Metal Reviews

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An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse.

Oooh cool Marcuse is an anarchist philosopher, isn't he?

Never read him myself.

I finished reading Max Brooks's "World War Z" last night. It's a pretty cool book, very convincing in parts.

Very good book! Really enjoyed it when I read it a couple of years back. It's very ambitious but Brooks pulls it off surprisingly well.

Heh, it's all about someone who accidentally throws a cigarette but on to someone's head, and the trouble it causes. A title I could see getting funny looks from Americans, haha.

Currently reading Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr. Only 100 pages in so far, but it's good. I'm sure it will pick up more later on. This is the first book I've read in ages.

Marcuse is a neo-marxist/critical theorist. He draws from psychology a lot and basically argues that the 60s U.S. govt. is a totalitarian state.

Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hide by Lisa Gardner
Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie

all for school. Haven't read a book that wasn't for school in a long while.

I'm so proud of you. Marcuse's ultimate conclusion is anarchism due to the problems which arise from his Marxist views.

Gene Wolfe- Return to the Whorl (Book of the Short Sun, Book 3)

This trilogy is amazing. Almost as good so far as the Book of the New Sun. Goddamn Gene Wolfe, why are you such a good writer, and why can you do unreliable narrators so well?

Man, I really need to get up with my reading but university+parties+papers+exams really fucks up my time available for books

Kurt Vonnegut - A Man With No Country.

Vonnegut is one of the few with the ability to make me drop everything to read what he has written. The book is just his memoirs and should be rather short so I'll probably read it twice and then pick the Marcuse back up.

Mikhail Bulgakov- The Master and Margarita

We've probably talked about this before but that book is awesome. It's one of the few books that make me feel like I'm missing something or that I don't understand the exact message. The cat, Behemoth, is my favorite character.

i kind of god that it didn't really have a message... like in the end it was just the devil fucking with people

But their is a political message and layers to every chapter and I may just be over thinking it.

yeah, i'm not sure. i got that there were hints of some sort of message to it, but whenever i tried to think about it i just ended up with the devil fucking with people.

I've heard it's amazing and ridiculously layered, so I'm really looking forward to starting it tommorow. My edition also has some endnotes, so hopefully if I really don't understand something they'll clear it up.