xerces wrote:...The other thing that really struck me was his descriptions of specific places in cities. He keeps mentioning places where I have recently been to. ...This book has simply hit too close to home, and now I'm having trouble sleeping at night.
Tucker wrote:Just fyi for all you Portlander's. Kunstler will be at Powell's in Beaverton, Oregon on April 21st at 7pm.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135844325
Cool beans!
TheDude wrote:Tucker wrote:Just fyi for all you Portlander's. Kunstler will be at Powell's in Beaverton, Oregon on April 21st at 7pm.
Maybe we could use the occasion for a po.com Stumptown "Meet," as it's termed in popular depictions of the Mafia..
Tucker wrote:TheDude wrote:Tucker wrote:Just fyi for all you Portlander's. Kunstler will be at Powell's in Beaverton, Oregon on April 21st at 7pm.
Maybe we could use the occasion for a po.com Stumptown "Meet," as it's termed in popular depictions of the Mafia..
Well, you wouldn't have seen me at the event.
I left work early to attend and asked the lady at Powell's what the format would be since I've never been to a book signing before. She said he would be reading and answering questions and then sign. Since I knew I couldn't stay that long, I asked if it might be possible to get him to sign The Long Emergency and WMBH before the event. She said the authors are very gracious and referred me to Miles who was setting up the event.
I found Miles and Kuntsler was there too. I patiently waited for a break in the conversation between Kuntlser and a lady that was there. The lady looked up and smiled at me and was giving me an opportunity to talk. Kuntsler immediately started talking to her again, grabs her arm, and guides her in turning her and his back on me.
Ok. I take the hint. I walk out without buying the book and told the Powell's people what I thought about their guest. Maybe I was being rude for wanting to talk to him outside the event?*
*[sub]More likely, Kuntsler was being an arrogant ass. [/sub]
TheDude wrote: Maybe he was trying to get laid?
You need to be more direct. As he advised during the talk, the future won't be kind to crybabies. His term. "HEY CLUSTERFUCKER! YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!" You could smack him in his chrome dome to get his attention. Rude? The guy said Shit and Fuck into the PA a couple times.
Tucker wrote:TheDude wrote: Maybe he was trying to get laid?
You need to be more direct. As he advised during the talk, the future won't be kind to crybabies. His term. "HEY CLUSTERFUCKER! YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!" You could smack him in his chrome dome to get his attention. Rude? The guy said Shit and Fuck into the PA a couple times.
The only way I couldn't have been more direct would have been to say "don't turn your back on me! I bought your books and I want them signed now."
Oh well. I'm glad that you went. I would have loved to talk to you! Did he answer any of your questions or address the suggestions?
zensui wrote:TheDude wrote:We already have a thread for reviews of World made by hand.
the link gives this error:
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PhebaAndThePilgrim wrote:Good day from Pheba, from the farm:
Sorry folks, but I did not like this book. I breezed through this short novel in just one evening. I found the writing simple. The descriptions were pat and seemed like they were copied from a "writing for Dummies" book.
For starters, having "terrorists" nuke two American cities fits right into chapter 3 of Kunstler's "Long Emergency". The last thing this country needs is more fear mongering "evildoers", "terrorists" propaganda being spoon-fed to them through shoddy fantasy novels like "World Made By Hand".
I easily saw that Kunstler envisioned himself in the role of the town mayor. Our hero defeats the bad guys, saves a woman and child from a burning building, helps the religious right set up camp, and then helps install running water in the town. What next? Raising the dead? walking on water?
Everybody gets along so beautifully. Life is perfect. Food is perfect.
Our hero has sex with a lusty 47 year old every week. And, being the perfect hero figure, he only does this because he feels sorry for her. Her husband, yes she is married, is not up to the task.
What a bunch of silly nonsense.
Of course, later on, he ends up with a perfect new family. The woman he saved from the burning building moves in with him.
Even the two bad guy groups in the book, the trailer trash truck drivers, and the religious fanatics, are good guys in disguise.
This is the most unrealistic cornucopian dream like post apocalyptic fantasy I have ever read.
How wonderful that both the small town dentist and the doctor survived the combined effects of Peak Oil, a killer virus, nuclear explosions, and assorted other hardships.
"World Made By Hand" is Kunstler's personal dream vision of his perfect world.
This is not the best peak oil book I have ever read. This is not even a good novel. Mercifully, "World Made By Hand" is short. That is the only good thing I can say about it.
My husband could not finish the book. He had to put it down.
We are farmers, and most of his assertions about growing food were not accurate and some were just plain silly.
I paid $24.95 for the book. Fortunately I purchased it from a co-op that supports anti-war efforts, including a peace march this weekend. Unfortunately I could have bought a much better book for 24.95. I reccomend getting this drivel from the library if you really want to zip through it.
Pheba.
Jenab6 wrote:PhebaAndThePilgrim wrote:Good day from Pheba, from the farm:
Sorry folks, but I did not like this book. I breezed through this short novel in just one evening. I found the writing simple. The descriptions were pat and seemed like they were copied from a "writing for Dummies" book.
For starters, having "terrorists" nuke two American cities fits right into chapter 3 of Kunstler's "Long Emergency". The last thing this country needs is more fear mongering "evildoers", "terrorists" propaganda being spoon-fed to them through shoddy fantasy novels like "World Made By Hand".
I easily saw that Kunstler envisioned himself in the role of the town mayor. Our hero defeats the bad guys, saves a woman and child from a burning building, helps the religious right set up camp, and then helps install running water in the town. What next? Raising the dead? walking on water?
Everybody gets along so beautifully. Life is perfect. Food is perfect.
Our hero has sex with a lusty 47 year old every week. And, being the perfect hero figure, he only does this because he feels sorry for her. Her husband, yes she is married, is not up to the task.
What a bunch of silly nonsense.
Of course, later on, he ends up with a perfect new family. The woman he saved from the burning building moves in with him.
Even the two bad guy groups in the book, the trailer trash truck drivers, and the religious fanatics, are good guys in disguise.
This is the most unrealistic cornucopian dream like post apocalyptic fantasy I have ever read.
How wonderful that both the small town dentist and the doctor survived the combined effects of Peak Oil, a killer virus, nuclear explosions, and assorted other hardships.
"World Made By Hand" is Kunstler's personal dream vision of his perfect world.
This is not the best peak oil book I have ever read. This is not even a good novel. Mercifully, "World Made By Hand" is short. That is the only good thing I can say about it.
My husband could not finish the book. He had to put it down.
We are farmers, and most of his assertions about growing food were not accurate and some were just plain silly.
I paid $24.95 for the book. Fortunately I purchased it from a co-op that supports anti-war efforts, including a peace march this weekend. Unfortunately I could have bought a much better book for 24.95. I reccomend getting this drivel from the library if you really want to zip through it.
Pheba.
Thanks for saving me that much money. I didn't have a high opinion of Kunstler from reading The Long Emergency. I have plenty of fantasy already, mostly written by people who make their living writing fantasy and have earned literary recognition thereby: George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Katharine Kerr, Raymond E. Feist, Robert Jordan, etc. I've quit buying books, unless I hear that something is really special, because I already have 1700 novels, and that's more than I'll probably read in the remainder of my lifetime.
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