When Camus mentioned Francis of Assissi, I was like Hey! I know that dude from the time Greta Gerwig mentioned him on Colbert.
What I got out of this When Camus mentioned Francis of Assissi, I was like Hey! I know that dude from the time Greta Gerwig mentioned him on Colbert.
What I got out of this book are a truck-load of French book recommendations and a feeling that Camus would've been a great teacher.
“for example, how tragedy differs from drama or melodrama. This is what seems to me the difference: the forces confronting each other in tragedy are equally legitimate, equally justified. In melodramas or dramas, on the other hand, only one force is legitimate.� ...more
Name a book with a more misleading title challenge. When an author does it, it's charming. When a publisher does it, it's not Clooney. (My own personaName a book with a more misleading title challenge. When an author does it, it's charming. When a publisher does it, it's not Clooney. (My own personal bring up Clooney in every review challenge, now two reviews strong.)
The book's a collection of 4 essays. One mountain and 3 molehills. (Hope Orwell doesn't mind that phrase.)
The massive one is about how the social structure of the pre-2nd world war British society has to change if it is to stand a chance against the Nazis.
Two things about that: 1) I couldn't have made it sound more boring. 2) On reading the essay, Britain was like
Orwell comes across as a really smart man in these essays, someone sure of his views and opinions in addition. Is this book the closest the British have to Thomas Paine's Common Sense? Probably not, but I don't know any better *resumes dancing to LCD Soundsystem's I Can Change*....more
The book mentions Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. Five stars.
Reads like an intellectual piece that buttresses its ideas by quoting work done by oThe book mentions Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. Five stars.
Reads like an intellectual piece that buttresses its ideas by quoting work done by other intellectuals.
Core argument of the book: Truth is what separates a democracy from an autocracy, and we should be very concerned by the growing disregard for facts.
“Hitler possessed an instinctive sense of how to capture public attention from the start. “Who cares whether they laugh at us or insult us, treating us as fools or criminals?� he wrote about his early efforts to make a name for himself. “The point is that they talk about us and constantly think about us.�" No such thing as bad publicity, eh? All you people working in marketing/PR are wannabe Hitlers.
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