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Ulysses, of course, by James Joyce. Also, the Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

What did you like about The Grapes of Wrath?

These are exactly the kinds of questions that demand closer analysis, not just pat answers. If everyone flew a plane to work, I think airplanes would be more dangerous than cars. If kids were told to go outside and play with the gun, guns would be more dangerous than swimming pools...

I think there are two concerns with this development: China is arming itself at an alarming, accelerated rate, partnering with Russia for these energy deals, and allowing zero interference from outside agencies. What guarantee does anyone have that stockpiled uranium in China would not be...

I read a lot of economics analysis, mostly on The Levy Institute website. I think all economics analysis is interesting and open to neverending debate. A few of the issues I have with Freakonomics: As Malcolm Gladwell has pointed out, if crime rates have gone down due to legalized abortion...

How do you know that? I never heard anything like that. In fact, I read her entirely differently. People of 'quality' and education (such as herself and Antonia's narrator Jim) leave Nebraska for more sophisticated lives. There's a definitely sense of Jim's looking with awe and some disgust at...

Don't mean to give you homework, but there are a lot of threads on this and much has been said. Here's one: http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=4086&highlight=Salinger Welcome to the forum.

Hi zen, Well, that’s a good place to start. It’s no coincidence that you feel you know more about Jim than about Antonia. That’s surely intentional on the author’s part, much as in The Great Gatsby you know more about Nick Caraway than about Jay Gatsby. In fact, the evolving prejudices and...

I'm not looking for fiction, muggle. There are many ways to tell a true story. I think this particular movie told the life of a complex, thunderously powerful man in sugary sweet parables, which did him, IMO, a disservice. It reminded me of one of those awful Robert Redford movies with the...

I saw this the other night. It was so boring! Really one of the weakest structured movies I’ve seen in a while. (Good Night, and Good Luck is far superior in every way, for instance.) Okay, the actors did well with what they were given, but there was nothing compelling about the way Cash’s...

I don't watch Nascar, but the appeal of F1 for me is like the appeal of big tournament tennis--the same names and teams for a long time, vying for the top, with little adjustments making the big difference. The track layouts for F1 are all challenging, I like the internationality of it, and...

Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" is rather well known. Still curious about what you are using the info for?

Why do you want to know? Just curious, but it seems an odd question, unless you have a particular mission or assignment.

Leon Uris's novel Trinity is a fine, well-written story about several generations through the Troubles. I can't say it's entirely nonpartisan, but it's a cracking read.

No offense, but isn't that kind of a circular argument. After all, we are talking about a state of mind.

Has anyone seen these? I've been waiting for them forever. Just ordered FE through my library, but the one I really want to see is End of the Century. Plus the Metallica one is supposed to be a laugh. Comments?

Yes, it's True Crime. Capote interviewed the murderers for the book. It really happened.

double posted, sorry.

The smaller American publishers and many larger ones often sell the UK publishing rights as subsidiary rights to UK publishers. Same applied to markets in other countries. The book may then be retitled and have a different cover. Also, if these books are only just coming out in the US, it...

Wow, this article about these seemingly innocent series for young girls is a real eye-opener. 13 year olds having sex left and right, as if it's normal. The shopping, the stress, the nastiness. I'm not big on censorship, but I doubt I would buy these for my kid. Even if I didn't, I'd have a...