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Tuesday, February 11. 2020

Tom Jones

I read it in a college course. It's a long novel. In retrospect you could call it a bildungsroman. Tom was a good guy, full of vitality unlike his sour "brother".


At Great Books, an entertaining 30-minute chat about Tom Jones 


Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:56 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Have you read Atlas Shrugged?
#1 rick9911 on 2020-02-11 20:16 (Reply)
I did the show in high school, and had it assigned as well - it explains a good deal of the culture of the 18th C. It was about as much sex as we were allowed to publicly discuss in school in those days, so I was all for that.
#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-02-11 21:23 (Reply)
And it was turned into a really good movie starring Albert Finney and Susannah York as the leads and an excellent supporting cast.
#3 Frances on 2020-02-11 23:37 (Reply)
Had to read it freshman year in high school. Even the cliff notes didn't help. And teachers wonder why students learn to hate most classroom-assigned reading.
#4 dcjuggler on 2020-02-12 12:16 (Reply)

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