Crosslisting On The Endangered Species List

[ink_ling]

At my job, I shelve the "classics". In our system, the definition of "classic" is any piece of literature regularly assigned in a junior high, high school, or college English class

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[wonderboynj]

Sadly, I've only read a few of these books.

I'm going to print it out and make it a goal to read what I haven't.

I've wanted to read The Color Purple for a long time, but I love the movie so much, I am afraid to spoil it.

[ink_ling]

Did you like what you have read?

Yeah, the letter-writing style of The Color Purple has kept me at bay for years.

Moby Dick and In Cold Blood I have started reading and never finished a number of times, despite REALLY liking what I had read to that point!

Let me know what you finish first and whether you liked it or not, Bub!

[creepy1966]

T. is one to talk to about Alice Walker..Man,she swears by that ladies books.
The leter writing style put me off,too.Too hard to keep my interest.

[ink_ling]

What does T like best? She and I need to sit down and do some serious jawing about lit!

[creepy1966]

Geezus,Man....
I hate all this bullshit.I know it always goes on,and maybe it's just me not having noticed it as much before,but I swear the current political climate is fostering some bad shit and bringing out the worst in people.
Why can't things work the other way?

[ink_ling]

What I worry about is that it really hasn't gone on to the same degree before. I don't think it's that wrong to say that we are in an era comparable to that of McCarthy.

I really do think we're going to have to realize that and then trench in to save the rights we now take for granted.

I feel like I need to buy these books and have them on the shelf before they out-and-out disappear into the black market.

But I know I am over-reacting ... right? :)

[creepy1966]

Of course,you're over-reacting,but not as much as all these moral crusaders are.
I hate to come off as secure in my complacency,saying "It can't happen here" in my bes parody of The Mothers Of invention,but the fact that it's even an issue is what gets me.People suck...

Fuck all those motherfuckers,Mang!

[ink_ling]

Ditto! Where's my gawddamned island for all my decent people?!

[ink_ling]

I guess I want to take it this way so that I don't feel completely hopeless (which I do, matter of fact, in fits and turns): Even the elected idiots recognize what a power ideas and words wield.

We need to keep ours close to us, ready for use.

[pink_prototype]

"Dig a hole,and dump them in it."

and i'm not talking about books..

yay!

[creepy1966]

I'll be the brutal thuggee,if you dig the holes!
I like violence,but that diggin' is too much work.

[ink_ling]

I'll hold the measuring tape ... measure the villains and the holes, make sure they bury snug. Then I'll drive the truck and write the press release that throws the fuzz off the missing lugs' scent.

Deal?

Let's all three spit and shake ... .

[creepy1966]

Count me in..My fists and tire iron will be at the ready,Sir!

[ink_ling]

Yeah ... I read some of those parts. If I were to speak my own tongue here, I would say that it's one of American history's queerest books in every way ... from language to skin.

I'll pull it from the shelf! :)

[creepy1966]

Is it really?
See,I always miss this stuff.
I miss so much stuff that perhaps should be obvious that I start to wonder why I even read in the first place.No retention on my part,at all.
Maybe that's why I've switched to mostly books on gardening.

[ink_ling]

There are some sexual allusions, overtones, and the language is so ... slippery. :)