Jacob Arnon

enigmatic novel

Revisado: 11-25-20

it will take a couple of readings to know what it mean. i sense that it is a great work of fiction, but how great it, I don't know yet.

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Stunning book, just finished

Revisado: 11-15-20

it is too soon to offer a review. it is the kind of book that I will review after I reread it, or after I read and reread the quartet of novels.

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It's pretty annoying.

Revisado: 04-22-20

The background music makes distracts. Who would want to hear an overbearing orchestra when you you should be concentrating on the sounds of Shelley, the words of Shakespeare or the descriptions of Keats?

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Dull Book

Revisado: 02-02-20

A repetitious boring unexciting piece of dull ordure. As Metcalfe a reviewer for Slate says: "By imagining college life as so debased, Wolfe must then imagine his heroine as correspondingly pure. Charlotte Simmons is a little mountain girl, a modern-day Walton, who has known in her life only hard study, dutiful but dirt poor parents, and the simple mountain ways of North Carolina. (And the novel hasn’t seen such a tediously guarded virginity since Richardson’s Pamela.) Well, that’s it for starters, Virginia."

At least Pamela is a character of her time a woman who fights against pretentious male virility of her time while Charlotte is a woman of no time; she never existed and never could exist. The males she fights against are pretentious in their grossness as President Trump. But we do live in a time of phony conservatism and Charlotte is the saint of that fraudulent apolitical movement.

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The plot of the story isn't very interesting, but

Revisado: 01-29-20

the writing is awesome. The author artfully plays the serious and the ironic off each other.

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Nadia May made the story come alive.

Revisado: 01-29-20

The novella deals with students development. It also highlights the destructive nature of Political correctness. It's the perfect education novel for our times.

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Great book excellently presented. Well read it again.

Revisado: 01-25-20

I liked the way the author played with time. He uses in addition to retrospect, but in places he also invokes protention.

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This isn't a story

Revisado: 09-26-19

so I don't know why you are asking me to review it as such.

This is a serious study of the effects of mob politics on University and other institutions. What we call PC has morphed into something more lethal.

Anyhow Professor Boyers does a passable job describing how mob led political culture started and how it developed.

I used to read Robert Boyers when I subscribe to Salmagundi journal which he edited I stopped many, many moons ago.

Prof. Boyers hasn't changed much from the scholar I used to read. The problem is that Campus politics has changed for the worse and playing an unaffiliated liberal doesn't work anymore if you want to take back the campus from the students (I call then His/her majesty's baby--a notion Freud came up with when describing spoiled brats who always need to have their way.)

I recommend this serious study with some reservation. At one point he wanted to show his liberal non attachment to any ethnic group and by way of example he used the treatment of Hannah Arendt by the New York intellectuals. This was a wrong choice it might have worked better had he chosen the Publication of Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint," since Arendt tendentious reporting of the Eichmann Trial was so full of holes that it's read today merely as an example of how warped Arendt's vision was.


Boyer's must have been a teenager when the trial took place and hence he doesn't understand that the passions it unleashed had to do with the fact that Eichmann behavior during during the Holocaust was still raw in many people's mind. Besides it's been shown by Deborah E. Lipstadt in her book "The Eichmann Trial" that Arendt only attended a few sessions of the trial because she flew to Germany to visit her former teacher Karl Jaspers. Prof. Boyers gave no sign that he knew that. (btw Lipstadt's book is available at Audible.com)

Arendt was not a reporter and she was not a Jurist nor was she an historian she was a political philosopher and as such wrote some important essays on philosophical subjects.

Boyer's should have done more research on the subject before using it as his example.

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a study of mythology is not a story

Revisado: 09-14-19

odd to ask readers/listeners how to rate the story of study, in this case a study of myth.

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A fruitful study

Revisado: 08-17-19

fruitful because it gave much to think about and with. that complexity may carry within itself the seed of disintegration is an interesting way to think about civilizational collapse.

is this only true of man made systems or of material forces developing itself willy-nilly without the presence of intelligent thought guiding the process; these thought were generated from professor's Cline's brilliant study.

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