DAST Book Club Discussion thread

2009-12-03 23:21:07

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Varegg: Support fanatic :-); +2,206|7096|Nårvei

This thread is for discussing and debating literature.

What makes a good book and what makes a great author are the essentials ... how can we grade and rate literature, should we listen to newspaper critics using a dice or seek out the professional guidance of academics?

If you want to recommend a good book we have the DAST Book Club

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2009-12-04 03:30:18

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FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6697|'Murka

Do you want to move the discussion associated with that to here, then?

Or has it already been deleted (haven't been able to spend much time here of late)?

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2009-12-04 06:52:34

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FEOS wrote:
Do you want to move the discussion associated with that to here, then?

Or has it already been deleted (haven't been able to spend much time here of late)?

I was meaning to move it into this thread when I have the time, have to copy paste post by post ...

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2009-12-14 00:30:49

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Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6757

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ … he-decade3

"DAN BROWN From conspiracy guff to blockbuster industry

If conspiracy theorists didn't have enough fuel this decade what with 9/11 being an "inside job", the non-arrival of the millennium bug and the possibility of Jedward being a situationist prank, along came a man looking like a bad Whose Line Is It Anyway? panellist to convince millions of airport novel-reading simpletons that if only they pushed the right stone in the floor of the Louvre, the roof would open revealing irrefutable evidence that Jesus was a blood-sucking alien in cahoots with the Freemasons."

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2009-12-14 00:49:07

#5

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2009-12-14 00:51:32

#6

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|6961|Canberra, AUS

God, how did we not guess!

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2009-12-14 04:33:00

#7

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6697|'Murka

Ah...an entire article from another self-proclaimed literary elitist, here to save us from what he deems to be unworthy. Everyone back to your Bronte and Fitzgerald...now!

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2009-12-14 06:13:39

#8

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FEOS wrote:
Ah...an entire article from another self-proclaimed literary elitist, here to save us from what he deems to be unworthy. Everyone back to your Bronte and Fitzgerald...now!

Reading the article I doubt he even read any of his books tbh ...

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2009-12-16 08:03:15

#9

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|6907|London, England

Uzique wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/dec/12/the-people-who-ruined-the-decade3

"DAN BROWN From conspiracy guff to blockbuster industry

If conspiracy theorists didn't have enough fuel this decade what with 9/11 being an "inside job", the non-arrival of the millennium bug and the possibility of Jedward being a situationist prank, along came a man looking like a bad Whose Line Is It Anyway? panellist to convince millions of airport novel-reading simpletons that if only they pushed the right stone in the floor of the Louvre, the roof would open revealing irrefutable evidence that Jesus was a blood-sucking alien in cahoots with the Freemasons."

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That whole series of "people who ruined the decade" is quite good stuff

YOU For listening, watching, consuming and tweeting about this lot and not just going for a nice walk instead.

SEE ALSO Us, for writing about them in the first place and not warning you sooner/strenuously enough.

/Decade

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2009-12-16 08:33:51

#10

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6979

Has anyone read the Anthony Kiedis autobiography: Scar Tissue?

It was a really interesting read.

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2009-12-16 08:40:52

#11

Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6755

Uzique wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/dec/12/the-people-who-ruined-the-decade3

"DAN BROWN From conspiracy guff to blockbuster industry

If conspiracy theorists didn't have enough fuel this decade what with 9/11 being an "inside job", the non-arrival of the millennium bug and the possibility of Jedward being a situationist prank, along came a man looking like a bad Whose Line Is It Anyway? panellist to convince millions of airport novel-reading simpletons that if only they pushed the right stone in the floor of the Louvre, the roof would open revealing irrefutable evidence that Jesus was a blood-sucking alien in cahoots with the Freemasons."

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DAVID SIMON For ruining any TV drama that isn't The Wire

At first, The Wire seemed like a cop show. Then it felt like a really good cop show. Then we realised we were watching David Simon pulling apart the very fabric of late American capitalism with a forensic, Dickensian masterpiece and pretty much everything we've watched since just seems a bit, well, unambitious.

This is true, I can't watch any drama that isn't The Wire.

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