My English teacher used to rave on and on about that book. Only read Dubliners by him, which was odd enough.
It is messed up. I can't understand half of it, and I've done an A-Level designed specifically to analyse this ****.
My English teacher used to rave on and on about that book. Only read Dubliners by him, which was odd enough.
Dan Brown is a great writer, enjoyed all his books and LOTR is a classic too although I rate Harry Potter higher
It is messed up. I can't understand half of it, and I've done an A-Level designed specifically to analyse this ****.
It is messed up. I can't understand half of it, and I've done an A-Level designed specifically to analyse this ****.
Mate. Ulysses is shocking. If you want any pointers though, I did a literary analysis for a unit this year so I'll try dig the **** out and remember some points. Easy enough when you get into it.
great read.I'm currently reading 'How to save a football club' by Ian Ridley. Its a true story, based on from when he brought financially striken Weymouth FC, and it shows a real insight into a how a lower-league football club is ran. Even stuff like getting 2 big men to un-block turnstyles is mentioned, and having Steve Claridge as manager.
Great book in my opinion.
yeh i had to get it for history and in my local libary they said that jews, gays, gipsies etc steal them so it doesn't spread ideas. i bought it on ebay
i'm not fascist, i'm far from it but his ideas are actally quite interesting. yeh he wrote it when in jail in 1923ish i think.Yeah I just ordered it from ebay, should arrive soon and cant wait to read it... apparently Hitler wrote it when he was in jail
Mate. Ulysses is shocking. If you want any pointers though, I did a literary analysis for a unit this year so I'll try dig the **** out and remember some points. Easy enough when you get into it.
I thought Ulysses was regarded as Joyce's greatest ever work, and one of the best pieces of literature?
Ulysses by James Joyce.
What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
My English teacher used to rave on and on about that book. Only read Dubliners by him, which was odd enough.
Can't say I have, but they're making Atlas Shrugged into a film. Wonder how they're gonna do that!
It's illegal in a few countries, and imho is almost as bad as the Communist Manifesto.
Wiki on Mein Kampf.
Turkey: It was widely available and growing in popularity, even to the point where it became a bestseller, selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in 2005.
Failed States - Noam Chomsky
I'm sorry but that's a load of rubbish. You may hate the forms socialism took in history but there's nothing that's morally reprehensible in his writing; at worst it's simply utopian idealism that shouldn't have been taken too literally. Not to mention along with Darwin and Freud he's one of the three pillars of modernism. How you can say it's worse than the deranged writings of a dictator who wanted to racially purify German society is absolutely beyond me. Sounds like you're taking the work of Ayn Rand way too seriously, which is arguably more devoid of morality than Mein Kampf (at least Hitler has concern for his society as a whole and wants to do what is good in his eyes). Anyway, here are the ten measures to implement socialism in The Communist Manifesto:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
While we never went this far, property taxes are now standard.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Modern first world countries have this.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
In many places inheritance is heavily taxed.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Assuming this happened after a revolution, this would be pretty obvious, especially for the emigrants. Even in the American revolution most of the loyalists' property was confiscated.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We basically have this too.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
In many first world countries transportation is publically owned.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
This happened in history as the modern state is much larger than the state that existed back then, and of course today we do have some concern for the environment.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We have a similar idea only a different system, and I don't see anything wrong with this.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
He didn't foresee the eventually disappearance of the countryside population for obvious reasons, but this is a good ideal.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
We have this too.
Really wasn't as radical as people think it was and a lot of modern social welfare programs came directly from him (social security, for example, was his idea) and if you take the time period into context you understand where he's coming from. And because of the invaluable contributions he made to the social sciences he should be required reading, not banned as you implied.