Comments on: How many of these most lied-about books have you read? https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Pete in TX https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-965721 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:24:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-965721 Ha! Your remark about War and Peace reminds me of how the late Joan Rivers said she read that book. She mimed furiously turning the pages and muttered, “Battle battle battle.” Then she paused and sighed, “Love!”

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-965399 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:11:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-965399 Nick:

I never got the impression that Holden thinks he knows much of anything. He seem to be the personification of confused feeling, but he acknowledges that confusion. He is lost, and he knows it. All he knows is that there are a lot of “phonies” in the world and he doesn’t like them, and he’d like to protect children’s innocence. That’s about it.

At the end of the book, Holden’s in some sort of psychiatric treatment, if I recall correctly, and he indicates that at this point he “misses everybody,” including the people he’s dissed.

]]> By: Nick https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-965319 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:45:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-965319 Holden Caulfield strikes me as the prototypical Millennial, an emotional cripple who thinks he knows everything.

]]> By: Rufus Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964785 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:22:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964785 I read the original Alice books and really enjoyed them also! I don’t think I told any of my friends, either. Definitely went against my image as a tough football player but I read them both several times. To this day I can still recite some of the oddest parts,of them.

]]> By: Richard Saunders https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964720 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:45:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964720 (1) Both Alice books. Yup.

(2) 1984. Many times. One of the greats.

(3) Lord of the Rings. 25 pages. Never got the hullabaloo.

(4) War and Peace. No, but I read August 1914, that’s worth at least as much..

(5) Anna Karenina. Nope.

(6) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Yup. Read them as a kid, then again as an adult. Much different take.

(7) To Kill a Mockingbird. Yup. NBD.

(8) David Copperfield. Nope.

(9) Crime and Punishment. Nope.

(10) Pride and Prejudice. Nope, but I’ve seen at least 13 different movies and TV version. Does that count?

(11) Bleak House. Should have convinced me never to be a lawyer. Alas, I have a weak character.

(12) Harry Potter. 50 pages, blah, blah, blah.

(13) Great Expectations. Yup.

(14) The Diary of Anne Frank. Yes.

(15) Oliver Twist. Yes, but the musical crowds out my recollection.

(16) Fifty Shades trilogy. Shirley, you jest!

(17) And Then There Were None. Oh, yes.

(18) The Great Gatsby. Yes, could never figure out what the big deal was.

(19) Catch-22. Many times. My dad, a WWII vet (not Air Corps), said it was the best book about the war ever written. I read it in high school, and loved it. Then after the Army read it again, and loved it even more. There was even an officer in my outfit we called “Major Major.”

(20) The Catcher in the Rye. Yes — what a whiney, obnoxious, self-indulgent brat!

]]> By: Nick https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964688 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:50:35 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964688 Neo – True. Orwell was influential and a genius. But if you take his kernel of genius and add the history of the Russian Revolution, you’ve got Animal Farm. If you take his kernel of genius and add “We”, you’ve got 1984. It makes it harder to consider him a great writer once you’ve factored out his source material.

“We” is also a work of genius. It’s like free verse about mathematics. Very impressionistic. Zamyatin was writing in the new Soviet Union, in 1921. He understands totalitarianism. He just expressed it in a very different way.

]]> By: Molly NH https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964599 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:12:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964599 and “scout” was Harper Lee..:)

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964589 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:48:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964589 MollyNH:

Capote and Harper Lee were childhood friends.

]]> By: Molly NH https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964587 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:46:51 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964587 Truman Copote “in Cold Blood” is a great read,
interestingly the Prissy boy “Dill” in To Kill a Mocking bird, is modeled after him .

]]> By: Janetoo https://thenewneo.com/2016/02/15/how-many-of-these-most-lied-about-books-have-you-read/#comment-964570 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:13:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=56797#comment-964570 I have read about 2/3’s of the list. I do love Jane Austen (I re-read her books) and I also love Jane Eyre (which I also re-read, I also love The Professor by CB) I have never read Catcher in the Rye, if you can believe it. It was never assigned! What does that say about my jr. high school?

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