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What are you reading now?
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostIt's been haunting me by sitting unread on our bookshelves for x years. Must dust it off and have a go...I suppose.
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Originally posted by Conchis View PostI don't know anyone who's read it who has entirely regretted the experience - though 'traditionally-minded' readers get very upset by the end (not to give any spoilers).
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostFunniest character in that is garden Gnome Chomsky The Boring Armchair Socialist...
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostIt's good that there are people out there to look into these things.
Simples.
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Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostClearly, any associated supporting element appears to correlate rather closely with a descriptive fact. Nevertheless, a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is to be regarded as nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. Conversely, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics can be defined in such a way as to impose the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. This suggests that the earlier discussion of deviance is not subject to a general convention regarding the forms of the grammar. Furthermore, a descriptively adequate grammar is, apparently, determined by the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar.
Simples.
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostWrong, have another go.
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I picked up John Heilpern's biography of John Osborne at an Oxfam the other day and have been ploughing through it. I'm up to the bit where Osborne has had his breakthrough success with LBIA and is just about to go through his doomed marriage to the equally doomed Mary Ure. So far, an excellent and engaging read - it's clear that Osborne was a very typical young person of his time, who embraced 'socialism' without a clear idea of what it really meant and whose 'radicalism' was little more than a reaction to the times he found himself living in (the blue and boring fifties). Looking forward to reading about his years as a Spectator columnist....
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Buy Orwell, Huxley & The Fallacies of Futurity by Neville, Robert (ISBN: 9781291951554) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
I am reading a new book called , Orwell, Huxley and the Fallacies of Futurity.
By Robert Neville.
For part of the book he imagines a conversation between these two great writers just after 1984 came out, and therefore just before Orwell's own untimely death.
The other bits look at the themes in the book and some of the main ideas.
What I liked about it was that it does not buy into the standard line we seem to get nowadays, that their two great novels are prophetic. Instead, Neville perceptively sees both men agreeing that they are more warnings than anything else. Obviously I can see the writer has done a lot of research, but its engaging and though provoking to read with many, many ideas in it. I bought it on Amazon.
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