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I am studying that for my politics course-it is a great book.

Fair enough. Rather ironically you hate the things which he is most liked for, but hey thats life. ;) And to be fair to the man, he is a good dancer. :p As far as R'n'B music goes, I agree a lot of it is lyrically terrible-but it is the audience who by and large decide the lyrics or the...

You misunderstand me, why do you hate Usher over other muscians of the same genre. Or do you hate the whole genre, Usher included.

What I don't understand is why you hate Usher? :confused:

'It' by Stephen King-truly frightening.

Oh nos! Not Usher! Will he spend his life making love to pretty women and making love to more pretty women until he dies? According to his songs it is all he ever does. Oh and he goes to the club with his homies, but that is just another ploy to sleep with pretty women, which he claims he does a...

Do you think the title of his album "Confessions" is a deliberate parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and St. Augustine's books of the same title, in which they talk about their sexual conquests. More importantly, will Usher now write a political treatise on the evils of private property, force...

Could it be Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert? Could it be I, Claudius by Robert Graves? I doubt it is, but that is the only other (albeit unlikely) possibility I can think of.

Don Quixote was (amongst many other things) a satircization of the knight-errantry stories which were prevalent in Europe and Spain at the time. The characters, or heroes, tended to be one-dimensional i.e. handsome, brave prince and beautiful princess. I say tend to be-knight errantry is neither...

Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors This is a pretty pathetic piece of cenorship!

I frequently read non-fiction, both for my university course (politics) and just for fun. ( :eek: ) My favourite politics writers are Aristotle, Alexis de Tocqueville, J.S Mill, Ludwig von Mises, Freidrech Hayek, Milton Friedman and others such as Hernando de Soto who have published one or two...

Lord of the Rings boring and long? It was too short in my opinion! I was dissapointed with Jane Austen. She was just plain boring. There are so many other romance novesl which I enjoyed more, but each to his own eh.

You really should have included a smilie with the comment, of course. Then it clearly would have been a joke. ;)

If it involves governments then it involves politics. I also never said it was wholly about politics, "all of them seem to have something to do with politics."

War and Peace funny? Brilliant, a classic and one of the greatest books ever written, but funny?

'The Good Soldier Svejk', 'Catch-22', 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy', 'The Master and Margarita', 'Three Men In A Boat', 'Politically Correct Bed-Time Stories', 'Don Quixote', 'The Tin Drum'. All very funny books.

Thanks for the praise! (Though I don't think I like being mistaken for a 40 year old-though it has happened several times on other forums :eek:) Yep-it comes from the History of Middle-Earth...which I read (actually 'read' is a misnomer, you study HoME, you don't read it) and I have a great...

I have no doubt that there are a lot of authors who write magical realism simply for the sake of it, not to further their own political agenda, but of all the magical realism books that I have read, all of them seem to have something to do with politics. Also check out this link-though the...

Well....I think this question should be pluralized to who are your favourite authors, since most people have more than just one. Mine are, Heller, Hasek, George Eliot, Tolkien, Dostoevsky, Marquez, Rushdie, Calvino, Hardy, Goethe, Gogol, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Flaubert, de Laclos, Thackeray...

SillyWabbit-I understand what you mean now-you think Tolkien is a pedant, and I agree with you, but which author isn't? ;) Well, I enjoy Tolkien's pedantry as I like to know every detail of Tolkien's world. But never mind, each to his own is what I say. But there is one more gripe-how can...