Comment Re:Can't help plugging Atwood (Score 1) 410
I was talking about selling books.
I was talking about selling books.
Your interpretation of Ingsoc's jealousy is light. Sex is very important. Love is more important. 1984 is not a pro- or anti-theistic work. You do the work's message a disservice when you attempt to use it for a tangentially related polemic in this way. I would hate to see a theistic person's desire to read 1984 discouraged by an inaccurate representation that the work is atheist in its message.
Great comment. I love 1984, but I'm tired of hearing how it's banned. I've never seen it banned.
Ingsoc is atheist. Try reading.
Where the heck is the anarchists cookbook? I remember mail-ordering it in high-school and then promptly setting our shed on fire.
Are the two events related?
I think HDM is an international mega-hit, and "banning" by Catholic schools was a godsend to the publishers. Yeah, I said godsend. I crack myself up. You guys know how baited protest marketing works, right?
AFAIK, the protest against HDM was baited, like the "rioting" at the release of the film "Do the Right Thing". The only people who protested HDM were gullible right-wing panic button types in the lead up to the release of a dud film that needed all the publicity help it could get. Not banned. Rushdie would be a better choice by far.
Her marketing consultant may have advised her to not identify as sci-fi. Or maybe she figured it out herself. Either way, it's a smart move. Marketing matters to professional writers who need to eat. Atwood does NOT belong in the same marketing campaigns as the latest Doctor Who book. Even taking the "classics" approach, listing her alongside genre greats like Asimov and Heinlein would also be a disservice to her sales. Genre snobbery isn't changed by anyone's critical opinion. It's best for her marketers to avoid the association.
I'm not sure this is true. We need to research this further. It's only 99 percent obvious, so clearly, we need more research. Where do we apply for a grant?
It seems to me that U2 and Apple are conspiring to piss us off.
No, AC is right. The degrees of US/ISIS ideologies 'wrongness' doesn't really matter, it's the fact that they are both rationalizing the acceptance of wrong. One will just have a much shorter time plummeting than the other.
Science can't hold a candle to someone who can't, or won't, appreciate critical thinking. Faith and religion beheads it.
You post AC for a reason, right?
Your title implies that there are two sides to every story. There are not. There are seven sides to most stories, with some stories acquiring four additional sides when no one is thinking about them. The remaining stories that don't fit this model almost without exception have 3.6 sides.
If you accept quantum theory (and just try to disprove it) then the perceptible universe is cannonically isomorphic to a subset of mathematics. If cannonically isomorphic isn't close enough to identity for you, I'd like an explanation of why not. (Well, except that several different things can have aspects that are cannonically isomorphic to the same thing...but perhaps that's just a way of saying that they have certain features that are essentially identical.)
Spelling counts, mister Cannon.
Wow, you kids keep making the availability error. If you're listening to a Creative MP3 player and I'm playing a portable Genesis, who needs to get off whose lawn? 1998 indeed. Don't make me pull rank.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
