The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 22, 2023

Since I was 18 (I am now 66) I read, every year, “On the road”.

I read it in the normal and “original scroll” version, both in Italian and English and every time I read it I am with Sal (Jack) and Dean (Neal) in the back seat of the car watching the center line of the road scroll by.

I read some Seuss sometimes. It’s fun.

Brutus is right: Russian classics are long and complicated and with too many characters.

I love the doctor Seuss books. I read them as a child, and I read them to my kids. I think I could recite GE&H without cracking the book.

I was thinking The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Don’t read “Goodnight Moon” It’ll put you to sleep.

I’m always up to read Treasure Island again.

I’m afraid “Green Eggs and Ham” is above Brutus’ mental capacity.

At least it won’t leave any stains on that sweater.

When he said classics my only choice is Peanuts.

The first book I read that was not forced on me in School was Thirteen Days by RFK.

The classic comic section comes highly recommended.

I usually read novels, but I recently read The Wright Brothers by McCullough that I found fascinating

Sometimes the childhood classics are the best.

I have the movies of The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace. My favorite books are Those Who Love and New Heaven, New Earth.

How bout Cannery Row followed by Sweet Thursday?

How about Christmas in Shacktown or The Mummy’s Ring.

My kind of reading as well…LOL

Do you like green eggs and ham? Yes, I do Sam I am! I like them in a boat and with a goat and up a tree and with a bee……………………….

Atta boy Brutus .

I’m thinking my Wizard of Id and B.C. books, although reading the Discworld books has me planning to re-read the Myth series by Robert Asprin

I recently read “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test” for the first time. A bit dated, but interesting.

enjoy your Dr. Seuss books, I sure did. ;)

We’ve all become a bit ADD thanks to technology and Brutus’s commitments on the classics seems to reflect that.

Dr. Seuss fits right in with Brutus’ level of intellect.

Brutus doesn’t want to get too smart just fed right.

I love Dr. Seuss. So sad that they decided a couple of my favorites were too offensive to remain in print. Reading (and loving) Scrambled Eggs Super did not in any way make me bigoted. Fortunately I still know it by heart!

“Stu the Cockatoo is New at the Zoo”? ☺

Perhaps Curious George. My favorite is Curious George and the High Tension Line. Or the companion series, Furious George.

As a teacher of History, I read many books, usually non-fiction. However, there is nothing wrong with reading a fun and very light book like Green Ham and Eggs. The entire library of Dr Seuss I truly enjoyed at so many levels. Twp of only some of my favorite light comic books series are the Wallace the Brave series and one entitled “Guide to Life” by Art and Chip Sanson ……

Personally, I’d start with Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Classic.

The “Children’s” books, that grow with your level of understanding:“Through the Looking Glass”& “Alice In Wonderland”.

I am an anomaly. I rarely read a book more than once. There is always something new to look forward to. That said, I have recently re-read a few books. My child has insisted I re-read “The Witching Hour” because it will be a TV show soon called, I think, “Mayfair Witches.” She said she has read it at least 5 times. It’s not a quick read, and it’s part of a series, I think. I remember little of it, which disappointed her. I said I have probably read a thousand books since and cannot retain everything. Thus, the re-read orders.

Something accessible by the common man! I’m sure there’s a Captain Underpants book with your name on it, Brutus.

Or a thin pamphlet…

I think you should go with the pop-up books, but that might be too much action for you.

If you can tolerate violence, I suggest Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels! BRUTAL, but WONDERFUL!

Classics Illustrated comics might be a good solution.

I love Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I feel it should be required reading in high school.

What a marvelous presentation of a simple (or simpleton) idea! Chip – a masterful comic writer!

My wife laughs at me cuz I always go back and re-read Steven King!

“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Sheldon Leonard. Or any western novel by Louis L’Amour. Or the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Lots of good “old” stuff out there.

Gladys replies, “ask Wilberforce, see if he’s still got that Dr. Suess book you gave him that you saved from when you went to elementary school”…

Gladys continues, “I know your’re kidding, but we are, a quite well read couple”…

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Next, Brutus should read “Hop On Pop”. Or “Are You My Mother?”

“Green Eggs and Ham”: You can read it to yourself. You can read it to an elf. You can read it with your kid. You can read it with a squid. You can read it here or there and you can read it anywhere. I do so like “Green Eggs and Ham”, I do so like to read it, Sam-I-Am.

if brutus is having trouble sleeping he could opt for moby dick… ☺

Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth

Nice to see that so many people here grew up with Dr. Seuss. I did too, and I still love his work. And yes, I read them to my kids when they were growing up (thanks to Boris Karloff for providing the inspiration for how to do the voice of the Grinch!).

As for the issue of re-reading books, the older I get, the harder it is to justify the practice; so many books, so little time — but that doesn’t mean I don’t still do it.

It took me most of the year to read W&P in bed in 1969.

My kids and I loved Boynton.