"Should have been called Snore-onium. Hey-o!"
"even though the man can create an image...he still is a racist and classist."
OKAY FROM HERE ON OUT IT'S ALL ONE PERSON
"I take great satisfaction in knowing that Hemingway and Wallace Stevens both hit each other. First Wallace Stevens punched Hemingway in the face, and then Hemingway got up off the floor and beat the shit out of Wallace Stevens, landing him in the hospital. This suits me just fine, because I do not like Hemingway, but at the moment I reserve my most vehement loathing for Wallace Stevens. I don't have to study Hemingway; in fact it will probably never be necessary (knock wood) for me to read Hemingway ever again. Right now, though, I am being forced to give some of the space in my brain, the space that could be used for, I don't know, becoming acquainted with Anthony Trollope or Saul Bellow or Anthony Burgess or Djuna Barnes (my present book experiments for which I have no time because I am so busy studying Wallace Stevens), I am being forced to give some of that space to Wallace Stevens' wretched poetry and his perfectly idiotic and nonsensical literary theory. So I am really glad that Hemingway beat the crap out of him. Serves him right.
I also do not accept a lack of punctuation. That's just unacceptable. Come on, people. God gave us punctuation out of the love he bears us, and we're just spitting on him if we refuse to use it. It's there for us to use. See, I've just used a period! And look, an exclamation point! And commas, commas everywhere! It's so tidy and organized; it makes such good sense; we comprehend sentences so handily because of the punctuation that explains where the breaks are. Punctuation! Join me, comrades."
"And back to Wallace Stevens. DAMN IT. I will have to indulge in frequent imaginative reconstructions of his brutal beating at the hands of Ernest Hemingway"
"There may be no lengths AT ALL to which I will not go in order to avoid studying
Though in my defense, I am studying the most genuine load of crap: ... Wallace Stevens, for whom my deep distaste is well-documented (and in fact deserves its own category)."
"Why is there so much Wallace Stevens in the world?"
"I am done with Wretched Wallace Stevens. I had to write about him in two essay questions, and I did not appreciate it. I hope I never encounter that wretched, wretched man again. I hope this is the last time I will ever use my I Hate Wallace Stevens label."
"I hate Wallace Stevens
This is well-documented and there's nothing more to say about it. I just remembered that I had a category about this, and it reminded me of exactly how much I hate Wallace Stevens."
"I still hate Wallace Stevens. So much."
"I should have made this category ages ago, dude. I have an entire category for Wallace Stevens – oh, Wallace Stevens, I hate you so much and I'm still super glad that Ernest Hemingway beat the shit out of you"
"I still hate Wallace Stevens.
I'm not just saying it because I have a category and I don't want to waste it. I'm saying it because sometimes when I look at all my category labels, I see the I Hate Wallace Stevens one, and it reminds me of the deep loathing I continue to have for Wallace Stevens. I'm glad Ernest Hemingway kicked shit out of him and sent him to the hospital."
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Stephen W. Hawking - A Brief History of Time
"Boring, too sciencey"
"Have had this book 10 years and managed not to get past the first chapter."
"I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, yet I found this supposedly 'popular work' rather difficult to take in."
"I recognize that this book is considered a 'modern classic' on astrophysics. I like to consider myself a fairly intelligent person,"
OF COURSE YOU DO
YOU ALL FUCKING DO
"... I read about 25 pages and despite my best intentions, I could not bring myself to read the rest. Snooze...."
"a bit to text book reading"
"The math equations were far beyond me and probably most other college graduates."
(THE BOOK FAMOUSLY CONTAINS NO EQUATIONS OTHER THAN A FEW PASSING REFERENCES TO EINSTEIN'S E EQUALS M BY C SQUARED)
"Besides watching 'Star Trek' a couple hundred times, my exposure to physics has been limited to riding rollercoasters and reading a few physics book jackets. But this book was very hard to understand."
"I have had this book for 20 years and I still haven't finished reading it."
"I felt like I was under the spell of the Orb of Confusion every time I picked this up."
"Nice Book. But not new things. The theme is described before 1400 year in the Quran"
"Elsewhere it is also hard to agree that Hawking achieved something really convincing. He incures pre-arranged opinions rather undeliberated. As an example I exemplify the apes who type on a type writer so-and- so many million years and finally bring out a Sonnet of Shakespeare. That may be. But the error in reasoning is this: that there must be also somebody who knows that this is Shakespeare, let us read and like it! And then again million apes have to type for another billion years till the next work of Shakespeare. Only that nobody can remember the first work! This is how Hawking explains the evolution theory! This is all about facts! A poor performance of human reason! But impressing for the awestruck reader who holds no academic grade in physics! ... The laugh is always on the loser! ... I bet that Hawking likes Harry Potter!"
"It stinks like a spolied meat
The book ...is so much overrated... This book looks like a dustbin full of outdated concepts. The reader, please, do not be so fool to read this nonsense. Do not let anyone to blind you and try to open your own eyes. ..."
"If like you like to sit around and get bored, read this!
Before I read this book my views on thermo-dynamics was clouded by bordom and the fact that I have things that arn't boring to do. They are still the same now."
"A big dumb book...
I didn't read it because the cover looked stupid"
"I was open-minded before I read this 'book'. So ugly theory cannot describe our Universe. It looks like a religious movement with its invented concepts of black holes, big bang etc. This ugly theory deserves a public birning and we need a new generation of honest scientists and not that 'mafia circle' promoting their books to gain a dirty money.
Viva a new Science!!!"
"Are the praises for this book really recognition of Hawking's accomplishments or that he achieved them despite his physical infirmities?"
"Look at me I can't walk!"
"This review pertains to the audio version done by Michael Jackson."
WHAT
"Have had this book 10 years and managed not to get past the first chapter."
"I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, yet I found this supposedly 'popular work' rather difficult to take in."
"I recognize that this book is considered a 'modern classic' on astrophysics. I like to consider myself a fairly intelligent person,"
OF COURSE YOU DO
YOU ALL FUCKING DO
"... I read about 25 pages and despite my best intentions, I could not bring myself to read the rest. Snooze...."
"a bit to text book reading"
"The math equations were far beyond me and probably most other college graduates."
(THE BOOK FAMOUSLY CONTAINS NO EQUATIONS OTHER THAN A FEW PASSING REFERENCES TO EINSTEIN'S E EQUALS M BY C SQUARED)
"Besides watching 'Star Trek' a couple hundred times, my exposure to physics has been limited to riding rollercoasters and reading a few physics book jackets. But this book was very hard to understand."
"I have had this book for 20 years and I still haven't finished reading it."
"I felt like I was under the spell of the Orb of Confusion every time I picked this up."
"Nice Book. But not new things. The theme is described before 1400 year in the Quran"
"Elsewhere it is also hard to agree that Hawking achieved something really convincing. He incures pre-arranged opinions rather undeliberated. As an example I exemplify the apes who type on a type writer so-and- so many million years and finally bring out a Sonnet of Shakespeare. That may be. But the error in reasoning is this: that there must be also somebody who knows that this is Shakespeare, let us read and like it! And then again million apes have to type for another billion years till the next work of Shakespeare. Only that nobody can remember the first work! This is how Hawking explains the evolution theory! This is all about facts! A poor performance of human reason! But impressing for the awestruck reader who holds no academic grade in physics! ... The laugh is always on the loser! ... I bet that Hawking likes Harry Potter!"
"It stinks like a spolied meat
The book ...is so much overrated... This book looks like a dustbin full of outdated concepts. The reader, please, do not be so fool to read this nonsense. Do not let anyone to blind you and try to open your own eyes. ..."
"If like you like to sit around and get bored, read this!
Before I read this book my views on thermo-dynamics was clouded by bordom and the fact that I have things that arn't boring to do. They are still the same now."
"A big dumb book...
I didn't read it because the cover looked stupid"
"I was open-minded before I read this 'book'. So ugly theory cannot describe our Universe. It looks like a religious movement with its invented concepts of black holes, big bang etc. This ugly theory deserves a public birning and we need a new generation of honest scientists and not that 'mafia circle' promoting their books to gain a dirty money.
Viva a new Science!!!"
"Are the praises for this book really recognition of Hawking's accomplishments or that he achieved them despite his physical infirmities?"
"Look at me I can't walk!"
"This review pertains to the audio version done by Michael Jackson."
WHAT
Friday, April 1, 2011
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
"I doubt I'll pick it back up unless I run out of books to read, I'm too poor to buy any more books, all my friends turn on me and refuse to loan me anything else, and all the nearby libraries are set on fire simultaneously."
"he sounds like he's trying to say he's gay"
"I'm switching this book to the 'read' category since I have no intent of reading any more from it. However, I didn't really read it."
"He also uses wordy 'Poetic' language, that is hard to follow, even for experienced readers."
"I don't see the point of free verse poems ... The mystery to me is how in the world did this book become an American literary classic? It's just one of those mysteries."
I'M GOING TO GUESS YOU EXPERIENCE THESE MYSTERIES WITH SOME REGULARITY
"Total Rating: 0 of 10
Characters: 0 of 2
Themes/Symbols: 0 of 2
Plot: 0 of 2
Prose: 0 of 2
Wider Influence: 0 of 2"
"Walt, Walt... Didn't anyone ever tell you there's a fine line between intoxicated raving and art? The things we write when under the influence are sometimes better off if they never see the light of day. Leaves of Grass, in my opinion, should have been taken out behind the barn and quietly shot before it was allowed to afflict the literary world with its egocentric, esoteric, nightmarish images and pseudo-artistic themes.
But you know...whatever it takes to 'celebrate yourself.'"
"technically I didn't read this book."
ONE STAR
"I really wanted some of whatever Whitman was smoking that made him so ecstatically, ebulliently enthusiastic about every molecule on the planet. Including his own b.o.
'The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer.'
Huh??? Was this guy sniffing glue along with those arm-pits?"
"Poetry. Nobody ever said this was. All. Poetry. I don't read poetry. I don't write poetry. I don't GET poetry. And you'd think with titles like; 'From Pent up Aching Rivers', 'Of Him I sing', and 'Oh Hymen, Oh Hymenee!'. That that's stuff I could figure out. Not so much. I did give this a good peruse, and read the author's prologue, but there's just no way I can sit around reading that stuff. All I could think about the whole time is; what kind of guy sits around writing poetry for 30 years?"
"Most of Leaves of Grass left me in doubt of whether I had actually picked up Smoke Some Grass by mistake."
"I didn't get much out of this other than that Whitman was a silly son of a B. Lalala people are good lalala I love everyone lalala... That's my summary."
"Writing poetry for the sake of 'expressing oneself' is kinda insipid ... But fugazi and minor threat fans the world over thank you."
"more like leaves of ass."
"Known as America's Poet, Whitman is not poetic
like most poetry today, the poems are so little different from prose, except in the presentation into lines. Very few poetic devises are used.
One may correctly criticize my critique as one who does not appreciate contemporary poetry. But, in comparison to rhyhming verse by Longfellow, Frost, Byron, Browning, or Shakespeare, current poetry appears meaningless."
"Although he may be as genius as he is, Walt Whitman is just random. His structure and development are atrocious, leaving us in a cloud of confusion. His lists, names, and metaphors can only be described as random thought. And don't even get me started on his comma use. That's how my little sister writes for crying out loud! I mean, don't you remember? You'd get lucky if you found an 'and' in there somewhere. Granted, he did revolutionize poetry and writing as we know it. However, certain selections for his ever famous Song of Myself show that he can sure describe those bodily actions that he seems to love so much. I can cut him some slack, probably because he's a romantic writer, but his random stringing of words, phrases, and lists do his poetry injustice."
"I know I'm supposed to love it, but I just don't. So there."
"he sounds like he's trying to say he's gay"
"I'm switching this book to the 'read' category since I have no intent of reading any more from it. However, I didn't really read it."
"He also uses wordy 'Poetic' language, that is hard to follow, even for experienced readers."
"I don't see the point of free verse poems ... The mystery to me is how in the world did this book become an American literary classic? It's just one of those mysteries."
I'M GOING TO GUESS YOU EXPERIENCE THESE MYSTERIES WITH SOME REGULARITY
"Total Rating: 0 of 10
Characters: 0 of 2
Themes/Symbols: 0 of 2
Plot: 0 of 2
Prose: 0 of 2
Wider Influence: 0 of 2"
"Walt, Walt... Didn't anyone ever tell you there's a fine line between intoxicated raving and art? The things we write when under the influence are sometimes better off if they never see the light of day. Leaves of Grass, in my opinion, should have been taken out behind the barn and quietly shot before it was allowed to afflict the literary world with its egocentric, esoteric, nightmarish images and pseudo-artistic themes.
But you know...whatever it takes to 'celebrate yourself.'"
"technically I didn't read this book."
ONE STAR
"I really wanted some of whatever Whitman was smoking that made him so ecstatically, ebulliently enthusiastic about every molecule on the planet. Including his own b.o.
'The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer.'
Huh??? Was this guy sniffing glue along with those arm-pits?"
"Poetry. Nobody ever said this was. All. Poetry. I don't read poetry. I don't write poetry. I don't GET poetry. And you'd think with titles like; 'From Pent up Aching Rivers', 'Of Him I sing', and 'Oh Hymen, Oh Hymenee!'. That that's stuff I could figure out. Not so much. I did give this a good peruse, and read the author's prologue, but there's just no way I can sit around reading that stuff. All I could think about the whole time is; what kind of guy sits around writing poetry for 30 years?"
"Most of Leaves of Grass left me in doubt of whether I had actually picked up Smoke Some Grass by mistake."
"I didn't get much out of this other than that Whitman was a silly son of a B. Lalala people are good lalala I love everyone lalala... That's my summary."
"Writing poetry for the sake of 'expressing oneself' is kinda insipid ... But fugazi and minor threat fans the world over thank you."
"more like leaves of ass."
"Known as America's Poet, Whitman is not poetic
like most poetry today, the poems are so little different from prose, except in the presentation into lines. Very few poetic devises are used.
One may correctly criticize my critique as one who does not appreciate contemporary poetry. But, in comparison to rhyhming verse by Longfellow, Frost, Byron, Browning, or Shakespeare, current poetry appears meaningless."
"Although he may be as genius as he is, Walt Whitman is just random. His structure and development are atrocious, leaving us in a cloud of confusion. His lists, names, and metaphors can only be described as random thought. And don't even get me started on his comma use. That's how my little sister writes for crying out loud! I mean, don't you remember? You'd get lucky if you found an 'and' in there somewhere. Granted, he did revolutionize poetry and writing as we know it. However, certain selections for his ever famous Song of Myself show that he can sure describe those bodily actions that he seems to love so much. I can cut him some slack, probably because he's a romantic writer, but his random stringing of words, phrases, and lists do his poetry injustice."
"I know I'm supposed to love it, but I just don't. So there."
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