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Welcome to the forum, Jenny :) !

ok, porn be it. :)

i went on amazon to read the comments in there on said's book. and i found them very pertinent. the excessive praising ones and the very critical posts are quite few. i had the feeling that the readers had a general good impression about the book, but they were also aware about its flaws.

i read some of the marquis' works some years ago. i admired him a lot for having the courage to demolish every possible taboo concerning human relationships and the views on love, god, religion, normalcy etc. i felt his books like a fist raised against the sky as a symbol of an unfair destiny...

hi Peder, it is true that you have made some very good pertinent remarks about the boo with direct references to the text. i found them to be very interesting. but, for example, you also mentioned a possible relation between the evolution of Said's ideas in the book and the fact that the...

and i am certain that your remarks are constructive, even if they do not rigidy stick to a certain topic. after all, deviating from the topic is the charm of any discussion and insures its richeness. i hate those "business" talkings where everybody focuses on one thing and any side comment is...

i do not think there is any problem with your remarks. i think that, in general, there are not enough discussions about what is happening in middle-east, discussions that include the perspectives of all the sides involved, but unfortunately TBF is not a place that allows them, and it is a sign...

i do not see to what extent "Orientalism" can bring into the discussion the problems in the middle east. unless someone really wants to find in it a reason to go into that topic. personally, i did not perceivethe book as being overly political, even though one cannot escape the historical...

why can't people just talk about the "Orient" without getting into the jewish-muslim discussion?! and Moshe's comments were really out of the place, and based on one remark on Peder's post (the time when he mentioned zionism). it is not surprising to find out that he has been Said's student...

i had no clue that Said was dead. i guess i should ponder a little bit over the autobiographies of the authors i am reading. i found it mentioned somewhere about one article written by Said in 1999. but i have to go back and find that reference. or maybe i will just google. a little bit. :)...

i only check the page number when the number is written at the bottom of the page, if it is written on the up part of the page i do not pay attention to it. i guess it is because i have the feeling i have to go on with my reading when the page number is at the bottom.

one strategy i use when there is a limited time for computer use: i borrow the id numbers and passwords from people who do not need the computers at the library. or, for example, i cannot come at the library on mondays and tuesdays, and i know another student who works on fridays and...

he does mention some names of arab american scholars in the field, and he also mentions one of them criticizing his book. but he stops there. no further details. as for the literary works and the other "orientalist" references in his book, i guess he used them because this is the field he works...

i will begin with the conclusion: i agree to the point Said wants to make, but i disagree with the way he sustains it. i find Said to lack in logical argumentation. -the ideas i agree with in Said's book: 1. the orient is the image of the Other for europe, and it is necessary to define...

anyone else in here read the book? my dear dwellerintruth, here it is the place you wanted to talk about said's book and related topics. give me some time to summarize my ideas about said's book and i will explain to you what i found wrong with the book and what i liked in it.

ok, i am finally back after all these strikes in here. so, as i was saying, i do not agree with the psychological view of literary characters, and less when it comes to dostoyevky. i think literature is to be taken for what it is: literature. of course it is a field that quite ignores...

i agree to Ions. from the point of view of the topic, the book was quite uninteresting. but still, i think the style of writing was very good and the author had a lot of strain with it. it is not easy to deal with such a rather melodramatic topic and still keep it in a detached style. i think...

hi! dostoyevski is my favourite writer of all time, and therefore i have read all of his work. though every time i re-read him i discover that i did not understand anything the previous times. and i think i will re-read him until i die, realising i still did not fully grasp all the implications...

hi everybody. my final list for march: -Kateb Yacine -nedjma -Edward Said -orientalism -Haruki Murakami -Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -a book about muhammad's life -Joseph Conrad -the heart of darkness (reread) -Don DeLillo -white noise (reread) -Italo Calvino -if...

hi, i am quite an admirer of hemingway's style, even though i needed some time to get the point of it. what i like in his writing is that he is getting away from the classical style of writing a novel: a coherent plot, with no gaps, everything being bound together in an easy understandable...