It's an abridged text from the early 19th century, by Mary Godolphin, it keeps all the essentials of the story AND the language style.
Lawson's illustrations are wonderful.
Posted on 02/03/2014 2:13:32 PM PST by jocon307
Have you ever lied about reading a book? Maybe you didn’t want to seem stupid in front of someone you respected. Maybe you rationalized it by reasoning that you had a familiarity with the book, or knew who the author was, or what the story was about, or had glanced at its Wikipedia page. Or maybe you had tried to read the book, even bought it and set it by your bed for months unopened, hoping that it would impart what was in it merely via proximity (if that worked, please email me).
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Dear Pelham,
There are 10 books of published and ‘discovered’ works of Mssr. Hammett in possession, and a few of Chandler (working on it), also Hard Case Crime series.
Thank you for the ‘head’s up’ on that movie!
I looked. Amazon only offers it as a digital rent or own. Again, I thank you.
AnAmericanMother wrote:
“Supposedly there’s a warhead buried in the mud on the sea floor, somewhere off the coast of Savannah.”
Hmmm. You might look up crashes of B-52’s, aand come up with something.
This Thread has made my day!
It’s Threads like these that put FR a cut above ALL the other sites.
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“Pilgrims Progress comes to mind.”
That book would probably be #1 on a list of books that used to be very popular but which are completely obscure today.
I finally read Pilgrim’s Progress when I realized that almost every character in every 19th C. novel I’d ever read had read it!
I liked it OK and thought it held up well for something so old and rather strange. Some parts of it have really stuck with me.
It's an abridged text from the early 19th century, by Mary Godolphin, it keeps all the essentials of the story AND the language style.
Lawson's illustrations are wonderful.
Uncle Tom was a Christ figure, in his great charity refusing to hate his oppressors, let alone those (like little Eva or George) who tried to be good and help him within the system as it existed.
Washington promoted negotiation, practical forgiveness, and treatment of the white majority as individuals who could be persuaded to help African-Americans.
DuBois not only rejected forgiveness of the oppressor, but in a racist fashion identified the "oppressors" as an unredeemable, monolithic group that must be overcome with resistance and even violence.
They are in the ascendancy and have been for some time. That's why Washington himself is regarded as a quisling and an "Uncle Tom" -- and why that term has become one of abuse.
10. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand: read it twice.
9. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin: read it once in High School.
8. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo - read it twice in High School - one of my all time favorite reads as a young person. Picked it up as an adult years later and was bored to death with it...
7. 1984, George Orwell: Read several times.
6. Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville: A few paragraphs standing in a bookstore...
5. The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith: Read a third of it in high school... never read it again.
4. Moby Dick, Herman Melville: Two chapters...
3. The Art of War, Sun Tzu: Flipped through... 10 minutes?
2. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli: read it several times...
1. Ulysses, James Joyce: One paragraph... years ago.
That is a very nice, well stated description of the ‘why.’
I thank you.
Well, I read Les Miserables, MANY years ago. I’ve never gotten around to reading any of the rest. Maybe someday.
Article was to poorly written to read the entire piece. That is the truth.
;’)
‘The Prince’ should help you understand how the GOPe can stab conservatives in the back while lying to their face.
I’m halfway through Gravity’s Rainbow because of this thread and I’m wondering why you liked it so much? The understanding and breadth of science in it are excellent but I don’t understand why he fills the pages with graphic sex of every kind, except perhaps the missionary position.
Also, why did he randomly throw Mickey Rooney into it? I recently read the Gulag Archipelago and thought about the Russian controlled German areas and how the book synced with some of the thoughts from Solzhenitsyn. I do find it compelling because there seems to be brilliant ideas in it, but it is hard to follow sometimes.
” I’m wondering why you liked it so much?”
Well, being a musician,,,,,, the sex didm’t bother me that much. Nonetheless, it’s an interesting twist to a plot line! Slothrop and the missiles,,,just bizarre! But,, on top of that, I really enjoyed Pynchon’s modern prose style, and his outrageous sense of humor! “Bowel Bugers Au Jus” abdo-lutely cracked me up! Feed some to Michael Moore!
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