Your favourite authors, and why?

[promethean75]

^^^ Oh nice the audio book! Narrator could be reading just a liiiittle faster but I'll get used to it, I suppose.

https://youtu.be/pwCeCly6YtA

Serge and Coleman enter the stage at about 18:00. Coleman's voice is right, Serge's is not. I'll have to get over it.

[Maia]

I'll add a play, too, namely, Macbeth, since we did a production of it when I was in the 6th form for a school open day. Obviously, being a Pagan and all, I wanted to be one of the witches, preferably the first witch, but I ended up being Banquo, since it was an all female cast and we just had to make the best of it. Actually, it was really good fun, but I'm not sure how enthusiastically the assembled parents and various others shared that opinion. The only other Shakespeare play that I'm particularly familiar with is Hamlet.

[promethean75]

So i made it about 1:45 into the audiobook yesterday but started to nod off a little and lost the story line. I doubt that i could ever make it through a whole audio book. I have to read a story rather than have someone tell it to me.

Here's the intro of Sharon Rhodes, the one who briefly teams up with Serge and Coleman. Here she meets Wilbur, whom she's getting ready to seduce, marry and then collect insurance on (when he dies). Dorsey is killin it here. So funny.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxobhJuC_m-3 ... txJRWKVxxN

What ruins the whole thing ultimately are the narrator's voicings. His reading is fine tho.

[promethean75]

Lol 'the Putzinfuss(sp?) Gambit'. Wilbur revolutionizes the insurance industry with a brilliant new strategy; just deny the claims and refuse to help the policy holders.

A policy holder in dire need of an organ transplant is in no shape to argue with u.

This follows minutes after his and Sharon Rhode's meeting.

[promethean75]

Did u hear the hook? Wilbur ends up dying after getting hit with a stray bullet because he's denied emergency medical attention due to his approving physician not answering his phone (on purpose). The hospital then transfers Wilbur to his own line at the insurance company... and he gets a recording of himself, getting beat by his own gambit.

This is Dorsey's genius at work. And he makes these little puzzles of absurdity all throughout his stories.

[Maia]

So i made it about 1:45 into the audiobook yesterday but started to nod off a little and lost the story line. I doubt that i could ever make it through a whole audio book. I have to read a story rather than have someone tell it to me.

Here's the intro of Sharon Rhodes, the one who briefly teams up with Serge and Coleman. Here she meets Wilbur, whom she's getting ready to seduce, marry and then collect insurance on (when he dies). Dorsey is killin it here. So funny.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxobhJuC_m-3 ... txJRWKVxxN

What ruins the whole thing ultimately are the narrator's voicings. His reading is fine tho.

Audio books can indeed be a bit slow, which is why I prefer books as a text file (or pdf, or docx, or whatever), which you can listen to at any speed that you like.

[promethean75]

Oh wait! I knew it but I wasn't sure i knew it until i just heard it again. The bullet that killed Wilbur was from Sharon Rhode's lover so she did plan the murder and life insurance payout. Yup this is one I read becuz i remembered this when i heard it. The shooter (Nigel) is the guy she meets in the bathroom, knocking the toilet stall wall over while fucking him. Lololol.

The tempo of the audio book is tolerable if you're high I've noted. It's just the character voices that aren't good.

[promethean75]

Dorsey's style involves linking the fates of bad characters together through an ever advancing process of karmic retribution. Each one, responsible for succeeding at (or at least trying to) screwing the other one, meets their own fate in a similar way by being screwed by another character.

Serge is the antihero during all this... that writing formula where affection for the bad guy with questionable morals is earned from the audience throughout the story becuz he brings rightous retribution... cleans the world of the real bad guys, etc. Antiheros are easy to do, but funny ones are difficult.

[promethean75]

Bro Dorsey wtf. The plywood shark-eating-tourist cutout where Wilbur/tourists put their heads for pictures is a metaphorical representation of Wilbur and Sharon; Sharon is the shark that is eating him (the blow job and murder for payoff), and the tourist is the scumbag with the camera hanging from his neck (Wilbur the insurance fraud recording Sharon's tits with his camcorder).

Sharon and Wilbur are demonstrating the plywood cutout theme. I had only just earler realized this. Dorsey did that on purpose hahahaha.

[promethean75]

Coleman and Serge meet in jail around 1:55:00. Coleman, who was put into a cooler by his dad when he was a kid and suffering brain damage as a result, gets arrested for robbing a bank when a die pack explodes on one of the stacks he shoved down his pants, blowing a hole in his pants and blasting what looked like blood all over a group of nuns and a second grade class from catholic school, who thought it was a scene from a scifi movie like alien.

Serge completes the introduction and, as expected, wastes no time before giving his new cell mate Coleman a lesson on the entire history of florida.

[accelafine]

John Steinbeck has always stood out for me over my lifetime, but apparently he is now 'too white and male' for the fucking woke pieces of cvnt-faced shit wankstains who have infected the human race with their toxic maggot-ridden excrement.

[Walker]

John Steinbeck has always stood out for me over my lifetime, but apparently he is now 'too white and male' for the fucking woke pieces of cvnt-faced shit wankstains who have infected the human race with their toxic maggot-ridden excrement.

The Grapes of Wrath: Tom Joad will be Everywhere (20th Century Fox) 1940
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pu0hMs4unk

“Well, maybe it’s like Casey says. A fella ain’t got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul, the one Big Soul that belongs to everybody.”

Comment: When “everybody,” consists of fewer bodies, then there is more of the one Big Soul in those fewer bodies than when there are more bodies that contain the one Big Soul, such as at this time in the history of the world when there are the most people that ever there was, and they divide up all the soul energy. This is just basic arithmetic according to the Law of Conservation of Energy.

This means that each individual now has less soul energy than each individual then, but only if that energy is evenly distributed amongst all the folks that are. But even distribution is not likely, seeing as how bright lights shine in each generation, and those bright lights have a bit bigger of their little piece of the one Big Soul.

Then again, the soul energy could be evenly distributed, however those bright lights (like Steinbeck) have a more clear access to that energy.

[Immanuel Can]

Favourite authors?

At the moment, probably James Lindsay, Jonathan Haidt, Michael Polanyi, David Bentley Hart...

Usually, C.S. Lewis, Soren Kierkegaard, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, and the Biblical authors.

Least favourite? Marx, Hegel, Freire and just about any Neo-Marxist writer, especially the current crop of unreadable loons.

[Impenitent]

Lewis and Orwell are excellent choices

I'll add Bradbury and Asimov

-Imp

[Walker]

From what I’ve gathered, old-fashioned Marxists like Steinbeck saw the goodness of the communal ideal that requires the benevolence of good people to work for the benefit of all, however did he ever take into account that human nature changes the communal ideal into something else, into a system of society that doesn’t require goodness or benevolence?

Would this new slogan for the neo-Marxists be fitting?: From each according to his need to give as determined by the state, and to each according to his ability to take as determined by the state.