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OT book review
Started by ●September 27, 2020
Reply by ●September 27, 20202020-09-27
On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote:> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 > > >Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage boy at the library when he says he wants an "adult novel."
Reply by ●September 27, 20202020-09-27
On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:> On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 > > > > > > > Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage boy at > the library when he says he wants an "adult novel."I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten at the moment. George H.
Reply by ●September 27, 20202020-09-27
On 9/27/2020 9:18 PM, George Herold wrote:> On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote: >> On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: >>> >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 >>> >>> >>> >> Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage boy at >> the library when he says he wants an "adult novel." > > I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? > > I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful > 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten > at the moment. > > George H. >I have traumatic childhood memories of expecting "Great Railway Journeys of the World" to be showing on PBS but mixing up the days or something and finding out the made-for-TV version of Brideshead was coming on at 9 pm, instead. Unnnngggh. If you want to bore any red-blooded American boy to tears give him a story about effete English aristocracy fopping about in their manor-homes.
Reply by ●September 27, 20202020-09-27
On Monday, September 28, 2020 at 11:18:58 AM UTC+10, George Herold wrote:> On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote: > > On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: > > > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 > > > > > > > > > > > Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage boy at > > the library when he says he wants an "adult novel." > I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? > > I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful > 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten > at the moment.And a trifle prophetic, in that Reagan was an actor posing as a president - though he did get elected in (more or less) his own right. Trump is the opposite - somebody who can't actually play the role, despite all the coaching he gets. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●September 28, 20202020-09-28
bitrex wrote:> On 9/27/2020 9:18 PM, George Herold wrote: >> On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote: >>> On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: >>>> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage >>> boy at the library when he says he wants an "adult novel." >> >> I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? >> >> I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful >> 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten >> at the moment. >> >> George H. >> > > I have traumatic childhood memories of expecting "Great Railway > Journeys of the World" to be showing on PBS but mixing up the days or > something and finding out the made-for-TV version of Brideshead was > coming on at 9 pm, instead. Unnnngggh.Railway Journeys? Never tried it, but I didn't like Sesame Street either. I called BS when it claimed we were running out of clean water.> If you want to bore any red-blooded American boy to tears give him a > story about effete English aristocracy fopping about in their > manor-homes.It's a shame you were too young to watch Danger UXB when it was on Masterpiece Theatre long before Downton Abbey. In each episode the Germans develop a new fuse and the British figure out how to disarm it. It was on youtube a couple of years ago. Maybe it's still there. I can't understand why DA became so popular when so many other things on PBS were ignored by the masses.
Reply by ●September 28, 20202020-09-28
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:54:29 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso" <fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote:>bitrex wrote: >> On 9/27/2020 9:18 PM, George Herold wrote: >>> On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote: >>>> On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage >>>> boy at the library when he says he wants an "adult novel." >>> >>> I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? >>> >>> I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful >>> 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten >>> at the moment. >>> >>> George H. >>> >> >> I have traumatic childhood memories of expecting "Great Railway >> Journeys of the World" to be showing on PBS but mixing up the days or >> something and finding out the made-for-TV version of Brideshead was >> coming on at 9 pm, instead. Unnnngggh. > >Railway Journeys? Never tried it, but I didn't like Sesame Street >either. I called BS when it claimed we were running out of clean water. > > >> If you want to bore any red-blooded American boy to tears give him a >> story about effete English aristocracy fopping about in their >> manor-homes. > >It's a shame you were too young to watch Danger UXB when it was on >Masterpiece Theatre long before Downton Abbey. > >In each episode the Germans develop a new fuse and the British figure >out how to disarm it. > >It was on youtube a couple of years ago. Maybe it's still there. > >I can't understand why DA became so popular when so many other things on >PBS were ignored by the masses. > >Most people are people-people. They care most about social interaction, emotions, loving and hating, tribalism, belonging or not. Like most of the posters here. A good engineer deliberately puts that stuff aside so he can make proper judgements about things. DA is mostly about people, and UBX is mostly about bombs. A lot of red-blooded American boys (including this one) went through a Sherlock Holmes phase as teenagers. Sherlock would have made a good engineer. I tried to read Brideshead a couple of months ago. Made it about 20% through. Boring. Henry James, ditto. PG Wodehouse is brilliant. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc Science teaches us to doubt. Claude Bernard
Reply by ●September 28, 20202020-09-28
On 9/28/2020 10:54 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:> bitrex wrote: >> On 9/27/2020 9:18 PM, George Herold wrote: >>> On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote: >>>> On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage >>>> boy at the library when he says he wants an "adult novel." >>> >>> I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? >>> >>> I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful >>> 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten >>> at the moment. >>> >>> George H. >>> >> >> I have traumatic childhood memories of expecting "Great Railway >> Journeys of the World" to be showing on PBS but mixing up the days or >> something and finding out the made-for-TV version of Brideshead was >> coming on at 9 pm, instead. Unnnngggh. > > Railway Journeys? Never tried it, but I didn't like Sesame Street > either. I called BS when it claimed we were running out of clean water.Some of them like most things are available on YT, Railway Journeys was a much more interesting show for 8 year old me that's for sure: <https://youtu.be/LRwtABg21YA> Yeah say what you want about Seasame Street but the 1980s were the Golden Age of educational programming/public television for children I think. No corporate sponsors to please so when the actor who played the kindly old man who ran the Sesame Street Store, "Mr. Hooper" passed away in reality they didn't just write him out or find a replacement, the story is just what is, Mr. Hooper died (often a novel concept to 3 and 4 year olds), and Big Bird or whoever plays the audience-insertion is made to understand by the human characters that sometimes people go away, and they don't come back. That is to say they refused to insult the intelligence of the audience even though the audience was mostly 4 year olds. Over on 3-2-1 Contact this was considered age-appropriate material for 8-9 year olds, a time trip 1 billion years into the future: <https://youtu.be/WppJEf3ZtFU> Again they figured that age group was mature enough for it> >> If you want to bore any red-blooded American boy to tears give him a >> story about effete English aristocracy fopping about in their >> manor-homes. > > It's a shame you were too young to watch Danger UXB when it was on > Masterpiece Theatre long before Downton Abbey. > > In each episode the Germans develop a new fuse and the British figure > out how to disarm it. > > It was on youtube a couple of years ago. Maybe it's still there. > > I can't understand why DA became so popular when so many other things on > PBS were ignored by the masses. >Yeah the British royalty and aristocracy and all that seems pretty popular subject among many Americans I can't say I understand it much either. And there's the type of leftist who lives in a million-dollar spread in San Fran and loves "the classics" so much they put 'em all on their stairs and names their first daughter like Aurelia Skye Emily Dickinson Mackenzie-Worthington or something and the type that tends to roll their eyes at that ah, "lifestyle"
Reply by ●September 28, 20202020-09-28
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:> > Most people are people-people. They care most about social > interaction, emotions, loving and hating, tribalism, belonging or not. > Like most of the posters here. > > A good engineer deliberately puts that stuff aside so he can make > proper judgements about things. > > DA is mostly about people, and UBX is mostly about bombs.Upstairs Downstairs (the original) was similar to DA but most didn't know it existed. I Claudius was also about people, and was also ignored, so I don't understand why the masses suddenly discovered PBS when DA started.> A lot of red-blooded American boys (including this one) went through a > Sherlock Holmes phase as teenagers. Sherlock would have made a good > engineer.You weren't a teenager any more when Jeremy Brett played Holmes but I hope you saw that series. The Sherlock Holmes Society in London agreed with me that Brett was the best ever.> I tried to read Brideshead a couple of months ago. Made it about 20% > through. Boring. Henry James, ditto.I could never have made it to 20%.> PG Wodehouse is brilliant.I never even discovered him until the Jeeves and Wooster series. That's another example. It should have been more popular that Cheers or Seinfeld.
Reply by ●September 28, 20202020-09-28
On 9/28/2020 10:54 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:> bitrex wrote: >> On 9/27/2020 9:18 PM, George Herold wrote: >>> On Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote: >>>> On 9/27/2020 7:30 PM, John Larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgdhhwlqggm7y4y/Book-Review.jpg?raw=1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Brideshead Revisited is what you would give an overeager teenage >>>> boy at the library when he says he wants an "adult novel." >>> >>> I haven't read it, why not "Portnoy's Complaint" ? >>> >>> I recently reread "Double Star" by RAH. It's a wonderful >>> 'Shakespearean' story. And tightly written... in my top ten >>> at the moment. >>> >>> George H. >>> >> >> I have traumatic childhood memories of expecting "Great Railway >> Journeys of the World" to be showing on PBS but mixing up the days or >> something and finding out the made-for-TV version of Brideshead was >> coming on at 9 pm, instead. Unnnngggh. > > Railway Journeys? Never tried it, but I didn't like Sesame Street > either. I called BS when it claimed we were running out of clean water.Maybe they thought the conservative audience would be interested in conservation a common misunderstanding, lol. I expect it's hard to write a show aimed at 4 y/os and conservatives in the third or fourth decade of life and manage to please everyone you know!!
