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Trashy, bitter, lugubrious pastiche

Revisado: 11-29-20

I remember thinking this was great when I read it decades ago as an undergraduate, but now it reads more like a failed--miserably failed--pastiche of Céline without the bracing language, black humor and compassion we see in Voyage au bout de la nuit. Miller seems a disgusting hack staggering about in a venereal world from one dripping vagina to the next, from one handout, one free meal to the next only to spew forth this vile rubbish.

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A nice introduction or refresher on Marx

Revisado: 09-24-20

I enjoyed this, but have to say I found Mr. McLaren's attempts to pronounce French so pathetic and annoying it was distracting. This was especially the case in chapter 10.

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Great text, tolerable reading

Revisado: 02-24-18

This is exciting research, well written. The reading is droning, almost mechanical. The pronunciation of especially French names is utterly shameful.

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Une lecture informatisée mais tolérable

Revisado: 01-24-18

J'ai trouvé tolérable cette lecture clairement informatisée--le débit et l'intonation du lecteur sont si peu naturels. Quel dommage, tout de même! Une lecture par un être vivant aurait coûté trop cher? Je paierai volontiers un peu plus pour cela.

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A Must-read for Readers of American Feminism

Revisado: 07-29-16

A landmark book, The Feminine Mystique is still, in 2016, just as eye-opening and current as it was when first published in 1964.

About to teach to American students my first Women's Studies course this fall on French Feminisms, I have to recommend this classic work as one of the fundamental texts of 20th-century thought and the dramatic changes in human rights that occurred over the course if that strangest of epochs yet in recorded history.

This text not only brought be back into the concrete world I grew up in (I was a Kennedy baby), but away from the abstractions of French feminisms into a world I witnessed as a child. I helps me understand, for example, my mother, a teenage bride and housewife until she learned to drive a car, pass the exam, then, in 1970, take a job outside of the home, then eventually night classes in typing, even getting her GED and ending up in a job she loved until the day she retired.

The women and men I will teach this fall owe Betty Friedan a great deal. So do I.

In fine, do read this book. It's brilliant.

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Fantastic reading of Ulysses

Revisado: 05-26-16

What an excellent reading of Joyce's classic text. The variety and accuracy of Dublin accents is none other than brilliant; the final monologue by Molly simply stunning.

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A brilliant review of 20th-century Euro IH

Revisado: 04-18-15

While the lecturer is deadpan and, I felt, a bit of a drone, this is an extremely exciting series of lectures that has already been useful to me as an undergraduate professor if literature, culture, and intellectual history in the 20th-century. A truly BRILLIANT review, especially of continental, in particular of French, thought since the laye 19th-century. While I did fight at times to remain awake in spite of this lecturer's steady, dispassionate, monotone intonation patterns, he's spot on and I take my hat off to him. I'm also astonished at and damned jealous at the applause he receives at the beginning and end of each lecture. ; )

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