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LOL @ Adoon

Basra my sugarlips, are you still labouring under the illusion that Whitey can tell the difference between your twelve chins and other darkies? Come off it dee, you're a smart girl.

A scribe does not get nominated for the Nobel Prize for writing about sticking a man's ladypoker in a bison because that would be unfair to your species. Farah's work muses on the intersection of war and peace in a nation dismembered. Dip your bucket in his prose and let me see you shed those tears of blood.

Wig aka Cilmiile

Walaal, i think u r too perverted for the average somalis. I have seen Farah in interviews. He doesnt strike me as Intelligent. He is charming and appeasing but not brainy at all. That explains his subject matters in his work. Well, u would know about ignorant subjects Wig---u enjoy those nigerian disgusting soap operas Dvds about village life, vudus and man with 4 wives. I mean, watching a single nigerian soap can induce me to labor right away. Its taking us back to homo erectus days where people used to worship the sun.

Basra

I grant that Farah is not the most diverting speaker; his oratorical powers are sub par. But you drive lunacy to escape velocity when you let his halting English keep you from peeking between the covers of his books. Some of the most accomplished men of letters wore heavy accents like Joseph Conrad and Nabokov. Take one glance at Farah's style and you will curse the day you fled from his winsome prose. The man is a fine artificer like no other who knows the distinction between writing and typing. To look at him you would think he's quite provincial, but in the Country of the Mind over which he reigns Dictator the man spins tales so artful and delicate that he blew my wig right off. I've read a fair number of his novels and can vouchsafe for him.

Wig@loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool






Wig i think Farah should have enlisted you as his publicist. You sell his Hubris with such orgasmic talent and vigor that i am almost induced to laugh loud like a mad woman! I am not judging him based on his English speaking oratory nor am i judging based on his offensive un-handsome looks--i am simply judging him based on his reasoning and thinking. He does not have a magical thinking or sense of intelligent, knowledgeable rationale`.. Like i said, he is NOT Intelligent. Intelligent is not measured in accent or English speaking abilities. Someone like Ariana Huffington--she has th most atrocious English accent there is, yet when you see her speak ,you will think the Brilliant Bill Clinton is speaking. Very knowdgeable, very elegant, very engaging. From the Interviews-- Nura strikes me as appeasing the gaalo he is speaking to. He always seems to get a captive audience from them --he is busy riveting them with unusual practices of African savagery and primitive causes that he seem to forget his loyality or autheticity to Somalis. Nura absolutely is aware that his audience are not somali when he writes or speaks. I am sure he imagines Somalis will not be caught reading books in another century or so--so meanwhile he is a capitalist.he ventures of the supply and demand game of the horrific and the untouched dark continent village rituals. He provides demand for a voracious ignorant white audience who immense themselves into the unknown world of Afrian,-carnibalism, savagery, beastiality, the ignorant village woman attempting to make a tale of primitive feminism! Its all a farce walaal, i appreciate your zest and support for your ogadeen inaa adeer, but in all truthiness, this monster should be publicly whiped and taken in front of an al shabaab courtroom and if necessary maybe get one of his nipples chopped off ! (a purnishment he will appreciate i am sure lol)

Wig---Also--if you go to Amazon.com---and read the reviews of Farahs latest Novella---KNOTS---u will see out of 8 of the reviewers mostly white women, 7 of them gave it a one star or two stars. The one who gave the most many stars has a foreign name. The consesus of the criticism is --the prose is weak and the word 'awakward' comes up alot. And who picks the name 'cambaaro' has his heroine? Seriously?

LOL @ Nipples

If intelligence had a tail and swung from a tree Basra it would be on the endangered species list. Such notions I'm persuaded are misleading because intelligence, in the common use of the word, is merely recycling as many dead men's thoughts as one can and passing them off as one's own. This I don't respect. Across the nations of this globe there are a microscopically few men who might be accurately described as intelligent, people who don't traffic in moth eaten platitudes, who strive by virtue of their own mental powers to attain the true, the good and the beautiful.

To the artist alone belongs the shining white robe of creativity. The rest are platitudinarians.

I'm not here to whoop up Farah's work just because I date one of his shapely granddughters. Some of his later fiction I think for instance is palpably third rate like his recent production Links. But to call your conception of his body of writing mistaken would be to speak well of it. His themes are not transgressive taboos at all. And no cannibalism features in his work. The man's driving impulse is to anatomise the Somali body politic out of whose carcass emerges a host of lethal contagions like clannism, towelheadism, sexism and the like.

Your fixation on the odd bit of sex in just one of his novels would suggest a skirt-clutching little bint who's never been mounted like a bison. Come off it dee, I've seen what you get upto on Skype.

Wigles

Basro has also seen about this man's fondness of beatiality and Basro reads a lot of crab. If it bothered her, what about us?


btw, your wrting style resembles old Galol, r u him?

By whom was our Five-Pizzas-Basra appointed as the in-house book critic? The last I saw the woman she was heading the local chapter of the Ku Kluxers. Fascinating.

Farah is a God fearing man who sits in the very front ranks of the literary mujahideen.

Mureedi@loooooooooooooooooooooooool

What r u saying---that i am more perverted than the average somali?




Wig@looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool


Ok--fine! U do have a point, i should not judge him based on that one novel in which in indulged in beastiality. But in all honesty, the man is NOT creatively indulged. He is a wanna be. Like i posted above---go to Amazon.com and read the reviews, his prose are not praised as u do. He is a below mediocre, almost the same level of creativity as our dearest abdiwahaab. Meaning, lots of efforts put forth on the work but no natural genius or alluring prose that capture the heart or the head. In fact, Wig---u write better than he does. At least your prose makes me crack up!



"Your fixation on the odd bit of sex in just one of his novels would suggest a skirt-clutching little bint who's never been mounted like a bison."

Basro

No, I am just saying that you read more than the average Farah and Xaliimo, but if you took it the wrong way, sorry.

Wigless

You sound like you are full of admiration for this story teller of yours, but you still haven't put forth anything tangible as to why

Mureedi

apology accepted habibtii.

Calool is back spouting his usual Uncle Tomfoolery. Nurudin Farah is a talentless hack and an imitator. Having Somalis sexing cattle would have been an interesting but outrageous fiction and a sign of imagination but the idea in all its shocking glory appeared in a Toni Morrison book.

This guy is a loser. Just like Calool.

I was more fascinated with all the somalis speaking their host native tongue, I didnt understand a word nor was it pleasing to the ear but I loved it.

cilmille,

The reason I’m fond of you is that as much as your higher reflective faculties have been scattered by the childhood blows to your head, what you lack in wisdom is for more than compensated by your innocence. If two scribes working from the same finite material of man’s relation with the fauna and flora of the landscape chance to write of similar happenings it must be that one of them has aped the other is it? Funny.

A pity that no one informed the merchants of ink that any twice told tale of love and intrigue is an act of plagiarism. Let us burn all the books of the world which have analogous themes and insist on only one book for each genre, one book for love, one book for war, one book for daft kids named Cilmille whose IQ is south of ten. I recommend it.

Goodbye to a thousand years of writing because all human stories turn on the same broad themes. But till this new policy is effected and we enjoy a great bonfire of beautiful letters, move your tongue only to lick his boots.

Mureedi

Farah is the prince of the inkscape, the grandest, maddest, hottest keyboard mercenary to ever write about the dark continent or the white. The man is the arbiter elegantiarum.

What more do you want waraa? A synopsis of all his novels? Fuhgeddaboutit.