Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for February 04, 2022
Transcript:
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
Wilde Bill over 2 years ago
The Brain’s attempt to take over the world was fouled up by his companion, Pinky.
k8zhd over 2 years ago
I remember my Hatefully Dull Literature class in college — ugh. Those were all the titles on the syllabus even then. Only “Old Man and the Sea” was a non-soporific.
smorbie the great and beautiful over 2 years ago
I sympathize. I am also a survivor of Hatefully Dull Literature class.
Sisyphos over 2 years ago
Funny, that’s not the way I recall Ulysses. Oh, yes, yes, YES!