Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for August 28, 2023
Transcript:
suggested summer reading dude: 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-pound-ing 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 man: 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
SteveHL about 1 year ago
Pop-up books are always a problem in the world of Richard Thompson.
fritzoid Premium Member about 1 year ago
The Summer-Reading version of “Ulysses” is always one of my favorites.
See also the “Richard’s Poor Almanac” Bloomsday poem on (most recently) 8/2/23.
PoodleGroomer about 1 year ago
The new Dolly Parton autobiography is a pop-up book.
fritzoid Premium Member about 1 year ago
Distilleries in Dublin are never truly abandoned. They’re just allowed to lie fallow at times, to prevent soil depletion.
jmcenanly about 1 year ago
I remember reading “A Separate Peace”. If Finny, the narrator’s friend had attended a school in the present, he’d probably be forced to take so many tranquilizers that he’d rattle when he walked.
Sisyphos about 1 year ago
Ain’t no reading’ like Summer Readin’ baby!
And Richard’s revised modern classic, Ulysses, is fit for The Masses!
Let them eat cake!