Comments on: Five Questions About Books

By: anne

anne — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Farenheit 451 is about a totalitarian regime where the government outlaws books. They have book burnings, etc. Its short and I would highly recommend it! I am stealing these questions for my blog, too of course!

By: florycanto/agustin

florycanto/agustin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

thanks for the “reading list,” i’m curious about the Stranger book.

Farenheit 451: in this story, a little girl asks a life changing question to the main character “Are you happy?” The firefighter (in the future, firefighters actually start fires, burn books). After this, he was in path to liberation.

he realized that he wasn’t happy and that reality could be different.

By: duhnonymous

duhnonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Stranger in a Strange Land? I’ve read it 3 plus times now and it’s really put me off Heinlein, who was my first favorite author, starting around when I was 13 or so. I was probably about 15 the first time I read it and I thought it was great. I thought it was great the 2nd time. Then I could barely make it through the third time and couldn’t finish it the fourth time. If you haven’t read it yet I would recommend it though. What eventually put me off Heinlein is the sort of pedantic, self righteous moralizing of the main characters. For an example, think of the history teacher in Starship Troopers played by Michael Ironsides. It’s even worse in the novel Starship Troopers, (which is a lot better than the movie). Anyway, I will always have fond memories of Heinlein, the first author that I read every novel, and the, how shall I say it, loose sexual mores of his female characters, but now I don’t think I could stomach reading one again, so in short, I would take something else besides Stranger in a spaceship. You Grok?

By: oso

oso — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I really wanna read anything by Elena Poniatowska. You’ve motivated me … I’m gonna fill mine out tomorrow.

By: Thivai

Thivai — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

All these readers! Anyone want to review books for the journal Reconstruction–I’ll get you new copies…

Elena thanks for the list!

By: cindylu

cindylu — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Oso, you should read Brown Girl’s account of when she got to meet Elena Poniatowska. Not only is she a great writer, but she’s also pretty cool.