RE: David Bowie's 100 Favourite books: How many have you read?
September 27, 2016 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2016 at 4:16 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Well I see he has on the list "The Master And Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov which is the book that I've heard is on the favorite list of many people's books, especially as a funny book. I remember I once tried reading it and it first part takes place on some square with some two guys talking. It seemed so boring to me that I stopped. Maybe someone can tell me what's so funny about this book?
And speaking about classics too bad there isn't Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" because that book seems to me the most prophetic one of our times, more then cyberpunk books. It's a book about group of people in a sanatorium surrounded with presumably latest achievements in technology and they just yap away for many, many hundreds of pages. It's just these stupid conversations like Christopher Columbus was an Asian and they flirt with each-other and have these romances which lead nowhere since they're sick, similar like forums all over internet where people just yap and yap and even get fond of each-other but since they're invalided by their geographical distances it's just appalling sometimes to watch and some other stuff to painful to mention.
And speaking about classics too bad there isn't Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" because that book seems to me the most prophetic one of our times, more then cyberpunk books. It's a book about group of people in a sanatorium surrounded with presumably latest achievements in technology and they just yap away for many, many hundreds of pages. It's just these stupid conversations like Christopher Columbus was an Asian and they flirt with each-other and have these romances which lead nowhere since they're sick, similar like forums all over internet where people just yap and yap and even get fond of each-other but since they're invalided by their geographical distances it's just appalling sometimes to watch and some other stuff to painful to mention.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
