Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for May 16, 2016
May 09, 2016
May 23, 2016
Transcript:
Suggested Summer Reading 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, tracked down the brain in a fast paced pub crawl that accumulates in a pulse pounding fight an abandoned distillery! I have to read Silas Marner, Last of the Mohicans, The Perl, A Separate Peace and The Old Man and the Sea for my introduction to hatefully dole literature classics. I'm reading this, but I can't really recommend it. Screenplay in Embryo This was good until the author dragged the rhomboid in. Then it just fell apart. Shapes Great Big Jumbo Giant Pop-up Book
I was chagrined to see that "The Scarlet Letter’ and “The Spoils of Poynton” didn’t make the list. I had to read those in high school, and, even worse, there were no Classic Comics versions of these godawful books.