Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for July 11, 2013
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July 12, 2013
Transcript:
suggested summer reading dude: 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-pound-ing fight in an abandoned distillery! lady: 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 man: 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.
Ida No almost 11 years ago
Couldn’t the exciting fight happen in a fully operating distillery? The Brain could shoot at the heroes while dodging fully-loaded forklifts tearing around at 3 mph! And then he could fall into a vat, where all of his Brain cells would die. (The kidneys would be ok, though, because they’re in sealed bags for protection.)
edclectic almost 11 years ago
The Brain started out selling pianos.
Sisyphos almost 11 years ago
James Joyce would, I’m sure, appreciate the sourmash humor of the mash-up by Oprah’s hapless editor, an antidote to Hatefully Dull Literature for 21st century readers (if there are any)….
fritzoid Premium Member almost 11 years ago
I’m currently alternating between the Sookie Stackhouse/“Southern Vampire”/True Blood series and the Collected Short Stories of Raymond Chandler. It works pretty well; a 300-page Sookie book takes about the same time to read as a 60-page Chandler story, and the CPP rate (corpses-per-page) is roughly the same.
After that, I’m going to take a crack at “Finnegan’s Wake.” Really.
scrabblefiend almost 11 years ago
P.D. James is pretty good, too.
water_moon over 10 years ago
read Mark Twains review of Mohicans
I loved that! sadly my 8th grade lit teacher didn’t….