A whole lotta "meh" and a bit of wow

[delphipsmith]

Usually when I read the New York Times Book Review on Sundays there are at least two titles, often more, that I am inspired to add to my to-read list. Today I went through the entire section and did not add any. It seems like this should mean something but I'm not sure what.

Courtesy of a colleague on GoodReads, however, I also read a superb

Comments

[kellychambliss]

Wow, that Burgess quote is scary in its timeliness.

[arwitchywoman]

Oh, don't get me started on this.
Everytime I give a sightseeing history tour in my hometown (Savannah, GA) people get upset with me because I point out so many things about our history and our founding fathers that are NOT taught in this country's grade and high schools. We are led by our curriculum from an early age to 'think' that our noble leaders are always valiant and moral people doing things for OUR own good. I'm not going to high jack this post, but if one only digs into history past what their minds were molded to believe as children, they would recognize that our culture has been shaped for one purpose - to create divisiveness amongst the populace, and to have them think that Uncle Sam is the one who is looking out for them.

Don't get me wrong - I love this country and don't want to live anywhere else. I just can't stand when others try to control my thoughts. We are all intelligent people - what a shame we've been trained to passivity when it comes to using our own brain power.

Long story short, I totally agree.

[haruhi_fan]

Ah so he wrote more than A Clockwork Orange, nice to know.

[tcpip]

Any concentration of resources is indeed cause for concern, especially if you are but one voice in the wilderness.

[pitry]

Well, to focus on a different part of your post, the lack of interesting sounding books may be a sign that they should start writing essays about the death of books in addition to the neverending essays about the death of movies!