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jturpin4: you could look at James Welch—I haven’t read him, but he comes recommended. And Thomas King—have read him:Green Grass, Running Water. And he has written other novels, plus numerous short stories, poetry. A touch of magic realism, very Amerindian. King travels, promoting not his...

Billy O, Is there really a book called How To Kill A Mockingbird? If there is I'd like to know who wrote it. Need to track him down and shoot him like the rabid dog he must be.

Someone doesn't like Orwell much? Good lord.

"Octomitrist" ain't bad, neither. I wonder what that idiot husband is. Upthalmolajest, maybe?

Well, I guess that question's been answered.

I like your posts, and that you like to make your ideas heard. For my part, if you think my ideas are dumb, it won't worry me. I pass that judgement on other people's ideas quite often. Or at least that their ideas are mistaken, misguided, whatever. How boring it would be if everyone's ideas...

Lighten up, True. I don't know what I'm supposed to have misinterpreted and equated to things that seem ridiculous. I have never assumed to know what is best for everyone. I can make judgements of good vs. dumb in all sorts of things; everyone does that. Obviously, if it's me who's saying it...

Remember The Tin Man -- Tracy Chapman.

Are those people you speak with the same ones who maintain that America was not defeated in Vietnam? Do you think that war began with conscription? Do you think the body-bag count was as big in that war's early stages as it became at its height? Or that the "situation" didn't start out "ten...

So now thinking equates with presumptuousness? Ahhh… I begin to see the light. Even if it does turn out to be a lie by lunchtime…

This is one powerful post. For anyone who remembers Vietnam, anyway. Thanks, Garthbooks. Deviating from Michael Moore a bit, but does anyone out there remember John Patrick's play, Kennedy's Children? A series of monologues, players taking turns to tell their stories. I head it on radio...

Yeah … 70s through 80s, my 20th Century. Best bands ever: Pink Floyd Yes The Clash (don't think I saw them mentioned anywhere, and they should be) Big Brother & the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin -- had something her subsequent bands lacked, I think) Hendrix with various bands...

WOT? I thought they were being hard on me! :) Well, a bit of hard is good… I like it. Seriously, though, I think I'm being critical of the little choice they have -- the programming, rather than the programmed. Put crap in, get crap out, right? I was recently asked, with others, to...

RitalinKid, you make a thoughtful post. I read again what you said on South Park, and can see how it ties in. I can see that you like to think about things, so further to what I said before, you might care to consider this: When Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn, he was writing to a different...

Maybe, like me, they read him years ago. Vonnegut wrote when? Thirty years ago? Forty? He was contemporary with those few authors I mentioned earlier. An innovator, not an imitator. A minor one, in my opinion -- a bit tiresomely try-hard for my taste -- but good enough to qualify. You make the...

Or maybe, and more likely, the reason so many people are turning to movies and voyeuristic reality TV shows is that they can't find a book that appeals to them. And clearly there is a much larger market now than ever before, for literature and everything else. Elizabethan London, from what I...

Not exactly, Ritalin. My main point, I think, can be got from consideration that the writers of what we now call classics were not writing to be classicists. They were writing for readers of their own era. I don't think what they wrote is irrelevant to us, I maintain only that it cannot have as...

I don't think you need to apologise -- why shouldn't you jump in? In reply to above quote I say yes, but accounts of how things are now is a better way. Or at least there should be a balance. And it is not accounts, anyway, but rather interpretations we look for in novels. I agree with...

Where did I say that history tells us nothing? Or that there is (not are) no similarity between people of today and those from the past? I did say that there are diffences between the circumstances and issues of the past and those of today. I also said that the major novelists of today rarely if...

Too late? Never too late for me. Sorry to hear about your coma etc., hope everything's OK now… Shakespeare was not a novelist, he was a playwrite, and an actor. But since you mention him, please note that I have commented on his genius elsewhere in this forum. Further to that, he was, in his...