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Old 02-14-2019, 02:08 PM   #6481 (permalink)
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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....
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Old 02-15-2019, 08:58 AM   #6482 (permalink)
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Going to give this one a read, over the weekend. Detective/murder mystery combined with some 1950's era comics history.






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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
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Old 02-15-2019, 11:17 AM   #6483 (permalink)
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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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Old 02-15-2019, 05:08 PM   #6484 (permalink)
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Then you should understand the reference in this song:

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Old 02-15-2019, 05:15 PM   #6485 (permalink)
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 02-15-2019, 05:27 PM   #6486 (permalink)
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Old 02-16-2019, 06:38 AM   #6487 (permalink)
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5. Of Mice and Men
4. Cannery Row
3. Tortilla Flat
2. Grapes of Wrath
1. East of Eden
^ Turns out that I've read more Steinbeck than I thought, as I've read four out of those five. I thought Of Mice and Men was a wonderful book, and I remember one of his short stories, The Red Pony, too. Isn't he, like Hemmingway, very much a man's author that girls don't take to? Have you ever tried recommending his stuff to girlfriends?

Notice how the mention of girls leads me very cleverly to this book, which I finished just 15 mins ago:-



^ The sad protagonist is a middle-aged Catholic woman struggling through genteel poverty in Ireland. No fancy stylistic surprises, but a well-told story with characters convincingly coming to life - especially if you've seen the movie of the same name. () I can also recommend it for its brevity - at 200-odd pages, you get a taste of Ireland without commiting yourself (like InnerSpaceBoy) to the life and works of J Joyce!
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Isn't he, like Hemmingway, very much a man's author that girls don't take to?
Hell no I love both. But then again I am part dude. Have only read Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath yet though, but East of Eden is first in my line of books to read. I've heard so much praise of it.
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Very much enjoying the Mistborn trilogy.. I stopped at the local bookstore that was having a sidewalk sale and picked up some future reads:

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Still working my way through the graphic novels, I didnt even know this was a thing:


Retelling of the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland, last book I needed from the series:


Pratchett + Gaiman, how could I avoid it?


Because only $5 for the hardcover and Ive heard good things:



I think im going to go back and snag this next week and not read it for a really long time:




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