Annie Kapur
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Book Review: "Hitch-22" by Christopher Hitchens
“Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.” - Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
Vacuum Cleaning and Meditations
As a continuation of the opinions I made in my article "UniversityGPT: In Defence of Gen-Z" I would like to expand on a topic that interested me. I could not find the placement for it in the first article as it would have made it far too convoluted and lengthier than anyone would have cared to read. I have called this article "Vacuum Cleaning and Meditations" because of the fact I clarified the ideas of the piece whilst vacuum cleaning. The entirety of that point will make sense as we read on into the main arguments.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "On Swift Horses" by Shannon Pufahl
It's late April and I can honestly say that there are some cool library books still about even though I think they've given up on my reservations (I have a lot of them and every time I go, they are never done). Anyways, I decided to pick up this book purely because I see it every time I go to the library, it's like it's calling me. On Swift Horses is a book about a woman called Muriel and her brother-in-law Julius, two people who live very separate lives in very separate places - neither definitely contented and both in an odd position in life. As they navigate their new-found lives, their hearts long for something else. I have to say that this book is something else and I am so glad I found it.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann
Lotte in Weimar, published in German in 1939 as Lotte in Weimar: Der Roman von Goethe, was written by Thomas Mann whilst he was living in exile from Nazi Germany. The novel sees Mann's turn to historical fiction and reflects on his engagement with German cultural identity and history. Mann based the story on the 1816 real-life visit of Charlotte Buff, (a former love interest of the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), to Weimar, where Goethe was then a famed public figure. Mann used this event as a framework to delve into Goethe’s life, influence, and the psyche of the emerging Germany.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell" by Robert Dugoni
I'm back to reading those books that I have never heard of by authors I have never heard of. If you're struggling on what to read, then I suggest you let Amazon Kindle Unlimited do the choosing for you. Go for something you like the initial read of and run from there. You will find that even though the big corporations are, in fact, evil - this is probably the best way to discover books you would have never otherwise seen around and about. This is how I discovered this John Irving-esque novel entitled The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - a boy born into strange circumstances with something that makes him special, but left out amongst his peers.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
The Many Experiences of "Cloud Atlas"
The video is attached below. Godspeed and be kind... "The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateur conductors. A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it – suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching. The only selfishness lies in ruining strangers' days by forcing 'em to witness a grotesqueness."
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Writers
Book Review: "Koba the Dread" by Martin Amis
I know, this book is a rather contentious one. But forgive me, it's late April 2025 and I've been reading a lot of contentious stuff lately. Slated in various newspapers and magazines, Koba the Dread is the second installment in a series which started with Experience (which I read back during COVID) and though it is hated, it is probably much better in terms of explaining itself. Focusing on the horrors of Communism in Russia, Martin Amis rips into the mid-20th century Western intelligentsia who professed that the ideas coming over from Russia were great, popular and useful for society. Of course they weren't. Taken from Stalin's own nickname 'Koba', this book really does cut deep into the bleeding heart of Communism with not only insult and analysis, but also with dark humour.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
"A Day in the Life"
I've never done this before so I had to borrow some ideas (please check out the link, it's a great idea for a challenge but I'm hopeless at acrostic poetry because my mind always goes blank. All of a sudden I can't think of any words beginning with V. I apologise).
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Writers
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
It is well documented that the Victorian Era's mistakes were many but by far, one of the worst was the rampant homophobia which was written into law as the "Labouchere Amendment". This notorious Section 11 of The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 stated that it was "gross indecency" for a man to commit love to another man, criminalising homosexuality and seeing one of the greatest writers and minds of the time go to prison and later on, die of the after-effects. Oscar Wilde lay dying in France in November of 1900 after suffering poor health due to prison treatment. He was pronounced dead of meningitis by the end of the same month. Maurice Gilbert would take the final photograph of Wilde on his deathbed.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in History
A Mutual Understanding
It’s a funny thing to resign from someone’s life, but here we are. A de facto write-off under the moon, the weight of every instinct of fear drilled into my bones. For my mind is a circuit fuse that prays to be lit, but can’t find the wires. Never once did you accept that perhaps your thumb was chugging the electricity out of the battery. Never once was there a mea culpa. But yet I persist, and continue to against the heat of your will, for I know you hate me.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Journal
Book Review: "Here" by Richard McGuire
I was looking for new and experimental books to read and so I found this one by Richard McGuire. It's April 2025 and I looked through this book in the library - I was surprised to find that it was laid out completely differently to how I thought it would be laid out. Instead of a straight story, it is a series of pictures of a certain place from different times in history. Often these are overlaid atop each other. For example: the background will be a drawing of the place from 8'000 BCE but then it would be overlaid with squares and rectangles in which things are taking place in the 1980s and the 1990s, in the 1870s and even the future. Throughout this review I'll try to post some photos to show you what it's like.
By Annie Kapur8 months ago in Geeks
