This is my pulling the plaster off. A fair bit is getting in and I'm listening in conjunction with the podcast of David Harvey's course in 2008. I plan to pick up the paperback next year and study it again. In the short term, there are lots of books adjacent to Capital which I'll be reading in the next few months, starting with Sweezy.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 7:15pmYou're insane. I can't conceive of listening to it and understanding it well enough. I had to re-read passages several times, sometimes cross-referencing with secondary source analyses.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 6:54pmDude, I have been listening to it. I'm at hour 17.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 5:51pmDon't want to read Capital? Listen to it! Only 43 hours of your life.
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Your dedication is genuinely admirable. You're still insane for listening to Capital, tho.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 5:21amThis is my pulling the plaster off. A fair bit is getting in and I'm listening in conjunction with the podcast of David Harvey's course in 2008. I plan to pick up the paperback next year and study it again. In the short term, there are lots of books adjacent to Capital which I'll be reading in the next few months, starting with Sweezy.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 7:15pmYou're insane. I can't conceive of listening to it and understanding it well enough. I had to re-read passages several times, sometimes cross-referencing with secondary source analyses.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 6:54pmDude, I have been listening to it. I'm at hour 17.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 5:51pmDon't want to read Capital? Listen to it! Only 43 hours of your life.
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Just let me know when.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 5:21amThis is my pulling the plaster off. A fair bit is getting in and I'm listening in conjunction with the podcast of David Harvey's course in 2008. I plan to pick up the paperback next year and study it again. In the short term, there are lots of books adjacent to Capital which I'll be reading in the next few months, starting with Sweezy.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 7:15pmYou're insane. I can't conceive of listening to it and understanding it well enough. I had to re-read passages several times, sometimes cross-referencing with secondary source analyses.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 6:54pmDude, I have been listening to it. I'm at hour 17.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 5:51pmDon't want to read Capital? Listen to it! Only 43 hours of your life.
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I'll be goddamned if there's something I'm interested in that I don't fully understand.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 6:17amYour dedication is genuinely admirable. You're still insane for listening to Capital, tho.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 5:21amThis is my pulling the plaster off. A fair bit is getting in and I'm listening in conjunction with the podcast of David Harvey's course in 2008. I plan to pick up the paperback next year and study it again. In the short term, there are lots of books adjacent to Capital which I'll be reading in the next few months, starting with Sweezy.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 7:15pmYou're insane. I can't conceive of listening to it and understanding it well enough. I had to re-read passages several times, sometimes cross-referencing with secondary source analyses.Silent Majority wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 6:54pmDude, I have been listening to it. I'm at hour 17.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Apr 2018, 5:51pmDon't want to read Capital? Listen to it! Only 43 hours of your life.
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It's that kind of curiosity that leads to grad school and frustration.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 9:28amI'll be goddamned if there's something I'm interested in that I don't fully understand.
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I’ll be goddamned if I read anything that I don’t already understand and agree with!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 10:16amIt's that kind of curiosity that leads to grad school and frustration.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 9:28amI'll be goddamned if there's something I'm interested in that I don't fully understand.
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It's that kind of incuriosity that leads to a tenured position and supreme smugness!Wolter wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 12:49pmI’ll be goddamned if I read anything that I don’t already understand and agree with!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 10:16amIt's that kind of curiosity that leads to grad school and frustration.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Apr 2018, 9:28amI'll be goddamned if there's something I'm interested in that I don't fully understand.
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I'll be goddamned if I read!
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I do this to the boss whenever she's reading some fantasy nerd novel.
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Morecambe and Wise - Graham McCann. Library borrow. A great book about the kings of 70s mainstream entertainment. A lot of the pleasure came from the journey from music halls to the BBC as it geared for the coming eighties. I like how nice Eric and Ernie were in real life.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Gregory Hays translation.
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Citizen Clem - John Bew. Audiobook. Here's a book that pretends to sing the red flag while whispering centrism. Bew opens this edition of his biography of Clemant Atlee - the Labour Prime Minister who held the premiership from 1945 - 51 - with a stinging repudiation of the Corbyn project, vociferously protesting that any similarities between those two Labour leaders have been exaggerated, are indeed a vicious slander on the dead man, who was a true patriot and killed Germans in the war and all sorts. What's emphasised in this book is how very sensible he was, how unwilling to give way to petty things like principles. Bew compares the public school educated Attlee with the massive son of the Welsh mining communities, inflexible, fighting Nye Bevan who battered the NHS into a workable shape but didn't give up or compromise enough to gain Bew's seal of approval. A decent biography of Bevan is now on my middle list, cos the dude seems brilliant. Attlee's journey through the impoverished East End to the Front of the first world war, to a member of the burgeoning Labour party is told with more accuracy than panache and the book will often spend hundreds of words on what the future Prime Minister was reading at various parts of his life. The negotiation, the discussion, the political battles are glossed over. Churchill appears as a magnificent Lion, who did little wrong. For anyone who's ever looked at the life and works of the man who caused an Indian famine mostly out of spite with more notice than you'd give a five pound note, this is pretty offensive, but telling for as to where the book's point of view lays. Attlee is more or less perfect himself in these pages, and those who criticise him for his tending viciously to dissent in a crumbling British Empire are given short shrift. The creation of the commonwealth, the inauguration of Israel, the NHS, NATO, are all run through with less enthusiasm than the fella's time as a soldier in WW1, which Bew takes as evidence that Attlee was not a non-descript pipe smoking bureaucrat but a quiet hero in the traditional vein. I'm interested by who he was and what he did, but I loathed this book.
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.
Yes Please! - Amy Poehler. Audiobook, read by the author. A cheerful celebrity memoir which spends a good chunk of the book complaining about how hard the writer found the book to write. I like Poehler onscreen and she's funny in places here. This served the exact purpose I wanted it to: an easy place to procrastinate away from Karl Marx.