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22. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
23. On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt ... good month for me too but I'm going to try and cut this down as much as possible. Here's the list:
1 Evil Valley
2 On Bullshit
3 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
4 How Fat Was Henry VIII?
5 The Other Tudors
6 What the Victorians Got Wrong
7 Life in Victorian Britai ... ... doesn't cost me anything or much especially in that because it is my prejudice I can ignore it. I actually have read On Bullshit. I have not been denied the Bible or any of Shakespeare's plays because of my prejudices.
Robert
I've got (or used to have) Is It Me or Is Everything Shit? And On Bullshit sounds great, I may have to read that too - not that I'm scatophilic (I may have just invented that word). From now on I'm going to ban from my library every title that includes the word 'cat'. Not that it offends me ... I loved On Bullshit. Unfortunately though, I used to work with a guy who was a constant bullshitter and after reading that book he became intolerable because I was so much more aware of his habit.
He fitted the example in the book - he didn't lie outright, he wasn't malicious. It's just that ... I had a problem with On Bullshit beyond not liking the title. At the time I read it I had engaged in a challenge on a now almost moribund forum in which I would review every book I read, as would a few others. I reviewed it briefly. A snob who didn't know about the challenge but knew that he ... >68
Well, there's always On Bullshit. This was intended to be light-hearted and merry. LOL. Cocoafiend's installment is pretty grim.
Frankfurt's On Bullshit is quite amusing, though perhaps not really for the bathroom. Freud, Jung, Reich the whole cabal in Fantasy, sure, works for me. Let's throw in Ayn Rand as well.
Aaah ... On Bullshit, by Harry G. Frankfurt, a succinctly titled serious essay.
What's Wrong with my Snake, for clarity.
And the iconic title The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can hardly be beaten. ... osophicus
"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit."
Harry G. Frankfurt - On Bullshit ... by Danzy Senna
Black: In the Wake of the Plague : The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor
Brown: On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
Grey: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Clear: Absolut Book : the Absolut Vodka Advertising Story
Gold: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eterna ... ... email with information about readings, sales, and also their weekly bestseller list (which is always pretty interesting - On Bullshit has been on the list for the past few months! Here's a link: http://www.harvard.com/subscribe/
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