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What amounts to a terrorist cell in mid-nineteenth century Russia and its effect on a small fictional town of Dostoyevsky’s invention.
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The Devils – A User’s Guide
Posted in Fiction, Observation, Reading with tags Dostoyevsky, Martin Scorsese, Pyramids, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Devils on August 26, 2020 by Jarrod Boyle
Jordan Peterson
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men with tags 12 Rules For Life, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Bikram Choudhury, Bikram yoga, Cathy Newman, Clementine Ford, Dale Carnegie, Dostoyevsky, Eurydice Dixon, How To Win Friends and Influence People, Jack Farmer, Jordan Peterson, Jung, Kafka, Lisa Wilkinson, Nietzche, Osho, Patanjali Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Rilke, TED talk, Wild Wild Country, Yoga: The Science of the Soul on January 30, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
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A friend of mine sent me a critique of Jordan Peterson yesterday in response to my encouragement of her to give him a listen. Originally published in an American journal called The Star, it’s the first decent criticism of Peterson I have read. Continue reading
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My Favorite Book
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, The Brothers Karamazov on November 22, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
I referred to the Time list of the best books ever written some weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about it since, and the list has probably destroyed my interest in ‘best of’ lists for ever after. Which may prove to be a good thing. But what it did raise to my attention was the ludicrous inclusion of The Great Gatsby – I mean, give me a break. I’m not saying Fitzgerald isn’t good, but Dosteyevsky has done turds that dwarf Gatsby. Continue reading
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Madame Bovary
Posted in Reading with tags Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Middlemarch, The Brothers Karamazov, Tolstoy on October 10, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleTime Magazine ranked the ten greatest novels of all time thus:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Continue reading
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The Lost Art of Reading
Posted in Reading with tags Anna Karenina, Charlie Parker, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, Jean Genet, Moby Dick, Rodney Hall, Shakespeare, The Brothers Karamazov, The Scarlet and the Black, Tolstoy, Tom Jones, War and Peace, Wynton Marsalis on September 4, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
The Lost Art of Reading
This entry takes its title from Rodney Hall’s keynote address at the 2010 Byron Bay Writer’s Festival. I had hoped to begin with a link to the lecture which I believe the ABC filmed and will eventually upload onto youtube. While googling, I found this interview, which is a really interesting introduction to the man.
http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2010/04/27/feature-rodney-hall-author-of-popeye-never-told-you-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/ Continue reading
