A blend of semen and engine coolant.
A quotation from the book can serve as a nutshell summary:
A blend of semen and engine coolant. — Jamal
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. — Jamal
Although I said the book was joyless, it’s sometimes delightfully bizarre and funny. It’s not clear if any of the humour was intended, though it did feel like a satire on post-sixties sexual freedom and violence in the media, or else a parody of transgressive fiction or pornography. But judging by what the author himself has said about it, I think it’s meant to be taken very seriously indeed. — Jamal
So far it’s quite angry and declamatory. — Jamal
Very much in the shadow of WWII and the Cold War. Walter Benjamin, who was an esteemed member of their circle, had been forced to suicide on pain of being captured by the Wehrmacht, apart from all the other massive destruction that had befallen everything around them — Wayfarer
I wanted to write something about it and couldn’t do that in good conscience without reading the whole thing — Jamal
I rarely write negative things about books. There are so many wonderful books out there and I want to point them out to people. — T Clark
By the same token, in writing a bad review I’m providing a service. I’m saying, it’s ok not to read this, try something wonderful instead. — Jamal
I find I can’t write anything interesting about books I love, or I just don’t feel motivated to do so. — Jamal
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno — Jamal
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