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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi (Post 2043080)

Mine, too!

My top 5

5) The Winter of Our Discontent
4) To a God Unknown
3) Tie: Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday
2) East of Eden
1) Tie: The Wayward Bus / The Grapes of Wrath

What’s yours?

5. Of Mice and Men
4. Cannery Row
3. Tortilla Flat
2. Grapes of Wrath
1. East of Eden

Alt title: How to Be a Sucker

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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi (Post 2043144)

5. Of Mice and Men
4. Cannery Row
3. Tortilla Flat
2. Grapes of Wrath
1. East of Eden

one after the other?
theres a book by steinbeck i love, i think its not as famous, called The Pastures of Heaven if you care to go on.

EDIT: sorry havent read the previous discussion between OH and zhanteimi......

me i currently read sapiens by Harari Yuval-noah‎.
its ok but not great.
if you wanna read an anthropology-best seller i d recommend Guns, Germs and Steel....

Going to give this one a read, over the weekend. Detective/murder mystery combined with some 1950's era comics history.

https://i.ibb.co/jW9ddRc/SotI.jpg

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"Seduction of the Innocent" is set during that weird period in the 1950s when the comic-book industry was attacked by an amalgam of social science, politicians, and parents groups. This is a scene that we've seen repeated many times since with popular music, videogames, movies and the internet, but the anti-comics hysteria was unique in that the outcome of the hysteria forcibly reshaped the content of comic-books for decades afterwards. While not a straight documentary by any means, the book captures the anxious mood of the era and uses it as both the backdrop and prime mover of the story.

Most of "Seduction" is a good-old-fashioned whodunit that's more of a pot-boiler than hard-boiled, which makes for a quick read that's a lot of fun to get through. The setup: An anti-comics crusader (based closely on real-life anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham) is murdered after giving testimony to a Senate subcommittee, and there's no shortage of suspects within the comic-book industry to blame

As much as that period was a pile of **** if it hadn't happened then superhero comics might have died. They'd been dying for a decade before the original Seduction of the Innocent came out in 1954 and it was the introduction of the Comics Code Authority that forced publishers to stop making horror and crime comics and go back to superheroes. So I guess it wasn't all bad.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2043079)

We’re like two peas in a pod. He’s my favorite writer.

Then you should understand the reference in this song: