Sep 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Friday Airport Blogging
Oprah has good taste:
In other Tolstoy news, I feel like Hadji Murad should be talked about more. Kind of a precursor to the Anbar Awekening / SOI strategy we’re currently employing in Iraq.
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September 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
And… I know we don’t care much about it any more, but a presage to Chechnya and the century’s-old revolt of the Caucasus against Russia.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
As long as there’s no Resurrection-blogging, anything Tolstoy related is good with me…
September 5th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
“…All Republicans are corrupt in their own way.”
September 6th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Perhaps when he gets where he’s going, MattY could consider correcting/”revisiting” a couple recent posts where he completely bought anti-Palin smears without spending even a split second trying to figure out whether they were misleading or not.
First up is this; see the comments for why it’s wrong:
yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/palin_and_special_needs_children.php
Next up:
yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/life_begins_at_conception_and_ends_at_death.php
With that story, the WaPo sunk to DailyKos level.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Pick up the Kurt Vonnegut book.
It’ s a nice read.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Dostoevsky > Tolstoy
September 6th, 2008 at 12:50 am
I’d go further: Hadji Murad should be required reading in every high school.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Happy bookclubs are happy all in the same way. Unhappy bookclubs are unhappy each in their own particular way.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Dostoevsky > Tolstoy
Really?!?!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, pp. 335-36.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:44 am
I’m blown away to see that Oprah has chosen Anna Karenina as
summer reading. I can’t wait to get down to the beach, volume
in hand.
Damn, I took The Magic Mountain by mistake. So much for a
good tan with light reading.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Damn, I took The Magic Mountain by mistake. So much for a
good tan with light reading.
Scott, come on now.
I love Tolstoy.
BUT DON’T IGNORE MANN’S MASTERPIECE. That book changed my life.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:09 am
thehova,
I’ve read them, and I am glad you had the response you indicated.
Both Tolstoy and Mann should transform your mind and soul.
My post was Irony 101 and was aimed at Oprah’s pretensions.
All the best.
Scott
September 6th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Ha, yeah Scott, looking back it, your post was ironic. I blame alcohol.
Mann is def. an underrated author.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:55 am
See, I can shit in any thread I like, because I’m a sad no-life dogfuck.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Oprah’s book club won me over right at the start, when she chose Beloved as the first selection. Now there’s a book that should be required reading for every American.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Oprah had Cormac McCarthy’s The Road on her book club list. That was really all I needed to give her taste in books that benefit of the doubt.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Why is Confederacy of Dunces in this picture?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:59 am
A proper sense of theology and geometry, msw. Why else?
September 6th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Glad to learn you’re a Hadji Murat fan, Matthew. I’ve been pushing it ever since I came across it a few years ago, writing about it frequently at my blog and putting copies into the hands of anyone I can. Aside from its perpetual topicality due to the problems in the region, it’s a wonderful introduction to Tolstoy, as if he’d been boiled down for our convenience, allowing us in a mere 100 pages to sample nearly all his tricks and much of his glory.
Viktor Shklovlsky may be overdoing it a bit when he says, “Among his great works, Tolstoy has one that’s the best. It’s Hadji Murad.” But he’s not far off.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:21 am
If Oprah had taste she would also recommend that Vonnegut book, or any Vonnegut book. GO READ MOTHER NIGHT NOW!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
‘Anna Karenina’ was Oprah’s selection in May 2004.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
“All actuality is in deadly earnest, and we must not be true to the guileless unrealism of our youth.” (Thomas Mann)
September 7th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
HADJI MURAD is unbelievably good. Turned me on to the whole wide world of Tolstoy. The best part is near the end when Mary Vasilievna tells the men “you’re cuthroats, all of you — cuthroats.” Or something along those lines.
THE COSSACKS is also very good, and THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN may be one of the saddest, strangest and most relgious books I’ve ever read. Great on Europe’s collective irrationality and suicidal tendencies tied in with WWI.
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