Re: so what books are you currently reading?

You guys that are dissing _Tender is the Night_ are breaking my heart...geesh.

I thought _Fight Club_ the movie was genius, but haven't read the book. From
what people have been saying about the book, I want to read it. The movie seemed
to be making an important statement about projected aggression being the result
of suppressed aggression -- and that projected aggression winds up being directed
both toward the empty self created by our economic system and toward the system
itself. It seems to underscore a pre-Sept. 11th romance that US culture had with
terrorism, and the motives behind it. It seems to actually hold up a cure, too,
instead of just describe a problem. The aggressive self that's been ignored,
suppressed, etc. needs to be embraced. The aggression, in the end, needs to be
turned against the self and the self alone -- against those facets of the self
that we just can't stand. If we hate being an "Ikea boy" then we need to do
something about it, we need to change our lives. We need to use our aggression
to help us become who we know we should be.

Right now I'm reading _Tarr_ by Wyndham Lewis, _Elements of the Philosophy of
Right_ by Hegel, _Baudolino_ by Umberto Eco, and a book about identity and
modernism by Michael Levenson. I just finished _Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets_ -- loved it the second time too :).

Jim

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