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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:10:05 GMT -6
Nothing!!? Wow! Not even Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, when you were a kid? Peace, OHD Hmm I guess I didn't think of those as fitting in the category. Those were ok but not something I'd go back to again. Well, they're considered "American Classics." They do read a little more like children's books but Twain is funny as hell, I think. I read them again a couple of years ago and enjoyed them more than ever! Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:13:22 GMT -6
I loved Moby Dick! I thought it was a great book. Want to be bored to tears, try reading "Tristram Shandy." Or the incomprehensible "Finnegan's Wake" or ANYTHING by Kurt Vonnegut. They tried to feed us this crap when I was in high school. YEEE-UCK. I liked Finnegan's Wake, but then I also really loved, "As I lay Dying," by Faulkner. Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:14:34 GMT -6
I liked the old movie they made of "Tom Sawyer" back in the 1930s. The scene where he feeds the cat his medicine and then the cat races around the walls of his bedroom 6 feet up in the air is hysterical. I think I've seen that. Was Mickey Rooney, Tom Sawyer, or did he do Huck Finn? Peace, OHD Mickey Rooney wasn't in it. It was the version made in 1938 starring Tommy Kelly as Tom, and Walter Brennan as Muff Potter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:26:52 GMT -6
I think I've seen that. Was Mickey Rooney, Tom Sawyer, or did he do Huck Finn? Peace, OHD Mickey Rooney wasn't in it. It was the version made in 1938 starring Tommy Kelly as Tom, and Walter Brennan as Muff Potter. Oh, wow! I'd like to see that! I'd never heard of it. I just ordered a book from Amazon, "Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE." Can't wait to read it! Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:31:07 GMT -6
I'm reading "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Tennessee Williams.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 20:58:20 GMT -6
I'm reading "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Tennessee Williams. Haven't read anything by Williams. I've liked all his screen plays. I get called a commie and a socialist quite a bit in the forums. No wonder I liked everything Steinbeck ever wrote! I think he was considered a "red agitator." I loved the book, by Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory. It smacked of Communism or Socialism as well. The movie with David Carradine was pretty darned good also! Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 6:50:23 GMT -6
I'm reading "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Tennessee Williams. Haven't read anything by Williams. I've liked all his screen plays. I get called a commie and a socialist quite a bit in the forums. No wonder I liked everything Steinbeck ever wrote! I think he was considered a "red agitator." I loved the book, by Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory. It smacked of Communism or Socialism as well. The movie with David Carradine was pretty darned good also! Peace, OHD The only book by Steinbeck that I really liked was "Grapes of Wrath". I've read most of his work - we got stuck with a lot of it in school, "Cannery Row", "The Pearl" and so on. But I think GOW is the best thing he ever wrote. I admire Woody Guthrie but I don't think he's as important to American music as they would like us to believe. I have the David Carridine movie but I think they made Woody too simplistic. He was a lot smarter (and did thinks more intentionally) than the movie shows. Try reading his autobiography sometime.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 7:48:16 GMT -6
The only book by Steinbeck that I really liked was "Grapes of Wrath". I watched that on TCM last night. WHAT AN AWESOME MOVIE!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 8:26:59 GMT -6
The only book by Steinbeck that I really liked was "Grapes of Wrath". I watched that on TCM last night. WHAT AN AWESOME MOVIE! I've read it several times, but I recorded the movie for posterity. I live near Sallisaw, (20 miles) from where the Joads began their 'hellacious' journey. The book's ending is absolutely nothing like the movie's! It was really shocking, especially for 1938. They had to change it entirely for the movie! Peace, OHD I've read everything Steinbeck wrote.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 8:32:26 GMT -6
Haven't read anything by Williams. I've liked all his screen plays. I get called a commie and a socialist quite a bit in the forums. No wonder I liked everything Steinbeck ever wrote! I think he was considered a "red agitator." I loved the book, by Woody Guthrie, Bound for Glory. It smacked of Communism or Socialism as well. The movie with David Carradine was pretty darned good also! Peace, OHD The only book by Steinbeck that I really liked was "Grapes of Wrath". I've read most of his work - we got stuck with a lot of it in school, "Cannery Row", "The Pearl" and so on. But I think GOW is the best thing he ever wrote. I admire Woody Guthrie but I don't think he's as important to American music as they would like us to believe. I have the David Carridine movie but I think they made Woody too simplistic. He was a lot smarter (and did thinks more intentionally) than the movie shows. Try reading his autobiography sometime. I agree, but the movie was very entertaining, and at least the premise was basically right. I've read a couple of his biographies. Bound for Glory was very close to being purely autobiographical. I guess you know that Guthrie was the number one influence in Bob Dylan's music. He said as much in an interview I watched. Peace, OHD
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Post by springschick on Nov 6, 2012 9:30:20 GMT -6
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Post by Sauerkraut on Nov 6, 2012 10:00:13 GMT -6
I would not of read a book cover to cover if it was turning out to be disappointing, I'd have quit before I finished. I can tell ya the titles of some very intresting books that I really enjoyed, most are political right wing. Ann Coulters books are useually pretty good as is the one Monica Crowley wrote. Mike Savage writes some great books too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2012 14:41:27 GMT -6
I would not of read a book cover to cover if it was turning out to be disappointing, I'd have quit before I finished. I can tell ya the titles of some very intresting books that I really enjoyed, most are political right wing. Ann Coulters books are useually pretty good as is the one Monica Crowley wrote. Mike Savage writes some great books too. No, I suppose you would not of . . . Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 18:38:41 GMT -6
The ending in the book of Grapes of Wrath is a lot better than the ending to the movie. But I bet if they remade that movie and kept the book ending it would freak out a lot of people.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2012 18:59:57 GMT -6
The ending in the book of Grapes of Wrath is a lot better than the ending to the movie. But I bet if they remade that movie and kept the book ending it would freak out a lot of people. Especially if they'd seen the old 1939 version of the movie, and of course had never read the book!! Freaked me out the first time I read it. I figure John was sitting around drunk one night and said to himself, "how the hell am I gonna end this story!!" Peace, OHD
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