![]() ![]() Ps - I HAVE softened up a bit in the two+ years since I wrote that first bit, I did read A Confederacy of Dunces. But, as Popeye said, "I yam what I yam." Okay fine if it shuts you up I'll read The French Lieutenant's Woman ) Obviously this says more about what an obstinate fuckwad I am than about Franzen, or contemporary literature or anything else. In this one, George sings, I dont want your freedom while in the other, he sings, I dont belong to you/you dont belong to me. As I've written before, I'm not a fan of contemporary fiction anyways, but my spidey senses always tingle whenever a book leaps SO totally into another stratosphere of reviews/everyone demanding "you have to read this!!!!!!" On one hand it's like music critics who just decide to write whatever the others are writing just cause it's easy (see the Strokes endless "Television meets Velvet Underground!" reviews from 2001 that surely came off a mimeograph machine.whatever the fuck that is.) And when these very books become the one book some people read every four years, my spidey senses tingle even more. 1 It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo. ![]() It became the group's second number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and reached number three in America. Of course it might actually be the greatest book in the history of the world, I have no idea. 'Freedom' is a hit song by British pop duo Wham. I'm pretty much in agreement with THIS FELLOW re: Franzen. Freedom Wham Everyday I hear a different story People say that you’re no good for me So you love another And she’s making a fool of you Oh. Reading people marveling about their own neuroses bores me. If there is any infringement of your rights, please inform us, and. But to know that I'll forgive you Just this once, twice, forever 'Cause baby You could take me to heaven and back Just as long as we're together And you do. StatementThe -Wham lyrics of the singer Freedom are collected from the Internet. I don't want your freedom I don't want to play around I don't want nobody's baby Part-time love just brings me down I don't need your freedom Girl all I want right now is you. This also includes memoirs of "whacky characters" a la Confederancy of Dunces, Running with Scissors et al. I dont want your freedom01:06 I dont want to play around01:10 I dont want nobodys baby01:13 Part-time love just brings me down01:17 I dont need your freedom01:23. I have a million classic works of fiction I am behind on, so I don't need anybody excitingly passing along whatever flavor of the week you're passing around with your friends. 90% of the themes has been recycled 1000 times surely I would rather read such a theme in a book time-tested through a hundred years and taught in universities. Freedom is a song by Wham Every day I hear a different story People saying that youre no good for me Saw your lover with another and shes makin a fool of you, oh If you love me baby, youd deny it But you laugh and tell me I should try it Tell me Im a baby, and I dont understand But you.
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