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| Trancer-X |
Wow! 700+ pages, there must have been some seriously detailed complexity in that story line. Do you remember how deep in the book you read before he escaped from jail in Australia? Just curious.
If I didn't have a stack of about 7 books already I would probably pick this up. I wish there were more hours in a day! Damn it!!! :sadgreen: |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
The Anti-Chomsky Reader |
A more appropriate title for the book would be "Anti-Chomsky Propoganda." |
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| brashy |
| I would all recommend any book written by Roger Garaudy. It depicts political systems in the US and other capitalist countries from a French viewpoint. Although Garaudy is not a radical, he still reminds of some horrible effects of both ultra-capitalism and stalinism. |
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| tathi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancer-X
Wow! 700+ pages, there must have been some seriously detailed complexity in that story line. Do you remember how deep in the book you read before he escaped from jail in Australia? Just curious.
If I didn't have a stack of about 7 books already I would probably pick this up. I wish there were more hours in a day! Damn it!!! :sadgreen: |
The book starts when he arrives in Bombay, he only talks about how he escaped the Australian jail briefly when he is being tortured and starved to death in Aurthur Road Prison in India.
The complexity is absolutely amazing, it reads like fiction because he is such an amazing writer, it would be impossible for anyone to go into that much detail if it was made up.
It doesn't get bogged down in detail either, the perfect balance. While reading this book i was living inside a slum in Bombay, fighting the Soviets with the Mujahadeen in Afgahnistan, working for the Bombay Mafia, I now know the ins and outs of international passport forgery :eyespop:
get this book, it stands out amongst the hundreds of 5 star books i've ever read, i lost my social life while reading it aswell haha, couldn't put it down |
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| Blue. |
| Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six :D |
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| razmataz |
Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
Joseph Heller - Catch-22 |
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