bookblogging
Jun. 28th, 2008 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceruseeGraphic novels:
Geary, Rick: A Treasury of Victorian Murder: The Beast of Chicago
(I kinda wanna read Devil in the White City now).
Maitena: Women on the Edge vol. 2
(That's right! Normalize those sexist double standards you hold for your male and female children, Maitena! It's so edgy).
Watson, Andi: Slow News Day
(Everybody in this book is a jerk, and the improbable level of mutual cultural ignorance and intolerance displayed by people who are supposed to be intelligent and literate is more than I am willing to suspend my disbelief for. Did I mention they're all jerks? Ignorant, intolerant jerks? I didn't try to finish it).
Jason: I Killed Adolf Hitler
(I'm glad to have come so late to the Jason party, because there's a ton of books by this guy I can look forward to reading).
Eisner, Will: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(I'm not going to argue that the world doesn't need another expose of the Protocols as a virulent anti-semitic fraud; it certainly can use as many exposes as there are revivals of it. However, I didn't learn anything new from this book, and it wasn't as powerful as Eisner work usually is, probably because it's more of a historical recap than an actual story.
There's something weird about the afterword by Stephen Bronner, and the discussion of bigotry and anti-semitism and scapegoating, something maybe about the way that the argument is constructed, not as: anti-semitism is bigotry and scapegoating--which it is--but as: bigotry and scapegoating are anti-semitism. I assume that's not what was intended. But I read Deogratias yesterday morning, and this afterword yesterday evening, and...it's just...please don't let's frame anti-semitism as the only kind of murderous bigotry in history. Tolerance is not a zero-sum game).
Moore, Alan, writer, and various: Swamp Thing: Love and Death.
Geary, Rick: A Treasury of Victorian Murder: The Beast of Chicago
(I kinda wanna read Devil in the White City now).
Maitena: Women on the Edge vol. 2
(That's right! Normalize those sexist double standards you hold for your male and female children, Maitena! It's so edgy).
Watson, Andi: Slow News Day
(Everybody in this book is a jerk, and the improbable level of mutual cultural ignorance and intolerance displayed by people who are supposed to be intelligent and literate is more than I am willing to suspend my disbelief for. Did I mention they're all jerks? Ignorant, intolerant jerks? I didn't try to finish it).
Jason: I Killed Adolf Hitler
(I'm glad to have come so late to the Jason party, because there's a ton of books by this guy I can look forward to reading).
Eisner, Will: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(I'm not going to argue that the world doesn't need another expose of the Protocols as a virulent anti-semitic fraud; it certainly can use as many exposes as there are revivals of it. However, I didn't learn anything new from this book, and it wasn't as powerful as Eisner work usually is, probably because it's more of a historical recap than an actual story.
There's something weird about the afterword by Stephen Bronner, and the discussion of bigotry and anti-semitism and scapegoating, something maybe about the way that the argument is constructed, not as: anti-semitism is bigotry and scapegoating--which it is--but as: bigotry and scapegoating are anti-semitism. I assume that's not what was intended. But I read Deogratias yesterday morning, and this afterword yesterday evening, and...it's just...please don't let's frame anti-semitism as the only kind of murderous bigotry in history. Tolerance is not a zero-sum game).
Moore, Alan, writer, and various: Swamp Thing: Love and Death.