Comments on: soon we’ll all be starving.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:01:11 +0000

i’m a huge fan of the bat segundo show, and i thought ed champion asked good questions in that one, but i finally shut it off about halfway through. it was too much. when i read the book and wrote the post i really did think shields was being cynical. now i’m more inclined to think he’s just dumb. although the total incoherence of his responses in the interview backed up my impression that he’s the literary equivalent of sarah palin. particularly the weird tic of saying “finally” all the time, as though that would give his answers a sense of finality.

By: fredrick sulliman

fredrick sulliman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:44:13 +0000

An audio interview with David Shields:

http://www.edrants.com/segundo/david-shields-bss-326/

In which Mr. Shields sounds like a talkative student who has only read a chapter of an assigned book but tries fool the teacher into thinking he read the whole thing. It’s entertaining for this reason, for his lame complaints about Lolita, and the way he seems to not know where anything in his own book is.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:31:38 +0000

hehe, i wouldn’t bother reading it or getting angry about it. just review your notes from modernism ii.

you’re right about manifestos, though — they are only for teens and communists. shields definitely ain’t no communist (as my response implies, he seems mostly like a shill, if unwitting), but he sounds oddly like a teen. a very old and out of touch teen.

the thing is, it’s not really a manifesto.

i do, however, recommend checking out the acknowledgments page and reading the people he got his material from.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:23:54 +0000

I should probably read this before I get officially angry about it, but from your description and the subsequent reviews I’ve read, I will be. Also? Manifestos are for teenagers and Communists.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:49:53 +0000

thanks, gabriel. you’ll never go wrong with montaigne.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:34:53 +0000

great post. saved me the time of checking out the book. I’m gonna go read Montaigne instead.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:23:18 +0000

re: shields –

yes, it wouldn’t be fair to go any further unprovoked.

re: hannah –

soon, brother. he was important enough to me that i need time to absorb it.

By: timothy

timothy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:51:39 +0000

“honestly what are you saving!?”

wouldn’t have minded the father section, but i guess it only underlines what a lightweight shields is, and would make you look like a bully. (is it a strawman if you’ve secretly written this book to strike it down? or worse this book was written by larry the cable guy and like bernard-henri levy yr looking like a kunt?)

anyway, soothe my soul and write the elegy for barry hannah please.