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Reply #825 - Feb 8th, 2024 at 4:41pm
 
SadKangaroo wrote on Jan 26th, 2024 at 8:23am:
UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 22nd, 2024 at 8:20pm:
They are basing the recent "Reacher" tv series on the books of Lee Child. The last season kind of sucked. But, I found that I do not have the book that the series was based upon. So, that was a blessing.


I prefer the TV Reacher over the original book version of the character, but I'm yet to check out season 2.


Ever since the TV series have arrived to view, I have the urge to read the 10 books that have been sitting on my bookshelf for the last 4 years. But, I still have the urge to finish my Game of Thrones books. I want to watch the series again for the 4th time.
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Reply #826 - Jul 10th, 2024 at 2:56am
 
I am going to finally make a start on reading "The Eureka Stockade".
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Reply #827 - Jul 10th, 2024 at 12:40pm
 
UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 10th, 2024 at 2:56am:
I am going to finally make a start on reading "The Eureka Stockade".


Started reading the book. Such a rubbish book.
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Reply #828 - Jul 16th, 2024 at 6:22pm
 
Just finished Harper Lee “To kill a mockingbird.”

Need to read it again—different era, different country—the rural south. Little echos of Huckleberry Finn.

It is 1935, Atticus Finch drives a Buick but horse and mule drawn transport is common. “Old Hitler” gets a mention. “black people” play a big part in the story.
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Reply #829 - Oct 7th, 2024 at 1:28pm
 
Just finished Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle “Escape from Hell” a sequel to. their earlier “Infirno”

Interesting.


Someone here put me onto the sequel but can’t remember who. Thanks anyway.
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Reply #830 - Nov 29th, 2024 at 4:30pm
 
Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world


Poor Artists is critical of the art world as it exists: the convoluted funding applications, sycophantic gallery dynamics and snobby collectors, art schools that overpromise and underdeliver, and the poverty and precarity of life as a working artist. It is not particularly critical of any art in itself, except to disparage “beautiful” art made to appeal to “magpie” collectors and influencers.


Sociopolitical critique stands for art criticism here in the same way that it often stands for contemporary art. Muhammad and De la Puente scrutinise dysfunctional structures of inequality through Quest’s naive eyes, but it’s beyond the scope of the book to think especially critically or interpretively about the art she sees and makes. The conclusion is simply that it should be easier to be an artist, and that there should be space in the world to make stuff just for the pleasure of making it. What happens next is anyone’s guess: how would the fabric of society shift if we acknowledged the centrality of art to the human experience? The many voices in Poor Artists start us thinking about how to find out.

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/28/poor-artists-by-the-white-pube-rev...


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NOT satire.

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Reply #831 - Nov 29th, 2024 at 5:26pm
 
Well, like Politics. Thete is the true Art world of visualisation.
Then there is the Media of music and entertainment's exploitation of Art, just like it does of Politics.
Many a Muso considers themselves and 'artiszt'.
But they're about as Artistic as some loud mouth Chef being political.  Roll Eyes
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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.
 
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