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Pass, really? I suppose I could get into that. You mean John Dos Passos of course.
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Only if you agree to never have any Faulkner in the book club.
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The new nomination is Ambrose Bierce's Civil War Short Stories. Each short story will merit much discussion. You will like Bierce because he fought for the north. He also said that novels were a waste of time because the best of them were just short stories with a ton of padding. Bierce could spin a yarn, sir. Current nominee: "The Civil War Stories of Ambrose Bierce", written by, you guessed it, Ambrose Bierce. A dirty Yankee, but a helluva writer. |
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So the response was burn them to the ground. Right. Yay Lincoln. New nominee: The Civil War: A Trilogy by Shelby Foote. I'll forewarn you though, the trilogy is over 2,500 pages long. I still nominate The Unvanquished but since our Vice President has outlawed Faulkner, how about.....Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson? |
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I haven't read a book in about 20-25 years unless it has a lot of pictures. That rules me out.
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This shit is so ****ing gay.
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Take it up with your sewing circle tulip.
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I dont read
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Maybe this will change some of your minds: with books, at no time at all does the story get interrupted for commercials. No commercials at all.
At no time in the tale will there be an interruption for '80 for Brady' previews or some other distasteful thing. How about Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? It's about an old man out at sea, trying to catch a big marlin. I think he gets stranded out there though and it becomes a tale of survival! It's so short, it's not considered a novel, but a novella. Very exciting stuff. |
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You're a retired schoolteacher IIRC. You should be listing dozens of options. What was your favorite book to teach? Was it Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage? Or was it Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath?
You don't need me to tell you what Steinbeck said in his Nobel Prize speech, Mr. MN. But I will anyway. He said "Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed." He also said: "Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. My great predecessor, William Faulkner, speaking here, referred to it as a tragedy of universal fear so long sustained that there were no longer problems of the spirit, so that only the human heart in conflict with itself seemed worth writing about." The interesting thing there is that Steinback hastened to refer to Faulkner, not the other way around. Cause Faulkner was the Mahomes of literature and everyone knew it! |
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