even for a fiction book."


"The Bible, millions of people read it,
religions are based on it, and I just have to ask, why? The book is so
freakin stupid!"


"Even if the bible was actually inspired by God, I still wouldn't read it.
It is still a boring, long winded and drawn-out mess of a book. There really isn't much entertainment value in it and it doesn't entice or suck the reader in.

But I know the bible was NOT inspired by God.
No intelligent being would ever inspire such a boring, dull and monotonous book like the bible.

A supreme being would have the intelligence to keep his instructions simple and concise.

Bible = Fail"


"This type of horrible sick criminal behavior should shock any moral person. Murder, rape, pillage, plunder, slavery, and child abuse can not be justified by saying that some god says it’s OK.

If more people would actually sit down and read the Bible there would be a lot more atheists like myself.

No wonder chirsters are all f*cked up in the head."


"the ordinary men who compiled the bible were ignorant of advanced literary skills.

Not that it matters anyways, since the bible is mostly nonsense."


"I AM FUCKING SICK OF YOUR FUCKING ATTITUDE TO BLINDLY BELIEVE IN A BOOK THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM, WHO WROTE IT, WHEN IT HAS BEEN WROTE, WHAT IT WENT THROUGH IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
THAT'S JUST PLAINLY RIDICULOUS!

I AM FUCKING SICK OF YOUR ATTITUDE TO JUST BRUSH ASIDE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING THAT DOES NOT 'FIT' WITH THE BIBLE, INSTEAD OF THINKING 'HEY, THEY MAY BE RIGHT! LET'S SEE INTO IT!'


You are talking about truth but you are just the ANTIPODE of truth with your BLIND STUCK UP MIND!
You are STUCK on the SAME FUCKING IDEAS.
You brush aside EVERYTHING that do not fit with your FUCKING BIBLE.
HOW CAN YOU EXPECT TO FIND THE REAL TRUTH IF THIS TRUTH IS NOT IN THE IDEAS YOU KEEP STICKING WITH?!!!?"

Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Bible

"If you want to read a book, don't bother with this one."


"this Bible is just plain HUGE."


"It is much like Tolkien's 'Silmarillion' which could be basically seen as an improved, and definitely more interesting version of the Bible."


"if the bible is perfectly gods word then why so many denominations and different beliefs on the same book. If something was perfect then there would not be any debating it. It would simply just be. Like if something is black its black. A circle is a circle. Same with atheism. If there were no god then there would doubt or question. Wheres the proof of anything but what we have here. Grammer due to cell phone."


"bible perfect? nah theirs are new bible out each month . its wrong only religion thats true and states the most facts and proof of a god existence is the holy quran ."


"If dino bones were buried by atheists, why do atheist scientists claim they are millions of years old?"


"Above all, maintain a superior attitude when dealing with lesser cultures than your own. Know that God will punish them all for their disbelief."


"I am an atheist, but I've always wanted to read the bible cover to cover. I've just finished Genesis. It's worse than I expected. Genesis really sets the stage for the misogyny and homophobia that follow."


"To all people who disagrees that the bible is perfect , please answer this:The Word of God is our sword and how can God equip us with a sword that is not perfect and can break? (Ephesians 6:17)"


"I cant BELIEVE that someone wrote this book for children! It's nothing but genocide and rape, how horrible! It is poorly written, and the story doesn't even make sense, or tie together. It gets one star because i cant give it less."


"Also, Thx to my faithful Mentor Mr. Indra who give me this Great Book. And of course, My Utmost to God Only ^_^"


"The worst propaganda tract incurred upon poor humanity. Or is it the best because it actually worked? Most (notice I wrote 'most') of the 'demonizing' and the warped 'morality' in our society can traced back to this book. It may have been necessary to have its 'laws' and uphold them in ancient times, when humans were too stupid to govern themselves, but even though they are outmoded (how many don't understand that killing and stealing indiscriminately are not the best ways to get along with fellow humans?) people, like junkies, simply can't let go of 'big daddy' religion and 'law.' It is also racist as ol jehova states over and over how he hates all other peoples, 'gentiles', all but the Hebrews (didn't he create everybody?)."


"Gods word is true, but imperfect man reads it through often preconcieved ideas. Most of witch are recieved by people who do not read the bible but ' thinks it says something. Like most people think the bible says ' spare the rod and spoil the child'. Whereas the word says that a man who spares the rod hates his child.Or for some moronic reason people think God wants people to be poor." (MATTHEW 19:21) "Thus whole denominations take stupid vows of poverty."


"The most dangerous book ever written. Ignorant and fucking boring to boot."


"Hated by those who dont understand it, dont believe in it nor want to believe in it; so they can continue in their own ways giving into their own selfish impulses & those impulses that God list as sin such as: adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, bisexuals, lying, killing, thieving; lovers of money, material pleasure instead of seeking God"


"Anything About God I Love too Read it"


"all I can say is that it is very ...'holy'"


"I found the mixture of brutal horror in with children's fairy tales to just not be the sort of thing that should be combined."


"Character development was in most cases nearly non-existant. I found that nearly all of the female characters in the book were villianized with very few exceptions."


"This Author really should at least name his antagonists that just smacks of lazy writing."


"Ugh! This book if full of horrible, contradicting stories! The people in this book are very degrading to women and seem to have sex with whoever they want, whenever they want. And women are the property of men? Gag me. And this God character is supposed to be loving and kind and forgiving, but he makes those two bears rip apart all those children in a bloody massacre - just because they made fun of some bald guy?? What happened to forgiveness and turning the other cheek? This is a horrible book full of immoral stories and atrocious 'teachings'. We should try to get this book banned from all libraries!"

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well

"In an age when women weren't even allowed to act, I wasn't shocked by the lack of feminism in the play."


"More of a slog than a read. From the opening salvos argued against virginity you get a taste of the depth – that is to say, very ornate juvenile thinking, which goes from the personalities of the characters all the way up to the construction of the plot. It manages to make both bitter cynicism and fairy tale logic unappealing. Flighty, flowery, and not really worth reaching the end on paper."


"Like a Hollywood story."


"Sorry Bill, I still love ya, but this is unacceptable work. Take it back and rewrite it. Put some 3-dimensional characters in it, kill somebody, or torture their conscience until they snap and make a bloody mess. Do something! Don't just sit there Bill! Don't just sit there! I'll give you a C -. For extra credit you can write an apology letter for wasting my time, or fix me a hot pocket."


"The verse and prose are all over the place with no real reason for how they are chosen."


"It's supposed to be a comedy, but when you think about what is happening in the plot with lots of lying, deception, characters working angles, and impure motives, it really isn't all that funny."

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita III

"To take the heretical view that Lolita, by the ostentatiously-learned and thankfully dead Vladimir Nabokov, is on a par with The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, the recently-banished ebook by the hapless molester Philip R. Greaves II, is to place oneself in immediate risk of being labeled a literary Philistine, unable to appreciate the finely-tuned art of the male pedophiliac urge and its containment on a page. But I take such a view, happily.
...
Ultimately, however, it has no more artistic merit than Greaves's 'how-to' because it is merely a fancy 'I-did.'

It's a well-constructed lie within a lie within a lie within a lie. It's a sick joke. It's a pedophile's self-referential love story about himself, to himself. It's fantastically realistic because it is fantastically real ... Imagine the Humbertian ego-gasm that resulted from committing a crime, dressing up the crime as art, publicly confessing the crime, returning to the theme of the crime over and over again, and having the crime judged one of the century's greatest acts.

The reluctance by the literary world to see the crime—to instead howl about art vs. reality, writer vs. character, fact vs. fiction—is perhaps the writer’s biggest triumph."


"a story of a insane."


"I read this book at age thirteen. It was in my parents basement. I was so jealous of Lolita. I wanted to be a nyphette, but I knew I was not. Still when I think about the book, I grow jealous of that girl."


"Read when I was Lolita!"


"Lolita's actions only encouraged this man who continually raped her night after night."


"When I finished the book, I no longer trusted old men who had the same first and last name."


"The paragraphs well sometimes they were longer than a page"


"I want to say that I completely understand Humbert's preference, however I didn't find the guy to honestly be such an intellectual, but more of a person who is simply mixed up about his choice in women. A more normal person in his situation would marry a women that could make him feel loved, and masturbate to child porn in secrecy like an actual person, but there is not a single nymphet in the world that would actually be like any of the ones in this book."


"Nabokov could have saved the world a lot of pain by making this a novella and ending it before Humbert did something stupid."


"Although he never took advantage of Lolita against her will, there was something that just didn't sit right with me and made me uneasy."


"Too disturbing to read...I can find soooo many other lyrical books with better subject matter."


"Nabokov, while teaching at Wellesley College, was surrounded by young female students ... How was he able to portray the psychology of a pedophile so intimately ?
Actually how we know (those who are NOT pedophiles ;-))
that his portraying of pedophile is accurate ?"


"There was also too much French, which never got translated aswell. Not everyone speaks French."


"The premise is so disturbing, the character's thoughts and actions so rash and detestable...I suppose I hoped the author would turn the man to repentence by the end of the book, that the entire reason for writing it was to highlight redemption."


"But all and all, this is a story about pedophilia. Not only that, but the author encourages us to actually sympathize with the criminal, and see little girls, or 'nymphets' as the author refers to them...as objects of exquisite erotic beauty.

Now I don't care how well this author writes, I don't care how well the author is able to move a reader, I refuse to read something where I am positioned to feel sympathetic towards something which is so wrong."


"This book was so, so eyeroll inducing for me"


"I know that during this time the book was written, it was accepted to be with a much younger woman. There were times when 12-17 year old girls were being married off to much much older men as long as they had money. It happens. So, to an extent, I see where he would be attracted to this girl. And I guess I saw the movie and thought, well, maybe he's attracted to this one girl. It does happen."


"For my readers who have not read Lolita (and I don't necessarily recommend that you do, but more about that later), Humboldt is a perverted middle-aged European man living in America."


"Nabokov is possibly using his art and literary skills for the propaganda of the morally disgusting idea that it is possibly excusable to be a pedophile ....

I firmly believe (using the same line of thought that the writer only writes about what is really dear to him) that Dostoevsky at some point of his life, when he was the member of the terrorist organization, was approving idea of murdering a human being"


"The author makes it okay to be a pedophile."

Friday, October 7, 2011

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

"The writing style, perhaps not in all his novels but certainly in this one, is so jerky and disjointed that the author obviously needed Ritalin, to the extent that I now refer to Fitzgerald as 'The Picasso Of Literature'."

THAT'S

NOT AN INSULT



"OMG. I've finally did it. I can't believe that I've managed to read it. It was BORING, extremely boring!"


"Don't waste any of your life in reading this book."


"It took me about a month to read this book because I would get so lost in the confusing words and sentence structures and had no real no motivation to finish it. I don;t recommend this book to anyone unless you are an insomniac and would like sleep because this book would do the trick!"


"load of old twaddle,Fitzgerald spent 9 years completing this book,time better spent painting a fence.if you value your sanity give this book a very wide berth."


"Because Tender is the Night is a novel without any central conflict (such as the well-known story of Forest Gump), I didn't find it to have any real point."


"read the wikipedia plot summary instead."


"The terrible sentence structure ruined what might have been an interesting drama of a married couple - their courtship and tragic ending. It was really incredibly difficult to decipher what the author was trying to say."


"What I remember of this is being so Aggrieved by it that I actually left it on the train the day I finished it."


"a bunch of flowery blah-blah."


"One thing I don't like about F. Scott Fitzgerald is that his writing leaves too much to be assumed. I frequently cannot tell whether something is actually happening or if the characters are just thinking about it ... I was also struck by the amount of immorality, alcohol, etc. that takes places in this book set in the 1920s. I like to think that there wasn't so much of those things in the 1920s, but I've concluded that there has always been social problems, we just have more technology that makes it easy to hear about them. They are talked about more openly today rather than being just mentioned or hinted at."


"I tried to connect with the handsome Dick Diver - but couldn't."

TOO UGLY, HUH


"absolite arse. self indulgent meandering drivel"


"Ugh. This overly romantic novel almost made me throw up. TOO MUCH LOVE."

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Milton - Paradise Lost II

"I'm supposed to have read PL already, it having been assigned reading in my Christianity and Literature course; but I have no idea how anyone can read a twelve-book epic poem of enormous depth in one semester amidst a full schedule of courses. The prof had to have known that."


"this guy made me want to cut myself."


"i hate paradise lost and i hate milton."


"i hate paradise lost
just a fuckin pain to study it...milton was a obnoxious son of a bitch.."


"just like, FUCK who EVER thought 'paradise lost' was a good 'novel' of poetic expression? Milton sucks, the rest of them suck, the only great author is the 'gulliver' guy."


"i dont agree with what milton did at all..you shouldint tryu to humanise..somethng thats i guess is essentially the embodyment of everything bad that we do ... what milton did never should have been done..the guys second to god he's the very defintion of goodness and peace anithesisis to the point that he was expelled from paradoise..for being so horrible ... this exactly why you should stay away form writing about comsics concepts of good or evil or what ever in the very first place

because when you try to hum,anise some one like lucy you come up with the klind of person all of us would hate...

who flaunts that and always co,mes out onto never getitng burned for it"

Monday, October 3, 2011

John Locke - Second Treatise of Civil Government

"This novel is the complex books of books. John Locke focuses on the people's property and the human itself being. The first pages sounds very confusing, but if you read closely, John Locke speaks about the Declaration of Independence. Also, on page 4, second chapter, second paragraph, one of the lines relates to Socrates and how humans or kings see do what he or they see fit. So far, I have just started John Locke, the novel looks interesting, but to me it is too much complex. It's kind of hard to understand what is John Locke trying to speak out. But don't take my advice, read the book!!! It is said that 'anyone that can understand what John Locke is speaking of and trying to explain then college won't be a problem to finish.'"


"I guess it was groundbreaking when it was written, but I don't care about it now."


"I do not wish to disrespect dead people but I believe Mr.Locke deserves it here.

I picked up the book expecting to read a masterpiece and what I get is Locke playing Captain Obvious. I did not even bother to read the first part of the book ... The second part of the book should not be spent on because what Locke is stating is already so obvious that you don't need to read a book about it."


"I think this book is good but it lacks being able to keep my attention and I have read huge books. If it kept my attention for a little bit longer than the first page I would keep reading it."

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sigmund Freud - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

"Quaint misogynistic ramblings of an old fuddy duddy."


"I was left wondering if anyone would ever suggest this book if the authors name wasn't Freud."


"ridiculous."


"Something telling about Freud is he only ever analysed women."


"He was a fucking nazi antisemite.

He set back psychiatry at least a century. I would list him with the most destructive Jews of all time.

*Saul of Tarsus
*Freud
*Marx
*Germain Greer (or whichever Jew is most responsible for that feminist crap)
...
Sigismund Schlomo Freud: cocaine fueled faggot who could hard drill you or take it in the ass just the same was mostly a fraud.. In other words Sigmund didn't want anybody else fucking his daughter than himself.
...
Nice to think of him getting cancer in his mouth and having his jaw amputated and replaced with a malthom. Imagine him sitting there and drooling openly or trying to get food down his throat that he was unable to jew... Sigismund Schlomo Freud: history paints your name with feces. FUCKING PAINTS YOUR NAME WITH FECES!

Your decedents are ashamed of you, no modern school of thought believes in your coke fueled failures and you're rotting in the ground undeserving of any historical recognition beyond setting an example that sometimes, no good worthless incestuous demented fuckers get more power than they deserve and that when they do, they should be quickly squashed before their insane ideals poison society.

I spit on your memories and whenever I see your name on the printed page, I will draw a single line through it and replace it with 'cocaine fueled failure'

You have no legacy - dead evil 'doctor'."


"The evidence is mounting that Freud murdered his patients according to the serial killer model that Harold Shipman, Herman Mudgett et. al. would later follow - that of a Jewish/circum-stumped, opiate-prescribing doctor who killed his patients for money and circum-revenge against their yenta mothers.
...
Freud was a misandrist (faggot). Some of his kosher partners in anus worship were Willhelm Fliess and Edward Silberstein, and he broke up with Carl Jung over misandrist attraction."