Suggest a Book for the dissensus book club!
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Vonnegut on his novel "Player Piano"
"cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Eugene Zamiatin's We."
I wouldnt mind this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano
Or Kafka's "the castle"..... especially after working for a miniscule affiliate of the Bskyb empire,
K-punk ref http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010280.html
Ive had some great experiences of post code-phone number mis matches etc and similar Beaurocrazy fubar bungling..... anyways.....
"cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Eugene Zamiatin's We."
I wouldnt mind this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano
Or Kafka's "the castle"..... especially after working for a miniscule affiliate of the Bskyb empire,
K-punk ref http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/010280.html
Ive had some great experiences of post code-phone number mis matches etc and similar Beaurocrazy fubar bungling..... anyways.....
IdleRich
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Well, I've read a lot of Vonnegut (though not that one) and I've read The Castle although your link made me realise how long ago it was when I did it. Maybe if we wanted to be amibitious we could read two books that are related ie read We and then Player Piano which might give us more to talk about (we've probably all read Brave New World as well) - or is that just more links in the chain that mean that people aren't likely to bother?
jenks
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i would like to re-read Player Piano, particularly if it meant connecting it to another text.
I'd also be happy to look at Kafka again, it's been awhile (and I'm currently reading Hunger for the first time and feel the proto-Kafka-ishness grow page by page)
Really, I'm up for whatever.
(just edited out rant about participation in book club
)
I'd also be happy to look at Kafka again, it's been awhile (and I'm currently reading Hunger for the first time and feel the proto-Kafka-ishness grow page by page)
Really, I'm up for whatever.
(just edited out rant about participation in book club
)
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I've got to stop reading such fucking massive books! Seriously, out of the last 10 books I've read, I think 7 have been in the 600-900 page range, and one was about 1,400 - I'm just over a third of the way through my current 900 page tome. I'll be well up for doing this when I've finished. Or perhaps I could just start a new one and read them concurrently? Something nice and short would be great!
crackerjack
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I'm out for the mo. Sorry DBC (and esp jenks).
Btw, which book did you settle on, just in case i decide to make like Brad Dexter in the Magnificent 7 and charge back in.
Btw, which book did you settle on, just in case i decide to make like Brad Dexter in the Magnificent 7 and charge back in.
jenks
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The reason I edited out the rant is because I've already said it all before - the whole bookclub started as Idle responded to my despair at the paucity of literary comment and the inability of Lit threads to sustain a few contributions.
I know we are a particularly dusty corner of this board but sometimes the fact that a pan global forum, such as we are, cannot muster a decent number to discuss a book is pitiful.
We've all got other books to read on our shelves and are in the middle of various reading projects but so far i don't think any of the books has been over 300 pages yet. ( I've recently bought the new Nicola Barker in paperback, it's 800 pages long! It'll have to wait for the holidays (although ...I am on strike next Thursday:slanted)
Anyway, shall we go for We and Piano Player?
I know we are a particularly dusty corner of this board but sometimes the fact that a pan global forum, such as we are, cannot muster a decent number to discuss a book is pitiful.
We've all got other books to read on our shelves and are in the middle of various reading projects but so far i don't think any of the books has been over 300 pages yet. ( I've recently bought the new Nicola Barker in paperback, it's 800 pages long! It'll have to wait for the holidays (although ...I am on strike next Thursday:slanted
)Anyway, shall we go for We and Piano Player?
jenks
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sorry y'all
i was colossally stupid to think I could take on extra reading while finishing up my dissertation proposal. I'm reading hundreds of pages a day, at this point, until my exam May 12.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I'm not sure I get you - the only book I've read as part of the Dissensus Book Club (so far) was Austerlitz, the first one! The massive fucking books I've been reading since then have all been entirely self-inflicted.
Agent
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The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology edited by Dawn Ades
Includes translations of DADA poetry (surprsingly good!) and various texts and manifestos from the Dada journals, including the original DADA journal, plus 391 (Picabia's project), Der Dada, Litterature, Cannibale, Merz... many others. Many of these texts hadn't been translated into English until this book was released two years ago. My only complaint is that you don't really get a sense for the crazy layouts of the journals, but some online libraries have photocopies of the journals if you want to follow along.
Includes translations of DADA poetry (surprsingly good!) and various texts and manifestos from the Dada journals, including the original DADA journal, plus 391 (Picabia's project), Der Dada, Litterature, Cannibale, Merz... many others. Many of these texts hadn't been translated into English until this book was released two years ago. My only complaint is that you don't really get a sense for the crazy layouts of the journals, but some online libraries have photocopies of the journals if you want to follow along.
