Straw dogs
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- donal
by John gray. Anyone read it?
- doggy0
no
- donal0
Good man.
- Witt0
is that book related to Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" film?
- donal0
nope. its a brain swelling book though. couldn't recommend it highly enough.
- Witt0
yup i've checked.
i've heard about it. It doesn't look much different from Wilson's Sociobiological theory (1970). he claimed we are no more than an egoistical gene and that EVERYTHING is about that impluse to stay alive.
- lowimpakt0
i read it about 1.5 years ago. just started it for the second time yesterday.
- donal0
nice one low-meister. i have been re-reading on the luas every morning. then i sniff womens arses and bite children. why fight it?
- Witt0
someone should also check Gray's motiviations ;)
- lowimpakt0
witt. that is what these books are for. i disagree with lots of what he says and all that
- donal0
i agree blindly with everything he says.
- lowimpakt0
it's true. he does.
- Witt0
ok.
i havn't rad it so i can't rally hav an opinion.
* wonders what gntic truth is munching th *'s
- donal0
your tiny mind would probably implode if you looked at the cover.
- Witt0
hmm,
yea, the type's too big.
- Witt0
from the crit:
"Gray mainly uses the words of others to paint a portrait Hieronymus Bosch would smile at."
"There really is not much new that has been added here, only old matter condensed into an easily accessible, easily read and easily regurgitated form."
"Gray is doing a great service in providing a Cliff Notes version of modern thought."
From interviews we find that Gray intended to ‘write (Straw Dogs) in a way that would be accessible to the average reader.’ This he achieves with astounding success. Whether Gray is unconsciously proposing a neo-anarchist philosophy, a brand-new-secondhand version of Stoicism, or if in complete awareness he is about to don steel-spiked wristbands and snap slack-jawed balcony dwellers out of their middle aged malaise is all very hard to say"
written so that mr. donal could get it :P
- donal0
i like books.
- alnove0
i'm 3/4's of the way thru, reading it on the bus every day, its takin a while tho!
- Witt0
peace dude.
i was just getting even. something kept gnawing in me.
}:=)
- mg330
I have the movie at home. It doesn't make you happy to watch it.
- JazX0
by John Gay you say? never heard of him.