Which contemporary authors will be studied in school in the future?

[winston53660]

It means precisely that he is less widely read.

So? I'm not sure about the literary world but in the visual world Van Gogh was not exactly popular in his time.

 

[ecofarm]

Van Gogh lived in a different time. It's not like we have not had the time to notice or understand Chomsky. He is well studied.

Believing that Chomsky will become mainstream is like believing that fringe left-wing ideology will dominate in the future, or that Chavez will create a worker's paradise. Keep dreaming. He has only been recommended to me by the most fringie lefties I know and I find his work to be nearly hysterical (not that he is funny, he is hysterical in a drama way).

He will remain a footnote, just like today. Abandon your extremism.

 

[Hoplite]

It means precisely that he is less widely read. And saying he is exremely popular is a matter of personal experience. Good luck finding one of his works in the business or engineering school (or any department besides Liberal Studies).

Simply because something is required reading in high school doesnt mean that kids are going to remember or even care about what they read. How many books do you remember or have read again since reading in high school? Besides, Rand's concepts are a little above the average high schooler, I dont know why it would be assigned reading.

He might be brilliant, but he is largely a hack - an ideological orc. A Che that takes tea.

You have quite obviously never read his work

 

[Goshin]

You have quite obviously never read his work

False statement. The only obvious thing is that he has an opinion of Chomsky that differs from yours. So do I. This does not mean either of us have not read him, just that we don't like him.

 

[Hoplite]

False statement. The only obvious thing is that he has an opinion of Chomsky that differs from yours. So do I. This does not mean either of us have not read him, just that we don't like him.

eco said specifically that Chomsky was a hack, an "ideological orc". That is not a subjective criticism, that is criticism based on the structure of writing and implies that Chomsky takes shortcuts with his writing and ignores things that dont agree with his point of view, among other things. That is a structural criticism, one that cannot be made if he is familiar with Chomsky's work.

I have no objection to subjective criticism, its no skin off my ass if you dont like him.

 

[ecofarm]

He is a dogmatic ideological orc commie us-hater. I've never seen a fair representation by him of an opposing viewpoint.

Perhaps someday I'll see something of his otherwise, but not thusfar. He's a puppet for tenured lib professors and agnsty commies to play with.

 

[Gardener]

You have quite obviously never read his work

The fact that you call yourself a centrist while promoting this extreme hack makes it more likely that you haven't.

 

[ecofarm]

Patricia Garfield

"Creative Dreaming"

 

[Hoplite]

He is a dogmatic ideological orc commie us-hater. I've never seen a fair representation by him of an opposing viewpoint.

Perhaps someday I'll see something of his otherwise, but not thusfar. He's a puppet for tenured lib professors and agnsty commies to play with.

Perhaps you could provide some examples.

The fact that you call yourself a centrist while promoting this extreme hack makes it more likely that you haven't.

Can you justify your criticism?

 

[ecofarm]

Perhaps I'm too harsh, but probably not.

 

[Hoplite]

Perhaps I'm too harsh, but probably not.

Yeah I'm going to assume you arent familiar with his work and are parroting whatever source you usually go to for information that TOLD you Chomsky was "a hack"

 

[Gardener]

Perhaps you could provide some examples.


Can you justify your criticism?

Yes, obviously.

Here we have a thread on LITERARY authors, and you interject Chomsky into the matter, a man who is not a literary writer and is off the charts leftist in his political approach to the world. He is a polemicist of the very worst sort whose "America is always wrong" approach is just as misguided and deceptive as the jingoists who might believe America is always right. If you were any sort of actual centrist, you would not be moved to promote this propagandist who is in the business of manufacturing opinion hostile to The United States, Israel and the western world in general since you would have rejected his polemic style by very nature.

 

[Red_Dave]

Looks like Hoplite has been blacklisted.

 

[Hoplite]

Looks like Hoplite has been blacklisted.

Im still here I just dont consider it worth my time to try to talk to people that are not going to hear a word Im saying.

 

[liblady]

Margaret Atwood. Maybe Chuck Palahniuk. Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver maybe, Alice Walker. Possibly Dorothy Allison. Anthony Burgess, Harlan Ellison, Cormac McCarthy, Paul Theroux.

I haven't been to college, but I imagine some of these authors are already studied.
Don't they have contemporary literature classes? Others might be read for feminist studies or African-American studies or Asian studies or whatever. I don't even know what kinds of classes they have in college, but I'm sure they have all sorts of stuff like that.

joyce carol oates, anne rice, khaled hosseini

 

[RightinNYC]

As to OP: Dave Eggers

Rand isnt exactly contemporary and I dont see that her ideas have been terribly influential even following her death. Im not saying they're invalid, just they dont seem to have made as big a splash as have other authors on her subject.

As opposed to noted high school heartthrob Noam Chomsky.

I strongly disagree. Chomsky is extremely popular at the college level and he's virtually required reading for any political science major. He may not extend down to high school, but that doesnt mean he's any less widely read.

I was a politics major and took Socialist Theory from a fairly prominent marxist. I've never touched a Chomsky book. The days of the Chomsky Reader as bestseller are long past.

edit: Note that I'm not saying anything about the validity of his views, but merely pointing out that like any author who is notable in a particular field or among a particular group of people, subject notoriety doesn't necessarily translate into widespread adoption.

 

[liblady]

what is the what......awesome book.

 

[RyrineaHaruno]

I would say the top 10 list of Contemporary authors

 

[American]

Future generations will not be able to read, therefore they will have books on their iPods or MP3 players.

 

[Kali]

Future generations will not be able to read, therefore they will have books on their iPods or MP3 players.

Just the thought makes me sad. I know grown adults that have the Kindle and say they will never buy a real book again. Not this girl. I must have the book in my hand! A real book with real pages.

It annoys me almost as much as how people no longer right real letters and send them via the postal mail

 

[samsmart]

Just the thought makes me sad. I know grown adults that have the Kindle and say they will never buy a real book again. Not this girl. I must have the book in my hand! A real book with real pages.

It annoys me almost as much as how people no longer right real letters and send them via the postal mail

I never wrote real letters for the postal mail. Then again, I never was a very social person as a youngster, and never had anyone to write to anyways.

However, you're absolutely right about paper books over Kindles, and I won't buy a Kindle any time soon, and there are a few reasons for this. One is because I like to carry a book in my pocket when I go out and have to wait for something, and instead of being bored I'll just read. For another, I will lay in bed and read into the night, and sometimes fall asleep while reading; if I did that with a Kindle, there's a very good chance of breaking it in my sleep. One more plus of paper books over a Kindle - if you live in a disaster-prone area, you can read a paper book as long as you have some light, while Kindles will run out of power eventually, and if the electricity is cut off you're up crap creek without a paddle.

Yeah, I'm not gonna get rid of my paper books any time soon either.

 

[Josie]

Lois Lowry (The Giver)
JK Rowling
Orson Scott Card
Terry Brooks

 

[Z3n]

The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs might be, it was for a few of my classes. Although it does propagate a significant amount of pro-IMF opinion

 

[Fiddytree]

Dan Brown.

Oh, I kill myself.

 

[Kali]

Dan Brown.

Oh, I kill myself.

I laughed. But love me some Dan Brown