Tuesday, November 29, 2011

THE BEST OF NOVEMBER

THE KORAN

"Now, regarding the Quran and other scriptures, you know from the start it's going to be a slow read. Writers like Mohammed, St Paul, and others were not word-savvy and couldn't make a gripping read like Ian Fleming, JK Rowling, or Jean Auel."


HESIOD - THEOGONY

"As I expected, there were a TON of pronouns - or more precisely, around 300 (no, I didn't count them, thanks) - in a mere 30 pages of the text"


DE BEAUVOIR - THE SECOND SEX

"I was amazed to read this book to see the origin of the women's movement. The jihad that Beauvoir calls for in the opening pages actually says that women should murder men. She says the proletariat has always dreamed of massacring the bourgeoisie, why can't women dream the same in regards to men.
The result is a kind of declaration of holy war. This holy war has now spread to thousands of women's studies programs whose only aim is the spreading of hatred. This is funded by liberal states throughout the western world. It has utterly poisoned the air between the genders as men are viciously painted in the minds of gullible young women. Run by violent lesbians, the university training these women receive is devoid of anything except the study of myth, and literature. Science and math are male, and therefore left out of the women's studies curriculum.

The training silos in Pakistan and Afghanistan create terrorists with a black and white vision of the world. Their fatwa is well-known against America.

The fatwa that women should dream of massacring men is less well-known, and yet is funded without question.

Reading this book was a huge breakthrough for me. I felt I had seen the source of my misery in college, and for many years after, as women of all ages exploded with rage at the men around me. They are being made into human missiles by Simone de Beauvoir's rage and the way which it is fashioned by women's studies programs who use this book as their koran."


ORWELL - 1984

"When i found out that the book was divided into sections and then subsections I nearly lost my mind. My best friend who is a year older than me couldn't decipher the intricate workings of George Orwell's writing ... My fear is octopus. even a picture reduces me to tears. I cannot even look a the marine bio textbook because there is an octopus on it. I could not survive in that world. In one word to describe this book.....detestable."

"People would complain of sexism and demand a 'big sister.' As ideals of beauty changed and people decided that Big Brother's omnipresent facade was unnatractive (too fat, maybe) they would lose all respect for him."

"I prefer the Topias to the Utopias, my self, as the Topias have far greater potential of becoming reality. (The proper term, incidentally, is Negative Utopia, but, seeing as Utopia is a Greciate word meaning 'noplace', then should not the more realistic negative Utopia naturally be called '[some:]place'?)"


PLATO - APOLOGY

"Plato was wrong and whats real is not ideal. What is real is actually real in physical reality and Plato was a cunt for thinking otherwise and I heard he sodomized many many young boys too.
So now all we have about God are ideals that essentially come from nowhere other than ppl minds and lack of evidence suggests the possibility and what I now view as likely hood of nothingness. So ppl of faith convince me I am wrong and that most atheists like Plato too are sodomites and why I should follow and believe in your flying spaghetti monster."

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Christopher Marlowe - The Jew of Malta

"I pretty much skimmed it. I need to reread it with the notes. You would think that considering those facts, I’d refrain from writing a review."


"I will ALWAYS prefer Merchant of Venice to The Jew of Malta. I don't care if Marlowe inspired Shakespeare on that one, Jew of Malta is terrifying in its anti-Semitic tone"


"I hate Christopher Marlowe with every piece of who I am and all that is sacred to my being ... (A little side-note: I’m desperately in love with words, but there are certain combinations of specific syllables that make me want to die. For instance, I find extensive use of the letter 'L' to be irritating.)"

Friday, November 25, 2011

Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

"Kant suxxx so hard. Kant suxxx so much we invented a drinking game called 'reasons Kant suxxx' where you go around in a circle and list reasons Kant sucks until you can’t anymore and then you have to drink. The game in itself kind of suxxx cuz you don’t really get to drink ever cuz there are so many reasons."


"A few days ago, I learned about a philosopher named Kant. Kant is a shit. For someone whose career it is to think, he is profoundly dumb."


"It was Immanuel Kant who said, 'It is God's will, not merely that we should be happy, but that we should MAKE OURSELVES HAPPY. This is TRUE MORALITY.' Of course, Kant was an idiot. God never said that it is His will for us to 'make ourselves happy.' That's a satanic philosophy, which eventually ends with, 'If it feels good, then do it.' Jesus Christ said, 'If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.' Luke 9:23. The 'don't worry, be happy' philosophy will damn your soul to Hell."


"to anyone studying philosophy he is the epitome of a c#nt. to be fair i havent been to enough lectures to know much about his views"

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Plato - Apology

"For the average person with an interest in philosophy, I thought this was tedious and often rather irrelevant."


"Its a good skim - and it actually begs for a graphic novel version."


"I have come to the conclusion that either Socrates is indeed a very wiseman or he's a very talented charlatan who is capable of confusing and arguing his way out of a wet paper bag...If the later is the case, then he's a very influential and dangerous man and the Athens' Jury were correct in his guilty verdict and subsequent punishment."


"Socrates was by and large a trouble maker. He tore down other's beleifs in trying to find the nature and wisdom of pious, but never offered anything in return."


"Plato was wrong and whats real is not ideal. What is real is actually real in physical reality and Plato was a cunt for thinking otherwise and I heard he sodomized many many young boys too.
So now all we have about God are ideals that essentially come from nowhere other than ppl minds and lack of evidence suggests the possibility and what I now view as likely hood of nothingness. So ppl of faith convince me I am wrong and that most atheists like Plato too are sodomites and why I should follow and believe in your flying spaghetti monster."

Monday, November 21, 2011

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four III

"What if the Nazi’s had won 'World War 2'? What if are world only had three countries? In '1984' that is the reality. The Nazi’s did not when Word War 2 but the world was divided into three supercontinents, Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania. Winston Smith is a normal person who lives in Oceania London and works in the monastery a truth."


"1984 is about an atlernate reality set in 1984. Winston Smith is a thirty nine year old protagonist who is rebeling against the Big Brother in little ways everyday. Along with his friend Julia who is more than just a friend, Winston must battle against the Big Brother, thwart O'Brians plan to hurt him and as close to Julia as he can."


"brilliant. guide to life."


"I am not at all intrested in the goverment. This may be part of the reason that I didnt like it."


"winston lives in a negative utopia. everything in the world is completely twisted and being the conservative i am, i was a little shocked by some of the book. for instance, winston has more than a few sex scenes that i think were completely unnecessary."


"This book was boring ... even to me, and I'm only just mildly smart. I can imagine how boring 1984 would be to someone with a higher IQ than mine."


"1984, A Sci-Fi book, was not that good to me. It was confusing in the beginning and began to make sense toward the end but I still couldn’t understand what the author was getting at. His world sounded cruel and unfair."


"Once i had finished the book, I really started wondering about our books that i have read through my two years of middle school and four years of high school. i wonder why we cannot seem to get hold of a single book that leaves you happy at the end. Why did the government have to win. Winston becomes just like anyone else. I am astounded as to why we all wonder why teenage suicide rates are at an all time high. Not only do high school students have to deal with a depressing school environment, but also bring these books with us home where we continue to be depressed. Would it kill us to ever read a book where the good guy actually wins? If i got anything from this book, it has only helped my realize that our school has only fed its students depressing literature that our poisoning our minds. In 1984, the government shaped societies mind to be exactly what they wanted it to be. Is there any possibility that our school system is doing the same thing? A large majority of our literature is coming off to derive away from God and lean towards liberal points of views."


"This book is mind blowing. Literally ... If you enjoyed The Resistance soundtrack by the band Muse, then you will love this book."


"Who controls the present now, controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future, Who controls the present now... NOW TESTIFY!!!

This book is THAT good."


"We are living 1984 now."


"CHOSE to read this when I was 42. I would suggest this to everyone after they've grown up a bit. It will make you think, and make you wonder if Big Brother does exist!"


"The best book ever written by a human being."


"I have to say I was irritated with the main characters obvious depressing outlook on his survival against big brother."


"Bah humbug. I can't believe they made us read this in grade 8. If my kid has this on the curriculum in grade 8, you betcha this mom is calling the school to complain!

Did not appreciate the torture bits and the promoting of suicide as a way out.

Way did not appreciate the hopeless ending."


"I prefer the Topias to the Utopias, my self, as the Topias have far greater potential of becoming reality. (The proper term, incidentally, is Negative Utopia, but, seeing as Utopia is a Greciate word meaning 'noplace', then should not the more realistic negative Utopia naturally be called '[some:]place'?)"


"Action is sparse and sporadic, with one 'action' seen being an incredibly odd and kinky sex scene between Winston and Julia"


"One word: Torture. This book is about physical and psychological torture and as the reader you get to be tortured too. There are some interesting political and philosophical points, and you might be able to feel smarter because you have read this well-known book. That may be enough of a reason to read it but don't expect to enjoy it."


"Why does this book get a low rating?
Because of the ending.

End of story.
The most infuriating ending of a book I have ever read in my life. I was so mad. It was fine up until then. But as an author, I felt Orwell gave up on his readers and that just isn't acceptable."


"It was quite annoying that the next 30 pages was Winston reading "the book" and I, also, had to read each and every word"


"first of all its NOTHING like the future is probly going to turn out. second of all every one says the aurthor george orwell is so trippy and wierd but i think he's just trying to cover up for the fact that HE CAN'T WRITE. please george do us all a faver and stop writing books."

Saturday, November 19, 2011

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four II

"This book is essentially the same as 'The Brave New World' but expressed in a totally different way."


"It was a very good description of life during anti-social time"


"The greatest prose stylist the English language has produced."


"must we really keep reading in full detail the horror and disgust of Winston's vericose veins?!"


"This is a good example of the fact that pessimistic and shocking books often receive rave criticism while dynamically optimistic books are dubbed 'unrealistic'... NO further comment."


"DON'T READ ANY GEORGE ORWELL. Your just waisting your time."


"The book was a great read and a good use of time. I personally think big brother is the man."


"Orwell has an imaginative mind, I must say, but thuis book talks about 1949, when he published it when there were such things as totalitarism. How could he know it would still be the exact same thing in 1984? This book also has strange events. The author skipped around too many times. At one sentence, he would be in the appartment in Winston's home, and without telling a reason for it, he would be some where else."


"The words are difficult. I had no clue what was really going on. It would be less boring if it was shorter and broken down so it would be easier to understand. You might like this book if you are interested in predicting the future and you can read lots of difficult words and know what they mean."


"People would complain of sexism and demand a 'big sister.' As ideals of beauty changed and people decided that Big Brother's omnipresent facade was unnatractive (too fat, maybe) they would lose all respect for him."


"I have to ask, 'What's the point?' Maybe if you live in a country that's a monarchy, this book's worth reading, but this is *America*, ok? The whole reason we live in a democracy is so that we the people don't have to worry about things like this."


"Unlike Mr Orwell apparently, I can actually remember 1984 and believe you me some of his recollections of the era are well off the mark."


"THS BOOK SHOULD NOT BE READ UNLESS YOU LOVE THE DESTRCTION OF THE WONDERFUL HUMAN NATURE GOD CREATED."


"CONFUSING!!!
tHE BOOK WAS ABOUT A GUY NAMED WINSTON WHO FOUND A DIARY AND WROTE HIS FEELING IN IT WHICH WAS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. I THOUGHT THE BOOK WAS RATHER BORING AND CONFUSING TO READ. I DIDNT UNDERSTAND MOST OF THE THINGS HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. WHEN READING THE BOOK I SUGGEST THAT YOU PAY CLOSE ATTENTION SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND IT COMPLETELY AND WONT BE CONFUSED."


"R-E-J-E-C-T-E-D
This particular piece of literature, entitled 1984 and written by Goerge Orwell, was 1980 boring. Being a seventeen year old teenager, with a mind of my own, made it extremely difficult to stay focused on something so morbid and [weak] as this so-called "classic." I can sum up my thoughts of this book using few words...Reading this book was like HELL! And for those of you who are more visual, it was like trying to keep a white T-shirt clean while eating spaghetti."


"For me the book took a downword turn during the time where Winston started having a love affair with some girl. This girl latter became a thought police inforcer, which surprised me none. I found the book to be a bore of a read and very predictable. My advise to all of you fair readers is to steer clear of this vile book. You will live longer because of it."


"For the people who read and enjoyed this book...GET A LIFE!"


"Quote from '1984': 'Humanity is nothing more than one man shoving another man's face in the mud'
So, '1984' tells us that humans are completely useless and we have no reason to exist."


"It was just thoughts of a sad man with perverse and suspicouis thoughts."


"I think it's absolutely disgusting that just about every book that we had to read in freshman English had sex in it."


"This book isn't as good as Harry Potter in MY opinion, and no one can refute me. Tastes are relative!"


"Nice try George
The main character, Winston Smith, spends his time throughout the novel trying to overthrow The Party and Big Brother, while running from the "Thought Police," a justice department that monitors the thoughts of citizens of Oceana, the predicted future state of London, England. Winston fails in his attempts. He is captured, set up by people whom he believed to be on his side, and is later brainwashed into loving and following Big Brother.
Great attitude George. I truly believe that Orwell's sole purpose for writing this novel was to encourage anarchy, and to convince his readers to be subordinate to authority ... Let's try to be a little more optomistic, and work on a happier ending, shall we?"


"The plot is fairly simplistic but with redundant lines. 'Oceania has always been war with Eastasia.' 'Freedom is slavery.' 'Big Brother is watching you.' In other words, it was nothing but a lot of nonsensical fillers."


"The book has multiple plot holes as well. Beware the 'government runs the world unchallenged, but still needs to brainwash old people' hole."

ANOTHER PLOT HOLE: IN THE OPENING PAGES, WE SEE WINSTON WALKING HOME. BUT THEN HE GETS HOME! AND IF HE'S HOME, WHY DID HE NEED TO WALK HOME AT ALL? YOUR MOVE, ORWELL

Thursday, November 17, 2011

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four

"My bible."


"What if what you believed in turns out to be all hoax?
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU."


"I also love the fact that it doesn't have a happy ending - it is rare to find book like that."


"I also think it could have done without all of the sex."


"I am just not into the whole big brother concept....."


"i didnt like this book what so ever it was to old for me the styel of writing was vary diffrent and something i wasnt usto and so i diidnt like it and disided to abandin it

i wouldnt recomed to anyone who dosent like to read realy old books or vary strong powerful wworeds"


"George Orwell’s 1984 is a book that suffers, for me, from a problem of putting to many words in descriptions that don’t need it."


"It's really hard to believe how long ago this was written. It reads like a modern novel and has real merit."


"After they captured Winston he was tortured into believing the lies of the party like 2+2=4."


"Another thing i didnt like about the book was how dark it was. This book had a lot of betrayl, secrets, and lies in it; somthing that i personally dont like reading about,
I mean I usually like sifi books, and futeristic things like 1984, but this book was a little out of the normal. I found it akward how the author put so much phyical contact in the the book. It made it difficult and wierd to read for a person my age.
I think the moral of the book is to stand up for what you believe in, and never stop trying."


"You could title this book 2009 this book is a clear representation of the current day and administration."


"When i found out that the book was divided into sections and then subsections I nearly lost my mind. My best friend who is a year older than me couldn't decipher the intricate workings of George Orwell's writing ... My fear is octopus. even a picture reduces me to tears. I cannot even look a the marine bio textbook because there is an octopus on it. I could not survive in that world. In one word to describe this book.....detestable."


"I didn't care for Winston Smith, I found him a boring and bland main character who thought too much"


"I think I read 25 pages before I said, 'ECCKGH!!!' and threw the book across the room. I then read the plot summary on Wikipedia, and was grateful I didn't waste my time with finishing the book. After reading many reviews, I'm still not sure what's so great about '1984.' Enlighten me if you can. That's the thing though, I'm don't think there IS anything enlightening or redeeming about this novel. I only read a little bit, but those 25 pages were so incredibly dark and depressed the hell out of me. Why would you want to read something that brings you down so much? '1984' made me feel so bad I had to read some Berenstain Bears to cheer me up."


"I will protest if my high schooler has to read it--graphic torture scenes for 30 pages or so--I read only like a sentence on each page for those pages."


"How did things get this way? Where is the ACLU (not that I support them...)? I hope there is some explanation."


"This novel pulled wires in my head that did not need pulled. It tested the limits of my intelligence."


"After reading it, I don't understand why this is part of the high school curriculum! It's slow, totally depressing, the subject matter is far beyond the comprehension of a high schooler and it's really not appropriate for that age level to read it, no matter how 'advanced' a class it is. I could barely appreciate it for the message it was conveying and I'm almost 10 years beyond high school."


"It is one of the most depressing books, that I have read. The message wasn't as clear in 1984. In Ann Rand books the message is clear. I like the Ann Rand books better."


"The love interest was a filthy whore."


"I did not enjoy this book.

I do not believe in futility, ever.

I am more of a 'Never give up! Never give in! Never surrender! Never allow despair to overcome!' kind of guy."


"How sad to make teenagers read unhappy crap without also giving them positive stuff to read for credit, and strengthen their sense of identity."


"To say this book stunk the fat one would be kind... 1984?!?!? More like 'Nineteen eighty I want some more!' lol-- j/k. Seriously though-- big time stink fest."

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra

"Ugh. Boring. Slow. Maybe it's really cool to watch, but it's really tedious to read fifteen scenes in Acts III and IV, especially when we know (from history) how it ends ... Shakespeare seemed like he was trying too hard to be accurate"


"As much as Shakespeare is an acclaimed writer, I found little to enjoy about this play mostly because I found Cleopatra and Antony contrived and ridiculously without common sense for the historical icons they are."


"Am asked what I think of this play. Slightly feverish, eating oatmeal, I mutter: 'I thought they were all stupid.'"


"The only thing that I learned By reading Antony and Cleopatra,was that History should be ashamed of having recorded the lives of these two people!"


"HBO's 'Rome' tells the story much, much better in Season 2. So, for that matter, does Colleen McCulloch (author of 'The Thorn Birds') in her novel by the same title. Kind of feel like I wasted my time with this one."

YEAH, YOU REALLY DID

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching

"The androcentric worldview is certainly an aberration of history that will destroy us if we do not contemplate the Tao and realign our human forces in order to be more like the Ewoks in Star Wars."


"It was absolute nonsense and Orwell must have read it because it's lesson of 'Ignorance is Strength' could have come right out of it."


"Inane and oxymoronic. Abounding with self contradiction, not only in the verses themselves--which I was willing to indulge on the basis that they made a twisted sort of sense--but when comparing different verses. An exercise in seeing how many people will pretend the emperor has clothes."


"For instance, you get a repetition of the idea that 'to desire' is bad, but what an average person with no metaphorical training would read that you should live by humble means, in other words: 'have nothing,' when in actuality they probably mean that you should 'have,' for 'having' is the opposite of 'desiring'."


"Too inscrutable. :-)"


"Lao Tsu is full of shit."


"I keep the Tao around in case I ever feel like re-reading it and also so I can look well-read."


"It's very peaceful and cleverly worded, but I can't say i really buy it. Maybe I'm just not a peaceful laissez-faire kind of person."


"I read this at a pathetic attempt to enlighten myself in some b.s. way...

All I got out of it was how to breathe.
So when I hugged a girl I liked or something, I breathed when I did so thinking it would give me some spiritual entity that wasn't there before and it would emit through her or something and she'd be like 'OH MY GOD! I LOVE MARTY'

This did not happen."

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

"I hated this book. Simone de Beauvoir is really sexist towards women."


"I felt damaged after reading this book."


"Much of it seemed irrelevant for this day and age, as it was written by a Frenchwoman in the 50's. It's steeped in a lot of French culture, existentialism, Freudian theory that has since been debunked, and the life of women before sixty years of liberation."


"if what you're interested in is cutting-edge, interesting, thought-provoking feminist theory, I'm afraid that this book no longer has what it takes. It was all of these things when it was written, and most of them as recently as the 1970s, but for a modern reader ... it has long since lost the relevance that made it worth the effort to parse the 814 pages of impenetrable language."


"I was amazed to read this book to see the origin of the women's movement. The jihad that Beauvoir calls for in the opening pages actually says that women should murder men. She says the proletariat has always dreamed of massacring the bourgeoisie, why can't women dream the same in regards to men.
The result is a kind of declaration of holy war. This holy war has now spread to thousands of women's studies programs whose only aim is the spreading of hatred. This is funded by liberal states throughout the western world. It has utterly poisoned the air between the genders as men are viciously painted in the minds of gullible young women. Run by violent lesbians, the university training these women receive is devoid of anything except the study of myth, and literature. Science and math are male, and therefore left out of the women's studies curriculum.

The training silos in Pakistan and Afghanistan create terrorists with a black and white vision of the world. Their fatwa is well-known against America.

The fatwa that women should dream of massacring men is less well-known, and yet is funded without question.

Reading this book was a huge breakthrough for me. I felt I had seen the source of my misery in college, and for many years after, as women of all ages exploded with rage at the men around me. They are being made into human missiles by Simone de Beauvoir's rage and the way which it is fashioned by women's studies programs who use this book as their koran."

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Hesiod - The Theogony

"Both the Theogony and Works and Days are, by any modern standards, incredibly boring."


"As I expected, there were a TON of pronouns - or more precisely, around 300 (no, I didn't count them, thanks) - in a mere 30 pages of the text"


"Although false, Hesiod's theology of the beginning of the world is interesting and makes me, as a Christian, realize just how good our God really is. He tells these Myths as true, even though they were not really believed in his time, or before his time."


"a dry and dull reading experience, irrelevant to my life."

Monday, November 7, 2011

Ben Jonson - Volpone

"I'm not a fan of old comedy and because this follows old comedy I didn't enjoy it"


"It was atrocious ... If you want a more detailed summary of it, you'll either have to read it or ask someone else since it was too convoluted for me to really make sense of it."


"you can see throug dr.jonson's word that he didn't judge or staier people ,he just wish to revel the most populer problems in his age ."


"YOU JUST HAVE TO BE A BIT INTO PHILOSOPHIES AND YOU WILL HAVE A WHOLESUM TIME READING IT"

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Al Qur'an II

"Can someone show me a Muslim dominated nation that isn't a third world country?"


"This book should never be left where it could fall into the hands of children. Recurrent themes of bloody violence, murder, racism, incest and rape are dealt with extremely irresponsibly. Horrific events are presented as justified by circumstances and as solutions to petty wrongs.

Worse than the depictions in the book are actual historic examples of such depictions being used to justify the worst kind of degradation and humiliation that humans have ever been forced to endure. These acts are not just inspired by this book, but characters in the book urge its readers to follow its example. Worst of all, however, is that, despite this book's obvious lack of coherent logic or sense, it inexplicably possesses a following of people that somehow find comfort in its horror.

No doubt about it, the horrific images, and lack of intelligent discussion of those images, contained in this book makes it entirely unsuitable for children, or sensible adults.

It is very doubtful that a book that meanders so terribly, and contradicts itself so often, is truly inspired by a deity."


"The words and passages in this book have inspired untold thousands of wanton murders and repression down throughout the centuries. Many of the problems facing humanity today can be traced to the belief system introduced in this book... among the greatest, most influential works of fiction yet devised."


"Many believers in the Koran have criticized this translation as not being the "real" Koran because they say that it can never be translated accurately. They even suggest that one cannot possibly understand the Koran unless you study Arabic with some scholars. I have news for these people. This is an old superstition about languages which has absolutely no basis in fact. Any linguist will tell you that anything in one language can be translated into another language and that there are no superior languages or more expressive languages. Just as Islam followers would like the whole world to bow facing Mecca in an act of subordination ('Islam' means submission, not peace, by the way) to one of the most undeveloped and uncivilized areas of the world, so they would love Arabic to be held up as some sort of superior language, the only language that the Koran could rightly be studied in. This is absolute nonsense. Any idea in one language can be translated into any other language
...
It is easy to see exactly what the message of the Koran is. Is the Koran permissive of violence? Yes. Are the stories in the Koran a confused jumble of Old Testament, New Testament, gnostic and pagan stories? Yes. Read it for yourselves and see. And you don't need an Arabic scholar to read it with to see that."


"The Koran is a work of complete fiction. These words are the illiterate musings of someone who happened to be on his own (like Moses , Joseph Smith etc) when visited by the Archangel Gabriel (another fictional character where evidence of this beings existence is nil). Misogynistic, homophobic, intolerant of other faiths, totalitarian i thought, this book was created when superstition ruled. The hatred on each page drips with blood. Love, peace and compassion is rarely mentioned. I would suggest reading the skeptics koran instead."


"Followers have nothing left to do but blow themselves up. Their countries and culture are dying - left stuck in the middle ages and there is no way out as long as this book is ruling over them. The arab countries must either give up Islam or give up any relevance in the modern world. All that is left them to do is to strike out in a desperate, frustrated, hate filled last stand against modernity before they sink into total irrelevance."


"I am a fervent reader of the New Testament. I wanted to read the Koran too as I have heard so much on the news and internet about this 'holy book'. I bought an english translation. I read the first few Suras...then I skipped to the longer suras." AT THIS POINT THE READER SHOULD KNOW THAT APART FROM THE PROEM, THE SURAHS OF THE KORAN ARE ORGANIZED BY LENGTH -- DESCENDING BY LENGTH "I did not feel any sort of spiritual power whatsoever - NOTHING. I read Christ's words (The Sermon on the Mount, The Beatitudes, etc.) and then I read the Koran and I find that there is no comparison. Christ healed Lepers, gave sight to the blind, fed the multitudes, and blessed little children. What did Mohammed do? KILL! What did Christ do? Love and Heal.

I find mohammad a very very poor subsitute for the Loving Christ I read about every day...

God Bless you all...."


"There are people who want war in the name of this book. For those who love freedom and life, it may be time to give it to them and to give it to them with the same fierceness that they are willing to do so in the name of the god they believe mirrors their own depraved, twisted, and poisonous minds. This insanity called Islam is nothing but a psychosis indulged in by those who wouldn't understand science in a million years."


"I am a Christian and I want no more than to read the scriptures every day.
I feel very very sorry for muslims who are forced to read this book each day."


"Now, regarding the Quran and other scriptures, you know from the start it's going to be a slow read. Writers like Mohammed, St Paul, and others were not word-savvy and couldn't make a gripping read like Ian Fleming, JK Rowling, or Jean Auel."

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Al Qur'an

"The prophet was illiterate.?So the book was poorly written,right?....I heard many people said that the Koran was the (worst)(only) poorly written religious bk among it's counterparts, though I have not read it yet.I will buy the book in this year and peruse it so that I can understand what Islam is.(Islam= I slam?LOL,from a Sweden's website...with funny pics. But, so far, I think it is a book that trains terrorists,..(a rabble-rouser)"


"This book has been one of the biggest reading disappointments of my life. It starts off with the line: 'This Book is not to be doubted.' My brain is my second favorite organ. Why would I want to hang it up on a rack while I read the Koran? Of course, I am going to doubt it if I feel it is warranted. Why would any intelligent person not doubt?

Then it gets into a retelling of the Old Testament of the Bible. And actually just some of the stories, some of the more famous ones. It's sort of like retelling just those that are on his mind at the time. Then the same stories are referred to again and again.

It is forbidden to eat swine. I guess because it is an 'unclean' animal. So keep a clean pigsty. How much uncleaner is a pig than any other farm animal? Isn't it time to put these ancient ideas about clean and unclean animals away?

Women who are menstruating are considered 'unclean.' Maybe this made sense at one time. But shouldn't it be put behind us?
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'He that chooses a religion other than Islam . . . in the world to come he will surely be among the losers.' So much for religious tolerance. God does not care for members of other religions.

'No one dies unless God wills. The term of every life is fixed.' A fatalistic view of life. Why be afraid of anything? You will not die until God wills it. In fact, that end is already fixed in time.
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'They do blaspheme, who declare: 'God is the Messiah, the son of Mary.'' There are a few people in the world who do happen to believe that.
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God knows everything. It is 'recorded in a glorious book.' He really gets around. Is this a real book? How many words could it possibly contain? Why would anyone want to record everything?
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'The desert Arabs surpass others in unbelief and hypocrisy.' As opposed to the non-desert Arabs?
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I simply cannot figure out how people can speak of being inspired by this book. What a sad world we live in."


"I have to admit I haven't finished it yet. I said I'd read it to find the part where it says blow yourself up and a bunch of infidels."


"The sections of this book that I have read, make it clear that it no longer matches Judeo Christian Ideals."


"FILTHY TRASH - it is hard to review this book of sickness, lies, deception and garbage with out swearing! ALLAH is shit! Covered women are whores! And this book is a license for its followers to crash airplains into my nation and walk around with illegal weapons and bombs! It is today's Mein Kampf! The sooner civilized nations declare a WAR ON ISLAM the better! Evil hate cult = Islam!"

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Shakespeare - As You Like It

"the sex jokes are the downfall of this work."


"If you could sort my Goodreads Shakespeare reviews and read them all at once you would find they all say the same thing: Bor-ing! Boring, boring, boring!"


"God dammit this was stupid. Even if I was a peasant from Shakespeare's era I don't see how I wouldn't have seen how ridiculous the plot of this was."


"This is a boring idiotic play. I think ol'Shakey thought the same thing"


"more like as i didnt like it..."


"In real life, women cannot woo men and win them over. Didn't Shakespeare read 'He's Just Not That Into You?' What, if any message, is to be taken from this play?"