Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 25, 2016
November 24, 2016
November 28, 2016
Transcript:
suggested summer reading man: in "ulysses", the new oprah's book club selection, author james joyce uses innovative narrative techniques to tell the story of leopold bloom. bloom has just 24 hours to find & defuse the bomb hidden somewhere in dublin by the elusive criminal mastermind & illegal organ dealer known only as - the brain! thrill as bloom, his beautiful wife, molly, and their hip sidekick, steve, track down the brain in a fast-paced pub crawl that culminates in a pulse-pounding fight in an abandoned distillery! woman: i have to read "silas marner," "last of the mohicans," "the pearl," "a separate peace" and "the old man and the sea" for my intro-duction to hatefully dull literature class. screenplay in embryo dude: i'm reading this, but i can't really recommend it. great big jumbo giant pop-up book baby: this was good until the author dragged the rhomboid in. then it just fell apart. shapes
Kip W almost 8 years ago
I enjoyed A Separate Peace, but I understand now that if you weren’t a fairly complacent white guy when you read it, the angst is a lot thinner and it’s harder going.
Teto85 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Every other summer I add Lord of the Rings to my list. It needs to be re-read often. That the manga of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 8 years ago
Should have been a uranium “A-bomb”.
OldestandWisest almost 8 years ago
When my English teacher told me that a book I liked, Allen Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel “Advise and Consent” in her opinion, took a long time to say little, I replied that I thought “A Separate Peace” (one of her favorites which she made the whole class read) took a moderate amount of time to say nothing.
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
Ooooh, Ulysses! I remember that sidekick, Steve Daedalus!
But somehow the plot seems a little different from what I recall….
Daniel Jacobson almost 8 years ago
The books, themselves, are usually great to read. Teachers and professors who “teach and explain” about them actually seem to downgrade those books in an attempt to impress students with the teachers’ “superior academic knowledge.”
tigerchik32 almost 8 years ago
I remember when we had to read Wuthering Heights in school. Man, was it dry; you needed a scorecard just to leep the plot straight.
Steve Dutch almost 8 years ago
My yardstick for the literacy of English teachers is this. We read “Heart of Darkness” at Beserkely in the 1960’s. Yes, that place, then. And with all the talk about colonialism and oppression in those days, we did not hear ONE WORD about the genocide in the Congo at the time of the novel. Not one.