Blogs That Become Books

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/12/liberal-defence-seymour-murder

holy fucking crap i had no idea that lenin's tomb had been turned into a book.

what an incredible joke, and what a misleading and poor review: "the concentration on ideas and thinkers is never empiricist anti-intellectualism" -- what could this possibly mean?

to begin with, who would say that concentrating on ideas is "anti-intellectual"?

to follow up, what is "empiricist" about it? and why associate empiricism and "anti-intellectualism"? it would be absurd to call actual representatives of empiricist philosophy or history "anti-intellectual", or at least it would be outside the deeply strange ambit of lenin's tomb.

also, it's a bit rich to herald someone who calls themselves "lenin" as being against the "imperialist bloodbath". the early years of soviet communism were as bloody and imperial as it gets.

but here is all owen has to say on that score:

"the early Communist parties were unique in their principled opposition to the Great Game [used here as synonym for imperialism in general], at least until the sordid Comintern politicking of the 1930s."

this phrase -- "more valuable as history than as polemic" -- is amazing; the claim that it "delves into areas that are usually politely ignored" -- meaning imperialism, neoconservatism, the iraq war -- absurd.

good to see another former ilxor getting work though.

Useless bloody Verso.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3097846/

Blogs that become books that get reviewed by a blogger mate

Even for an opinions4u political blogger, Lenin's a fucking twat.

189. Blogs that become books

Almost any white person will not hesitate to "casually" drop into conversation a word about their blog, as in "Oh, I wrote about that in my blog yesterday," or, "Yeah, she links to my blog." White people with blogs will generally act like their blogs are just "creative outlets" that they started "spontaneously" out of a conversation with a friend, but white people also overvalue their "creativity" and all secretly think they should be able to earn a living solely off of their ideas.

I've been doing it for over four years now, and I still am nowhere near to getting a blook deal.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:50 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nowhere near enough blookshops to stock them, that's the trouble.

The book is a book in its own right, it's not a collection of lenin's tomb posts. Seymour was a former ilxor? Any thread that he made a significant contribution to?

no, the reviewer is an ex-ilxor.

always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

always a bridesmaid, never a blook