Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for August 04, 2014
July 25, 2014
August 08, 2014
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! 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 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. shapes
Sisyphos almost 10 years ago
The revised Ulysses sound more like a screenplay. After that Hollywood treatment, I hope Steve Daedalus goes all Jack Bauer on the producers!
ellisaana Premium Member almost 10 years ago
It may not be the rhomboid which made that book fall apart.Tossing it to the dog will sometimes do that.
smorbie almost 10 years ago
The Red Badge of Courage should be on the hatefully dull list. I’m still scarred from having read it in middle school. When my son hit that grade, his teacher told them they were supposed to read it but she couldn’t subject them to such a boring book. I think she just didn’t want to have to read it again.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Bulwer-Lytton? The “Dark and stormy night” author?
Banjo Evans almost 10 years ago
always brilliant, richard