JanMichael
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Wed Sep-03-03 10:34 PM
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Just finished "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis. Tomorrow? "The Iron Heel"! |
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You know, the Oligarchic dystopia by Jack London where he pretty much predicts Mussillini & Hitler plus lays out what we're all screaming headlong into today, blind Corporatism. A literal blueprint for what we're seeing everyday...But written in 1906!
Wicked.
I'm really digging the early 20th century writers as of late. Lots of Leftist Populism and anti-Corporatism in the stories suits me well.
Whatcha reading?
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Wed Sep-03-03 10:37 PM
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1. Whoops! Did Carol go back to Gopher Prairie beaten? |
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Edited on Wed Sep-03-03 10:39 PM by JanMichael
I many was yes, in many others no. While she was essentially a Socialist she also had a maid...So was the "defeat" too brutal? Nah. She wasn't about to give up her niceties as the wife of a small town Doctor. I guessed it before I read it.
She became a Fabian Incrementalist. For a while that worked.
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Wed Sep-03-03 10:54 PM
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'round here, all kinds of goodies.. 1. a heartbreaking work of a staggering genious-david eggers. sad funny, funny, sad, good dialect, the only nonfiction book i"ve read in ages, but its partial true 2. absolutely american- by david lipsky. well written. 3. seabiscuit-laura hillenbrand. better than the movie. 4 driving Mr albert-michael paterniti, funny early. meets william s burroughs there are more but I have to go have sex with my wife now, PM me some titles
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JanMichael
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Thu Sep-04-03 07:31 AM
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Hope your evening ended well.
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Wed Sep-03-03 10:48 PM
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2. Read the Iron Heel in High School in the 60's. |
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It's a timeless read. It's alot like reading about medical problems and all of a sudden you think you have the symptoms you just read about. Think about Microsoft when he describes the purpose of lawyers in the unfettered capitaist future he describes.
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Wed Sep-03-03 10:51 PM
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3. Cool. Do you know how difficult that book was to find? |
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Off-line that is. Tried 5 or 6 bookstores until yesterday when I went back to my local Barnes & Noble and they had a brand spankin' new copy.
One of the little Lefty booksellers must have had a premonition.
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Thu Sep-04-03 07:48 AM
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6. Open a can of SPAM.... |
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And read Sinclair's "The Jungle" while you eat it...
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Thu Sep-04-03 08:12 AM
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7. Spam? Nope. Already read Upton's book. |
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Edited on Thu Sep-04-03 08:14 AM by JanMichael
Beside having similar names (as well as Socialist leanings) Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis actually knew each other. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jsinclair.htm"It Can't Happen Here" is next on my list after "The Iron Heel".
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