BS: What books would you NOT reread?

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: Helen
Date: 15 Jul 25 - 11:14 PM

Way back in the distant past I read a few of Hesse's books and enjoyed them all.

SRS, the book and movie which was "..so dramatic and violent that once was enough" was Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. It was a powerful story but the violence and racism towards Australian First Nations people was unbearable, especially in the movie.

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: Helen
Date: 15 Jul 25 - 11:24 PM

To clarify, it was Keneally's intention to highlight the social injustice and not to glorify violence and racism. He also wrote the book Schindler's Ark, on which the movie Schindler's List was based.

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Jul 25 - 11:11 AM

After the the success of the film "A River Runs Through It" (an adaptation of an excellent book which I've read many times) a profusion of fly fishing books, fiction and non-, appeared and reappeared and I've read many of them. There is one type though I would never reread, these were among the most popular and they typically involved self-deprecating humor and silly situations which often seemed disingenuous because these guys (I don't remember any female authors being guilty of this) have reputations as competent anglers. I'd catch myself yelling at the page "Mark Twain did this stuff better a century ago, so move on". I won't name names because there is some good stuff to be had there and I'd rather dwell on the writers that I constantly reread like Roderick Haig-Brown and Tom Mcguane.

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: robomatic
Date: 17 Jul 25 - 04:46 PM

Bringing up Kenneally and Schindler reminded me of a weird experience which applies to this subject. I had seen the movie when I thought I was supposed to be on a date. Turned out the woman who invited me out knew from conversation that I had never seen the movie Schindler's List so she invited me over to her place for a meal and, it turned out, that movie. Which I didn't enjoy. Unlike the episode in Seinfeld, I didn't fall asleep watching the movie, but I really didn't want to be there.
Then I found the paperback version in a used items store, and brought it home and read it. Turned out that a previous owner of the book was such a heavy smoker the book was permeated with eau de cigarette. To the extend that I still remember the smelly book and I don't want to read or watch the story independent of the story itself, which was quite a downer into the bargain. It reminds me of what Indiana Jones says in Holy Grail "Nazis! I hate those guys!"

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: robomatic
Date: 17 Jul 25 - 06:33 PM

Anyone listening to Terry Gross interviewing Michael Griynbaum about his new book "Empire of the Elite
" and his story about Conde Nast owner Sy Newhouse coming up with "The Art of the Deal" and selling TRMP on the idea.

Now I've got to come up with personal funds so I can still listen to public radio.

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: robomatic
Date: 17 Jul 25 - 07:03 PM

This may be the first time I've posted three successive times: It is in fact Samuel Irving, S.I. Newhouse, one of the wealthiest men in the United States, who ran Conde Nast and was a personal life-long friend of Roy Cohn, a mentor of TRMP. According to Fresh Air, which just ended for the day.
Gotta talk up Fresh Air's most recent interviews: Yesterday, Stacey Abrams of Georgia, a bright, very intelligent worker for the democratic principles many of us still remember. And the day before, Calvin Duncan, writer of the book "Jailhouse Lawyer" one of the most inspirational speakers I've heard with the kind of persistence that many of us will require in the years ahead.

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 02:05 AM

Up above, Jack Campin wonders why nobody has mentioned the Bible. Well, I kinda think it's not acceptable in this environment, so I didn't say anything. But yeah, the Bible is the only book I have read over and over again. On top of that, I've probably read three hundred books about the Bible. It was my major course of study in college, and I've been teaching it for fifty years. I try to take a relaxed, fun approach, and I think I've been quite successful. My Bible Scholarship Hero is William Barclay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barclay_(theologian)

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 05:21 AM

Maos little red book.
Marsh Heirs by Rufus Miles, actually a good read, but I seem to feature as a juvenile delinquent, so I will not re read it

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marsh-Heirs-Comedy-Rufus-Miles-ebook/dp/B005J6IY4E

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 06:01 AM

The Bible imo is worth re reading, even just for dipping in to

Subject: RE: BS: What books would you NOT reread?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 09:36 AM

I was once given a book by a loopy Christian fundementalist that explained reports of child abuse as the children being possesed by demons wanting to get their good, holy parents in trouble. I only read a few pages and have since blocked both the title and author from my mind!