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Anonymous06/22/25, 23:54No.24488678The Netanyahus
Anons, I picked up this book to read today, but I was taken back by all the usual suspect markers all around the cover. Before loosing my time I wish to know, is it worth to read?
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Anon06/23/25, 24:53No.24488779
I’ve read a lot of Cohen
Wouldn't recommend him but he’s very talented, Bloom thought he was great
But he’s a nihilistic egoist (does his work enlighten, or does it just display virtuosity? — and if youre looking for virtuosity read Book Of Numbers)
He came from a devout Zionist family (i remember reading his uncle advice him as a young journalist, “more simple declarative sentences supportive of Israel”) but being an accomplished man of letters who fornicates and likes P Roth and is attracted to socialism he feels ambivalent
I really don’t care about liberal minded Jews ambivalency about Israel, and expressing this ambivelncy through sophisticated art , snore!
Read his other work instead
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Anon06/23/25, 01:58No.24488905
Does he still lurk here?
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Anon06/23/25, 02:17No.24488936
The best part of the book is the Afterword where he shares a letter sent to him by an unnamed female relative of Harold Bloom
>Dear Joshua Cohen, I've just finished reading your 'book' and I'm going to say it once and for all and that's it: Judaism is just another word for THE PATRIARCHY (and for PATRIARCHAL HEGEMONY). We're all one people, the Human People, with no differences between us. The planet is ruined, the machines are taking over, and none of this Jewish crap still matters. WAKE UP!!!!!! No one reads books anymore and the Jews are either on the wrong side of history or just irrelevant. IF YOU'RE HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS, I'm sorry, but your only choice is to expand your consciousness and join the Human People in our common struggle against pollution and technology or spend the rest of your life crying for a past that let's be honest couldn't have been that great if this is where it leads. Everything you believe in never existed, including your individual self, if you ever believed you could change that. Admit it, even literacy is dying--and when the last old Jew of you is finally as dead as (((God))) this proud nonbyinary dyke YES DYKE IS GOING TO DANCE NAKED AS HELL ON HIS GRAVE.
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Anon06/23/25, 19:49No.24490673
The reason poeple will not read this book is they have no interest in reading some light-hearted comedy about the family of some bloodthirsty genocidal maniac.
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Anon06/24/25, 02:19No.24491532
Is he a talented writer? Yeah, he’s not bad. Is he worth reading at all? Not even a little bit. You literally can only appreciate his books if you’re a Jew, a philosemite, or some kind of antisemite picking it apart for psychoanalysis or some schizo code breaker project, which is probably /pol/‘s next new low by the way.
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Anon06/24/25, 03:27No.24491665
If he's going to shill his book, he should at least do an AMA
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Anon06/24/25, 06:48No.24492033
Oh, are you referring to Bloom's alleged favoritism? Bloom died before the book was written. If so, you are retarded