tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post4006777931104410139..comments2023-10-20T16:03:03.157+01:00Comments on Devouring Texts: Devouring Books: Arcadia by Lauren GroffLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-64698772734318171122013-03-24T15:30:04.337+00:002013-03-24T15:30:04.337+00:00This sounds great. I am with you on the whole hipp...This sounds great. I am with you on the whole hippy thing. Or at least, some days I am. Other days I am more generic lefty liberal!Nose_in_a_bookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07154323912093068113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-83713307773489004402013-03-14T19:57:08.954+00:002013-03-14T19:57:08.954+00:00Hahaha, there was almost no way I wasn't going...Hahaha, there was almost no way I wasn't going to like this book! (wait, does that sentence make sense? WHO KNOWS?!) Anyway, yeah, it's awesome!<br /><br />OMG let's start a commune up North! (Stuff is cheaper up North, and we will need some stuff, so that's just good sense). We could write and sew and read and OMG life would be the best.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-18272149182635458962013-03-14T19:49:23.776+00:002013-03-14T19:49:23.776+00:00Eeeeep, if I saw a copy of this for $2 I would SNA...Eeeeep, if I saw a copy of this for $2 I would SNATCH IT UP! (obviously. But mine was a library book and now I don't have it and :((((( ) Re: the hippies, see above. BOTH parts, Miss Sarah!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-20555742669193000292013-03-14T19:45:39.180+00:002013-03-14T19:45:39.180+00:00WELL Alley, what I perhaps should have added since...WELL Alley, what I perhaps should have added since I didn't realise all my internet friends were CAPITALIST DRONES was that I think Groff was kind of really aware of the limits of hippy-ism, and that's why, you know, Arcadia breaks up in the second section of the book, and the rest of it is on the OUTSIDE. (Scary stuff). <br /><br />But also HIPPIES ARE AWESOME DAMN YOU!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-58787737767472650982013-03-14T19:41:13.555+00:002013-03-14T19:41:13.555+00:00Yessssssssssssss! *does weird hippy dancing at you...Yessssssssssssss! *does weird hippy dancing at you in appreciation*Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-16966722261701110842013-03-14T19:40:42.361+00:002013-03-14T19:40:42.361+00:00Yes you must! Also, YAY! Will you come and dance t...Yes you must! Also, YAY! Will you come and dance to Joni Mitchell with me and Frances (clearly the answer is yes.)Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-49864681964751806472013-03-14T10:52:04.892+00:002013-03-14T10:52:04.892+00:00Ooooh, now I feel REALLY good about having it read...Ooooh, now I feel REALLY good about having it ready as my next read. When I clicked onto your review and started reading I was actually a bit nervous in case you hated it, because then I'd have been all like DAAAAAMN I HAD SUCH HIGH HOPES. <br /><br />If you would ever like to overthrow the materialism of consumer society and start a fully-bathroomed commune with me, that would be awesome (duuuuuude)! There could be a library and cooking and vegetable gardens and creativity balanced with miniscule amounts of working (just for the non-sustainable stuff) and it would be beautiful. Maybe once the bookshop closes that should be my next project, ha! :D Elliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07246472269477492583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-34635110508170561562013-03-14T07:25:11.682+00:002013-03-14T07:25:11.682+00:00There's a copy of this on sale at the used lib...There's a copy of this on sale at the used library bookstore for like $2 and I kind of wanted to get it b/c I've seen it around the blogosphere... and good writing sounds good... but you know how I feel about hippies and stuff. Ahhhh, I'm so undecided as to whether or I should try this book.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196903315080725315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-1227142020847737512013-03-13T21:37:56.324+00:002013-03-13T21:37:56.324+00:00I am torn cos on the one hand, you say this is exc...I am torn cos on the one hand, you say this is excellent. On the other hand, hippies...Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456600806188531803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-79377089438683678862013-03-13T00:49:09.919+00:002013-03-13T00:49:09.919+00:00This book sounds so great, and I have no idea why ...This book sounds so great, and I have no idea why I haven't read it yet. And I am also a big hippy.LBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08565867574821169945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-88840803427076427202013-03-12T22:42:34.929+00:002013-03-12T22:42:34.929+00:00Alright. You've convinced me. Sounds amazing!
...Alright. You've convinced me. Sounds amazing!<br /><br />mustreadmustreadmustread.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-52357416368451178962013-03-12T19:50:19.409+00:002013-03-12T19:50:19.409+00:00I aim to inform and delight (I know you're del...I aim to inform and delight (I know you're delighted really).<br /><br />What Frances says is true, and also MARXISM IS THE BEST AND YOU KNOOOOW IT! And, I mean, who's even given Marxism a chance? No one, not really. Money is gross (etc.) BUT anyway, Arcadia does kind of fall apart, man, so you can totally read this and go 'ah, yes, well this was bound to happen' and feel all wise. Also beauuuuutiful writing...Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-28408901039447743472013-03-12T19:47:21.879+00:002013-03-12T19:47:21.879+00:00Oh man, women always always get the shit end of th...Oh man, women always always get the shit end of the stick. Always. I feel like in Arcadia (as in the place in the book...) there was less of that than there might otherwise have been, but I don't know, the dudes are still there trading in their wives for younger models and calling it free love...<br /><br />Strong feelings are good! I didn't really see Bit as an unreliable narrator so much as one whose ideas of how the world should be are so different to how it actually is that it means he sees the world in a certain way... Which I guess is true of everyone, ever. Maybe we're all unreliable narrators.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-37914319189581360902013-03-12T19:33:42.817+00:002013-03-12T19:33:42.817+00:00OKAY! I am up for this wholeheartedly.
p.s. I KNO...OKAY! I am up for this wholeheartedly.<br /><br />p.s. I KNOW RIGHT?!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-65429513576106944312013-03-12T14:36:26.523+00:002013-03-12T14:36:26.523+00:00No one has actually done Marxism properly and capi...No one has actually done Marxism properly and capitalism isn't working out all that well at the moment...Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00889220731638919659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-56940226434395221452013-03-12T13:56:09.849+00:002013-03-12T13:56:09.849+00:00I've seen this everywhere, but I'm glad I ...I've seen this everywhere, but I'm glad I know what it's about now.<br /><br />I dunno about hippie stuff, man. I just...like Marx, good ideas, don't work in practice. But beautiful writing is always a plus, soooo...Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-29650077754046836002013-03-12T12:56:16.364+00:002013-03-12T12:56:16.364+00:00Ooh, I read and reviewed this book quite a while a...Ooh, I read and reviewed this book quite a while ago. I was deeply distrustful of it, because it always seems to me that in these wonderful utopian places that are founded on gender equality, women still seem to get the shit end of the stick EVERY SINGLE TIME. But I loved this book, and in particular the writing of this book. I thought Bit was a very unreliable narrator for everything outside his very benign impressions of growing up in Arcadia. <br /><br />But there--that makes me sound like a pro-capitalism kind of gal. Gah, clearly I still have strong feelings about this book after having read it a long time ago.As the Crowe Flies and Readshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110661562901480120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-4175589583494868702013-03-12T12:16:39.185+00:002013-03-12T12:16:39.185+00:00I want to! LET'S OVERTHROW CAPITALISM and danc...I want to! LET'S OVERTHROW CAPITALISM and dance to Joni Mitchell all day long.<br /><br />p.s. my Marxist feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the commune. Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00889220731638919659noreply@blogger.com