Re: Deluge Reading Group

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I'll check out the book on Monday or Tuesday and will see how intimidating it looks.


Posted by: Mooseking | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 4:18 PM
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OK, fine, I'll participate. I wouldn't have read Piketty w/o the group. I'll do 9 and 10 because USA USA USA.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 4:31 PM
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The Kindle edition is $2 more than the paperback. Such bullshit.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 6:00 PM
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Bezos wants a different kind of deluge.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 6:35 PM
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I bought it because I'm traveling and wanted something to read.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 6:38 PM
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The enthusiasm here is just overwhelming.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:38 PM
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But you're dedicated trolls so I know you're bright eyed and bushy tailed behind those jaded personae!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:40 PM
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Gonna go lick it up tomorrow--they already pulled it for me an' everything.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:41 PM
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Poor Mossy! Please don't take it personally. We're this unenthusiastic and bitter about everything.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:41 PM
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And what about your copy of the book?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:42 PM
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10 to 8.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:42 PM
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See, 8 shows unusually strong enthusiasm. Maybe people from the sanitizer thread can weigh in.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:42 PM
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4: A deluge of kisses!


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 7:51 PM
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9: I know, hence 7. I too am bitter about everything, hence my presence.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 8:49 PM
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I have been bitter with you, my brother,
Remembering that saying of Lenin when the shadow
Was already on his face: "The emotions are not skilled workers."
Yet we are as the double almond concealed in one shell.
I have mistrusted your apodictic strength
Saying always: Yet why did you not finish Hyperion?
But now I have learned not to curtail
What was in you the valency of speech
The bond of molecular utterance.


Posted by: Ern Malley | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 8:57 PM
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Apres malaise, le deluge.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 04-29-16 9:01 PM
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Apparently, I failed to order the book. I honestly thought I had.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-30-16 1:46 AM
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So far I'm finding it interesting, and, although there are details that make me question his story, the broad narrative sweep seems convincing. So far (part 1) he doesn't seem to be pushing an original thesis particularly, but I expect that comes in post-war.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 04-30-16 8:54 AM
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Fake Accent, I know I have your email somewhere but I can't locate it. Send me an email?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 1-16 7:50 PM
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I put my name on the spreadsheet, checked out the book from the library. I'll probably end up renewing it unread until it gets close to my turn to summarize.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05- 2-16 11:07 PM
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I just noticed this and saw that no one had arbitrarily assigned me to anything, so I picked some chapters.


Posted by: R Tigre | Link to this comment | 05- 2-16 11:10 PM
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Wait, there's a spreadsheet now?


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 05- 2-16 11:21 PM
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I'm not voting for Halfordismo if that's how the Generalissimo does business.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05- 2-16 11:24 PM
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What happened to piratepad?


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05- 2-16 11:27 PM
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IP lawyers. *AHEM*


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 05- 3-16 12:04 AM
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Hey I missed this earlier but I'll read along.


Posted by: conflated | Link to this comment | 05- 4-16 7:20 AM
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I have a copy and am reading, Mossy. There is so, so much in this world that I don't know.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 05- 4-16 7:32 AM
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