Kaufman links e-book trend to bookburning, Nazis - Page 27

jbjb · 12-09-2009, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman

I are speaking about a sweeping change that is, as we seek clarification, decimating the world of books and book culture.

Perhaps you need to remind yourself what decimate actually means.

/JB

jbjb · 12-09-2009, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by catsittingstill

It would truly have been terrible to have your friends shot in the library, but maybe that's not what actually happened?

Would a Cluedo joke be in bad taste, at this point?

/JB

catsittingstill · 12-09-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by jbjb

Would a Cluedo joke be in bad taste, at this point?

/JB

Enh. Maybe I shouldn't have said it, since I'm fairly sure from context what happened, even though the sentence itself was very poorly constructed. Let's cross it off and leave it be.

"Cluedo" threw me for a minute, though--I always knew the boardgame as "Clue" Get on the Internet and get a different perspective :-)

PhishStyx · 12-10-2009, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by jbjb

Would a Cluedo joke be in bad taste, at this point?

/JB

What could possibly be in worse taste than the original topic of Kaufman's insane rants?

lene1949 · 12-10-2009, 02:40 AM

I've just received my new e-reader, and as I'm sitting here browsing the forum, I'm listening to some awesome classical music, preloaded on my device. The sound is amazing, at the moment Strauss' Blue Danube.... and there goes our traditional way of listening to music.

lene1949 · 12-10-2009, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by PhishStyx

What could possibly be in worse taste than the original topic of Kaufman's insane rants?

I think this thread is very - uhmm - entertaining.. Or maybe that just because of the beautiful music I'm listening to on my e-reader...

lene1949 · 12-14-2009, 03:34 AM

RIP

Alan Kaufman · 12-24-2009, 08:22 PM

From the December 2009 issue of Evergreen Review (#121)

"Hi-Tech Taliban" by Alan Kaufman

http://www.evergreenreview.com/121/hi-tech-taliban.html

delphidb96 · 12-24-2009, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman

From the December 2009 issue of Evergreen Review (#121)

"Hi-Tech Taliban" by Alan Kaufman

http://www.evergreenreview.com/121/hi-tech-taliban.html

Oh GAWD! It's still frikkin' alive! Someone please track this idjit down and give it a frontal lobotomy so's to raise its intelligence!

I mean, calling it as dumb as a rock is a deathly insult - to rocks!

Derek

Patricia · 12-24-2009, 10:56 PM

Please read ou posting guidelines, particularly the one on not launching personal attacks on other members. It is possible to disagree without recourse to personal abuse.

You may wish to edit your post.

delphidb96 · 12-24-2009, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Please read ou posting guidelines, particularly the one on not launching personal attacks on other members. It is possible to disagree without recourse to personal abuse.

You may wish to edit your post.

Yer right, as usual. And it's Chrismas Eve as well. Okay, I take it all back. But he's still taking a very public stance with an idjit-level opinion that is breathtaking in its stupidity. Love the person, loathe the stupid opinion, I say.

Derek

ardeegee · 12-24-2009, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Please read ou posting guidelines, particularly the one on not launching personal attacks on other members. It is possible to disagree without recourse to personal abuse.

Ah, so that was his big plan! He got tired of us badmouthing him, so in the middle of it he joined up, thus making us pretend to not dislike him!

Steven Lyle Jordan · 12-24-2009, 11:46 PM

So, Kaufman still hasn't risen with the dawn and inhaled the homebrew, eh? I find myself wondering why this POP (pulp-obsessed person) keeps hanging around here... doesn't he have a library to haunt? Or a bonfire to throw water on? From his essay:

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No other authors have stood up to vocally protest what is happening to the book in our society: a fact that I anticipate will some day consign a good many writers to a less than proud place in the history of letters.

I think I know who's head of the line there...

PhishStyx · 12-25-2009, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Please read ou posting guidelines, particularly the one on not launching personal attacks on other members. It is possible to disagree without recourse to personal abuse.

You may wish to edit your post.

I'm still intrigued that given all the insults, personal and group attacks that he hurled at US, he was apparently never warned with half so much vehemence as delphid and we get at the moderators' hands.

desertgrandma · 12-25-2009, 12:30 AM

With all due respect to the moderators here, I would like to see this poster banned.

He deliberately incites inflammatory posts.....

Thru his posts he defames and deminishes those who died at the hands of monsters.

Now he's comparing our ebook readers to the taliban.

Enough.

12-24-2009, 08:22 PM	#398
Alan Kaufman Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Paperback and hardcover	New Essay by Alan Kaufman: "HI-TECH TALIBAN" From the December 2009 issue of Evergreen Review (#121) "Hi-Tech Taliban" by Alan Kaufman http://www.evergreenreview.com/121/hi-tech-taliban.html

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lene1949 Wizard Posts: 1,952 Karma: 213930 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Middelfart, Denmark Device: Kindle paper white	I've just received my new e-reader, and as I'm sitting here browsing the forum, I'm listening to some awesome classical music, preloaded on my device. The sound is amazing, at the moment Strauss' Blue Danube.... and there goes our traditional way of listening to music.

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lene1949 Wizard Posts: 1,952 Karma: 213930 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Middelfart, Denmark Device: Kindle paper white	RIP

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Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Please read ou posting guidelines, particularly the one on not launching personal attacks on other members. It is possible to disagree without recourse to personal abuse. You may wish to edit your post.

12-25-2009, 12:30 AM	#405
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	With all due respect to the moderators here, I would like to see this poster banned. He deliberately incites inflammatory posts..... Thru his posts he defames and deminishes those who died at the hands of monsters. Now he's comparing our ebook readers to the taliban. Enough.