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
Wilde Bill almost 8 years ago
“Gee Brain, what are we going to do tonight?”“Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world.”
Thomas R. Williams almost 8 years ago
Stately, plump….
Malcolm Hall almost 8 years ago
Agenbite of inwit….
PoodleGroomer almost 8 years ago
The second chapter started with circles and ellipses, and then started making up names for swirls and doodles.
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
That beach bum has been out in the sun too long….
cutiepie29 almost 8 years ago
I wish I could have only taken “Introduction to Hatefully Dull Literature,” but no, I had to go on to “Intermediate Despised and Boring Literature” and “Advanced Incomprehensible Mind-numbing Literature” before I graduated with my degree. And that’s not even mentioning “Great Books Everyone wants to be able to Say they’ve Read, but Nobody actually Wants to Read.”
As the joke goes, Science majors say, “How does it work?” and English/Humanities majors say, “D’you want fries with that?”
Mayor Snorkum almost 8 years ago
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.