Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for September 29, 2019
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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
You really must add The Red Badge of Courage to the hatefully dull literature class. It was really the worst book I’ve ever been forced to read. In fact when my son was in school the teacher told them she was supposed to make them read it, but was substituting another classic because no one should ever have to read that book.It scarred me.